Re: Hybrid cars no longer desired by US buyers.
- From: jim <"sjedgingN0sp"@m@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:52:05 -0600
ben91932 wrote:
On Jan 3, 7:14 am, Roger Blake <rogblak...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2009-01-03, Don Stauffer <stauf...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I personally would support a Federal gas tax whose proceeds all go to R
& D of alternate fuels.
We don't need "alternate fuels." What we need to do is to tap our own
vast reserves of existing fuels.
This is a commonly held belief that is short-sighted and naive.
We will run out of oil. Maybe not in 10 years but it is surely a
finite resource.
Well it is a certainty that the value of energy stocks in the ground will
increase at a rate that is greater than inflation. That means it is really
stupid to think it is imperative to pump every gallon out of the ground as
soon as possible. The only way to slow the rate that the cost of energy
rises is to conserve it. The fact is the oil companies and the governments
they support have colluded for a long time to ensure that the cost of oil is
as stable and reliable as possible. The cost to taxpayers and consumers to
try to maintain this stability has been enormous. A great deal of effort
has gone into doing things to avoid exactly what happened to energy prices
in the past year. Stable prices delude people into believing it will last
forever. There is nothing like truly free market price fluctuations to help
people understand the true value of commodities.
The tax on energy makes a lot of sense if you are capable of looking into
the future at all. Right now we act as if we are expecting that future
generations will be able to enjoy their "lifestyle" despite the fact that
the wasteful practices of past generations make energy cost much more than
it should be. Plus we are passing on to future generations the taxes we
should be paying now. In addition, in 20 years you will have a much smaller
labor pool to pay for a much larger pool of retirees. All of those facts
combined spell looming disaster. But hey, we wouldn't want to do anything to
disturb the "lifestyle" of the lemmings in their rush for the cliff.
-jim
We have vast reserves of natural gas, which is cheaper than gasoline.
by half. Why dont we run our cars on that until we figure out a way to
power our cars with wind, solar etc. Even a backward country like Iran
is years ahead of us on that, which is both sad and embarrassing.
Should we drill more here? Maybe. But in the grand scheme of things it
will only forestall the inevitable.
Ben
'Flame suit on'
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