Ouch $70 For Gas!
Damn. I just paid $70 to fill my gas tank. I can't believe it. I thought it was bad a few months ago when it was costing $50 to fill the tank. (in Europe last fall it cost me over $100 per fill up). Is it the worthless US Dollar? The Oil men in the White House? War destabilizing the Middle East? Stock market speculation and manipulation driving up the price? Increased demand from India and China? A complete lack of a US Energy Policy, or the fact that people like Kenneth Lay (Enron) helped write the Energy Policy with Dick Cheney (who is still heavily invested in Halliburton)? Lack of investment in alternative energies?
Did you know the US Senate recently stripped all tax credits for renewable energies out of the latest energy bill? UN F-ING BELIEVABLE. There's the Big Oil Lobby at work buying Senate votes, spineless Democrat and Republican alike. Did you know we still PAY US Tax dollars to the oil companies for subsidies for oil exploration, at the same time that they are posting PROFIT, after taxes, of TEN BILLION DOLLARS a quarter!! (Thats 3 months, ten billion in profit). So, we subsidize oil, and we dont subsidize renewable energy.
When Bush entered office, he pledged to give 9 Billions dollars over 4 years, mostly to the big 3 automakers, to research clean transportation alternatives. 9 billion. You might as well spit into the wind (the wind we arent harnessing for energy). Conversely, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the United States spends approximately 9 Billion dollars a month to wage war in Iraq. Imagine if 8 years ago, our answer to Saddam was "keep your F'ing oil, we wont need it in ten years" and then we spent 50 or 100 billion building Solar farms, Wind farms, clean burning coal factories (yes you CAN burn coal completely cleanly, we just dont do it). We could have been well on our way to ending our dependency on foreign oil by now. Instead we are 8 years behind and paying $4 for a gallon of gas. Europe of course is laughing at us because they pay almost double that for gas, but across Europe you see small cars, and wind farms generating power.
Just thought i'd vent and maybe drop some info for people to think about. I'd love to hear what you have to say. leave a comment.
-Ken Lewis
Did you know the US Senate recently stripped all tax credits for renewable energies out of the latest energy bill? UN F-ING BELIEVABLE. There's the Big Oil Lobby at work buying Senate votes, spineless Democrat and Republican alike. Did you know we still PAY US Tax dollars to the oil companies for subsidies for oil exploration, at the same time that they are posting PROFIT, after taxes, of TEN BILLION DOLLARS a quarter!! (Thats 3 months, ten billion in profit). So, we subsidize oil, and we dont subsidize renewable energy.
When Bush entered office, he pledged to give 9 Billions dollars over 4 years, mostly to the big 3 automakers, to research clean transportation alternatives. 9 billion. You might as well spit into the wind (the wind we arent harnessing for energy). Conversely, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the United States spends approximately 9 Billion dollars a month to wage war in Iraq. Imagine if 8 years ago, our answer to Saddam was "keep your F'ing oil, we wont need it in ten years" and then we spent 50 or 100 billion building Solar farms, Wind farms, clean burning coal factories (yes you CAN burn coal completely cleanly, we just dont do it). We could have been well on our way to ending our dependency on foreign oil by now. Instead we are 8 years behind and paying $4 for a gallon of gas. Europe of course is laughing at us because they pay almost double that for gas, but across Europe you see small cars, and wind farms generating power.
Just thought i'd vent and maybe drop some info for people to think about. I'd love to hear what you have to say. leave a comment.
-Ken Lewis
posted by Protools Mixing at 4:21 PM
3 Comments:
It's bad in Europe too Ken. There are many protests, particularly from truckers who are being screwed by the high price. I see little real commitment to renewable energy in our government either; the tax from oil is too precious for them (and probably the status quo of the big oil companies). I'm lucky 'cos I work from home mostly.
If our government truly had a commitment to reducing carbon emissions there would be a decent public transport system by now in the UK. There is not. I live in an area when many people commute into the centre of Manchester. There is 1 bus an hour and it queues on the highway into town with all the cars. Pathetic.
This recession will not be pretty. I heard that by the end of the year. The US will be paying over $5 for a gallon of gas. I am into AG Sci and lately, I've be learning about bio diesel. A few people such as Willy Nelson already use it. Now it only works for diesel engines, but maybe it's time to make the switch. It is even possible to make a diesel engine run off of corn oil. Do you research!
Go google Bio Willy Diesel. I believe it's 1.50 or something like that, a gallon! I'm still a young guy living with his parents. So to save them energy I replaced all our major lights with florescent bulbs. If you're worried about dimming issue (You know! be able to dim the lights) They now have dimmable florescent bulbs. I have one and I paid nearly 20bucks for it. Ouch! I also heard that they (The US) is getting rid of our Pennie and Dollar Bill. Well enough from me. Back to you Ken! or anyone else who would like to comment.
hey ken, watch this movie trailer http://youtube.com/watch?v=MSBykAngDpY
i did a report on it in class and everyone was speechless!
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