"Americans buy ten thousand gallons of gasoline a second"

[donsu]

http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/51758/


America Has Oil on the Brain

Lisa Margonelli traveled thousands of miles from her local gas station to oil fields half a world away to try and understand how Americans can buy 10,000 gallons a second without giving it much thought.
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-snip long interview-
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it's the 10,000 gallons of gas a second that has me blinking

[dave_p]

1. They're giving it plenty of thought ...

... griping that their gas may now cost more than half what people in other developed western economies pay for theirs.

[1620rock]

3. Yes but the high price of gas in other developed western...

...countries is in part due to the taxes levied to fund first rate public transportation in those countries.

[dave_p]

4. I agree

It's the missing part of the "gripe". It should be Yes to $6, Yes to fuel efficiency, No to corporate profit, Yes to cheap public transport.

[HereSince1628]

2. You'd think that would let BIG OIL give better dividends to stock holders

Instead it makes bigger executive salaries and bonuses.

[mrcheerful]

5. Shhhhhhhhhhhh don't tell that to the small stock holders that think high gas prices

means more money coming to them, after all that will ruin their illusion that they are on their way to being one of the special people making lots and lots of money. Stupid bastards don't get it, they buy that product and the more they pay for the product the less money they earn on stocks. People that make you want to cuff in the head to knock sense into. Like the person that gambles or plays the lotto, never once do they realize they win nothing, they just get some of their money back.

[BlueManDude]

6. I haven't driven a car in like two years.

Oddly enuf I own a parking space in the city.

[Vexatious Ape]

8. Sorry about being of topic

but how much does a parking space in the city run you?

[Neoma]

7. We all know that it's going to the society of robots.

They're 10,000 gallons of gas away from taking over the world! *blinks*