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Originally Posted by Thymeclock
Why stop at $6 per gallon?
Why not $10? $12? $20? $50?
How do you benefit from the price rising?
This is not a rhetorical question. Since you are cheering on the price rise, I want to know how it benefits you.
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Sure- $10, or whatever. Cool.
As already noted, my formerly quiet neighborhood would quiet down again. You see, the bulk of activity on my street is SUV driving women yapping on cell phones. This town is small. They should pry their huge butts outta those trucks and walk around. Second in sheer volume we have the punks with their mud trucks who evidently put on about 200 miles/day without ever leaving city limits. Mom and Dad might rethink the wisdom of bankrolling that if it costs them more than $100/day. The tiny remainder is probably legit neighborhood traffic.
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Originally Posted by vago
Indeed. It sounds like a few people here are taking pleasure at watching the economy stall. All of their friends must easily be able to pay for gas and food.
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I have a fundamental disagreement with the prevailing "growth philosophy" which is, constant growth is a requirement for our system or it will all implode. This idiotic philosophy has lead to much sprawl and degradation of places and things. What is so great about it? What is so great about when our economy is humming along? Why does everyone in the small cluster****s strive to create large cluster****s? Can't they just move to congested areas if that's what they want? As far as I can tell, what we got was a bunch of McMansion building, SUV driving, keeping-up-with-the-Joneses B*** S*** and not a whole bunch more. Don't make the mistake of thinking
that was the norm because that just ain't sustainable.
Yes, I can easily pay for gas, because I hardly buy any of it.
And if food prices go up, I can easily pay for that too. It's quite simple if you don't go out to eat all the time, or order take-out, or only buy all the processed **** at the grocery.
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Originally Posted by neil
We are paying a lot more than the pump price for oil. Try much of our military budget for a start. Then, take a look at the Gulf of Mexico, and Prince William Sound, AK and all the areas around oil refineries, and to smog and the myriad of health problems it causes.
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Originally Posted by neil
Oil is finite, by definition.
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Originally Posted by neil
We are past peak oil. I know this because we have started to use the lowest quality, tar sands, etc.
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He's right you know. By your glib remarks I know we'll never see eye-to-eye on much of anything which if fine because I don't want to be like you.
