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I posted what's below... and completly forgot to use 'peak oil' in the text... doh!
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Gas prices are not high because of Oil companys. Oil companys didn't say `lets not build any refinerys' or `lets only put about 2 trillion barrels of oil in the groud'. It's nature, regulations, and the free market. Unless your all communists, were experiencing captialism at it's finest. Personaly, I hope gas prices reach 5$ by 2007, maybe then we'll get real energy reform.
Most importantly, we are approaching a time when Oil production will no longer be able to grow yet demand for it will not stop when the oil does... were talking less than 10 years, possibly much sooner than that according to some, but the general concensus among scientiest and geologists is 10 years. THIS IS SERIOUS PEOPLE, were not talking 5-10$ gas, were talking shortages of gas where you cant even get it! 3rd world countrys starving, farming disappearing as the price of oil and gas skyrocket. heath care going though the roof (many more times than it is now)
Please speak with Roscoe Bartlett regarding energy, we need bipartisen support and he is an EXTREAMLY knowlegable man in this area and has very knowlegable contacts.
I have been making the point, forcefully, that high and rising energy prices are most likely here to stay, so we should start figuring out how to adjust and anticipating what the likely consequences are. Giving people the correct information (and popping the illusions) and letting them reach their own conclusions is often more persuasive than just presenting the entire argument in one go, because the entire argument and its consequences are too big a leap for many people to take.
People made it through the Great Depression. We've made it through countless wars. We've endured fights against tyrants and the rise of tyranny here in the US. Life will go on. It may not be the sham that we call the American dream, but in the end humanity will be better. Sometimes you gotta learn things the hard way...
Even on Easter Island, there were surivors. But they were not better off. Without boats or wood to build boats, they were castaways with no hope of escape from an abysmal life style.
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To Steve W who wrote:
"BTW please explain why if the Europeans are driving small cars that save gas how come their prices have been 2 to 3 times higher than America's for dozens of years?"
It's actually quite simple. Their governements don't give billions to the oil companys to subsidize prices for them, insted they have REAL public transit and real heathcare programs. Oil is a world commidity, we as Americans (by far the largest users) are driving up the worlds prices (kinda starting to make sense why most in the world hates us these days?).
I think its important to point out that they DO pay higher prices, yet their standard of living is the same as ours if not better in many regards.
I get so frustrated that people like me who ride a bike, car pool every single day, and take mass transit get our tax dollars spent making gas cheaper for the morons who think drilling anwar will do somthing insted of getting a bike lane on the side of a road or a completly seperate bike path that will actually LOWER DEMAND. We need `bike highways'. I know many people who would bike insted of drive everywhere, but in most citys it's simply not safe in all areas.
If we drill more, all it will do is make us MORE dependant on it. I don't understand why this is so hard to grasp. If anything, ANWAR should be used as a last resort for pharmaculture, sort of an SPR for that and that alone, no if's and's or buts. I'd like to think as people we'd rather have our life saving medicine than drive a car.
Mother nature trumps Adam Smith, I'd think that would be blatently obvious in light of recient events in the gulf. We've got most of the best scientific minds in the world telling us how serious some of these problems are, and economists telling us we need to make it cheaper and that will somehow magicly fix it. It just blows me away.
PLEASE MR. REID, LISTEN TO REP. ROSCOE BARTLETT.
--- someone please tell me if I sound dumb or if that seems pretty accurate?