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Gas Panic! Why high gas prices are the best thing for America and the world
The Prometheus Institute ^ | 06/14/2006 | Matt Harrison

Posted on 07/10/2006 12:57:44 PM PDT by tang0r

High gas prices are annoying, certainly topping many people's collection of the most frustrating aspects of modern life. In this natural frustration, many people are seduced by populist rhetoric about the need for price controls and other such interventionist nonsense. Before you also fall for this unfortunate trap, do yourself (and your country) a favor by recognizing the true effect and significance of high gas prices.

(Excerpt) Read more at prometheusinstitute.net ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; environmentalism; gas; hybrids; middleeast; oil; oilprices; sitepimp; trolling4hits; useconomy
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1 posted on 07/10/2006 12:57:48 PM PDT by tang0r
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To: tang0r

All this troll does is posts the articles from the prometheus Institute


2 posted on 07/10/2006 1:00:13 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: tang0r

Is that you Matt? Matt Harrison?

Do you read anything other than the Prometheus Institute?


3 posted on 07/10/2006 1:02:03 PM PDT by A message (We who care, Can Not Fail)
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To: tang0r

Is this about gasoline? What is gasoline, anyway?


4 posted on 07/10/2006 1:02:03 PM PDT by RightWhale (Off touch and out of base)
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To: tang0r

All the more reason we should switch to diesel and Biodiesel fueled engines on a national scale. Ethanol alone just won't make it...........


5 posted on 07/10/2006 1:02:27 PM PDT by Red Badger (Follow an IROC long enough and sooner or later you will wind up in a trailer park..........)
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To: ansel12

There's likely more traffic here than at PI. How would anybody ever see what he writes if he didn't post it to FR?


6 posted on 07/10/2006 1:02:39 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
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To: ansel12

As an aside, I'd LOVE to work for some organization with the name of "The Prometheus Institute."


7 posted on 07/10/2006 1:03:26 PM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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To: RightWhale
"GAS PANIC!"

That's the way I felt after bean burritos for dinner last night.

8 posted on 07/10/2006 1:04:33 PM PDT by Kenny Bunkport
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To: tang0r
Prometheus was the figure from Greek Mythology that gave humans fire and paid for it by having an eagle eat out his heart every day.
Evey time that I go to the gas station to fill up, I feel a bit like Prometheus. However, there is a silver lining, high gas prices will accelerate the science work on alternative fuels. Unfortunately, this will probably benefit my children and/or grandchildren, but probably not me. I have a life expectancy of about 25 years, and I don't foresee much changed until after 2030.
9 posted on 07/10/2006 1:04:41 PM PDT by GeorgefromGeorgia
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10 posted on 07/10/2006 1:05:40 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s...you weren't really there.)
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To: tang0r
Very good thoughts, except for this:

Ethanol, the Great Green Hope for alternative energy zealots, isn't catching on because it's too expensive relative to gas. An easy solution? Make gas more expensive.

Ethanol has lower energy content and delivers fewer Miles Per Gallon. We already notice it with 90/10% Gas/Ethanol.

This means we have to buy more fuel than ever, by volume, and the article already agrees tha it will be still more expensive.

Therefore, a larger percentage of household income will be spent for fuels...Fuels that have lower energy content.

So in a sense, at least, the Arabs win a battle. Not the war, but a battle, at least.

If we CAN switch to oxygenates we need a more efficient and faster way to make them-Faster than a scaled-up moonshine still.

11 posted on 07/10/2006 1:06:23 PM PDT by Gorzaloon
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John Kerry thought so, when he frowned effeminately and stogily derided our "dependence on oil."

Is that a reference to Bill & Monica?

12 posted on 07/10/2006 1:07:08 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi | SONY: 5yst3m 0wn3d, N0t Y0urs | NYT:Jihadi Journal)
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To: Kenny Bunkport

Oh yeah? We had Korean yesterday for lunch. 14 side dishes, nearly all of them varities of kimchi. I was practically an alternative fuel source all by myself. Good thing I don't smoke.


13 posted on 07/10/2006 1:07:52 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s...you weren't really there.)
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To: tang0r
This is what all democrats think but are afraid to say out load.
14 posted on 07/10/2006 1:10:13 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: A message

After filling up a tank of gas several times recently in Canada at $4+ a gallon I'm thinking we have it pretty good with our gas prices here in the States.


15 posted on 07/10/2006 1:10:35 PM PDT by A message (We who care, Can Not Fail)
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To: tang0r
Why did your pal "Swimmer" Kennedy kill that Windfarm?

The perfect fuel?

16 posted on 07/10/2006 1:11:57 PM PDT by TexasCajun
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To: A message
Do you read anything other than the Prometheus Institute?

Probably not

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17 posted on 07/10/2006 1:13:49 PM PDT by Sgt_Schultze
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To: ChildOfThe60s
...I was practically an alternative fuel source all by myself. Good thing I don't smoke.

I hope that's not copyrighted, I intend on using that one again. Thanks!

18 posted on 07/10/2006 1:14:46 PM PDT by strange1 ("Show the enemy harm so he shall not advance" Sun Tzu The Art of War)
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To: Red Badger

Agreed. Ethanol is just pie in the sky.... as a direct substitute for gasoline.


19 posted on 07/10/2006 1:37:18 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: tang0r
Be patriotic; support high gas prices!
20 posted on 07/10/2006 1:38:50 PM PDT by loreldan (Without coffee I am nothing.)
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