I'd have laughed....
...if 5 years ago, you'd tell me we'd see the price of regular gas at $3 bucks a gallon. Yet, today as I went out to lunch, that's exactly what I saw. And that was if the gas station was even open for business. I couldn't believe my eyes. There are reports of gas stations not even having gas available for sale. Well, I've cancelled ALL of my Labor Day weekend plans and have decided to stay home! I will only be going to church and maybe out to do some karaoke this weekend, but other than that, I plan on just relaxing at home. Thank you "W" for taking more out of my wallet than ever before!
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posted by Mike at 3:30 PM
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And this is his fault how?
I don't care if it's his fault or not. As a president, he should have been leading the country away from its dependance on oil, and not trying to figure out ways to line his pockets with BIG OIL's $$$. So, in essence, it's partly his fault.
Guys, the problem is not oil it is a tremendous lack of refineries. You want to hold someone accountable. Go punch a tree hugger in the mouth. Here is a question, how much food do you have on hand? Not much? Can you walk to the store? Oh, it’s two miles one way down a two lane road with no sidewalk. Then you might need gas.
Next tree hugger crosses my path an it’s pow, zoom, to the moon. Solar, hydrogen, and wind can not do the job. When you get hungry you’ll see the light.
Some perspective:
Gasoline 1960 price: $0.30 per gallon; 2005 price: $2.50; % chg: +733%
Bread 1960 price: $0.19 per loaf; 2005 price: $1.89; % chg: +995%
Just saying.
Also, big oil doesn't make a ton of money on gas. They make less than one point on premium (look at their financials)and break even on regular. They make their cash selling cigarettes, beer, condoms and potato chips.
Solar, hydrogen, and wind can not do the job. When you get hungry you’ll see the light.
You probably believed at one point that computers would always be in some large room and never on a desktop or even smaller, did you? Technology using solar and hydrogen is being developed that WILL do the job, and do it cleaner than what we are using today. As for wind, tell that to all those sailors who have used it for CENTURIES!!!!! Fossil fuels are NOT renewable, nor are they infinite. If they are, I've got a bridge to sell as well as a few government buildings (at cheap prices, no less)!
No, the problem isn't a lack of refineries (although that is partly to blame), its a lack of imagination! A lack of questioning the status quo and trying to improve the world and make it a better place.
As always, just my opinion.
"Also, big oil doesn't make a ton of money on gas. They make less than one point on premium (look at their financials)and break even on regular. They make their cash selling cigarettes, beer, condoms and potato chips."
You are confusing big oil with gas station owners. Big oil does not own your local Shell or Exxon station, they license the station to sell their product. The station owners buy from big oil.
Big oil has seen profits increasing by double digits lately. It's true that the stations mark up gas very little.
No, the problem isn't a lack of refineries (although that is partly to blame), its a lack of imagination! A lack of questioning the status quo and trying to improve the world and make it a better place.
Both of you are right. One is looking short term and the other is looking long term. We have to have those refineries and this nation needs them yesterday. It should have been part of the nation security planning.
You have to use nuclear to create hydrogen. It can be done and it must be done. We have huge stockpiles of nuclear fuel. We have the technology but do we have the will? It is a net energy loss to use coal to generate electricity to create hydrogen.
Solar can work but has a poor break even with today's technology and economics. In Japan homeowners spend $ 40,000 for solar cells and an inverter. See the latest Time magazine. It works but the break even is long. It can be done. The more people make this investment the more the unit cost will be driven down. This idea has merit but tax credits would help. TVA could help also.
Wind works but environmentalists worry about bird deaths. And it is a problem that should not be dismissed. Wind technology needs to find a method of preventing the bird deaths and then we have a winner. Any inventors out there up to the task?
We need to learn about conservation. Sorry, SUVS are not helping. 8000 square foot homes don’t help either. The most important things you can do is having a fuel-efficient automobile and replace your home lighting. The compact fluorescent bulbs are much more efficient than old incandescent bulbs. Modern heat and air systems can provide huge savings also.
Local farms are a good idea. Transportation is too large of a component of the cost of our food. The global economy is too dependent on energy prices. Watch your grocery bill in the next few months. Wall Street and Main Street need to get together. Local produce and local farming makes good sense. Eat a steak from Tennessee instead of Kansas. Have a salad from East Tennessee instead of lettuce from Mexico.
Both of you are right. One is looking short term and the other is looking long term. We have to have those refineries and this nation needs them yesterday. It should have been part of the nation security planning.
Well, I can't believe I'm actually not the moderate on this. Thanks for the very balanced view.
The miserable failure of a president widely supported in Farragut had four freakin' years to plan for a disaster at a major American city. The audacity of this miserable failure to think that he can secure Iraq when he can't secure New Orleans is unbelievable.
Four years? Hey dunce, people in New Orleans have known about this possibility for decades.
Idiot. It was not the Presidents job. Grow up you little baby. Only a fool can sink to politics in the time of an American tragedy. next thing you will blame the people in Farragut.
Someone correctly pointed out that tax credits would help.
Jimmy Carter knew this, and was moving this country toward alternative energy in the 70s. One of Reagan's first wrong moves was to eliminate the tax incentives Carter had put in place. He wiped the memory of those long gas lines away with a grin and the stroke of a pen. Shameful.
Do the people and government in NOLA have any responsiblity? Or is the big federal government the nanny for everyone?
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