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Basic Training |
I don't think the government should do a damn thing. This problem is purely economic. Good old supply and demand. People continously ***** about the price of gas yet....amazingly, it doesn't keep them from driving across town for a bowl of ice cream. As long as the demand remains so damn high the price will continue to go up. Ok....so what would happen to the price if America tightened its belts and reduced consumption like some experts are suggesting? Nothing.....China, India, and the rest of the developing world would eat up the difference in a few years and we'd be back to square one.
I think the only way out of this prediciment will be for the price to rise dramatically (100-200%) in the next few years thereby making fossil fuels so expensive that people literally have to choose between eating and driving. At that point the funding and motivation to find alternative means will become so great that cold-fusion, corn cars etc. etc. will get ironed out to an acceptable level of efficency. Right now, as much as we go on and on about alternative means, no one really bothers to spend the time to truly develop and implement these future methods because oil is still cheap. Competition forces prices to drop, right now oil has no competetion because its still a cheap enough commodity that no one (except a few hippie scientiests..haha) is really willing to put the money, time, and effort towards creating a competition. People need to stop looking at the government for a solution and start looking at their own spending habits. |
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Did you ever buy that truck Mike? I just spent $82.00 filling my Dodge Ram up...I'm looking at something smaller, but keeping the truck...
Spotted Owl soup, naw... Hey Mouse, your the woods man, do you know a good recipe for owl. |
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Always... ... ...
...follow the money and percentage(s) of 100%. break, break ..like wood. I use the best wood for outdoor signs---redwood (which isn't an endangered species, which grows alive and well for the NON-ENDANGED spotted spotted owl to live in. ..and according to documentation, according to how the vast majority of species adjust to change, spotted owls are taking up residence in K-Mart signs. Shi(f)t or change pots. Sf, --Erl |
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Mouse, a "woods man" (ha ha)? He lives in a desert.  Sf, --Erl |
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I agree, I had been going to Annie Baileys, but Shaninigan's is much closer to my house...I will have to keep my Acohol Level up...especially that Sheetz on Oregon Pike and that Hindu Gas Station down the road that is always 10 cents higher than down by the Outlets at the WaWa! |
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one of my best friends and boss, grad from SLIPPERY DI...ER ROCK college back in the '70s. he was from 'fremont'?? pa... |
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Oh yeah, A fellow Slimy Pebble Alum...I know where freemont is! Cool, he must be a genius |
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actually he was...AF vet with specialty in intel/languages...listened to the russkis from turkey. he's a big wig in PW in morgantown,WV...haven't seen him in many years. |
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Basic Training |
Well SgtW I dont agree to your whole rant I do agree with some of it. What irks me is this past fri I saw the gas go up 3 times during the day at a local gas station. In the morning I had a dental appt it was 3.46 my appt was an hour when i drove by it again it was 3.52 when my wife got home around noon i told her and she said the gas was 3.56 well my son and I went to see Iron Man( good flick btw) that night and after the movie and it was 3.65. all in one day. Now can someone answer me as to why ?
Doc |
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"mouse" |
Hmmmm, Recipe for Owl.
 ....Nope.......But they are considered BAD news in Tribal lore.....  |
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In 1999 Gas was .90 cents a gallon. 8 Yrs later it is $3.80. I understand the economics of supply/demand and the weak dollar. Emerging world economies, and other factors.
Who has been in charge over the last 8 yrs of our Governement? Do they have oil ties? Because Bush has absolutley NOTHING to do with the price of oil? Not one iota of responsibility? |
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"Sissy Hunter" |
Big Corn? Obama is in kahoost with big Corn and Bio Fuel barons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Is he in charge of the country? I would rather it be a domestic supplier than Oil that funds terroristic states and OPEC any day! |
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If a dem had been prez for the last 8 who do you think they'd be blaming? Right. I gave up arguing with these xtreme rightie types, can't win, it's a religion, and they see everything in black & white, you disagree and you're a "librul", see? easy, no thinking required. Watch, they'll see this post and immediately brand me a demodummy librul, but they know zilch about me, but it doesn't matter. |
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Filled up today...ouch..$4.11/gal..!?!..
"Mission Accomplished!" |
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"mouse" |
bad bad bad.
 ....i haven't driven my SUV any where lately...02 Yukon.  ..gas here is $3.77 a gallon  |
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KAHOOST ???   |
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$3.61 in SE Va |
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Time for us to revert back to some of our old ways ....Saddle-up / Mount -up Boys & Girls .... They would Sheet their pants . This message has been edited. Last edited by: 4USA2, |
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I have to buy PREMIUM cause of the damn high-comp engine
so I go down to the ghe-tto thinking it might be cheaper there...but it's even freakin' MORE?! Somebody please SPLAIN that to me?! |
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"mouse" |
4USA2...Tell us that YOU don't sit on that saddle horn....
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"A Marine on duty has no friends." |
lol the station must see a trend and then acts on it... |
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why does BP do their whole commercial as 'BEYOND PETROLEUM', never mentioning BRITISH PETROLEUM???
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