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So who remembers $4+ a gallon gas?
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<blockquote data-quote="brett636" data-source="post: 555666" data-attributes="member: 249"><p>Sober- You have said a few things in this thread that I seriously disagree with. Yes, $4/gal. gas definitely changed people's driving habits, and that was a good thing. The more important ideas you are missing out on is the impact on the economy when fuel prices rise, especially dramatically. Everything we consume is in some way tied to fossil fuels. When the price of the fuels rise so do the prices of a lot of goods and services. It costs farmers more to farm the same land, trucking companies more to move goods, and as a result everything increases in price. You and I, the end consumer pays these price increases and our standard of living decreases. There are alternatives in the works including organically produced oil, but these alternatives need time, and their time is not now. Its not the government's job to subvert the free market by making more efficient energy sources so expensive that the more expensive alternatives can compete. When an alternative energy source becomes efficient enough to compete with fossil fuels then it has a good chance of taking over. Until then taxing gasoline, coal, and natural gas to the hilt is going to do nothing but cost our country jobs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="brett636, post: 555666, member: 249"] Sober- You have said a few things in this thread that I seriously disagree with. Yes, $4/gal. gas definitely changed people's driving habits, and that was a good thing. The more important ideas you are missing out on is the impact on the economy when fuel prices rise, especially dramatically. Everything we consume is in some way tied to fossil fuels. When the price of the fuels rise so do the prices of a lot of goods and services. It costs farmers more to farm the same land, trucking companies more to move goods, and as a result everything increases in price. You and I, the end consumer pays these price increases and our standard of living decreases. There are alternatives in the works including organically produced oil, but these alternatives need time, and their time is not now. Its not the government's job to subvert the free market by making more efficient energy sources so expensive that the more expensive alternatives can compete. When an alternative energy source becomes efficient enough to compete with fossil fuels then it has a good chance of taking over. Until then taxing gasoline, coal, and natural gas to the hilt is going to do nothing but cost our country jobs. [/QUOTE]
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