$7-a-gallon gas?The folly of O's oil-spill 'fix'

NY Post ^ | 6-18-10 | BEN LIEBERMAN

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President Obama has a solution to the Gulf oil spill: $7-a-gallon gas.

That's a Harvard University study's estimate of the per-gallon price of the president's global-warming agenda. And Obama made clear this week that this agenda is a part of his plan for addressing the Gulf mess.

So what does global-warming legislation have to do with the oil spill?

Good question, because such measures wouldn't do a thing to clean up the oil or fix the problems that led to the leak.

The answer can be found in Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel's now-famous words, "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste -- and what I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before."

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LOL, I hope you are comfy in your little box.

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I’m obviously not as comfortable in my box as you are in your ignorance.

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Box implies ignorance so your come back doesn't work.

Let me explain to you. Someone who lives in this sort of imaginary box doesn't explore anything beyond his comfort zone even though his comfort zone is far short of some real possibilities. I meet engineers like you all the time. But that's okay I forgive you.

For your information my little boxy friend, there is already a design for a self sufficient automobile. As you said, motion is indeed work and requires energy, but it is also a resource for energy at the same time. Supplemented with solar skin and the like a vehicle will never need to fuel up or plug in. Ever. Weight will be a factor so steel will be out of the question.

The negative about this is economic. Our economic system isn't ready for technology like that. We still rely on the 100 year old plus design of the internal combustion engine because it employees more people not because we can't get design anything better. You see, our economic machine can't get out of its own way.

At the very least, even Carroll Shelby and John Luft are saying the current design of the internal combustion engine is obsolete. Check out the OX2 design. They haven't gone as far as what I am saying, but they have certainly left the box.