Gas Junkie - Gasoline Prices Questions

Question: quick solution to high gasoline prices?

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Answer #1:

Unfortunately our oil reserves would only last a few months, they are meant to be used in times of emergency like war or like an oil price spike like in the 70's

Answer #2:

yeah, he has valid INTELLECTUAL points. But SO WHAT? we don't LIVE in that world! We live in a world where our problems are ILLOGICAL PEOPLE. Presenting a rational argument is a WASTE OF BREATH.

This was something that fascinated Tolstoy. He was a rich count, a landowner, he used to introduce new technology coming from America to the peasants who had lived on his land for generations. He wrote about this in War and Peace and also Anna Karenina.

No matter HOW he showed the peasants that they could save labor doing it the new way, they went back to the old way. Because they had an INSECT MENTALITY.

Its the same thing with us. That insect mentality is as REAL as if we DIDN'T having the Rocky Mountain oil reserves and the 90 billion gallons in the Atlantic at all.

It's like a library of books that you NEVER READ! We live with MORONS. You can't ignore them. They are ALWAYS in the majority.

Answer #3:

I think he hit a lot of the points right on the head. If it weren't for Democrats we would have all of these sources running now.

Why do you have to say: "I don't care much for the commenter,"? You obviously like his thinking. Do you have to distance yourself from him so that liberals will like you? Liberals aren't very tollerant.

Answer #4:

He has a point but I think that's not very helpful. I think the better solution would be to take substitutes or car manufacturers should invent cars that would use another form of fuel (that's inexpensive) so that petroleum suppliers will be forced to go down prices. In a deeper analysis, if government will do what the speaker has said, where will the government get the supply again when other countries that produce petroleum would not release anymore because that's business, right? The speculators might end up conniving with the petroleum suppliers and that would even result to another bickering. So it is it. The more the choices of car fuels, the gasoline will compete and eventually lower prices. And he must realize that the supplier is not the country itself so, it's no use.

Answer #5:

Yes... the speculators betting against US has hurt us and we should release the reserves or at least a percentage of the reserves and "punish" them for that they have had a hand in doing to us.

I am not so sure about going after natural oil fields... and off shore oil fields... very polluting and I think we just need to get past fossil fuels altogether.

I like the maximizing the development of alternative fuels... won't happen though if fuel costs go down folks will lose interest in doing just that.

I would say also the Gov't could drop their excise tax... it is a huge portion of the gas prices. They are holding onto that and that is hurting American too.





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