Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
this will be wonderful for the sputtering economy..
$7 a gallon gasoline looks bad, but what will "necessarily skyrocketing" electricity rates look like, if 0bama has his version of cap & trade signed into law?
I've been ready for it for about ten years now. It was always bound to happen regardless of policies, as the USA catches up with the rest of the world (again).
I don't know if this post is serious or not, if it is it is quite ironic.
Yes, global warming is the only reason that running an entire country on oil is problematic. This isn't dumb in any way, shape, or form.
War on science continues, rage on uggabugga.
Why not make it $14 a gallon for gasoline and diesel fuels, if its such a brilliant idea? Where does it make sense to artificially raise the only energy source for interstate commerce and transportation, to such astronomical costs?
Why not make it $14 a gallon for gasoline and diesel fuels, if its such a brilliant idea? Where does it make sense to artificially raise the only energy source for interstate commerce and transportation, to such astronomical costs?
Why not completely subsidize it and have free gasoline for everybody (oh except its government funded)!!!
I would be a bit happier if people were more environmentally aware of the impact of owning a 2500 sqft house with 3 cars.
This type of comment always makes me chuckle. I hope it doesn't hurt, but I gotta give you a smack with a clue bat.
First of all, the number of cars one owns is pretty irrelevant. At one point a few years ago, I owned three cars and a motorcycle. Want to know a secret? I could only operate one at a time.
Second, people have varying requirements of their vehicles. Sometimes people need to haul "stuff," load more than 4 people into a car or tow something. If everyone stuck to your zero-or-one-car ideal, the one car that many people would own would have to be something that gets really horrible mileage. Is that what you want?
Right now, between my girlfriend and I, we have three cars. Hers is a VW "new" Beetle (I prefer the "real" ones, but hey, it's her car), and I have a minivan and a lifted Jeep. The Jeep rarely gets driven (20k miles in 7 years) - I have it for running trails, not as a daily driver. The van gets used when we need the space or towing capacity. Our daily driver is the Beetle - the car that gets the best mileage. If we had to get rid of one car, it'd be the Beetle. The Jeep fits less cargo than the VW, and neither the VW nor the Jeep can carry the number of people or amount of "stuff" that we sometimes need to carry.
We also run our business from home, so neither of us have a commute. Our business is almost completely paperless, too. We're about as "green" as a household or business can get. But we have three cars, so we're bad, bad people.
The context is that you don't think those things I've mentioned are a big deal.
The other context is that you're short sighted and are a pretty big reason that the US is in the ****ter.
I happen to think that dipping a trillion or so dollars into a resource war when the US is broke is kind of a big deal! Guess I'm a fiscal conservative.
All you guys can ever do is get upset about something that hasn't happened.
"We have to pass the health care bill NOW or children will be dying in the streets!"
"We have to pass the cap & trade bill NOW or we'll be living in a real-life 'Waterworld'!"
"Bush stole the election! Twice!"
etc.
The door swings both ways, SLC. Politics is politics. Some people are smart enough to recognize that, and some aren't - they just insult people on web forums.
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
