Comments on: Wall Street Blamed For High Gasoline Prices

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Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:21:39 +0000

[...] that the price of fuel is slowly creeping upward after months of decline. No matter who you feel is to blame for this slow rise, it looks like the days of below $2-a-gallon gas won’t be back for a [...]

By: BarkyBree

BarkyBree — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 01:29:17 +0000

The wise folks at … of all places … NPR's “Car Talk” made a suggestion last fall: when gas prices dropped like a stone, the feds should have put a $0.50/gal. tax on gasoline immediately. The economy got used to the higher gas prices, when they fell almost $2 a $0.50 tax would have been peanuts to the average consumer. It would have kept gas at a higher price and kept us in conservation mode. That $0.50/gal. could have gone to building up the rails or doing other things to end our foreign oil (and it appears, oil speculation) dependence once and for all.

By: beyondgreen

beyondgreen — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:21:59 +0000

The high cost of fuel this past year did serious damage to our economy and society. After a brief reprieve gas prices are inching back up again. Our nation should not allow other nations to have such power over us and our economy . We have so much available to us in the way of technology and free sources of energy. WE seriously need to get on with becoming an energy independent nation. We are spending billions upon billions in bail out dollars. Why not spend some of those billions in getting alternative energy projects set up. We could create clean cheap energy, millions of badly needed new green jobs and lessen our dependence on foreign oil all in one fell swoop. I just read an eye opening book by Jeff Wilson called The Manhattan Project of 2009. It would cost the equivalent of 60 cents per gallon to drive and charge an electric car.If all gasoline cars, trucks, and SUV's instead had plug-in electric drive trains, the amount of electricity needed to replace gasoline is about equal to the estimated wind energy potential of the state of North Dakota. Why don't we use some of the billions in bail out money to bail us out of our dependence on foreign oil? This past year the high cost of fuel so seriously damaged our economy and society that the ripple effects will be felt for years to come.