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Have you read either the bill or the amendment to the bill ?
It's not what you think it is.
Oil companies are already saying that they will have to shut down refineries and move operations off shore in response to this bill. I'm totally okay with that.
The sooner gas gets to $7 a gallon the better. It's the only way we are going to get people out of their cars and onto public transportation.
Oil companies are already saying that they will have to shut down refineries and move operations off shore in response to this bill. I'm totally okay with that.
The sooner gas gets to $7 a gallon the better. It's the only way we are going to get people out of their cars and onto public transportation.
You assume every city has public transportation. Once you leave the major cities you will quickly see there is little to none and no money to support one.
Rural America cannot afford $7/gal. Farmers are going broke as it is due to fuel/feed costs compared to what they net.
Not everyone lives in NYC and has access to public transportation 24/7.
Those that live in their nice little world with mommies money that bought them their nice house, car and education don't understand that. They never had to work for anything. You here talks about a mandatory draft sometimes... I thnk what we shoulld do is make it mandatory that if you graduate from college you have to push a broom around the streets for a year. If you went to law school it's two years.
You assume every city has public transportation. Once you leave the major cities you will quickly see there is little to none and no money to support one.
Rural America cannot afford $7/gal. Farmers are going broke as it is due to fuel/feed costs compared to what they net.
Not everyone lives in NYC and has access to public transportation 24/7.
I don't assume that at all. I know that most cities in America have inadequate public transportation. But that's a function of priorities and the sooner that Americans start demanding public transportation option, the sooner they will get built. Right now those "farmers" you refer to are perfectly happy getting into their pickup trucks and getting 8 miles to the gallon to drive themselves to the grocery store. That has to change.
In Japan, you can get anywhere, even the most remote areas by rail or bus. Same thing in Europe for the most part. The US has to catch up. The fact that cities as large as Phoenix, Vegas, Orlando, etc..., have almost no public transportation system is a huge problem.
Fact is, if we stop fighting expensive wars for oil and start spending that money on rail and bridges we will be better off.
Right now those "farmers" you refer to are perfectly happy getting into their pickup trucks and getting 8 miles to the gallon to drive themselves to the grocery store. That has to change.
Try 50 miles to get to that grocery store. You won't see any public transportation in rural America anytime soon. Too spread out and too little money.
There's no way I would use it..I need that pickup to haul bales of hay, 50-100lb sacks of feed, lumber and such for building. And I'm not even true "rural"...just a few acres outside the city limits where I can have some livestock.
Try 50 miles to get to that grocery store. You won't see any public transportation in rural America anytime soon. Too spread out and too little money.
There's no way I would use it..I need that pickup to haul bales of hay, 50-100lb sacks of feed, lumber and such for building. And I'm not even true "rural"...just a few acres outside the city limits where I can have some livestock.
Liberals don't realize that without those trucks they will have an empty dining table or everything on their table will be from Mexico.
Most people don't think long or deep enough to even understand how they are able to get on with daily life without the people that work for a living. Everything is either taken for granted or they a re just oblivious.
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It's the only way we are going to get people out of their cars and onto public transportation.
I know that most cities in America have inadequate public transportation. But that's a function of priorities and the sooner that Americans start demanding public transportation option, the sooner they will get built. Right now those "farmers" you refer to are perfectly happy getting into their pickup trucks and getting 8 miles to the gallon to drive themselves to the grocery store. That has to change. 
