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Old 02-27-2012, 12:20 AM   #198 (permalink)
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Note also that Europe manages to run an economy with gas prices twice what they are in the US.
Europe is in the process of collapse right now from a combination of things, not the least of which are inflation of currency and a rising cost of living due to in large part to energy costs and over-regulation. We are following almost in lock-step with Europe's path to failure, except we now have plans on the table to make it even worse than they have.


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Nope, because A) we have a good number of workable alternatives; and B) few people use them because gasoline (and diesel, coal, etc) is cheaper.
We sure do, but they are all proven failures, -as in not viable at this point in their technological development. Hopefully that situation will improve without making them viable via regulation and inflation.

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