Doug,
What is silly is your inability to see the obvious. There is one reason for
the increase of gas prices. There is an increase in demand, without any
increase in supply. Consumers will not pay for better fuel efficient cars
until the cost of the gas guzzlers make it worth their while. The fact that
a few people buy fuel efficient cars, does not negate the fact that too many
people are buying gas guzzling SUV and Trucks, while keeping their home
thermostat set at 78 degrees.

Heck even Al Gore who was dumb as dirt, knew you had to raise the cost of
gas to make it economically viable to find alternative energy sources. Al's
idea was to tax gas $3/gal and use the tax to find alternative energy.


"Doug Kanter" wrote in message
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"Juan Valdez" wrote in message
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Most of the people in rec.boats who complain about the price of gas, are
driving trucks with low mpg and boats that burn tons of gas. If they
really were concerned about the price of gas, they would buy a hybrid car
and a either a trawler or sailboat.

They refuse to see the obvious. Consumers will not buy a fuel efficient
car or boat, or pay for alternative energy sources until the cost of
petrol fuels make it worth while to do so.

That's silly. There are plenty of fuel efficient cars being sold. It's
been that way for years. Even a basic Corolla gets over 30 mpg. Same with
models from Honda. Dealers don't need to whore these out with stupid
"employee discount" offers, as do the big 3.