Re: Re: Re: Gas out days

Posted by Jim from Pa on May 26, 2004 at 07:07:57 from (4.175.180.53):

In Reply to: Re: Re: Gas out days posted by bo on May 25, 2004 at 17:21:23:

Bo, Back in the 70's after the Arab oil embargo, world demand for petroleum decreased due to skyrocketing prices.
We here in the USA sought more fuel efficient vehicles to replace our guzzlers(remember the 8mpg big blocks of the 60's).
After demand fell OPEC had to increase production to maintain profits. We are not the only country suffering from high
fuel prices.As for China, you can bet that only a few of their 1.2 billion people will be driving around enjoying the open
road (you can't buy much on 25 cents an hour and with a never ending supply of cheap labor things won't change much for
many of the people over there. Most people her in the USA can't think past today and can't remember before this morning.
We became a leaner nation in the 80's (fuel efficient vehicles and alternative electicity generation), that coupled with
OPEC increasing production to keep profits up gave us the lowest fuel prices since the 60's adjusted for inflation.
Now you see more people driving 14 mpg trucks and SUV's (myself included), with little concern for conserving. We have
5 times more economicaly recoverable coal in this country than the world has oil, but we won't use it because we feel
Mother Earth just can't take it. We have in Alaska more oil reserves than the lower 48 combined, but we can't touch it
because the enviormentlist are afraid a moose might trip on the pipelines. I cant tell you how many people I have heard
say we should not spoil Alaska's pristine beauty. I would bet that 1% of the population never make it up to see the state
that is nearly 3 times the size of Texas,let alone venture that far away from the cities. Heck it's not like they are
going to junk up the whole state, and the people up there wan't it. We could go back to using trains for moving goods
over long distances instead of trucks that get 4 miles per gallon, but we can't plan past this afternoon and want
everything this minute. These high fuel prices will make us change the way we do things,but unless we break the cycle and
continue to be more conservative and less dependent on foriegn sources we will end up right where we are today.

Follow Ups:

• Re: Re: Re: Re: Gas out days bo 07:24:03 05/26/04 (4)
  • Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Gas out days Jim from Pa 09:25:38 05/26/04 (3)
    • Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Gas out days bo 11:36:01 05/26/04 (2)
      • Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Gas out days Jim from Pa 12:27:26 05/26/04 (1)
        • Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Gas out days bo 14:30:19 05/26/04 (0)

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