The truth on the oil "crisis"
Here is an interesting article that says just about everything you need to know about the oil "crisis".
It says pretty much everything that I have said on numerous occasions. That high gas prices are caused by government policy, environmental policy, control of production by foriegn governments that are barely friendly and in some cases hostile to the US, and our need to drive big honkin cars that get 5 MPG because we can.
You want lower fuel prices? Then buy locally grown/produced products, move closer to work so you can walk/bike to work, buy a more practical fuel efficient car, set your heat, a/c to 65 in the winter and 75 in the summer, and install solar panels and all the other energy saving devices. Until you have done that, shut your pie hole and go back to sipping your Starbucks coffee in the drivers seat of your Escalade during your 30 minute commute in to work.
It says pretty much everything that I have said on numerous occasions. That high gas prices are caused by government policy, environmental policy, control of production by foriegn governments that are barely friendly and in some cases hostile to the US, and our need to drive big honkin cars that get 5 MPG because we can.
You want lower fuel prices? Then buy locally grown/produced products, move closer to work so you can walk/bike to work, buy a more practical fuel efficient car, set your heat, a/c to 65 in the winter and 75 in the summer, and install solar panels and all the other energy saving devices. Until you have done that, shut your pie hole and go back to sipping your Starbucks coffee in the drivers seat of your Escalade during your 30 minute commute in to work.
posted by davis14633 at 06:19
6 Comments:
Don't forget about Federal and State Gasoline taxes.
In texas the current state tax is around $0.20 / gal. The federal tax is $0.184 / gal. So thats at least $0.38 / gal or the current price right now.
And don't forget that new growth in AsiaPac has them consuming oil like kool-aid, increasing demand while the world's refining capacity has barely changed.
Heh. Just read back over your post. Thank goodness the price of gas / gallon isn't as expensive as Starbucks coffee. It would probably cost you $1000 to fill up the tank.
And consider doing what I'm doing; moving out of the country!
So lemme see if I'm understanding you properly... The bureaucrats in Washington have created a SNAFU by essentially engineering a supply crisis -- however contorted and confluential it may be -- but now I'm expected to cut back and do without in order to solve a "problem" that shouldn't even exist?
That's the most liberal I thing I've ever seen you write. Was it entirely satirical, or have you been smoking crack?
The reality is, that no matter how much oil is currently being reserved due to "environmental" issues, there is a limited supply such that at some point in the future supply would not be available for a continually increasing global demand. There is nothing wrong with conservation, the depression era kids conserved in ways most of us later generations can't imagine, like eating all the leftovers, or reusing lumber, fixing our own home, car, lawnmower, etc... Of course everything is relative, and I'm sure we could find some other third world countries where the people subsisted off of even less, which brings us to the next point (I know this is starting to ramble, I'm thinking this *%&^ up as I go), anything above the subsistence level is there to provide some degree of comfort or luxury. Given the world would continue just fine without humans, even providing medicines to have more children survive to adulthood or extending human lifespan is in a sense a waste (I know Churt, there are renewable resources) since there may be some utilization of limited resources in the content or making of those medicine. Anyway, where I'm going with this is that while conservation is generally good and waste is bad, how do you define where the right place is? If humans were to exist at subsistence level except for providing medicines and cures to reduce child mortality and increase human lifespan, what would be the value if you wrapped everyday in miserable and uncomfortable subsistence level existence. So, who is the judge that will determine if I should drive an SUV or a mini Cooper. It appears to me that the “judge” is, what I can afford that I am most comfortable with or find most appealing. My expectation is, that had petroleum products been unavailable, technology and innovation would have provided something different to get around in and will do so at some point in the future. I know one thing, I am not comfortable in many ways putting my family in a mini Cooper on a crazy freeway with 18 wheelers everywhere although it could be considered efficient to have a family funeral in the family car without ever having to be extracted from it. My last (thank the deity – hmm, i before e except after c or deity or their – please Mr. Spock, where is the logic in the English language), err, I digress, comment concerns the article itself. Without knowing and trusting who the writer is and what their knowledge and intent is, how do you believe (I before E seems to work in believe) what anyone writes about these matters. I have no idea who to believe since huge dollars and much power in the world is at stake. Help me Spock or deity, as the case may be.
This is a total dig at all the enviro-hypocrits out there. my sister-in-law, whose political leanings are just a little left of Marx, went to a Nader rally a few years ago and the only thing she could comment on was how many SUV's and big cars were in the lot.
The thing that chaffs my ass is that the Politicians and the environmentalists want US to change OUR habits, while they continue to do what they want on our dime. There are three things I hate the most in this world, Thieves, Hypocrits, and David Hasselhoff.
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