I haven't had time to read this article - not that I would believe a damned
thing anybody even remotely related to government (which includes, of
course, the media) says. BUT, I do know that when I was working in Saudi
Arabia 16 years ago, the cost of getting a barrel of oil from the ground to
the super-tanker loading platforms at Ros Tanora - where the per barrel
price is paid - was $.25 US. TWENTY-FIVE CENTS!!!! - to produce something
that was selling for $30 US!!!!!!! If you want to talk about using
excessive price gouging is a means to force a change in energy use habits,
fine. But I watched the s--t being pumped and sold at the source - there is
no damned way in hell we should be paying $1 US per gallon, let alone $15
US!!!!
By the way, the government is finding a way to ban all kinds of
firearms because they are so evil - why can't they go to Ford and say "No -
the Excursion is over the line, you just can't produce it". Jesus, when
those damned yahoos out on the highway get a hold of that thing (built on an
F350 platform and weighing 8,000 lbs), they'll have to redefine the term
"road rage".
Doug
-----Original Message-----
From: Brad McCormick, Ed.D. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 1999 7:43 PM
To: Christoph Reuss
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: FW: Welcome to the Future! (gas prices)
Christoph Reuss wrote:
>
> On Wed, 21 Jul 1999, Thomas Lunde wrote:
> > With regret, I cannot find a posting, I'm sure I saved which stated that
the
> > real cost of a gallon of gasoline was $15, when all the subsidies, tax
> > breaks and special regulatory exemptions were added into the price of
crude
> > oil.
>
> The International Center for Technology Assessment has recently released a
> study entitled "The Real Price of Gasoline." It can be downloaded in PDF
> format from
> http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/index.htm
>
> Depending on how you crunch the numbers, the real cost of gasoline is
> between US$5.60 and $15.14 per US gallon (3.785 liters).
>
> > think back to 1973 and
> > the anger and the gas lineups. Only this time it won't be temporary.
In
> > fact, a vehicle without fuel is a pretty clumsy boat anchor and we don't
> > even have horses to make Bennet buggies anymore.
[snip]
As far as I am concerned there has been no
computer revolution, and certainly no Internet revolution,
so long as almost everybody has to drive (or take Metro North)
a loong distance, wasting lots of energy and lots
of precious *life time*) COMMUTING.
Question: Why can't we all work from home (except for
EMT personnel, etc.)?
Answer: Because bosses like to see "asses and elbows".
Why not recall some words from Joseph Weizenbaum: The
computer, by enabling old bureaucratic forms to live
on after the quantity of data to be processed exceeded
the handling capacity of clerks, HAS BEEN ONE OF THE
MOST POWERFUL FORCES FOR SOCIAL REACTION IN THE TWENTIETH
CENTURY (_Computer Power and Human Reason..._, W.H. Freeman,
1976).
\brad mccormick
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