GOP: Do Something About Gas Prices NOW!

Liquid fuel is ideal in some ways because we have the infrastructure for it. And for some uses, like passenger aircraft, a battery just couldn't do it. But, yes, batteries are likely the future for most of "last mile" motor transport.
 
BenBurch said:
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And you have to factor in the security costs for the nation too. We spend a lot of money keeping middle-eastern oil flowing. We could tell them to go to hell if we had this.
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I am fairly sure that it would be cheaper to just buy oil and let the countries shipping it worry about the security. I suspect a lot of mucking about that the US does in the middle east is because the powers that be in the US think that using the American military to support American oil interests is a good and reasonable thing to do. Of course, that was a major driver for Cheney but I'm not convinced it isn't a big driver for a whole lot of politicians be it Republican or Democrat. Especially when the oil companies funnel boat loads of cash their way to use the American military to protect their oil shipments.
 
davefoc said:
I am fairly sure that it would be cheaper to just buy oil and let the countries shipping it worry about the security. I suspect a lot of mucking about that the US does in the middle east is because the powers that be in the US think that using the American military to support American oil interests is a good and reasonable thing to do. Of course, that was a major driver for Cheney but I'm not convinced it isn't a big driver for a whole lot of politicians be it Republican or Democrat. Especially when the oil companies funnel boat loads of cash their way to use the American military to protect their oil shipments.
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Maybe. But the handwriting is on the wall that, no matter how much drilling anybody does, oil is getting more expensive to recover and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Anything under $5/gallon will seem like a huge bargain.
 
BenBurch said:
Maybe. But the handwriting is on the wall that, no matter how much drilling anybody does, oil is getting more expensive to recover and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future. Anything under $5/gallon will seem like a huge bargain.
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I agree with this. There was an article on Slate by an economist that discussed this point and the growth in the cost of oil as we approach the end of cheap oil. I am sorry that I don't have his skill or knowledge in explaining his point, but as I understood it the idea was that the cost of recovery and discovery has been going up for quite awhile and this has been hidden a bit from the cost of oil because right now the cost of oil is largely determined by who has it and their willingness to sell it. But we are approaching the end of that period and new discoveries are much less common than at the peak of oil discovery and recovering the remaining oil increasingly involves technologies that use significant energy to just get the oil out of the ground. This is going to lead to increases in the cost of fuel that will rise at faster rates than people expect.
 
AlBell said:
I'm going to suggest this would be a boneheaded move that would destroy the US economy. Why do you want a real US Depression that would very very likely have worldwide effects?
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Have you stopped beating your wife?
 
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