hopkins said:
You can only consume and pollute so much before mother earth finds a way to hit back.
I think high gas prices are excellent. American automakers finally have a reason pursue fuel efficient and fuel independent models.
Let me say first, polluting less is a good thing. Next, oil will not be what propels us in the coming years. In the effect that higher gas prices makes us more conscientious of how we burn our cash, is a good thing.
Now, let me state this very clear, to the point and no one should miss this.
THE BIG THREE OIL COMPANIES ARE MAKING SO MUCH MONEY, THAT AND I QUOTE A FROM A WELL REGUARED FINACIAL INSTITION, THAT "IT IS LIKE THEY ARE PRINTING THEIR OWN MONEY"!!!!!!!
People, why is it we accept all of our governments constraints (I am a liberal at heart), but yet, no one and I mean no one, is questioning WHY the big three oil companies are printing their own cash! Why? it is a rhetorical statement, because it is our government, BOTH dems and repubs that allow the lobbyist run this country, don't be fooled, we have zero control, it's the lobyist that control the power! Until we force our elected people into ignoring the lobbyist, it will continue until at last, we are a country of two classes, the haves and the haves not! Take away 60% of the profits of the big three oil company and we have gas at $1.80 a gallon! But the people are either uneducated or choose not to care, with their voice and vote. So Adam, if you are happy that the execs at SHELL, EXON and MOBIL are getting bonus so big it would make the top baseball players salary look small. Is that what we want? Not me.
I hope that our kids and their kids continue the brain trust and invent truly good propulsion, that doesn't pollute or deplete the earths resources. I am a pragmatist and believe we will prevail. But please, don't believe OPEC or any other big oil producers are holding us at gun point (who is the largest importer of oil to the USA? Hmmm, Canada!).
Rant at the big three if you will, they simply provided us with what we wanted and until SHELL, MOBIL and EXON, decided to gouge us, it would have been okay until we invented a better way.
For those folks that say, Ha, you get what you deserve, I hope you are independently wealthy. Because the famous trickle down theory is true and it will trickle down to people that "only" pay $10 dollars more, you think it stops there? Think again. It takes awhile, but it is not just your gas budget that will take a dive, it is EVERYTHING, it will effect the country. So as you sit back and say, HA, I told you so, be prepared to cut back on not just your gas bill, but everything.
People, say, Europe has had gas expensive for a long time, they are making it. Well, first, they aren't making it, most every country in Europe is failing. But even bigger, we are not Europe, we don't have small area's to be covered by rail. Maybe you wish we did, but, it's not gonna happen, we are too spread out!
A quick note about the "myth" of safety. Please choose, there are two cars on the road and they are about to be t-bones, one is a Yukon, the other a Mini Cooper, now quick, which automobile do you want to be in? It's not a myth, it's a fact, until all vehicles are similar size, big wins and little loses. Do you know what hospital workers call motorcyclist? Moving donors!
Closing, yes, going toward the goal of less pollutants and better use of our earth is a good thing, just be careful of how you get there.
Dan
