You want lower gas prices?

[Old Rocks]

At approximately 12 km/h rolling and air resistance have equivalent magnitude. At higher velocities air resistance dominates quite strongly.

That is for bicycles. While a bicycle has more resistance (Cd) than a car, the curve is about the same.


Aerodynamic Drag - The Physics Hypertextbook


In some situations, however, this may not be entirely correct. Drag is a complex phenomena. It cannot always be described with equations that are simple. My first guess would always be that drag is proportional to the square of speed since I understand and like the derviation I've presented, but I would not be surprised if (over some range of values) drag and speed were found to be directly proportional, proportional to some power besides 2, or related by some polynomial. Welcome to the world of empirical modeling — where relationships are determined by actual physical experiments rather than an ideology of pure theory. More on this subject later in this section.

 

[PrometheusBound]

Drill, drill, drill!!!



A free market with plenty of supply is the answer

The free market is a well-financed fantasy. The only market forces are concentrations of power. OPEC is the reason we aren't paying 12 cents a gallon for gasoline, which is all it's worth.

Normally I don't get involved in financial arguments, but even I must say, this is one of the stupidest fucking things I've heard in awhile.

That's what you've been programmed to say. For reasons I'm forbidden by the Mods from discussing, you let your mind become lamed, tamed, and trained to repeat what the ruling class tells you to say. You've become an Internet virus.

 

[PrometheusBound]

At approximately 12 km/h rolling and air resistance have equivalent magnitude. At higher velocities air resistance dominates quite strongly.

That is for bicycles. While a bicycle has more resistance (Cd) than a car, the curve is about the same.


Aerodynamic Drag - The Physics Hypertextbook


In some situations, however, this may not be entirely correct. Drag is a complex phenomena. It cannot always be described with equations that are simple. My first guess would always be that drag is proportional to the square of speed since I understand and like the derviation? I've presented, but I would not be surprised if (over some range of values) drag and speed were found to be directly proportional, proportional to some power besides 2, or related by some polynomial. Welcome to the world of empirical modeling — where relationships are determined by actual physical experiments rather than an ideology of pure theory. More on this subject later in this section.

What drags on light? We've been intimidated into not asking, "Why isn't it faster than 186,000 miles a second, O Omniscient Professor?"
C^2 proves it can be 6 lightyears a second without drag.
We've also been dumbed down into using phenomena as a singular.

 

[eflatminor]

The simplest way would be to take the National Speed Limit back to 55 mph.

Spoken like a true central planner. Pass.

 

[Mr. H.]

Considering crude is over $100/barrel, gasoline is a bargain.

 

[Jimmy_Jam]

Refinement is a major contributor to price at the pump. Don't let anybody tell you differently. Prices at the pump are currently going down, and during a time of year where prices traditionally spike. The reason? ExxonMobile recently returning to major production after a maintenance shutdown.

Sharp drop in gasoline prices is due to refinery activity, experts say

 

[RGR]

Normally I don't get involved in financial arguments, but even I must say, this is one of the stupidest fucking things I've heard in awhile.

That's what you've been programmed to say.

So 35+ years as an oil and gas professional knowing, doing the AFE's and then exploring for, drilling, completing, producing and distributing Penn grade crude has programmed me to know that it requires an absolute fucking idiot to think those costs are $0.12/GAL?

I revise my prior statement. Not only was your original statement the fucking stupidest thing I've ever heard, you might be the stupidest fucking person I've ever met for not having learned between the time you wrote it, and now when apparently you choose to defend it, that it was the stupidest fucking statement ever made.

For reasons I'm forbidden by the Mods from discussing, you let your mind become lamed, tamed, and trained to repeat what the ruling class tells you to say. You've become an Internet virus.

I see. Thank you for verifying my previously stated position.

 

[eflatminor]

Make commodities traders take delivery of their product.

Really dumb idea. Commodities markets bring stability to prices, allowing entities that utilize those commodities to plan more confidently by avoiding potentially devastating price swings...thereby increasing the likelihood that investments will be made, which translates into more jobs, economic growth, etc.

When market prices rise, the ignorant are quick to blame commodities traders, yet we hear no praise for those traders when market prices fall. Get thee to a book on economics 101!

 

[Snouter]

The gorilla or elephant or whatever is the zionist regime. Being shackled to that conspiratorial madhouse is the reason why the price is higher than it should be.

 

[PrometheusBound]

The simplest way would be to take the National Speed Limit back to 55 mph.

Spoken like a true central planner. Pass.

Just the opposite of what you've been programmed to GIGO. Woodrow Wilson (who was just the opposite of what Glenn "Biff" Beck calls him) said that the invention of the automobile would make working Americans socialist. The ruling class accurately believed that the workers lacked pride and personal power. Our modern controllers realized that being able to drive at high speeds was making real Americans feel too much strength.

 

[RGR]

The ruling class accurately believed that the workers lacked pride and personal power. Our modern controllers realized that being able to drive at high speeds was making real Americans feel too much strength.

So they forced GM to make the 2014 Corvette slower? Please, continue writing, while there are many of the internet worthy of derision for being silly, you are just leaping and bounding ahead of them.

Here is how our modern controllers feel about Americans driving at high speeds, they decided GM should sell these to anyone who might want one.

 

[DennieCyper]

Yeah I agree better we control the speed to 55 mph.

 

[eflatminor]

Yeah I agree better we control the speed to 55 mph.

Ah yes, more central planning. Ideas so good, they have to be mandatory.

Pass.

 

[saveliberty]

Yes I want lower gas prices here's why:

1. The supply is quite vast and so is over priced.
2. Gas prices are largely a hidden tax. Sales tax should be the only tax.
3. The price is artifically high due to restricted refinement.

 

[Mr. H.]

Yes I want lower gas prices here's why:

1. The supply is quite vast and so is over priced.
2. Gas prices are largely a hidden tax. Sales tax should be the only tax.
3. The price is artifically high due to restricted refinement.