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As long as your thinking is wrong, so to will your conclusions be.Nope! As usual, your position and therefore your argument lacks economic validity which is a shame given the topic. Address my comments or leave me alone, i am not here to argue on the basis of opinion and ideology.
Well, you can think that if you like, and rail is used pretty much to capacity now in the current infrastructure that exists. However, if rail is ramped up further, and destroys more good jobs, what will you do with those truckers then?
See, I am of the mindset that a switch to more Natural Gas type truck will be devoloped in the future.
j-mac
Well, building the rails, the trains, the power lines, and the new power plants would create plenty of jobs in the short term. In the long term, I'm of the opinion that we shouldn't try to halt technological progress to save old jobs. Our system needs to conform to technology, not the other way around.
You know what I don't get? Liberals use the argument that going after our own oil will take too long to get to market to make a difference, yet the alternatives to oil will take as long, if not longer to replace it. But, in the meantime, I guess the vast majority of the country that are like me, in the middle class can just eat it while they destroy the economy, forcing us to do what they want, and they don't even know for a certainty if it will work...
j-mac
There's no evidence that increasing the domestic supply will lower oil prices.
Oil prices have consistently risen unabated.
Many of the sharpest increases in the past 10 years are due to speculation and nothing more.
Even when the speculation is wrong, the prices do not re-adjust to lower levels.
f the U.S. acquires more oil, it will just be more oil at the same price, unless the government actively creates a price ceiling...
but the government will never regulate the oil industry in that way.
The other thing is, the consumption of oil is increasing exponentially while we are having to look harder and harder for areas of new supply.
We have three wars in the Middle East
a haphazard offshore drilling plan
sights set on protected Alaskan regions
and a slew of nations who are salivating at the opportunity to explore the arctic once the Bering Strait fully melts.
No matter how much oil we find, it will never be enough to support the man-made consumer growth model.
Eventually "growth" must stop
or at least change in the way it happens
but how insane will the oil industry and our government become in trying to sustain this system?
It's true... we are all being held hostage by this industry.
With Gas Prices Soaring, Obama Looks to Ramp Up U.S. Oil Production - FoxNews.com
WASHINGTON -- Seeking to address mounting criticism over high gas prices, President Obama is directing his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production by extending existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coast and holding more frequent lease sales in a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska.
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His announcement followed passage in the Republican-controlled House of three bills -- including two this week -- that would expand and speed up offshore oil and gas drilling. Republicans say the bills are aimed at easing gasoline costs, but they also acknowledge that won't be immediate
Exactly. I have no idea why this is so hard to grasp. Canada's tar sands are the largest oil deposit on earth and yet our gas prices are much higher than in the US.
Isn't that in large part due to taxes?
It's more due to the fact that the US government gives enormous subsidies to keep oil cheap.
Capitalization amortization and R&D tax breaks that every other business gets to spur innovation and keep equipment up to date. Am I close?
ding, ding, ding......You get the prize.
It is only disingenuous language that allows the liberals to go after one of their hated industries with taxation practice that is allowed to every other business in America, and call that a subsidy to just one industry.
The bastardization of the language is deplorable these days.
j-mac
Bastards? Bastardization? Trend?The bastardization of the language is deplorable these days.
So explain to me why gas here costs something like half of what it does everywhere else?
Although the price of raw gas is about the same for both the U.S. and European countries, the tax on gasoline is much higher in Europe (France leads with a 70% gas tax).
So explain to me why gas here costs something like half of what it does everywhere else?
So explain to me why gas here costs something like half of what it does everywhere else?
With Gas Prices Soaring, Obama Looks to Ramp Up U.S. Oil Production - FoxNews.com
WASHINGTON -- Seeking to address mounting criticism over high gas prices, President Obama is directing his administration to ramp up U.S. oil production by extending existing leases in the Gulf of Mexico and off Alaska's coast and holding more frequent lease sales in a federal petroleum reserve in Alaska.
snip
His announcement followed passage in the Republican-controlled House of three bills -- including two this week -- that would expand and speed up offshore oil and gas drilling. Republicans say the bills are aimed at easing gasoline costs, but they also acknowledge that won't be immediate
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