keithyboy
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Mon Mar-22-04 12:17 PM
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Does OPEC have us over a "barrel? |
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Do you think it will cut back production? If you do, what should we working class folks do? Options are gone now since most of us have already re-financed homes and used up our equity.
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Fovea
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Mon Mar-22-04 12:23 PM
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1. Yes, the first cutbacks will hit the market the first week of april |
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Buy a bicycle, start riding all your short trips you can on it. Trade down to a smaller car, if there is no mass transit in your area.
I expect gas prices to be around $3.25/gal by the end of summer.
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Oggy
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Mon Mar-22-04 12:27 PM
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2. Keep your fingers crossed |
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that it isn't a forced reduction in output due to Peak Oil.
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Fovea
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Mon Mar-22-04 12:45 PM
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8. This whole administration |
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had to be in office now, for peak oil. Read about resource monopoly governments. Bush wants to be the first modern era pharoh.
So if you have a gas guzzler, sell it now!
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megatherium
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Mon Mar-22-04 01:04 PM
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10. $3.25/gal would be slightly higher than the record price |
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of about $3/gal (in 2004 dollars) reached in 1979. Back then, we raised the CAFE standards and gas prices dropped back. It doesn't sound like Congress and the Administration are bright enough to raise CAFE standards now. And we're now approaching (if not already at) peak oil. It will all go south from here.
If you own an SUV, sorry.
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Fovea
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Tue Mar-23-04 01:09 AM
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is me on my main vehicle. Yes, anytime the price reduces from here on will be a bread and circuses tactic to win temporary favor, and be followed by even higher prices. Unless Cheney steps in front of a microwave oven, that is.
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Mon Mar-22-04 12:29 PM
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3. no china has us over the barrel |
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they are sucking alot of oil and raw products to fuel the 259 billion dollar walmart and other stores. 5% increase in paper-price rise in steel,etc,etc,and add the huge trade debt to china and their refusal to reform their currency. as long as the wal-martians keep buying ,the usa sinks further into stagflation.
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Mon Mar-22-04 12:33 PM
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As long as we refuse to tap into our own resources.
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Mon Mar-22-04 12:35 PM
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5. Dude, don't fool yourself. We used up most of our resources by the 1970's |
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What's in ANWR would last us about a week, and I'd be willing to bet most of it would be sold to the Japanese anyway (they are willing to pay a lot more for it than we are used to paying).
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Mon Mar-22-04 12:42 PM
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We have fields in the lower 48 that could be developed, but due to environmental restrictions it's not feasible. A good example would be California.
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Mon Mar-22-04 12:36 PM
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6. It's not a case of refusing. |
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There just isn't a need to at this point.
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Fovea
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Mon Mar-22-04 12:47 PM
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medicines and plastic for your grandchildren when you talk about sucking the strategic reserves of the US. It won't be cheap, either.
It was time to start conserving a decade ago. Now it is past time.
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