They can want in one hand, and crap in the other and see which fills first...this country can't survive on $5-$8 gas...ask any economist, it simply isn't possible...look at how bad the economy suffers when gas is $4 a gallon...
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Usatoday: "former Oil Exec: $5-a-gallon Gas On The Way"
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They can want in one hand, and crap in the other and see which fills first...this country can't survive on $5-$8 gas...ask any economist, it simply isn't possible...look at how bad the economy suffers when gas is $4 a gallon...
He's probably got one of those fake scrotums hanging from his trailer hitch too...
To be selfish, I hope that gas prices are still low in August. When gas prices are low the dealerships have trouble selling efficient cars and thus their prices drop
Smart people will make their small car purchase now while prices are low...the idiots with no foresight will buy the huge gas hogs now, then complain about high gas prices when the prices go back up (which they certainly will)...
You hope we have $7 gas? Do want to stand in bread lines? $7 gas would put this country into a major depression...
Vehicles are way too popular in this country for "the man" to ever get away with taking them away...the people just won't stand for it...if they want to change the way commerce flows in this country, they are going to have to "sell" the people on what they want to do..."the man" will never be able to FORCE people to give up their vehicles...
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thanks for your post
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As an aside, thanks to an 80¢/gallon discount with my monthly "reward points" from Kroger, I paid 99¢ per gallon last night for 35 gallons of gas (filling up five five-gallon gas cans as backup). First time I've paid under a dollar a gallon in 15 years . . . of course it came at a cost: As well as the layoffs at oilfield service companies Schlumberger, Halliburton, and Baker-Hughes, Helmrich and Payne, one of the nation's largest drilling contractors has laid off 2,000 employees. There are no free lunches here, when gas prices go down, energy workers suffer. Some days you eat the bear, some days the bear eats you.
We skipped back here from a side-tracked discussion here..post#1913..
So today or yesterday OPEC has decided to limit production. It maybe true that OIL is in less demad, but we were already having hiked up prices which is the main reason we have inflation right now. So with this we may have inflatuion along with a recession.
So this is what was in play in the 1970's that stirred incredible interest in high-mleage vehicles, and ultimately my interest in the Autocycle.
If it matches what happened in the '70's, the hightened interest will remain in place very viserally for at least a year for each month that gas prices remain at a 'scary' level. But in the '70's OPEC did it, blatlanty just because they could, and were greedy about it, to include the US based Oil companies.
This time they likely are claiming other reasons, but we will see.
Anyway, the extra interest can only help all EV's including the Aptera, as well as helping any vehicle like the BEX.
See Aptera discussion on this here, at post #99...
So today or yesterday OPEC has decided to limit production. It maybe true that OIL is in less demad, but we were already having hiked up prices which is the main reason we have inflation right now. So with this we may have inflatuion along with a recession.
So this is what was in play in the 1970's that stirred incredible interest in high-mleage vehicles, and ultimately my interest in the Autocycle.
If it matches what happened in the '70's, the hightened interest will remain in place very viserally for at least a year for each month that gas prices remain at a 'scary' level. But in the '70's OPEC did it, blatlanty just because they could, and were greedy about it, to include the US based Oil companies.
This time they likely are claiming other reasons, but we will see.
Anyway, the extra interest can only help all EV's including the Aptera, as well as helping any vehicle like the BEX.
See Aptera discussion on this here, at post #99...
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Seattle put in thier monorail starting at the 1964 World's Fair (my Wife's father had a lot to do with attracting that fair), and it works pretty well.
BUT, it does mess up the sky-line and people hate that. The rail and cars are cool enough, but street level feels like living in a dungeon. So it's biggest problem is just getting permission to build it in enough places to make it worth it. And it is sooo much cheaper than subway's. Busses are generally cheaper than subways too.
But buses also congests private transport as well. The only way that actually works, is if practically all of the people actually use the buses. And that will never happen in the USA. People will always choose private single driving until so congested that mass transit becomes easier for them.
THAT is the actual trick, making it easier for them. Well that and not killing off the livability factor.
So when it came time to expand mass transit? Seattle chose subways. They had to. Busses were becoming everyother vehicle on the roads. They just couldn't stuffmore busses into some places. (I did work in one of those areas for 8 months, took the bus, my bicycle loaded on the front rack)
Frankly, I think they should have put in moving walkways into smaller tunnels in the most dense places. (or above street level) Then at the peripheral of that, put in monorail where the dungeon effect was less noticable. JMHO
England has had a price that roughly equals $6/gal for years and doesn't seem to be a real problem over there.