Re: O.T : gas prices in AMERICAS COUNTY

Posted by Bret4207 on August 13, 2005 at 05:51:37 from (207.42.20.130):

In Reply to: O.T : gas prices in AMERICAS COUNTY posted by husky on August 12, 2005 at 14:17:20:

Too much here to respond to, but a couple points. SUV"s- I keep hearing about the evil SUV. I"m pretty sure that my wifes Explorer at 14-16mpg is no worse a consumer of gas than my buddys Chrysler Magnum hemi at 14-16mpg. Or other friends Corvette at 12mpg or the Ford van I drive for work at 10mpg @55mph, a lot less mpg if I"m going faster. We actually use 4wd and 4 of our 5 vehicles are 4wd. Since we really use 4wd and we don"t drive for "sport" do we have SUV"s or just "UV"s", and are we therefore less "evil"? If we all drove Diesel Rabbits then the guy in the Geo Tracker or Suzuki Samuri would be the bad guy in the SUV. It"s all perception. I have heard women co,plaining to my wife about the SUV"s. When I pointed oout that 2 of them drove Suburbans they said they weren"t 4wd, so they weren"t SUV"s. Perception and apperance.

We aren"t going to get anyone to lower gas prices. The Chinese are buying huge quantities and the whole world market is a sellers market now. If it really bothers you to pay what you do then get one of those 50mpg diesels, burn wood, and lobby for some new Nuke power plants to be built. Try to get the moratoriums on off shore drilling lifted. Get some new refineries built in the USA. Lobby for new coal fired power plants. Talk some of the greenies into allowing wind plants, tidal generators and solar collectors to be built. (It kills me that the greenies don"t want solar collectors in the desert because it might cool the desert down) I don"t care if every man, woman and child joined the "tea party". It wouldn"t make a bit of difference. It will change someday down the road, but do you really think the hydrogen car, or elecetric for your battery car is going to be the equivalent of $.25 gas? Not if there"s any expectation of profit, and what business keeps going without profit?

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