10-01-2010, 09:42 PM
Well Dakota you just made a very good argument for getting off oil. The financialization of the oil markets did help lead the recession of '08.
I favor letting the capitalist system work and you Dakota favor continuation of government subsidies and controls on the price of a consumer product, designed to keep that product artificially cheap. If we continue to do that, we're not letting our economy adjust to the reality of higher gasoline prices.
Over the past decade we've been pouring billions and billions into gas and oil subsidies, yet they have not increased domestic production and prices have fluctuated wildly, mostly in the upward direction.
Are we getting our money's worth? I don't think so.
I can't help it if you don't understand the study attached. There is really no dispute to the fact that the true cost of gasoline is way more than what we pay at the pump. Even your most conservative friends know and understand that. Perhaps one of them could explain it to you.
I favor letting the capitalist system work and you Dakota favor continuation of government subsidies and controls on the price of a consumer product, designed to keep that product artificially cheap. If we continue to do that, we're not letting our economy adjust to the reality of higher gasoline prices.
Over the past decade we've been pouring billions and billions into gas and oil subsidies, yet they have not increased domestic production and prices have fluctuated wildly, mostly in the upward direction.
Are we getting our money's worth? I don't think so.
I can't help it if you don't understand the study attached. There is really no dispute to the fact that the true cost of gasoline is way more than what we pay at the pump. Even your most conservative friends know and understand that. Perhaps one of them could explain it to you.