On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:32:52 -0500, HK wrote:

It doesn't matter...we're headed for $4.00 a gallon gasoline.

I ihghly doubt that we will see that in the next 5 to 10 years. Maybe
a disruption might cause it, but not now.

On a completely different note:

Are you
denying that Dicque Cheney held "secret" national energy policy meetings
with big oil that to this day are a closely held secret of the
administration? What do you think they discussed? How to help the
American consumer, or how to fleece the consumer and increase corporate
profits

I don't know what was discussed - I wasn't there.

And neither were you.

I would assume that price was discussed - it would seem to me to be a
natural point to start the discussion.

However I would point out to you that none other than your own St.
Gore proposed a doubling of gasoline prices (by a combination of
wholesale price rise and taxattion) as a way to keep the use of
gasoline limited thus reducing emissions - I think he called it an
environmental and economic win-win.

"Earth in the Balance - Ecology and the Human Spirit", ISBN
0-452-26935-0, 1992. Strangely he stayed away from this policy
statement in his "Inconvienent Truth" which was based almost entirely
on "Earth in the Balance".

So if the effect of the "conspiracy" is exactly what St. Gore and the
environmentalist lobby have wanted all along, isn't that a good thing?

Or is the problem that it was accomplished by somebody other than a
Democrat?

On it's face, if you were a conspiracy theorist (not that you are of
course) it would seem to be the perfect storm, if you will, of Big Oil
getting theirs (more money) and environmentalists getting theirs (less
gasoline use). Oh, let's not leave the auto makers out of this
because they will be subsidized to "solve" the economy problem thus
getting theirs.