Posted on 04/19/2011 12:38:40 PM PDT by flowerplough
As you pump 13 gallons into your Honda CR-V ... it's near impossible to view the $50 you're spending with a positive attitude.
...(but) $5 gasoline may actually have an upside if it arrives this summer as some experts predict. Not for you and your family personally, maybe, but perhaps for the United States as a whole.
Some possible benefits (and we're serious about most of them):
Fewer people will die on the road. The less you drive, the more likely you will ...
Demand for high-mileage cars may grow. The key word here is "may." Hybrid sales rose quickly in 2007 as gas prices climbed...
Shorter security lines. Airlines fares are extremely fuel-price reactive. Soon, hardly...
Less pollution. Less driving means cleaner air. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ...
Less congestion. Ever notice how well rush-hour freeway traffic flows on the minor holidays ...
High prices lead to lower prices. Mackubin Thomas Owens, a professor ... theorizes that if gas prices rise enough, the government will open up areas now closed to oil production...
End of wars. According to National Defense Magazine, the cost of "in theater" gasoline to our troops in Afghanistan can range from $100...
Local businesses may profit. If you can't afford to drive out to the Wal-Mart or The Home Depot, you may be buying instead at the local supermarket or neighborhood hardware store. In addition, as the cost of transporting, say, grapes from Chile, goes out of sight, you may turn to regional ...
It's all about democracy. If we let up on the gas pedal, we'll starve those oil-rich despots out of existence.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.msn.com ...
The left is truly insane
posted earlier
Didn’t they say the same thing when Bush was Prez and it went over $4.00? /s
What he means of course that life will be so much better for the Limousine Liberals of the world, now that they won’t have to share elbow room with the masses.
Hypocrisy, thy name is Democrat.
The very same MSNBC saying this, after endless whining under Bush is hypocrisy of the first order.
We have truly passed over in to an Orwellian World now.
And you thought “1984” was just a book?
The LEFT’s agenda in WRITING no less.
This writer is such a moron...it has to be in jest to see what kind of response they would get.
A month or so ago, local Reno stations were touting that the number of car deaths on American roads in 2010 were as low as 1948 had been. Actual numbers were never stated.
They were saying it was because of the MUCH safer cars of today.
NOT a WORD was said about the fact that 15 million people are out of work & NOT DRIVING to and from a job they USED to have!!!!!
Don’t I just LOVE the news editing that is done in every ‘newsroom’ in America!!!!!
Nope, it’s a “how to” manual for the Democrat Party. People should do a side by side comparison sometime. It’s REALLY interesting.
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And I feel fine!
Remember the way at the beginning of Obama’s term, the media were saying that via growing unemployement Obama was HELPING people spend more time with their families?
And now they tell us we’re happy with expensive gas?
I get this eery feeling that our leaders of Oceania will be UPPING our meat ration to 400 grams weekly..? And that Oceana is at war with East Asia, and we have ALWAYS been at war with East Asia...? Right?
What OTHER STUFF that we once considered bad now pleases us?
Any takers?
Summary: because it gets all the little people out of his way.
this was written by a person unable to do any critical thinking at all, or one who assumed their readers are unable to do the same.
“It’s all about democracy. If we let up on the gas pedal, we’ll starve those oil-rich despots out of existence.”?????
Ahh yes, the gauzy feel-good logic of the leftist...
- fewer people will die in auto accidents
- shorter security lines
- less pollution
- less congestion
...until you realize you could have the same benefits for much less expense if you shot every fifth person on the street. Which is why history bears out this line of thought ultimately leads to murder.
Sums it up quite nicely
Dry wall specialists USED TO worry about losing their jobs to illegals, but now they’re happy, and that’s cuz daily they have lessons in pinata construction and sombrero finery.
Umm...we used to worry about war in in Iraq, but now that worry has been replaced by the pleasure we feel in helping the Pakistani leadership, and also the Yemeni leadership, and also the leadership-to-be (maybe) in Libya.
Umm....what OTHERS?
We used to worry about the legality of Guantanimo, but now we’re overjoyed to learn of the Carribean zephyrs that waft over that isle.
Umm...there must be more...
This is exactly like 1984’s Ministry of Love; Winston examines old news that beef rations are going down, but retroactively changes the old level, permitting for the new report that instead the ration is going UP.
So unhappy news turns into happy news —the point is the only way this can come about is if the organs of the media are controlled BY THE STATE, formally or (arguably worse) informally.
Is it any wonder that we have deficits when the author states clearly about pumping 13 gal. of gasoline at $5 per gallon, and marvels at the $50 price. Is this a deflated dollar? Or is this some of that ObamaCare math that rounds $65 down to $50?
1984 is another good book not taught in American public education anymore.
Here’s another one, “The Animal Farm.”
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