Get ready for for gas prices in CA above $4 (minimum wage, to live)

[Lovehound]

Originally Posted by Gentoo

Which is why this didn't really take off. Although I wonder why we still can't do it when our country produces a surplus a food every year?

Because America exports excess food to the rest of the world thus making a profit?

Originally Posted by bentstrider

Perhaps everyone will gradually get thinner due to the food supplies having to be portioned back down to what they were in the 60s and such.

Nope, won't happen. Food is a necessity and to some it's an addiction. They'll go without something else.

The only way to get back to food consumption of the '60s is to kill off all the difference between population then and now.

I keep saying that birth control is part of the solution to many of our environmental problems, although I doubt people would accept that. We are the human equivalent of an algae bloom.

Originally Posted by wrcousert

We could pump sea water to our desserts and have all the fuel or alcohol producing plants we want without effecting food prices.

I'd love to see you try to convince environmentalists of that. In addition to ruining the environment it could even change the weather.

I always love to see the windmills in the Palm Springs I-10/Hwy. 62 area but there are environmentalists who hate the 'mills and want them removed.

[Fontucky]

Nobody's putting seawater on my dessert, and that's final.

[UB50]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

Where was that, in Libya? The lowest I remember seeing in So Cal (as a licensed driver) was .25 during a gas war in 1971. The lowest I've ever paid was .26 that same year.

Actually it was Florida, sometime in the 1970s.

[TimC2462]

I remember some odd 6 to 10 years ago, several gas stations were selling gas around 1$ per gallon. Can't remember if it was here in California or in the Midwest.

[steel7]

Gas does not have to be high. This is utter BS & its all about greed. The crisis in the middle east hopefully ends soon but i doubt it. I need a car to get to work & this is hurting me big time.

[nullgeo]

Originally Posted by Fontucky

Nobody's putting seawater on my dessert, and that's final.

Not even if it comes with an Oreo?

Oreo-dory




or a

Blobfish




for some stimulating conversation at the table?

[wrcousert]

Originally Posted by nullgeo

Not even if it comes with an Oreo?

Oreo-dory




or a

Blobfish




for some stimulating conversation at the table?

Got recipe?

[bentstrider]

Originally Posted by Lovehound

Nope, won't happen. Food is a necessity and to some it's an addiction. They'll go without something else.

The only way to get back to food consumption of the '60s is to kill off all the difference between population then and now.

I keep saying that birth control is part of the solution to many of our environmental problems, although I doubt people would accept that. We are the human equivalent of an algae bloom.



I'd love to see you try to convince environmentalists of that. In addition to ruining the environment it could even change the weather.

I always love to see the windmills in the Palm Springs I-10/Hwy. 62 area but there are environmentalists who hate the 'mills and want them removed.

I say we gradually scale back consumption and deal with any losses as circumstantial.
We got to cut off the arm to save the rest of the body, but since many believe that all life is precious, no matter how damaging, this will be a hard chip for many to swallow.

As for birth control, perhaps child-bearing should be limited to the more educated or resource-conscious bunch.
I'd much rather have some MD's, engineers, and farmers having kids than say, some paper-pushers or menial-task types that seem to only have kids out of passion, then do jack-spit to properly rear them.

As far as the windmills vs. environuts go, someone should infiltrate their organizational ranks, become the chairman, and then dissolve the entire thing once they get to the top.

Michael Moore wants to do that to the NRA, so the same could happen to one of his preferred groups.

[architext]

its been 5 in Canada forever, you Californians need to wake up

[bentstrider]

Originally Posted by architext

its been 5 in Canada forever, you Californians need to wake up

At least you guys know how to suck it up.
If it went up to $5 here, I wouldn't be caught dead riding my bicycle in the street after that.
I'd be getting that "zombie wants food" stare rather quickly.