[seruzawa]

Re: Please God, Let the USA have a Gas Crunch

A Gas crunch will adversely affect the poorest people of America far more than it will these kicked-in-the-head idiots who spend 40K on four-wheel drive vehicles to drive around Frisco, L.A., Seattle etc.

I drive a Chev K2500 pick up because I need it for my work. I resent people like you who want to cost me more money because you heard some simplistic propaganda from the Sierra Club (Whose president, by the way, drives a Chevy Suburban himself).

 

[seruzawa]

Re: Please God, Let the USA have a Gas Crunch

I don't fall for those "hurt the other guy" politics. I don't want special exemptions. I think that such proposals are evil since they are merely a subterfuge to pit one group of citizens against another. Sooner of later the power that is wielded against others will be used against those who acquiesed in the misuse of that power. It never fails.

In any case, as long as the political power of the major nations and corporations are tied to the use of oil for our energy production these entities will fight bitterly any attempt to actually switch from oil dependency. They engage in campaigns to raise the cost of energy because it enriches their own pockets while squeezing Joe Sixpack. But, switch from oil? Never.

I've got an idea. Try assessing heavy taxes in your own State. See how it goes.

The Earth's current average temperature is still below the mean temperature for the last 2 thousand years. The worst predictions of the CO2 warming model are still lower temperatures than those that human civilization has already comfortably survived. (ref. Medieval Climate Optimum). Oh wait. The CO2 model has been discredited, as are the predictions of the new Ice Age that the same doomcriers were screaming about in the 70's.

Weren't we all supposed to starve to death by 1980 according to these same experts?

Frightening the public is the main method by which the govt amasses more and more fascist control.

Maybe if you like the way things are done in Europe or Japan, you should emigrate. I've lived in Japan so myself I'll say, "No thanks."