Posted on 09/26/2005 7:39:01 AM PDT by SmithL
Give me a break. You're over reacting. Marx's analysis was taken seriously in both the 19th and 20th centuries. I can remember a time when capitalism was a dirty word. Smith's invisible hand metaphor was invoked to distinguish between socialism's central planning and the free market's dependence on the aggregate of free people making free choices. Perfect? No. But a lot better than central planning.
I have been hearing that,don't know why they just don't make us all drive on toll roads!!
But, I wouldn't want it forced on me by the government.
And, FWIW, I live in a rural area, and have a full size pickup. I don't drive it much...mainly to the feed store, to pick up hay and feed. You might not be able to see the stuff in the bed from a car, but it's in there.
The latest energy bill was like Christmas for the oil industry. Of course, it was full of cash for ethanol too.
I don't know where you live, but here in calif you have to drive to go any where, and people do like of travel! just check out a hwy/fwy at 3:00 in the afternoon, Sorry but you are wrong!
http://www.transportation.anl.gov/pdfs/TA/349.pdf
Well, it's unsafe to tow anything of size (like a boat) with a front-wheel-drive vehicle or a light vehicle. Where, in the Camry or Accord, do you put the garbage our gummint makes us carry to the landfill and recycling center? Where in the car do you put the ten bales of landscape pinestraw you bought at Home Depot? SUV's middle name is "utility" -- one vehicle that can do many things unlike a single-function car.
LOL
Have I stumbled onto the wrong website? Is this not Free Republic?
I'm not a minarchist by any stretch of the imagination, but this claim is bizarre.
I assume the present amounts are fairly comparable to the 2002 chart amounts? (Even so, 2% is 2% - every little bit helps...) Just curious, do you you have info at hand re: the natural gas breakout? what would be the NG savings from all-nuke (or coal) power plants? (Just curious.)
Good points. My concern is that we will need to raise the rate to incorporate the more accurate costs, and doing it linearly (based on strict $/gallon tax) impacts those with less incremental income marginally more. But, you're spot on when it comes to car pooling and other behavior changes.
Yes, yes, as I stated--"It has always been government policy to keep food cheap, hence the prime reason for subsidies in a vary volatile industry. Abscent controls and subsidies, think about food prices doubling and shortages occurring. Not a pleasant prospect."
I don't want to go overboard with pessimism, because during harvest time it is very rewarding to fill semis with food for a hungry world. It provides a real sense of accomplishment.
Now would be the time for you to sell me that dreamboat cheap.
Yeah, great. I love this line:
"Energy balance value for a given energy product alone is not meaningful in evaluating its benefit"
That's a classic liberal logic line: "Don't look at the results, look at our intentions!"
BTW, you know there's a big corn lobby in illinois too?
And the the department of energy, Which funds them, has what kind of bias on ethanol?
You can not claim bias on the part of one researcher and then ignore the bias of another - especially where it is so obvious.
Responsibity is something you make yourself do.
Having the govenrment force another person to do something is not 'responsibility', it is simply FORCE.
Of course, you don't seem to care about that.
I was seriously considering buying one in Germany when gas was $5/gal, as it would have bought itself with the difference in fuel costs, and my other car got 29 mpg actual. They're actually kind of fun to drive, and parking is a breeze.
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