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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Pain of $4/gallon gas???
	Date:	11/23/2008 7:59:30 PM

Tell me you don't actually want to go back to $4/gallon gasoline just so we can justify the pursuit of alternative fuels. I am all for alternative fuels when the free markets dictate their viability. But right now we have an economy that is very dependent on petroleum products. And that doesn't just mean gasoline or diesel. Petroleum products are used in a tremendous number of consumer products and short-term increases in these prices negatively impacts us all. It impacts businesses that either see their cost of feedstock/raw materials rise above the prices for the products they manufacture causing loss of profits and reduction in business activity (i.e., loss of jobs). Average folks are impacted by rises in energy costs that they have less control over, like heating oil or natural gas.

It is both silly and destructive to take the Obama approach....the only problem with $4 gas is how quiickly it got there. Go to Europe where taxes makes gasoline artifically high. Do you want to trade their economy for ours? I know I wouldn't. And if you do you might want to do a little research on income, unemployment, standard of living, etc. and you will see why our system is significantly better.

There is a reasonable price for petroleum products based on supply and demand and the value of the dollar and wishing for higher prices to pursue some artificial goal of alternative sources of energy makes no sense. Its like wanting to plow under a field of corn so you can grow wheat.

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Gas Prices - water_watcher - 11/22/2008 6:50:18 PM

Nope, Not Gonna' Happen - Mack - 11/22/2008 7:31:25 PM

Pain of $4/gallon gas??? - MartiniMan - 11/23/2008 7:59:30 PM

You missed my Point.. - Mack - 11/24/2008 11:07:05 AM

You missed my Point.. - au67 - 11/24/2008 11:20:54 AM

You missed my Point.. - Mack - 11/24/2008 11:57:32 AM

I did miss the point..sorry - MartiniMan - 11/25/2008 2:33:53 PM

Hey, MartiniMan... - Mack - 12/1/2008 7:34:18 PM

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