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 ...
I wonder, how much SVO diesel can be made from a bushel of corn vs. ethanol? And how much energy is required to do it?.....
BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You mean like high gold prices deter gold mining?
Point 2: High gas prices will encourage development of alternative fuels, making them more affordable (and more appealing) relative to traditional fuel
True. Nuclear power still looks good while ethanol is a poor gasoline alternative and can't be economically produced in the needed quantities. Raising the price of gasoline won't change any of that.
Point 3: High gas prices make the United States safer
By putting more US dollars in the hands of Middle Eastern and anti-American governments?
What fantasyland does this author live in?
Canada at $4+ a gallon? Were those Canadian $? If so then you paid the same price as US$...........
Maybe we can make all these people happy and just go back to horses and buggies.
I couldn't agree with this TROLL more.......using money I earned to support terrorists and the countries who fund them are really good for all concerned............NOT.
Actually it works out to about $4.49 Canadian equals $3.99 US -- so here even in NoCal it's running still anywhere from 70-95 cents a gallon cheaper in the US. I was paying 1.15 Canadian per liter/ 4 liters is just a little over a gallon( 1.06 gallon)
handy, dandy currency converter
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Gas prices aren't high.
I say this because several women in my building go out to their cars and run their engines for A/C while they read during lunch. Everyday I pass women on the interstate in vehicles that get 12-15 MPG, if they are lucky, all by themselves. Based on that and the number of people that just loop around my block all day just cruising alone playing their boom-boom I would say that gas is dirt cheap.
I'm all about resource recovery on our own soil in our own territories. I too would like to tell the Middle East and Venezula and others to put their oil where the sun doesn't shine.
Gasoline could reach $50 a gallon and the libs would still bellyache about how we can not drill here or there and refine here or there.
The market will find other resources that hopefully exclude the Islamics from the market, the processes are quickening and hopefully in the next 25 years we will truly have moved on from the oil dependent economy.
Cow farts and Taco Bell's refining effforts for gas should not be dissmissed for an alternative energy source. Not to mention the incredible, proven reserves of gas when Congress is in session.
"Matt Harrison - Editor in Chief - Prometheus Institute"
LOL
How bout high food prices to force a reduction in consumption by overweight americans. This would also aid the "healthcare crisis" and take away the politicization of medicine from the rat party.
Besides having less expendable income to use on other things, like food and clothes? And that would be....?
I don't eat Koreans. The North Koreans are Communists and are too tough. But I do like a nice prime rib, mashed potatoes and gravy.
From now on, every morning (and evening, maybe) I will get on my hands and knees and thank God (in his infinite wisdom) that he has bestowed upon the speculators, traders, oil companies, OPEC, the wherewithal to make my life (and all other Americans)so wonderful and pleasant thanks to the rise in price of gasoline.
I will now, have a big smile on my face and just love it when I go the my friendly neighborhood service station(s) and have to shell (no pun intended) out $80 - $90 to fill my van, which I use for business purposes.
Now that I've been so edified on why this benefits me, I will henceforth, (as opposed to looking for stations that were even 2 cents lower than others) look for the most EXPENSIVE gas I can find.
STUPID F'N LOONEY TUNE IDIOT!!!!!
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