shempmcgurk wrote: > But, Barfitu, you and the Global Warming crowd are AGAINST wanton > gasoline consumption. The higher the price of gas, the lower the > consumption and the less emission of the evil carbon into the > atmosphere. > > You should be cheering Bush. The higher the price of gas the more other things like bread, plastics, milk, cheese, veggies, lentils, rice and on and on cost. It sets off an inflationary spiral. It also effects the price of services. Your dentist and doctor charges more. The movie theater you go to want Juno (over and over) starts charging more. And of course you charge your clients more. Up and up it goes and when it stops nobody knows? Then it all comes tumbling down like a wall of bricks.
It would be one thing if the increased price of gas was due to more taxes being added so more mass transit could be built and better highways and streets. Europeans pay more for gas because of that. But no this is all going into the pockets of the filthy rich. Yes, it would be great if we could reduce oil consumption but the oil companies put obstacles in our way for that. As for BushCo, it is happening under their watch (or non-watch since chucklenuts admitted he was unaware of $4 gas prices). I would go as far as to say it was part of their plan. Baghdad and Iraq was just a testing grounds to what they want to do to the US. They hate us for our freedom.
