Comments on: There’s nowt like high oil prices http://priceofoil.org/2008/08/15/there%e2%80%99s-nowt-like-high-oil-prices%e2%80%a6/ Oil Change International campaigns to expose the true costs of oil and facilitate the coming transition towards clean energy. We are dedicated to identifying and overcoming political barriers to that transition. Fri, 09 Jan 2009 05:05:01 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Mike Roselle http://priceofoil.org/2008/08/15/there%e2%80%99s-nowt-like-high-oil-prices%e2%80%a6/#comment-562937 Mike Roselle Tue, 19 Aug 2008 13:40:55 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/?p=3056#comment-562937 Steve, Higer gas prices does not mean gas prices are high. They have been historically too low, leading to waste and inefficency. We should demand a floor on prices and increase taxes to keep the price at a level with the prices in Europe and other developed countries. This way market forces will drive down demand while raising money for alternitives, and from programs to buy gas guzzelers and take them off the road. By using less gas, prices won't really be going up so much as consumption would be going down, which is critical if the US wants to reduce the total carbon emmisions required to address climate change. And we will all enjoy better health, cleaner skies and protect out water. Pardon me if I now go outside and hug a tree, Mike Steve,

Higer gas prices does not mean gas prices are high. They have been historically too low, leading to waste and inefficency. We should demand a floor on prices and increase taxes to keep the price at a level with the prices in Europe and other developed countries. This way market forces will drive down demand while raising money for alternitives, and from programs to buy gas guzzelers and take them off the road. By using less gas, prices won’t really be going up so much as consumption would be going down, which is critical if the US wants to reduce the total carbon emmisions required to address climate change.

And we will all enjoy better health, cleaner skies and protect out water.

Pardon me if I now go outside and hug a tree,

Mike

]]> By: Steve http://priceofoil.org/2008/08/15/there%e2%80%99s-nowt-like-high-oil-prices%e2%80%a6/#comment-555179 Steve Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:53:31 +0000 http://priceofoil.org/?p=3056#comment-555179 In all the talk of the price of oil as connected to driving habits, please dont ever forget that oil is used for much more than gasoline. If you have ever used any commercially available product, you have used plastics and this comes only from petroleum. The prices of gas at the pump right now, as oil drops to $111/barrel, is governed much more by the fact that our refineries are still running at full capacity and are still unable to keep up. If the 'green' policies of the last 30 years had involved a bit more common sense, we would still have many more refineries than we do today and we would be enjoying much lower gasoline prices. On top of that, if drilling had been allowed in ANWR and offshore years before when proposed, we would be much less dependant upon foreign sources of oil, would be sending much less of our GDP offshore to terrorists, and would have the funding available for alternative fuel research. So hug a tree if you must folks, but be aware, you are contributing to the overall issue rather than to the solution. In all the talk of the price of oil as connected to driving habits, please dont ever forget that oil is used for much more than gasoline. If you have ever used any commercially available product, you have used plastics and this comes only from petroleum.

The prices of gas at the pump right now, as oil drops to $111/barrel, is governed much more by the fact that our refineries are still running at full capacity and are still unable to keep up.

If the ‘green’ policies of the last 30 years had involved a bit more common sense, we would still have many more refineries than we do today and we would be enjoying much lower gasoline prices. On top of that, if drilling had been allowed in ANWR and offshore years before when proposed, we would be much less dependant upon foreign sources of oil, would be sending much less of our GDP offshore to terrorists, and would have the funding available for alternative fuel research.

So hug a tree if you must folks, but be aware, you are contributing to the overall issue rather than to the solution.

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