If we face 100$/barrel crude oil:Shouldn't we be drastically cutting US oil demand by pushing corporations

Question

to conserve by increasing employee telecommuting.? Isn't it a scandal that this Pres can't bring himself to do the right thing and put OPEC on notice. If Carter were President he would be on it immediately rather than coast to the end of their term. I guess invading Iran or Venezuela makes better sense?
BTW, it would also lower CO2 emissions and begin working to reverse GW. Lower particulate pollution too. I guess it only makes sense to little naive me and none to all the politicians who need campaign contributions from the fat and happy oil industry.

"Carter fixing something, your insane."
No,
Apparently you don't know the historical facts about Carter & OPEC & the oil industry as well as I do. The Carter comment was fact & not a political statement. Did you know it was Nixon who put in Price Controls and tacked on import fees on crude oil imports to reduce them in respone to the rise in oil prices from 2.50 to 11.00USD for a barrel of Arab Light@ 1974. Learn something worth knowing. These prices R not justified & will not stand if we do what really needs to be done which is stop wasting oil for fuel purposes & cut our personal consumption by changing our mindset & our behaviors.Everytime I see 1 person commuting to work alone in their car, often in a non-working pickup truck or an SUV, I know we R all behaving like spoiled brats who stupidly waste & pollute. My Q tries to address the issue in a more constuctive way. I hope the gas-guzzling public wakes up to the reality of the situation. We R headed into big trouble if we don't

OPEC, not CARTER was responsible for the gas lines. Get you facts Straight. The measures Carter and the Congress to reduce imports from OPEC through efficiency improvements in housing insulation improvements and car efficiency improvements(CAFE standards) helped postpone what is happening now. I'm sick of misinformed political jerks taking to the internet justifying their views by distorting reality and past history. My Q was asked in a positive way, but you folks some of you oil investors or oil company employees have really pissed me off.

The corporations love tax credits to do what needs to be done telecommuting using broadband is a realistic suggestion thay won't take 10 yrs to make a difference. And who said I hate corporations; you demagogues have --not me.

"I'm not sure how much telecommuting would save us in oil." Huh? If you don't have to drive to work every day to do your job you don't burn up 3to4 dollars per gallon of gasoline. Just up Where have you put your brain man?

"What the government should do is force the automakers to get better gas mileage out of their vehicles" Yes but this President like some here prefer the other solutions that don't inconvenience them. Better we go to war and use our military to keep the oil flowing. Yeah, right?

BTW the real cost of the oil we cosume is much greater tha 100USD per 43 gallon barrel whe you factor in all the diseconomies like war, high prices for anything dependent on energy as a factor. Have you looked at your electric bills lately? At your Heating Oil Bill? Why are the quantities in a food package smaller while the price stays the same? The cost of energy affects everything and the producers will have to pass through their rising costs in some way. So far many have taken the silent approach but some tack on a fuel surcharge like it were a kind of tax.

not 43 but 42 gallons per bbl. Sorry for the typos but I'm using an onscreen keyboard and a mouse to spell.

DJ, why don't you stop breathing rather than make assinine suggestions?

Is this about Conservation? One would not know it from the A's to my Q!

"If you want to cut demand you raise the prices." Usually I agree when there is free and fair trade because, as you know, classic economic theory says price will balance supply and demand. But energy is like air and water, basic and like salt demand highly inelastic( I learned macroecon under Paul Samuelson ) The problem is that there are real inequities here in the trade and pricing & resource distribution hurting people worldwide less fortunate than many of us posting here. We have a right to turn to our gov't when the economic system breaksdown in certain situations like now, like right now! OPEC is a violation of Capitalism & our Anti-trust laws, & the oilco's are their well paid lackeys screwing everyone. Why you folks can't or refuse to see the truths I speak is incredible & frustrating. It can only be based on some benefit for those who have politicized this Q as I1st posed it. I know people R paid to go on the net to distort the picture & the mainstream Press has abandoned us !

Info Pt! For CAFE history, see http://www.davidbarber.org/research/cafe.html

"In 1974, the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) program was introduced. Beginning in the 1975 model year, automobile makers in the United States would be required to meet average requirements for fuel efficiency on many of their vehicles. At the time of its introduction, and in fact ever since, these standards, and other related policy items, have been a point of contention between automakers, environmentalists, and policy makers. This paper will attempt to shed some light on the strengths and weaknesses of CAFE regulation. We will begin with an introduction to the history of the CAFE program. Following this will be a discussion of the goals of CAFE, followed by an evaluation of how well those goals have been achieved. Next, we will look at the economic efficiency of the program (based on the principles of economic efficiency defined by Tietenberg and others, who take into account externalities)[1], ...

Info Pt #2 Re Carter
"During Carter's presidency the United States suffered serious fuel shortages and struggled through several major crises including the invasion of the American Embassy in Tehran, the subsequent holding of embassy personnel as hostages by Islamic Radicals, and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

His administration also created two cabinet-level departments: the Department of Energy and the Department of Education. He established a national energy policy,[1] removed price controls from domestic petroleum production,[2] but was unable to make America less reliant on foreign oil sources."

see entry at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter

"Do you have a solar hot water heater and wind generator or maybe solar eclectic roof panels?" Do you have the right Q? Bec it seems your Q( a no-no in this format) is an answer to someone else's Q. BTW I don't have "X" and if I did or didn't have X whats your point? It Seems to me your point is irrelevant and ad hominem whoever you were babbling at.

For Christ's sake, Answer the Q and stop bashing me and carping the Q or delete or edit your A to address the pt of the Q w/o the ideological BS.

"Bush and Corporations caused: 911, Katrina, Bridges to fall," I don't believe nothing like that. ?He is an incompetent and dangerous President and he should be impeached. I don't know him personally so I hate the fact he is my President elected by very dumb voters who won't admit they made a mistake. I personally don't hate the person, he seems to be a likeable person, but he should not be President. To smear me id ad hominem fashion only discredits your diatribe, Bushie that you are.

Yes I am a liberal in the tradition of those who drew up the Costitution that emphasized following the law and governing by democratic principles and distributed powers to keep a nutjob dictator from representing us and misusing the powers that comes from us the people. Got that!

Answer 1

Wow, lots of happy happy joy joy posting here... isn't it interesting how these self claiming conservatives always feel such huge entitlement to do and say what ever they want for the sake of profit and their twisted ignorant sense of well being?

Don't let this negativity get you down...

Some of these same people a few years from now will cover their environmental mis-steps and evil ways with more lies and memory losses... I never owned a V-8 after the 1970's... RIGHT! When it comes to maintaining their status quo, they start to say and do anything, even change there ways, HA!

Answer 2

Actually, a lot of corporations are pushing the federal government to come up with an energy policy that deals with global warming, and many have started going green on their own. Wal Mart, for all the bad things people say about it (and I believe they do some bad things), is one of the largest consumers of solar power in the country. FedEx has started replacing their old trucks with hybrid models. And the list goes on and on.

I'm not sure how much telecommuting would save us in oil. It seems to me that most people have to be physically present at their jobs. What the government should do is force the automakers to get better gas mileage out of their vehicles! I can't believe that cars that were made in the 80s were just as, or even more fuel efficient than they are today! And if it's going to be such a financial burden on the automakers to raise fuel economy, then give them a little federal aid. We can pay for that by bringing some of our troops in Iraq home!

By the way, OPEC make 1.8 Billion dollars today selling us oil.

Answer 3

This question is just another typical liberal Bush Hater blaming all the worlds problems on Corporations and Bush.

Pollution and $100 oil is caused by the worlds population demanding more, more, more, and not being willing to conserve. One of the main causes is because you libs killed the Nuclear Power industry which was and is the most promising alternative to oil we had. It is not because the government and corporations are forcing people to expand and pollute, stupid. Governments and Corporations produce what the majority of their constituents ask for. The world has demanded more of everything.

Typical Lib. ***** and Moan and Whine. Always Blame. Never fix anything, unless you can use other peoples money or effort. Liberals like you are worse than Islamic Radical killers. You are leeches on society. You are like the little kid on the team that didn't get to be captain, so you just do every thing you can to hurt the team because of your selfish motives and the hell with it if the team loses.

I know the drill - Bush and Corporations caused: 911, Katrina, Bridges to fall, Anyone that is poor, Any bad thing that happens to anybody, etc., etc., etc. I can't wait to see what you will blame after he is gone. You libs will find something for sure, because you have no answers that make any sense.

Answer 4

Being pretty sure just isn't good enough! Are you absolutely certain that crude oil isn't a mere 6,000 years old? Of course not. No one can be. The trickery being done in this world is not being done by God, but by satan. Don't fall for the devil's lies. They will not provide salvation. And when the curtain falls on this earth the only thing that will matter to anyone is whether they are safe in Christ Jesus.

Answer 5

Carter and his energy policy (aka MEW) was a total disaster. Hours of waiting in line for gasoline in some locations while in others they were having price wars to get rid of the surplus gasoline that Carter and his minions would not let anyone move to where the shortages were. And if you adjust for inflation, prices were higher then than they are now. If consumption needs to be cut, then let the market do it. Any government interference will only create more problems than it will solve.

Answer 6

why should we punish a company for makeing money and supplying things we need if you did that and punish the oil companys by fining them what is that going to do nothing what we need to do is this stop brings oil in from other countrys we have enough to supply the us for about 50 years just a ball park in that time we can build a new necualr reactor or a hydro electric or wind power or coal power plant
and in do ing that guess what prices go down why beacuse we dont need the gas that much so the price goes down the only reason that the prices are where they are is suppy and demmand you want to drive every where guess what you need gas and the price is going up every time we load up one of the oil tankers and ship it across the ocean guess what if we drill oil here we ship it across the coat and we drop the price

Answer 7

Do you have a solar hot water heater and wind generator or maybe solar eclectic roof panels? all of which have consumer tax rebates. So maybe stop babbling about corporations and start the ball rolling at home first. Why don't YOU do the right thing?

Answer 8

If you want to cut demand you raise the prices.

Don't bother with anything else, just raise the prices and the demand will drop.

Answer 9

Why don't you conserve by turning off your computer?????? Look at yourself first! Only when you have achieved 'perfection' should you look to changing others.

Answer 10

Maybe we should drill for oil. Anwar

Carter fixing something, your insane.