kam wrote: > The obvious answer is to take the profits away from the oil companies and > distribute it to the poor. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kenneth Kixmoeller/fh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> > Sent: Monday, June 23, 2008 3:42 PM > Subject: Re: [OT]High price of gas > > > > On Jun 23, 2008, at 5:34 PM, MB Software Solutions General Account > wrote: > > >> Tell me again what you'd like to see (since it's not nuclear energy)? >> > > Let me predict (hands to my head): "Conservation! Now!" In other > words, the whole society has to change the way it does things. Right > Now. > > Well-proven in history: the only way to _profoundly_ change > Americans' habits it through the old pocketbook. Like right now. > Crying "conserve!" does next-to-nothing. Conservation has to happen, > but it won't happen in the short term and not without economic > disincentive. > > Oh, yeah, those with no ideas but conservation (no nukes, no coal, no > NG, no new drilling, no no no) are the same ones who cry "unfair" > when oil prices go up. > > Ken > The price of petroleum based fuels in the USA is around $4.00 to $5.00 per gallon. This is very reasonable compared to the prices paid by most other countries around the world, especially Europe. The European countries tax petroleum based fuel very heavily at the pump, which brings in government revenue and encourages conservation. A gallon of regular gas will run you better than $9.00 per gallon in Europe.
It's to bad the Bush Administration didn't go this route, rather than running up the deficit and financing the congressional appropriations and special authorizations with USA treasury bond and note. such debt now runs into the trillions of dollar; like 10 trillion. Regards, LelandJ > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
