[NormsRevenge]

Ok..OK..You guys win.. Excuse me for posting this ..It's obvious it is total rubbish and we should all just hop back on our cars and trucks and drive merrily down the road.

BTW, MY cheapest gas in my neighbor hood is $2.10 for unleaded.

They also showed a demonstration by a bunch of Soccer moms in San Francisco who are protesting for higher fuel mileage standards/efficiency. Then they puled DiFi's puss into it to drive the point home, whatever the hell the point was.

PS .. I don't normally post poll info, but Hey .. Make of it what you will.

[Interesting Times]

Now don't go all wobbly on us.

The natural assumption is that you posted this as a courtesy, so we could practice honing our invective.

And I for one am grateful.

[plusone]

Even a natural doom-and-gloomer like myself can't get too worked up over the threats in this article. The cost to pump oil from Arabia is only a buck or two per barrel. What is going on now at the pump is either short term gouging by the big oil corps, because they can get away with it, or some short term supply problems. If you check the futures market for oil, you will see that only the immediate contracts are spiking. The contracts a year or two out are still in the mid 20's, at least the last time I checked. This indicates that the price of gas will drop back once this war is past us. There is an old saying 'the cure for high prices...is high prices."

[MainFrame65]

Your post speaks to public attitudes, however well- or ill-founded, and has value for that. The comments about the validity of those public attitudes, and the media that creates them, are similiarly valuable. What is absent here (because it is not the subject of this thread) is factual information about energy sources and uses.

Someday we will value hydrocarbons for their worth as chemical feedstocks instead of their combustibility in air, and the price will be a lot higher than it is today. But when the price rises to that level, we will probably be manufacturing hydrogen to use as a transportable energy vector.

[Joe_October]

Gas in my neighborhood is $1.59 per gallon. Water at the same place is $4.28 per gallon.

If you want to form your opinion based on slanted news articles go ahead but if you want to educate yourself on the facts, you won't find packaged for the masses.