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Originally Posted by NeilBlanchard
To those of you who think that anybody other than the oil companies have any real control of gas prices -- what do you think should happen now?
If we do not switch to renewable energy as quickly as possible, how can we avoid -- eventually -- looking like a Mad Max scenario?
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This country has to change its monetary policy, because whereas the dollar used to be indexed to gold, it is now indexed to oil ( I'll have to look up when the changeover took place ).
The price of oil to the valuation of the dollar is on an inverse proportion, so when the dollar is weak, the price of crude goes up.
The US has been operating on a weak dollar policy for a while now.
As far as the Mad Max scenario, considering the interconnectiveness of the world markets, if America goes, the world goes. No one wants that to happen.
Since the powers that be don't want to renegotiate trade agreements ( as a trucker NAFTA/CAFTA and all the rest messed up a lot for us ), go back to the gold standard, bring manufacturing back to the US, and build vehicles that mpg like the Euro and world market units, the best thing we all can do is say and do "NO". Exercise your choice with your money and tell others to do the same.
My personal choice is to make my own ethanol and build an engine that is optimized to run on it, along with a WMO/WVO diesel. Combine that with the things that I've been learning here, I can conserve what I make. It's a start, until I figure out something else that's cheap and easily made to run the vehicles on.