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Tych2  Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
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If thats your solution then you are fired! 
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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Anyone who tells you they have a solution is lying and shouldn't be hired in the first place! |
eodoll Posts: 1,028
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Do republicans want to socialize the oil business?
If yes(and it seems like they do) then why are they against socializing healthcare?
Answer: selfish and retarded.
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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Of course not. What Republicans want is the president to wave a magic wand and bring down gas prices. If possible, by taking money going to poor people and sending it to them as a gas rebate instead. 
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Cheap oil should be a basic human right! Healthcare, though? Pfft.
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imaloon1  Posts: 674
Registered: 2003-9-15 07:19:53
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Groucho48 posted:
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“But is the overall goal to get our price†of gasoline down, asked Nunnelee.
“No, the overall goal is to decrease our dependency on oil, to build and strengthen our economy,†Chu replied.
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0212/73408.html#ixzz1nqx0Iz5B
In the long term, that is the best policy. In the short term, there isn't much that the DoE can do to lower gas prices except maybe open up the strategic reserve, which is a very, very, short term "solution".
Carter tried to start steering the country away from our dependency on oil. One of the first things Reagan did when he got into office was to remove the solar panels from the WH roof. If the country had listened to Carter, we wouldn't have to worry what the price of gas was.
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imaloon1 Posts: 674
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On a side note there is a very real solution.
Thorium powered Molten Salt reactors that are small enough to be installed on about an acre of land and provide 10-50 MW of power generation...
That coupled with EV's and we could seriously dent our dependence on oil.
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eodoll Posts: 1,028
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The billion dollar invention will be an easy install-add on component that can be retrofitted on all the vehicles to allow them to leverage electric energy.
Once we have it, we can build nuclear powerplants.
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
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Well sure. But that's a long-term solution. Not something the president can wave a magic wand over tomorrow.
I guess I should have said the only way to bring down gas prices in the long term is to bring down demand faster than supply dwindles. The only really way to do that is to get people to use oil more efficiently or to get them off oil.
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Tych2 Title: Obama Appointed Outpost Czar
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Yukishiro1 posted:
Anyone who tells you they have a solution is lying and shouldn't be hired in the first place!
No one tells me they have a solution at all. All I hear is.. 'It's too hard' or 'Well whats YOUR solution' or 'there IS no solution'.
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ZigmundZag Title: Grammar Nazi
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Registered: 2002-3-25 23:03:00
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Lots of things could dent our dependence on oil.
But we'll keep on doing what we're doing until gas reaches $8 / gallon. Because we're idiots. All of us.
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