Gas Prices Could Rise to $5 Per Gallon

[Quicksilver]

I was looking at a VW TDI. It was missing a few creature comforts I was expecting. But the big turn off was the salesmen. They were worse than leaches. No matter how many times I said I wanted to look they kept up badgering me. First one salesman, then another, then the manager. I finally asked "do you fellas understand english? They just kept it up. I finally gave up and left.

[Fraser]

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

But the big turn off was the salesmen. They were worse than leaches. No matter how many times I said I wanted to look they kept up badgering me.

Same here. I hate it. You just can't go into some dealerships and have a quiet look around without some idiot pestering you. Then it others places the salesman won't even look at you ... even when you want to talk to him!

[JCL]

Back on $5 per gallon gasoline in the US....

Michael Graetz argues that it is absolutely necessary, and more. He is a professor at Columbia, and author of "The End of Energy - The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence".

His opinion is that it isn't a foreign policy problem, or a supply problem, but rather a failure of domestic policy over the last 40 years.

Decades after the Arab oil embargo, we accept instability and even war in the Middle East as inevitable. We take it for granted that we will pay the costs in lives and treasure. And although we know that high gasoline prices change people's behavior, Congress refuses to impose taxes that would raise petroleum prices, even though it could devise a way to return all of the revenues from such taxes to the American people based on their household size or level of income. As a result, our growing oil consumption and our reliance on imports continue.

Recommended reading.

The high cost of oil - Los Angeles Times

[Quicksilver]

Apparently Obama agrees with him. He said so today during his news conference.

Originally Posted by JCL

Back on $5 per gallon gasoline in the US....

Michael Graetz argues that it is absolutely necessary, and more. He is a professor at Columbia, and author of "The End of Energy - The Unmaking of America's Environment, Security, and Independence".

His opinion is that it isn't a foreign policy problem, or a supply problem, but rather a failure of domestic policy over the last 40 years.



Recommended reading.

The high cost of oil - Los Angeles Times