[ale] OT: gas going up this weekend

[David Tomaschik]

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:54 PM, Geoffrey Myers
<lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Jim Kinney wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 2:04 PM, The Don Lachlan <ale-at-ale.org
>> <http://ale-at-ale.org>@unpopularminds.org <http://unpopularminds.org>>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>     Georgia used to have very inexpensive gas. Now, it's the higher side
>>     of average and the national average is between 3 and 4 times what it
>>     was 10
>>     years ago.
>>
>> National average (today) is $3.88 and Ga is $3.76. We're still lower
>> than average and the new tax bit won't change that.
>>
>>  http://fuelgaugereport.aaa.com/?redirectto=http://fuelgaugereport.opisnet.com/index.asp
>
> You know what they say about average?  A guy is standing with one foot
> in a bucket of frozen water, the other foot in boiling water.  On
> average he should be okay. ;)
>
> Personally, being below average doesn't comfort me.  I think the price
> of gas is too high.  I don't know who to blame.  It sucks.
>


I'm sure this flies against what everyone else thinks, but I actually
think the price of gas is too low.  The government really needs to
stop subsidizing big oil, because the motivation to move away from oil
as our primary energy source is not enough at current gas prices.
Whether or not you believe in "Peak Oil", the facts are: oil is a
non-renewable resource, it is becoming increasingly inefficient to
extract the oil that does exist, and every dollar spent on imported
oil is a dollar leaving the U.S. economy.  Regardless of your beliefs
on climate change, it is clear that urban pollution is mostly due to
internal combustion engines, and that urban pollution is a significant
contributor to asthma, chronic bronchitis, and other respiratory
diseases.  Some scientists believe that smog may also contribute to
heart disease and cancer.

Continuing to rely on a resource where primary sources are in unstable
regions such as the Middle East and some parts of Latin America, a
resource that damages the environment, a resource that drains the
American economy, is just not smart.  Mainstream America is incredibly
short-sighted, looking at next month, next quarter, or next year, and
not at the next decade, the next generation, or the next century.


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