Blame Yourself For High Gasoline Prices
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U.S.average retail gasoline prices have reached a new high, and are expected to rise 20 to 30 cents per gallon this summer says MoneyNews.com. According to the nationwide Lundberg survey of about 7,000 gas stations the price has risen 64 cents per gallon in the past 12 months as refiners are more willing to pass along rising crude oil prices. OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) is unwilling to increase production saying the U. S. can not refine more crude because no new refineries have been built in 30-years due to environmental zealots and their Congressional allies who have also bottled up new oil production thereby creating the price problem – so, they say, why should we help when you are helping yourself? So, apparently the “pain-at-the-pump” is not yet enough to provoke protest and revolt although gasoline use declined nationwide in January for the first time ever.
Comment by Sam Ervin Jret. on 12 March 2008:
It may be the best thing to have happened. The greed of the oil companies combined with work of people who care about the world may be the the strange marriage that finally gets America to invest in Alternative forms of energy.
Strange bedfellows indeed. But these are strange times.
Comment by blurb on 12 March 2008:
One hundred years ago the BIG environmental problem in major cities was shoveling horse shit and finding someplace to put it. Oil ws being hailed as the alternative fuel savior. Fifty years ago there were those who wanted to afix collectors onto horse’s and cow’s asses to collect methane that was thought then to be a grave danger. Then there was the OZONE HOLE that itself had the bigger hole in it. Now we have AL GORE contorting science for political purposes, and on and on and on.
Comment by Sam Ervin Jret. on 13 March 2008:
One hundred years ago we were burning coal and we still are. Don’t you think it’s time to get off mother earth’s fossil fuel breasts.
If it weren’t for that Al Gore everything would be all right? I’m not following your lack of logic.
Comment by blurb on 14 March 2008:
Sam Ervin Jret - well let me try to explain. Humans have burned coal for thousands of years, and as you point out stil do. So far we’ve used about 3% of earth’s fossil fuels. Nuclear power could provide all the clear energy we need - but we can’t ue it because of unrealistic hysteria. WIND, GEOTHERMAL, TIDAL, SOLAR at best guess provide about 10% of total energy need, and that’s optimistic. So, unless we go to nuclear we must continue to use fossil fuels whuich we can do and do cleanly. North America has most of Earth’s coal, tar sand, oil shale reserves and we are uing virtually none of it while we import about 10% from half way round the world - if we replaced that with domestic production we wn the economics of it.
Nuclear is the best solution but extremist are stupidl blocking that. After that coal is next best option.
We have already knee jerked into a mess with the ethanol from corn fiasco let’s do it right.
Comment by Sam Ervin Jret. on 15 March 2008:
Why do you think so much energy has been put into the ancient technology of the exothermic reactions of fossil fuels as opposed to say the wind, geothermal, tidal and solar alternatives you point out?
Material science is finding new technology every day that makes solar energy more efficient and cost effective. And as to the others they are simple physics and could be easily transferred to use.
As opposed to say, the untested and uncreated technologies and infrastructure needed for “clean coal.”(an oxymoron if there ever was one, the only clean coal I’m aware of is created by mother earth and it’s called a diamond.
As for nuclear energy, great source of energy, bad side effects.
Unless you want the waste in your back yard? Or would that be an unrealistic request of me? Then there’s that risk benefit ratio those crazies are always worried about. Now why do you think people don’t trust the government or even private business, in these great days of deregulation, to run a nuclear facility?