I don’t think you can count on two dollar gas for very long. Market forces will prevail and companies will scale back operations that don’t make money or are very marginal. It’s the creative destruction the Republicans like to talk about. It won’t be too long before gas prices resume their march upwards. It was a nice Xmas present but it won’t last. I also like the fact that those economies that raked in the money from oil (Russia, Alaska, Venezuela…) are getting hit badly.
Harleyquinn is lying again. BTW, Ted Cruz (to pick an idiot at random) says we should pave over all the national parks and bath our babies in crude oil. I’ll provide supporting documentation for my ridiculous (but quite possible factual) claims as soon as Harleyquinn does the same for his.
Thanks, RT. I’m mildly conflicted. Yes, trolls should be ignored, but I’ve decided to strike back at their lunacy. Not by providing reasonable rebuttals, with supporting links, but by turning their tactics back on them; offensive claims without a lick of documentation. In the future, I’ll try to make those claims more humorous.
“Invest in fusion power now and you won’t have to worry about the price of gas in the future.”Fission isn’t a currently a viable energy source. Scientists are still studying it and it requires a huge amount of energy to create the fusion reaction.Perhaps you are thinking of nuclear fission, which is a viable power but dangerous source and is in use around the world in a via nuclear power stations. The problem with fission is that it creates the long term problem of the radio active waste by product of the fission reaction. 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima are real life warnings that need to be heeded.
The only people I see driving those kind of vehicles are gang bangers and cartel types.Or they are government owned.-Which category do soccer moms fall into?
s49nav: We have been spending one and a quarter million dollars a day (Sundays and holidays included) since the 1960s on fusion research and have achieved a fraction of the energy needed to pay for the energy used in a given reaction. It’s the same old con game of the late 1940s that fission would produce power too cheaply to measure and bill. Solar has been used for at least 10,000 years, wind for over 5,000, both built and maintained by average people. What does your DIY fusion reactor look like? Surrendering power to governments, corporations, armies, etc. is a sure way to slavery. No system is truly “appropriate” technology unless the political power goes to yourself and/or your neighbors.
Hmm, we had an oil shortage and the oil companies racked up trillions in excess profits, no with an oversupply, the folks on the street have cheap gas (which it was at $4 a gallon, as in New Zealand it’s well over $8 a U.S. gallon!, Now the crude price is down, which should mean really cheap oil, but the market is taking a dive because investors will lose if $60 a barrel oil is on the market as their new and wonderful fracking and tar sands needs about 85-100 dollars a barrel, respectively, to break even.
Don’t worry, those oil companies will always come out on top, always.
learowe over 9 years ago
bad old habits re-appear, and history begins to repeat itself…
Theodore E. Lind Premium Member over 9 years ago
I don’t think you can count on two dollar gas for very long. Market forces will prevail and companies will scale back operations that don’t make money or are very marginal. It’s the creative destruction the Republicans like to talk about. It won’t be too long before gas prices resume their march upwards. It was a nice Xmas present but it won’t last. I also like the fact that those economies that raked in the money from oil (Russia, Alaska, Venezuela…) are getting hit badly.
Cerabooge over 9 years ago
Harleyquinn is lying again. BTW, Ted Cruz (to pick an idiot at random) says we should pave over all the national parks and bath our babies in crude oil. I’ll provide supporting documentation for my ridiculous (but quite possible factual) claims as soon as Harleyquinn does the same for his.
Cerabooge over 9 years ago
Thanks, RT. I’m mildly conflicted. Yes, trolls should be ignored, but I’ve decided to strike back at their lunacy. Not by providing reasonable rebuttals, with supporting links, but by turning their tactics back on them; offensive claims without a lick of documentation. In the future, I’ll try to make those claims more humorous.
Jason Allen over 9 years ago
“Invest in fusion power now and you won’t have to worry about the price of gas in the future.”Fission isn’t a currently a viable energy source. Scientists are still studying it and it requires a huge amount of energy to create the fusion reaction.Perhaps you are thinking of nuclear fission, which is a viable power but dangerous source and is in use around the world in a via nuclear power stations. The problem with fission is that it creates the long term problem of the radio active waste by product of the fission reaction. 3 Mile Island, Chernobyl, and Fukushima are real life warnings that need to be heeded.
braindead Premium Member over 9 years ago
The only people I see driving those kind of vehicles are gang bangers and cartel types.Or they are government owned.-Which category do soccer moms fall into?
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 9 years ago
That’s your version. For the truth: http://www.factcheck.org/2012/03/obama-wanted-higher-gasoline-prices/
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member over 9 years ago
This is why I call you an idiot: http://www.factcheck.org/2012/03/obama-wanted-higher-gasoline-prices/
And a liar.
hippogriff over 9 years ago
s49nav: We have been spending one and a quarter million dollars a day (Sundays and holidays included) since the 1960s on fusion research and have achieved a fraction of the energy needed to pay for the energy used in a given reaction. It’s the same old con game of the late 1940s that fission would produce power too cheaply to measure and bill. Solar has been used for at least 10,000 years, wind for over 5,000, both built and maintained by average people. What does your DIY fusion reactor look like? Surrendering power to governments, corporations, armies, etc. is a sure way to slavery. No system is truly “appropriate” technology unless the political power goes to yourself and/or your neighbors.
Dtroutma over 9 years ago
Hmm, we had an oil shortage and the oil companies racked up trillions in excess profits, no with an oversupply, the folks on the street have cheap gas (which it was at $4 a gallon, as in New Zealand it’s well over $8 a U.S. gallon!, Now the crude price is down, which should mean really cheap oil, but the market is taking a dive because investors will lose if $60 a barrel oil is on the market as their new and wonderful fracking and tar sands needs about 85-100 dollars a barrel, respectively, to break even.
Don’t worry, those oil companies will always come out on top, always.