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GAS PRICES....WTH :angry:
Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: Fordman on March 05, 2011, 11:18:41 am ---In the U.S.A., price speculators drive up the price here.
A camel farts the wrong way in the middle east and the speculators drive the price up.
The U.S.A. gets 90% of its oil from Canada, Gulf of Mexico and South America.
I dont know why we let the speculators drive the price up because of middle east turmoil.
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FINALLY !!
Someone that "gets it"..... I was just explaining this to someone the other night.
The middle east BS is nothing more than an EXCUSE....don't let the news or any of these big companies ---That which is odiferous and causeth plants to grow--- ya.
When stuff like this happens I buy just what I need to get by for a few days, I never fill up when the prices are getting jacked up.
Why give them huge immediate profits over a "just because they can" scenario, buy less and make a point.
:soapbox:
t3design:
I support alternative energy where it makes sense, but the electric or hybrid vehicles are a ruse. To make fully electric cars a cost effective solution oil will have to be over $280 a barrel. At $2000 per kilowatt hour for batteries, these cars are just expensive. Currently the price of these vehicles is being subsidized by the combination of tax credits and incentives and the sale of traditional vehicles. It is unlikely that the full hybrid market will be around 5% (maybe as high as 7%) by 2020. Not enough to greatly impact the price or usage of traditional energy.
lilshawn:
that's okay, my ridiculous city plans to implement a "no idling" by-law that prohibits running your vehicle for more than a few minutes without moving. some bull plop about clean air.
I say if you want to pay for/supplement my gas, fine, but when I pay for it, I'll burn it all I likes.
Kevin Mullins:
--- Quote from: lilshawn on March 05, 2011, 03:25:07 pm ---that's okay, my ridiculous city plans to implement a "no idling" by-law that prohibits running your vehicle for more than a few minutes without moving. some bull plop about clean air.
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Well that's plain ridiculous.... you burn less and pollute less at idle. ::)
(just another excuse to write you a ticket I guess)
Epyx:
Lol...remember gas prices in 2007/2008 and all the talk about "alternative energy" then the price went down a bit and the talk stopped...we have the technology but obviously not the will as long as certain people are involved ;)
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