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Originally posted by Sava
But if gas prices are going to be high, what's wrong with wishing for better fuel-efficiency.
But if gas prices are going to be high, what's wrong with wishing for better fuel-efficiency.
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There's nothing wrong with looking on the bright side. I didn't understand you at first.I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
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Teh communist !!!!!!!!!!Originally posted by Giancarlo
I'd personally want to see less hummers here in California.Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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No I'm not. I just don't see why people think they are so practical for cities. Personally I would buy either a Japanese or South Korean built car.. maybe a Subaru (which to note won a best safety award, as it had the least amount of accidents per 100).Originally posted by alva
Teh communist !!!!!!!!!!For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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Originally posted by Giancarlo
I'd personally want to see less hummers here in California.
COMMIE LEFTIST TRAITOR!
okay... I wasn't real clear on that... it's not that I want high prices... but if some good can come of it, thumbs up to the goodThere's nothing wrong with looking on the bright side. I didn't understand you at first.
I'm so cynical and negative most of the time, I felt it a nice chance of pace to be positive.
To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Ohoh, I'm starting to think like Sava.
only a little faster.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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I had more to type.Originally posted by alva
Ohoh, I'm starting to think like Sava.
only a little faster.
To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Laziness always pays off.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God? - EpicurusComment
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To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Don't fear comrade. Soon all vehicles will require approval of the Central Planning Authority.Originally posted by Giancarlo
No I'm not. I just don't see why people think they are so practical for cities. Personally I would buy either a Japanese or South Korean built car.. maybe a Subaru (which to note won a best safety award, as it had the least amount of accidents per 100).I drank beer. I like beer. I still like beer. ... Do you like beer Senator?
- Justice Brett KavanaughComment
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Uh no thanks. And you can keept your yugoslav cars for that matter. What do you commies typically drive? One of those little crappy yugoslav cars?Originally posted by Kidicious
Don't fear comrade. Soon all vehicles will require approval of the Central Planning Authority.For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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My point was that the administration doesn't have much impact on the price of oil nowadays, despite what some may have implied during the election. I was using irony as a rhetorical tool by saying the price of oil declining was all Bush's fault (as others have done on other topics, from time to time).I can't find DanS' old thread where he talked about the declining price of oil, and all about the Bush administration being responsible for it, etc.
Personally, I have no emotional investment in whether the price of oil is high or low. I have no emotional investment in the political implications of the price and don't care one whit that our politicians are blamed unfairly. My dad is a wildcatter, so he's enjoying the high prices. But I gain nothing from high oil prices and only a small benefit from lower oil prices because the economy grows faster, etc.
I have a running $1,000 bet with my brother where I say that we will be using more oil 10 years from now than currently, but that's me trying to show that the notion of peak oil is rubbish, or at least irrelevant for us. The price of oil might have some impact on that.
In any event, my overall opinion regarding the oil market is that there is loads of oil out there and that the market is constructed to deal most often with oversupply rather than undersupply. We have a cartel of oil producing countries to deal with oversupply and to discourage marginal producers from adding capacity.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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I think the fact that we have to drill in the bottom of the Gulf, and other bodies of water, plus the fact we have to drill in remote areas of the world is proof that there is probably less oil out there than most would like to admit.To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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ANWR Drilling may happenOriginally posted by Sava
I think the fact that we have to drill in the bottom of the Gulf, and other bodies of water, plus the fact we have to drill in remote areas of the world is proof that there is probably less oil out there than most would like to admit. Funny the enviro-nuts can't realize the drilling would only effect 2% of the land that is completely uninhabited.
For there is [another] kind of violence, slower but just as deadly, destructive as the shot or the bomb in the night. This is the violence of institutions -- indifference, inaction, and decay. This is the violence that afflicts the poor, that poisons relations between men because their skin has different colors. - Bobby Kennedy (Mindless Menance of Violence)Comment
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why the thumbs up? according to estimates I've read in the papers this morning, there isn't much oil there anyways. In fact, the Chicago Tribune reported that we would be better off raising the mandatory fuel efficiency by 2 MPG...Originally posted by Giancarlo
ANWR Drilling may happen
To us, it is the BEAST.Comment
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Also, I think there is a lot to be said for moving away from oil as an energy source and store of energy. Oil is just a fantastic commodity, so nobody is forced to find other methods or commodities as replacements.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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