Strother ASSumes again.
It's career-minded and otherwise responsible Americans who commute to work solo while driving big, pricey gas-guzzling automobiles. It's good parents who - with the best intentions - drive around town in 15MPG all-terrain vehicles to get groceries.
You still don't get it, do you Strother? You've been so brainwashed by that liberal soup you inhabit that you can't seem to figure out that Americans and their conservation habits aren't at issue here. We could all give up our SUVs and jump in our carpools and ride the bus and join hands and sing kum-bah-yah and it won't make a dime's worth of difference to gas prices in the end. Idiot hippies can stomp around in their Birkenstocks with stern looks on their faces, feeding Arlen Specter's ego by demanding that the government "do something," thereby dooming us to dependence on Arab oil for another couple of generations, and gas will still cost the same amount in the end that it would have otherwise, maybe more.
I wish people would get it through their thick skulls that the price of oil is what it is. It is not the result of some conspiracy, not even by OPEC, which is in full production and couldn't do anything about the price if it wanted to. The image of fat-cat oil tycoons conspiring to keep oil prices high is a Michael Moore fantasy and people who believe it are as stupid as Moore is. The current prices are the result of dozens of market forces. A population nearly four times that of the US is in the process of becoming just as mobile, modern, and petroleum-guzzling as we are. Their consumption habits will dwarf ours, even at our most gluttonous excesses. Idiot, drooling, environmentalist retards have the ear of more drooling retards who happen to inhabit Congress, thereby eliminating oil-drilling offshore of both left coasts and in some God-forsaken wasteland in Alaska.
The answer is to find another way to support our mobility. Oil shale, steam extraction, coal catalysis, drilling in ANWR and offshore in sight of Teddy Kennedy's house, bio-diesels, these are all ways to support our internal combustion habit while we develop other ways to move ourselves around. Maybe Cal Thomas is right. Maybe if Joe Sixpack understands he is financing the jihad with his SUV's appetite, a market will develop for alternatives. But until a market develops, nothing will happen and we'll be right back in the same place in another ten years, having the same stupid, national discussion all over again. Involving the government will do nothing but ensure that it will be another dozen years before anything happens.
...but I do think we all should be regularly reminded of where all that gas money is going... well, besides just to Exxon, Chevron, or Halliburton.
Absolutely, so I imagine you'll want to join me in getting the word out that the government reaps about ten times what the oil companies do on a gallon of gas.
But I know, Steve - saying, ' I guess you have to speak slowly and use small words if you're going to get people to turn off FOX News for a minute and pay attention' wouldn't have quite the same ring to it. Plus, it's always easier to blame the kids!
Oh don't get your panties in a wad. MTV is brain candy to at least three generations of television-addicted Americans. I didn't have any particular age group in mind, so you can jump down off your high horse now.
You still don't get it, do you Strother? You've been so brainwashed by that liberal soup you inhabit that you can't seem to figure out that Americans and their conservation habits aren't at issue here. We could all give up our SUVs and jump in our carpools and ride the bus and join hands and sing kum-bah-yah and it won't make a dime's worth of difference to gas prices in the end. Idiot hippies can stomp around in their Birkenstocks with stern looks on their faces, feeding Arlen Specter's ego by demanding that the government "do something," thereby dooming us to dependence on Arab oil for another couple of generations, and gas will still cost the same amount in the end that it would have otherwise, maybe more.
I wish people would get it through their thick skulls that the price of oil is what it is. It is not the result of some conspiracy, not even by OPEC, which is in full production and couldn't do anything about the price if it wanted to. The image of fat-cat oil tycoons conspiring to keep oil prices high is a Michael Moore fantasy and people who believe it are as stupid as Moore is. The current prices are the result of dozens of market forces. A population nearly four times that of the US is in the process of becoming just as mobile, modern, and petroleum-guzzling as we are. Their consumption habits will dwarf ours, even at our most gluttonous excesses. Idiot, drooling, environmentalist retards have the ear of more drooling retards who happen to inhabit Congress, thereby eliminating oil-drilling offshore of both left coasts and in some God-forsaken wasteland in Alaska.
The answer is to find another way to support our mobility. Oil shale, steam extraction, coal catalysis, drilling in ANWR and offshore in sight of Teddy Kennedy's house, bio-diesels, these are all ways to support our internal combustion habit while we develop other ways to move ourselves around. Maybe Cal Thomas is right. Maybe if Joe Sixpack understands he is financing the jihad with his SUV's appetite, a market will develop for alternatives. But until a market develops, nothing will happen and we'll be right back in the same place in another ten years, having the same stupid, national discussion all over again. Involving the government will do nothing but ensure that it will be another dozen years before anything happens.
...but I do think we all should be regularly reminded of where all that gas money is going... well, besides just to Exxon, Chevron, or Halliburton.
Absolutely, so I imagine you'll want to join me in getting the word out that the government reaps about ten times what the oil companies do on a gallon of gas.
But I know, Steve - saying, ' I guess you have to speak slowly and use small words if you're going to get people to turn off FOX News for a minute and pay attention' wouldn't have quite the same ring to it. Plus, it's always easier to blame the kids!
Oh don't get your panties in a wad. MTV is brain candy to at least three generations of television-addicted Americans. I didn't have any particular age group in mind, so you can jump down off your high horse now.
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