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9 Responses to “Discuss”

JP Says:
April 20th, 2006 at 8:46 pm
AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
Callimachus Says:
April 20th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
Me and my Prius won’t be back to the pump till mid-May or so. I’ll tell you what I think then.
DosPeros Says:
April 20th, 2006 at 10:04 pm
For 40 bucks you might be able to bribe the clerk to have an emergency bathroom run. Bad shrimps does it for me. I have a solution to this problem, though. We should build oil refineries in national parks. No…that’s not a good idea. We should invade foreign countries with lots of oil. No…that’s not a good idea. We should hire oil executives to run the country. No…that’s turning out not to be a good idea. Make cars run off corn and electricity. That is a good idea and these prices pressure the creation of the market for corn and electric cars. No doubt, I know like everybody else that it is a present day painful sacrifice to pay $4 a gallon for gas. I will alleviate some of that pain the next time a buy a car and the price of gas will have had a positive effect on our foreign policy and environment. A market driven solution to our gas dependence will be a thousand times more efficient than any government initative and mettling. The government should take the doctors oath in terms of oil: First do no harm. It sucks ass, but compared to other generations of Americans, it is a small sacrafice.
Bob Aman Says:
April 21st, 2006 at 12:43 am
I have no problem at all with high gas prices. I tend to agree with the idea that higher gas prices can only result in the market eventually responding with viable alternative solutions.
Terry Says:
April 21st, 2006 at 2:10 pm
I am looking for my daughter Jennifer Mahoney. Could you please read
http://nvfc.us/blog/archives/228 and http://calasstudio.com/content/view/39/50/
and pass the info to anyone you know in hopes that the more people who see her
picture someone might see her. We love her very much and want her to come home.
Thanks for any help. Jennifer’s Mom Terry
Tom Says:
April 21st, 2006 at 3:11 pm
Yikes – where is that? I’ll be filling up tonight, but I’ll be paying about $2.80. Cheap. :)
Callimachus Says:
April 21st, 2006 at 3:14 pm
I have no problem at all with high gas prices. I tend to agree with the idea that higher gas prices can only result in the market eventually responding with viable alternative solutions.

I generally agree with that, but there will be consequences for a lot of people, especially the rural poor, while all this is being sorted out. I’m concerned about them. The weaning from fossil fuel will have to come, and it’s already later than it should be to get serious about it. But there will be painful consequences and we ought to mitigate them as much as we can, if we can. Market + compassion = American way.
probligo Says:
April 21st, 2006 at 3:19 pm
Works out at roughly NZD1.65 per litre.

Last night’s price was $1.63
florida mortgage Says:
April 30th, 2006 at 12:32 am
I have to totally agree with you but where are we going to draw the line?

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