http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BoyEHeID8U
All of the suggestions, and they are splendid, do not take in to account that we will be a petro-based world for at least the next 150 years, for which there are more than adequate supplies. In fact, there is a surfeit of crude oil, with price maintenance done by limiting refining capacity.
IMHO, the biggest macro-economic calamity to hit the Western World is the phenomenon of the two-income family. Most women work now. That has (a) lowered western birth rates below replacement, and opened our world to fecund Third Worlders who ain't our friends. (b)Doubled available labor, lowering wages to the point that two incomes ARE REQUIRED to maintain a household. (c)Increased demand for housing, transport, etc. raising the cost of those commodities.
Can't and won't say whether this is "good,"or "bad," just saying that to avoid discussion of the obvious is rather foolish. Tax policy? It is against the two-income family already.
The enviro-nazis want diesel dead.
Their agenda is not “clean air”, but destruction of the US economic system.
Diesel would empower the US, so it must be stopped..............
And if our effing goobermint would get the eff out of the way we would have enough US sources of oil and US refineries such that there'd be no NEED for foreign oil - we could export oil, gasoline and other petrochemical products.
Yup. I agree completely.
All of the suggestions, and they are splendid, do not take in to account that we will be a petro-based world for at least the next 150 years, for which there are more than adequate supplies.
Actually, that's not correct; they do, but I don't address that specifically here. Most of what I was writing about in this excerpt is addressing congestion induced by unnecessary trips, which is far more expensive than fuel consumption, particularly where real estate costs are high. The point was to get people thinking about multidisciplinary approaches to problems through libertarian principles, to show that they can and do work.
IMHO, the biggest macro-economic calamity to hit the Western World is the phenomenon of the two-income family.
The purpose of which was to have the government raising the kids, a communist goal which would have horrified America only forty years ago.
Tax policy? It is against the two-income family already.
It's against families period.