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Originally Posted by Charles_Main  I guess you enjoy a massive trade deficit, and sending billions of dollars off to nations that would love nothing more than to hurt us.
That alone IMO is more than enough reason to do everything in our power to get off foreign Oil.
Our economy is falling apart with 4 dollar gas, and you think 8 dollar gas wont hurt. the problem with your Europe comparison is that more than half the price they pay is taxes. which is not the case here, and will not be the case if gas is 8 dollars a gallon. While in Europe half the money the spend to fill their tanks goes back to their governments, Here in America most of the money we pay to fill our tanks goes into the pockets of Oil companies and foreign governments, not our governments pockets.
But believe me I will not hold my breath waiting for you to agree with me on anything, after all I am old in all. |
Oh it will hurt, but it will also drive invention. Necessity is the mother of invention. If we have $8 gas, then we'll have alternativeE fuel in no time.
And by the way, how do you think drilling domestically will cut down gas prices? Do you realize that unless we nationalize oil, we're sending what we get from FL and Alaska to the world market. We might knock off a few quarters on the gallon, in 5-7 years at the soonest.
PS: Don't try to play the victim. I'm sorry if I hurt your feelings when I said old people don't contribute to culture. Please forgive my brutal honesty.