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Podface Donating Member (92 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:38 AM
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Let's Focus on Gas Prices.
Edited on Thu Sep-29-05 10:40 AM by Podface
Only under Republican Presidents.

Bumper sticker idea:

Your War cost me $40 a tank. You make the sacrifice.

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tompayne1 Donating Member (346 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:39 AM
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1. and if you put a side-by-side with oil production
You will see that it just keeps going up.
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Coastie for Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:49 AM
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3. That will not go on forever (oil prodn will not keep going up)
Edited on Thu Sep-29-05 10:51 AM by Coastie for Truth
See "The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of the Oil Age, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-first Century" by James Howard Kunstler, "Beyond Oil : The View from Hubbert's Peak" and "Hubbert's Peak : The Impending World Oil Shortage" both by Ken Deffeyes, and "Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy" by Matthew R. Simmons.

Also check out the and the , and look at Prius sales and waiting lists, and rooftop photovoltaic cell sales.

Oil production is not going to go up forever.
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tompayne1 Donating Member (346 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:51 AM
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4. i know i know
I was just saying that big oil has been maing more money on more product. not more money on less
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Tyler Durden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:39 AM
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2. There isn't any, in reality that is.
We get 60% of our imported oil from CANADA.

Pretty peaceful on that border.
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KharmaTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:54 AM
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5. Note The Lowest Prices...Hmmm...
I remember right before the 2000 elections I filled up at .95 a gallon. This wasn't 1980, 1990...this was 2000!

Makes one very nostalgic...

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etherealtruth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:55 AM
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6. Wait 'til the home heating bills come ...
... All hell will break loose.
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YapiYapo Donating Member (148 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 10:57 AM
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7. High price are good
It promote research for alternative source of energy.If gas will have been higher in the 1990-2000, our actual situation will have been way better.

Europe pay around 6$ per gallon and do fine.Don't tell me we need cheap gas because america is a bigger country, european car average mile is close to those in the US but they do have better fuel efficient cars.
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Podface Donating Member (92 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Sep-29-05 11:12 AM
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8. I agree with one point
we are lucky to have gas cheaper than europe. I would buy a fuel efficient car in a heartbeat but honda hybrid is 22k off the lot. Two years ago I bought a jeep because I needed the hauling capacity for work. It cost me $40 a tank more now.

One solution, because I live in an urban area is to buy a scooter. Aside from the moped jokes, I think it is a good idea.
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