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"bb" wrote in message ... On Thu, 20 May 2004 03:52:02 GMT, "Calif Bill" wrote: Yes, make that gas $10 a gallon. almost no one could afford to drive. Ok, who said anything about $10 a gallon gas? It's down to either you or the strawman. bb You or your clone was saying $5 a gallon, so why not $10? You know what you are, we are just arguing price now. |
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"basskisser" wrote in message om... "Calif Bill" wrote in message news:CXVqc.3073 And I was driving in 1970, and it wasn't easy to make sure I had enough gas to make it to school and back. It sucked then, and it sucks now, so what is the point? That you like to bitch about everything. If you want to decrease the consumption of gas in the US, you need to provide incentives for people using energy efficient transportation. The most effective way is the increase the cost of gas. All Europeans countries tax the hell out of gas, to keep consumption down. |
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"basskisser" wrote in message om... "Calif Bill" wrote in message news:CXVqc.3073 Yes, make that gas $10 a gallon. almost no one could afford to drive. See where the economy would be then. As to price, adjusted for inflation, is cheaper than about 1970. And I was driving in 1970, and it wasn't easy to make sure I had enough gas to make it to school and back. It sucked then, and it sucks now, so what is the point? For your edification. Relative to the economy, gas is cheaper than 1970. You just want those $100k/year jobs and $0.23 a gallon gas. I remember when I made $5k a year (about 1964) and the CEO of the company (Fortune 500) was knocking down about $89k/year. Thought that if I ever made 20k I would be in fat city. When I exceeded the CEO's yearly, I still was not in fat city, as the rest of the costs had escalated also. My first $25k house is now $400k, My house that costs about $50k after additions is a $900k house. Figure a 16x multiplier and that $0.23 gallon gas should be $3.68 gallon. A large part of the energy problem is government regulations. We are require to add MTBE to gas in California (and other states) by the Fed's. Reduces air pollution by a stated 6%, but since we get 10% less mileage with MTBE, the overall saving is less, as well as we have poisoned the waters all over the nation with a really toxic substance. The Fed's to help out ADM (very good friend of the Clinton Administration) are requiring alcohol to be added to gas. Less mileage, and costs more per gallon to produce than the gas. Now they have reformulated diesel #2 for OTR (over the road) and the price is up, and the energy per gallon is down. (less mileage). Chevron and the other oil companies have stated they can make just as clean burning fuel without adding MTBE or alcohol. But government requirements are preventing this. |
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On Thu, 20 May 2004 19:35:51 GMT, "Calif Bill"
wrote: "bb" wrote in message .. . On Thu, 20 May 2004 03:52:02 GMT, "Calif Bill" wrote: Yes, make that gas $10 a gallon. almost no one could afford to drive. Ok, who said anything about $10 a gallon gas? It's down to either you or the strawman. bb You or your clone was saying $5 a gallon, so why not $10? You know what you are, we are just arguing price now. Strawman's off the hook. bb |
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"John Smith" wrote in message news:KR7rc.39570$6f5.4166619@attbi_s54... "basskisser" wrote in message om... "Calif Bill" wrote in message news:CXVqc.3073 And I was driving in 1970, and it wasn't easy to make sure I had enough gas to make it to school and back. It sucked then, and it sucks now, so what is the point? That you like to bitch about everything. If you want to decrease the consumption of gas in the US, you need to provide incentives for people using energy efficient transportation. The most effective way is the increase the cost of gas. All Europeans countries tax the hell out of gas, to keep consumption down. They tax the hell out of gas to keep a socialist lifestyle going while hiding the true costs. Also, the public transit is great. Part of it is the high density of cities and reasonable ticket prices. Go anywhere within central Paris for about $0.75. A carnet of tickets (10) was about $5.80 in 2002. Just like the NY subway, change trains and get anywhere within the major Paris area for that one ticket. Compare that to out local BART mass transit. From the Dublin Station to Oakland is $2.10 and if you want to go the extra 1.5 mile to the Oakland airport, get on the BART Shuttle that requires a $2 BART ticket and does not start running until 7am, even though BART runs at 4AM. Makes it damn hard to use BART for early morning business trips to SoCal. Used to take the 7am flight, and with security need to be there are 6am. Mass transit is not ususable for this. over $10 RT to San Francisco. 2 people in a car drive cheaper. 3 people do not even have to pay a bridge toll. There are areas, where you can pick up commuters to get the bridge free. Central Europe is not very big, compared to most of the US. |
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Calif Bill wrote:
"John Smith" wrote in message news:KR7rc.39570$6f5.4166619@attbi_s54... "basskisser" wrote in message .com... "Calif Bill" wrote in message news:CXVqc.3073 And I was driving in 1970, and it wasn't easy to make sure I had enough gas to make it to school and back. It sucked then, and it sucks now, so what is the point? That you like to bitch about everything. If you want to decrease the consumption of gas in the US, you need to provide incentives for people using energy efficient transportation. The most effective way is the increase the cost of gas. All Europeans countries tax the hell out of gas, to keep consumption down. They tax the hell out of gas to keep a socialist lifestyle going while hiding the true costs. Ah, yes...that danged socialist lifestyle...decent health care for everyone, inexpensive higher education, decent housing, hardly any homeless, lower crime rates, lower rates of violence, less infant death mortality...awful, eh? Also, the public transit is great. Well, you know about that danged socialist lifestyle...with decent public transit. |
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Calif Bill wrote:
You miss the point totally! Not at all. Here's the problem... you are not reading what I posted. You replying with a canned preprogrammed message. This does not make you sound intelligent. ... If they taxed the fuel an extra 3 bucks a gallon, the economy would be in the dumper and the government would be foolishly spending even more money. 1- the economy *is* in the dumper. 2- the gov't *is* foolishly spending even more money My point, which you clearly did not bother to read, is that if the price of gasoline had climbed steadily with inflation, we would not be in any of the several messes we are in now. DSK |
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Different people wrote (sorry, I lost the attributions, but I make my point
in general, not to refute any particular person)" If you want to decrease the consumption of gas in the US, you need to provide incentives for people using energy efficient transportation. The most effective way is the increase the cost of gas. All Europeans countries tax the hell out of gas, to keep consumption down. They tax the hell out of gas to keep a socialist lifestyle going while hiding the true costs. Also, the public transit is great. It may or may not be used to fund unnecessary "socialist" government programs. I'm not here to argue that. But, having been in Europe for over 5 months over the past few years, and having driven from the tip of Italy to northern Norway and from the Netherlands to far east side of Slovakia, I'd have to say they have a very strong interest in keeping automobile use and fuel consumption down as much as they can for AIR POLLUTION and TRAFFIC CONGESTION reasons. Have you driven in the traffic or breathed the air in urban Europe lately??? Those reasons, in and of themselves, are valid reasons for society - collectively through their political system - to take control through means such as fuel and vehicle taxes and funding decent mass transit through, yes, user's fees and taxes. To me, it is entirely reasonable for European countries -as well as some localities and states in the US - to do this and it has nothing to do with socialism. Socialism might be another reason, but these stand alone as reasonable and valid, imho. Cam |
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"Calif Bill" wrote in message ink.net...
"basskisser" wrote in message om... "Calif Bill" wrote in message news:CXVqc.3073 Yes, make that gas $10 a gallon. almost no one could afford to drive. See where the economy would be then. As to price, adjusted for inflation, is cheaper than about 1970. And I was driving in 1970, and it wasn't easy to make sure I had enough gas to make it to school and back. It sucked then, and it sucks now, so what is the point? For your edification. Relative to the economy, gas is cheaper than 1970. You just want those $100k/year jobs and $0.23 a gallon gas. I remember when I made $5k a year (about 1964) and the CEO of the company (Fortune 500) was knocking down about $89k/year. Thought that if I ever made 20k I would be in fat city. When I exceeded the CEO's yearly, I still was not in fat city, as the rest of the costs had escalated also. My first $25k house is now $400k, My house that costs about $50k after additions is a $900k house. Figure a 16x multiplier and that $0.23 gallon gas should be $3.68 gallon. A large part of the energy problem is government regulations. We are require to add MTBE to gas in California (and other states) by the Fed's. Reduces air pollution by a stated 6%, but since we get 10% less mileage with MTBE, the overall saving is less, as well as we have poisoned the waters all over the nation with a really toxic substance. The Fed's to help out ADM (very good friend of the Clinton Administration) are requiring alcohol to be added to gas. Less mileage, and costs more per gallon to produce than the gas. Now they have reformulated diesel #2 for OTR (over the road) and the price is up, and the energy per gallon is down. (less mileage). Chevron and the other oil companies have stated they can make just as clean burning fuel without adding MTBE or alcohol. But government requirements are preventing this. Sorry, your senile babbling does nothing to answer the question. |
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"John Smith" wrote in message news:KR7rc.39570$6f5.4166619@attbi_s54...
"basskisser" wrote in message om... "Calif Bill" wrote in message news:CXVqc.3073 And I was driving in 1970, and it wasn't easy to make sure I had enough gas to make it to school and back. It sucked then, and it sucks now, so what is the point? That you like to bitch about everything. What a truly ignorant response. You don't know me, yet feel you can judge me such as the above? That simply shows you're ignorant beyond belief, or at least acting like it in this newsgroup. If you want to decrease the consumption of gas in the US, you need to provide incentives for people using energy efficient transportation. The most effective way is the increase the cost of gas. All Europeans countries tax the hell out of gas, to keep consumption down. Taxing, yes. Falsely raising prices for profit does nothing but **** people off, and rightly so. |
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