Sticker Shock-$3 a gallon gas? Some links

various FR links | 03-17-04 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[backhoe]

My Vest Pocket solution?

1- drill for gas & oil like crazy- onshore, offshore, and in Alaska 2- go nuclear for power 3- convert stationary plants to clean coal technology 4- slash taxes and regulations like crazy

[TopQuark]

Why don't you stop panicking and solve problems that exist.

[AdamSelene235]

Oil prices aren't rising. The dollar is falling. Relative to the price of a basket of other commodities such as copper, gold, steel, etc, oil prices are pretty much constant.

[mrsmith]

Good solutions all.

I was looking through the FR archives and every March we're bombarded with "I'm shocked at high gas prices" threads when the summer reformulating starts.
I guess we always will be as long as drilling and nukes etc. are banned.

[sheik yerbouty]

Form OFEC; The Organization of Food Exporting Countries..

[OneTimeLurker]

We must not let the facts bother us.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Quick! Buy Land!

The first time gas went up around 1979, the bankers printed huge ammounts of money to compensate. This gave us 21% inflation during the Carter years. Those with debts benifited from this as wages went up also!

[AdamSelene235]

The first time gas went up around 1979, the bankers printed huge ammounts of money to compensate.

Sigh.....Try that again, in reverse.

[AdamSelene235]

the bankers printed huge ammounts of money to compensate

You mean like this?

[Steve_Seattle]

Someone on the radio was predicting $5/gallon by summertime. I wonder if OPEC would do that to undermine Bush's re-election..

[backhoe]

Why don't you stop panicking and solve problems that exist.

I beg your pardon? How did you arrive at that conclusion from a bunch of links?

[backhoe]

Relative to the price of a basket of other commodities such as copper, gold, steel, etc, oil prices are pretty much constant.

Yes, I believe you will find information to support that idea among the links.

[Made In The USA]

"...Oil prices aren't rising. The dollar is falling. Relative to the price of a basket of other commodities such as copper, gold, steel, etc, oil prices are pretty much constant..."

Great! Tonight when I fill up the tank, I'll let the guy at the Mobil station know...

[backhoe]

I wonder if OPEC would do that to undermine Bush's re-election..

That would not surprise me at all.

[AdamSelene235]

Great! Tonight when I fill up the tank, I'll let the guy at the Mobil station know...

This is the price you pay for allowing the government to dominate and control your economic life. In theory, a faith based currency such as our Federal Reserve notes offers Congress the ability to confiscate any amount of dollar denominated wealth held by its subjects. There is no difference, in principal, only in degree, between this and chattel slavery.

[backhoe]

Thanks for looking... in a perfect world, we'd build next-generation nuclear plants for most stationary power needs, drill onshore and offshore for gas & oil, and maybe even use clean coal technology for some types of plants.

We have an uphill struggle, however. Dern the Greens! Full Steam Astern...

[First_Salute]

You know those wire twist ties that are used to help seal the plastic wrap bag for a fresh loaf of bread in the food store?

I've begun to notice that some are twisted to the right while others are twisted to the left, and over the last year or so, there are more and more twisted to the left.

Is that a moral issue?

Is that an election issue?

And, did the wire tie do it?

Thank you.

[international american]

Me either

[RightWhale]

There's an ANWR story today at http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2023062,00.html

[backhoe]

Can't answer your question, but thanks for the pings.

Some years ago some commentator noticed that right-wing pundits have stripes on their ties that slant in one direction, but left-wingers go largely in the opposite direction.

Not sure what that signifies, either.