Posted on 04/19/2011 12:38:40 PM PDT by flowerplough
Yeah, we’re buddies with al queda in Libya now right? It’s as if all of a sudden we woke up in opposite world! The one thing at the root cause of all this idiocy is BO. So,, it’s time for a FUBO!! This is just so unreal. My grandpa would never believe if I could tell him. The only hope we have now is for Jesus to come.
sorry for stepping on someone’s previous post, PD, but I did search title “why you should”. Search here sucks.
Look on the bright side. 5 buck gas will probably mean that the Obozo is a one-termer.
I think that’s the whole point of the left’s so-called “energy policies” -
to make energy so unaffordable that only the elites can travel, heat their homes, eat, etc.
sound like an article from http://msnbc.theonion.com
"...(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):"
Your imagery and use of the word "serious" are like Jeffry Dahmer's conception of the term "finger food".
"Fewer people will die on the road. The less you drive, the more likely you will ..."
...fall victim to being carjacked by ever-growing numbers of desperate criminals and illegal aliens whose very survival will depend upon their ability to perfect the art of criminal predation upon you. With less drivers on the road, perhaps they will elect to rob you in your home or walking down the street, instead. Hey, roads might become really, really safe.
"Demand for high-mileage cars may grow. The key word here is "may." Hybrid sales rose quickly in 2007 as gas prices climbed..."
So did suicides. That work for you?
So there's another thing you'll be forced to pay more money for and in an era of generally declining wages, why, think of how less TV you'll watch and how much less time you'll have to spend with your irritating children and family as you now have to work 2 jobs instead of one. Cool!
"Shorter security lines. Airlines fares are extremely fuel-price reactive. Soon, hardly..."
Yes, all these impingements upon our freedoms paint a wonderful, dare I say it, utopian image of a new world in which all of us can live as brethren in peace and harmony. Of course, if fewer people can fly, the airlines won't be cutting back on their flights, so in the new utopia, we'll be practically guaranteed better choices of flight times and near-empty planes with our choice of seating. But that's OK, security lines will still be shorter when the airlines have fewer flights and force more people onto the remaining planes and fewer pilots and mechanics and airport clerks will be working for the airlines, so that's all a big plus, as I see it.
"Less pollution. Less driving means cleaner air. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ..."
Another well-intentioned government agency whose motives for restricting our freedoms ranks very high on my list of anti-Constituionalism.
"Less congestion. Ever notice how well rush-hour freeway traffic flows on the minor holidays ..."
I guess I won't even be free to make those choices myself, but hey, things could be worse. After all, I might have to bear responsibility for my own choices. I might get stuck with a job that I found and got hired for instead of having the government or perhaps the EPA itself choose one for me. I like this thing about having a well-propagandized third grader work out my life problems for me.
"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..."
Excuse me, I have to get medical attention for the rib I just cracked laughing at that one. OTOH, it's one of those professors who came up with this idea. Maybe we should give him a raise, grant him tenure and a fat pension, and award him 2 Nobel prizes; one for physics and one for economics.
Too bad it doesn't work the same way with sanity, eg; low values of sanity lead to higher degrees of sanity.
"End of wars. According to National Defense Magazine, the cost of "in theater" gasoline to our troops in Afghanistan can range from $100..."
Damn, there goes another rib or two. Where's my free medical care? History proves the validity of these kinds of splendid thoughts, dones't it? Oh, and that makes perfect sense, that the cost of fuel delivered to a battlefield shouldn't really cost any more than fuel delivered to, say, Chanute, Kansas.
"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 ..."
.....uhhhh....DESPERATION....? Poverty? Food riots? How cool are all of those?
"It's all about democracy. If we let up on the gas pedal, we'll starve those oil-rich despots out of existence."
It's always the rich, isn't it? Always. It's irrevocable, inescapable. Whether they're Arabs who we are not allowed to dislike and/or say bad things about or US citizens who we have been trained to hate, it's always important to allow the envy of wealthy people to wash over you, to control your actions and your desires, to make you focus on the limitations of your own circumstances and to hate other people; to withhold your creativity and ingenuity out of spite and in general, to make yourself the smallest and most miserable creature you can imagine so that the government can be empowered to take care of every little problem in your life and to restrict every piece of freedom you once had. How delightful it will be in our brave new world when smarter people than I am share their great wisdom they learned in those expensive universities their mommies and daddies paid for. How could I ever wish to argue with their obviously superior wisdom and worldliness?
Excuse me once again, FRiends, I have to have my afternoon "hate-mantra" session where I renew my dedication to hating successful people and the awful freedoms of our miserable system of freedom and optimism.
The only reason wars happen, apparently, is that America starts them.
Nothing here about higher oil prices providing additional funding to our enemies and more incentive for various groups to try to take over in the OPEC countries.
Also the cost of the fuel itself is a very minor part of the cost of getting it to troops on the battlefield. Almost all of the cost is associated with the equipment and personnel required to get it there. So if the present cost is $400, raising the price of the fuel itself by $2 would make the battlefield price $402. Or something like that.
Notice the “Green Week” logo’s on all the NBC channels.
Yeah, Wal-Mart is only at distant locations and why not get gouged on food prices instead of gas prices?
It will have an upside for Brazil, Canada, Saudi Arabia, and anyplace else where they ACTUALLY PUMP THEIR OWN OIL!!!
Food and delivery prices will skyrocket. Small businesses that rely on vehicles may go out of business. Joe Schmoe Computer Tech might not be able to service the computer in your mum’s basement, because he can’t afford the fuel. Anything else?
It may hurt people driving to work from the rural areas to a city long distances. Either force people to move closer to their work or retire earlier than expected. Maybe this is a way Obama can help his friends in the cities who always vote Democratic.
When gas was $4/gal during Bush, if you asked a liberal what he though of gas prices, his eyes would bug out and he’d yell “HALLIBURTON!”
At $10 a gallon the benefits double, at $20 a gallon the benefits......you can do the sums, right?
“The left is truly insane”
Indeed it is. Let’s raise the price of a ton of newsprint to $100,000. Then we’ll see less forests destroyed by the NYT and the Washington Post.
Pedestrians are killed by cars and buses too. They also present easy victims when they walk out at night as customers are prohibited by law from bringing a gun they might carry for protection INTO a bar with them.
Except if you are flying, you are using more gas than driving around town. And in recent memory, the airlines added a "fuel increase surcharge" to ticket prices. The author is using Yogi Berra logic, "it's so crowded, nobody goes there anymore."
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