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Elocism  Title: Pseudonym
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Elocism Title: Pseudonym
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DemonicXH Title: Camelot Vault Staff
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Registered: 2003-12-1 08:14:17
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Yukishiro1 posted:
DemonicXH posted:
Yukishiro1 posted:
The only really way to do that is to get people to use oil more efficiently or to get them off oil.
How do you get them to do that?
Well, it'll happen naturally as the price of oil continues to go up. Probably the best thing the government can do is give loans to promising alternative energy startups. But then you get solyndra.
Okay, that's a start but that still is a long term goal. What do you do to help the millions of people who are barely scraping by, today?
For instance, the thread last week about the woman in PA who is on SSDI and works part time but can't buy food or heat her home. How do we help that person? Alternative energy isn't going to do squat for her.
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Rosaria  Title: They call me Mellow Yellow, quite rightly.
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Registered: 2003-8-22 10:07:30
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Hey Imaloon, makes one pause to think, doesn't it. 
Explosion destroys oil pipelines in Saudi Arabia's Awamiya
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imaloon1 Posts: 674
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Hahaha oh man..... The pain it is coming
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Since oil is an inelastic utility, the only solution to higher gas prices is that you eat out less often. You go out to see fewer movies. You do less shopping. You know, all of those incredibly important things that our "consumption" based economy thrives on.
When you see consumer confidence and all of the restaurant indexes drop, you're seeing the solution to higher gas prices.
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imaloon1 Posts: 674
Registered: 2003-9-15 07:19:53
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theredkay1 posted:
imaloon1 posted:
Yep the reactor ran for something like 25 THOUSAND hours at Lawrence Livermore I believe. They shut it down for no apparent reason and instead of going with the proven foolproof design they went instead with the massively over complicated Uranium light water reactors and we ended up with Fukushima, Chernobyl and Three Mile Island. Of which I barely count Three Mile Island but w/e...
I know it's old hat but the Chinese have recently invested a TON of money into Thorium tech.
Seems very conspiracy theorish to say that this program worked flawlessly 50 years ago...and in the 50 years since nobody on earth has picked up the project.
That's not conspiracy theory it's a goddamn fact, the reactor ran, the model was proven and we went with another more expensive less reliable more inherently dangerous method because you can't weaponize thorium so there was no sense in building two types ( I guess )
Moron...
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Yukishiro1  Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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B_Shinkicker posted:
Since oil is an inelastic utility
No. It isn't. People are just too lazy to change their habits until the cost becomes greater.
If people go on using the same amount of gas they always have and keep paying higher prices that basically means the prices arn't too high. 
You only think you can't control the amount of gas you consume because you've been taught since you were a baby that you can't control the amount of gas you consume.
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Brother_Tempus Title: Patriot
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Registered: 2001-1-9 08:07:00
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Yukishiro1 posted:
B_Shinkicker posted:
Since oil is an inelastic utility
No. It isn't. People are just too lazy to change their habits until the cost becomes greater.
Why would people pay more for something when they can get it for less elsewhere?
Yuki shows that's this is about a small group of people who wrongly believe they know better than everyone else
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Lyken-P Posts: 453
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Bush raised and lowered gas prices when ever he wanted to... why can't Obama do the same?
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