Do you think more people are going to start using public transportation? Hydro cars being introduced and becoming the craze (or hybrids)? Or do you believe that our president will try to make ammends and realize he has screwed everything that Clinton fixed?
2006-08-08 16:37:53 · 9 answers · asked by PlasticTrees 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
I see we have a few conservatives on here :p C'est la vie I guess.
2006-08-08 17:05:43 · update #1
What did Clinton fix? You are living in a dream world. Clinton rode the wave of economic glory set up by Reagan. Clinton did nothing spectacular. Do you really think Clinton "fixed" anything? Please read a book, please, if not for yourself than at least for the good of society.
2006-08-08 17:03:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, bad news. You have been lied to for over 20 years. If you take into consideration all of the cost associated with purifying high octane gasoline, the cost would be a little over $5.00 per gallon. The government has been subsidizing the oil industry since Carter (actually before, but there is no solid proof).
The government has been cutting the oil subsidy to pay for the wars that we have been fighting. Did you happen to notice that your taxes haven't gone up... just down. Yep, we are not paying for the war. They are cutting the gasoline subsidy to pay for the war. Instead of sending government money to oil companies, they are sending the money to the military. Consider this, every time they announce that oil goes up a $1.00 a barrel, this translates to $0.02 a gallon increase. Then why does our price jump $0.30. No, it is not price gouging. Each month, the subsidy is decreased even more. Why isn't this public knowledge? If you don't know this, then they can blame someone else. Really, now just consider this... what industry did Bush work for before he joined politics? When you cut the subsidy, government regulation gets relaxed.
It is kind of like this....
Let's say Milk costs $2.00 in 2000. Your mom says that she will pay $1.50 so that you have more money to spend and save. Milk now costs you $0.50.
This continues until 2020. Milk now costs $3.50, but you are still paying $0.50. Your mom is now in trouble, your milk has cost more to her every year. She really needs the money... and I mean now. She cuts her part back to $1.50 (the original commitment she made). Now, milk costs you $1.50. Oh CRUD! That is triple what you planned to pay. Ahhh! Scream it is unfair.
The United States still pays less for gasoline than any other developed nation on Earth. You may not think so, but you really pay about half of what the gasoline costs the industry.
(Whoa, and "damned fan" is extremely wrong! Oil refineries are constantly being built. There is an oil refinery less than 10 years old 5 miles from my home in Indiana.)
2006-08-08 16:58:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ha ha ha ha!! Good joke!!!
#1 George w Bush says thats the nature of the oil business!!
#2 read #1
#3 Americans are wasteful and the oil companies will take advantage of that!!!
#4 The oil companies make billions in profits but haven't built an oil refinery since 1976 and now all of a sudden they use that logic as an excuse!!!
2006-08-08 16:50:20 · answer #3 · answered by Damned fan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Im sure Hybrids will surge only from Consumer demands due to sky rocketing gas prices, cause otherwise it would serve a quick death like its electric brother.
If you think about the fact that Iran holds the world's supply of petrolium, and they have a chance to win this war (and if they loose, Israel becomes the owner of the supply) we are pretty screwd. Better get some better ideas on energy saving....
2006-08-08 16:46:51 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the economy in the US and the world will collapse and we will regress, as a cibilization, back to about 1900. No on realizes all the things that come from petroleum that we will no longer be able to afford.
Hybrids don't work without a cheap source of Hydrogen for the fuel cells (comes from petroleum). Batteries only last a couple of years.
2006-08-08 16:44:23 · answer #5 · answered by ceprn 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they wont allow alternate energy cars to become mainstream probably for another decade or two because the govt and everybody else is making too much money on gasoline sales... in fact, the economy would collapse if that happened ...the truth of the matter is the prices will continue to rise at whatever the market can bear ... inflation watever jiberish economic formulas they use ... i would say 4$ in another year or so with the minimum wage increase .....
2006-08-08 16:52:11 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm thoroughly sick and tired of those gas costs Im additionally sick of nutrition costs going up no longer purely can we no longer have the means to handle to pay for to force to artwork we wont have the means to consume. we are able to finally end up a third international us of a yet. I force 40 miles back and forth to artwork an afternoon, to assist my 3 young infants and it takes a brilliant bite out of my verify a week.
2016-11-04 04:28:26 · answer #7 · answered by treiber 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No fake plastic Ts....
We will all keep pumping, paying, and whining about it.
Boo Hoo Hoo. This sucks.
Then we will all hop in our full sized SUVs and drive off.
2006-08-08 16:42:09 · answer #8 · answered by Sherry L 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I honestly don't think much will change. The price will rise higher and higher as long as we put up with it and continue to pay it.
2006-08-08 16:41:54 · answer #9 · answered by cyanne2ak 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋