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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
If you had not noticed the $$ went into the toilet a little while ago and has not come out of it since. I said prices would rise in the US to balance this.
Plus oil is a limited resource, we need to conserve it. You don't like the price, drive less and smaller cars. All the fuel efficiency measures car manufacturers have devised has gone to waste by Americans driving mini buses and 4 x 4s.
Plus oil pollutes the atmosphere causing global warming, if the price was related to the damage it does it would be a lot more money.
There are many alternative to gas to fuel cars, problem is no one cares if gas is $2 a gallon.
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For every gallon you save by driving an hybrid or smaller car, there is a Chinese or an Indian willing to buy 2 gallons. The automobile park in India and China is far from being up to par with European and American anti pollution standard, therefore someone who thinks they are saving the environment by saving gas in industrialized countries are actually making it worse as they allow the transfer of unused power to countries who do not give a rat's ass about how much CO2 is expelled in the atmosphere.