Legion, we don’t need any LNG on the east coast. There is glut of natural gas flowing from new gas technologies available to North America. There will be a divergence of natural gas from heating oil in terms of availability (domestic availability) and price for a long time to come. LNG is a very depressed business. I think T Boone Pickens ideas are very compelling about using natural gas as a transition fuel.
The CAFE standards are yet another example of the triumph of mushy “green” thinking that does nothing to address our energy security concerns. In fact, it shows how the law of unintended consequences takes over. How so? Quite easy to see.
Unless we want to engage in wishful thinking, the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of Americans are going to buy a car. They live in places that make it a necessity. So think about what CAFE does. A person has just spent $20K or more on a vehicle. Thanks to CAFE, it now costs LESS to use it – more MPG’s, baby. So what thought process does a normal person go through: “Hey, I just spent $20K on this machine, and it’s cheap to run, so I’m going to use it to go EVERYWHERE”. Net result of CAFE: more car usage, and hence, less support for mass transportation. Brilliant!
I’ll tell you what CAFE is: it’s another opportunity for politicians and the so-called “greens” to preen for the camera and let everyone know how they want to save the planet, without really doing anything at all. If they were really interrested in making folks more carefully consider their transportation choices, they would simply raise the excise tax on gas. Of course, that would take some political balls and a real call for change.
I’ve just made Lech’s case in yet another way: alot of this “green” posturing is just that.
TextperV, if you cook a great meal plus feed ice cream, you might just worth 300
Lube is lube, rob. There’s nothing gender specific about it. Besides, who’s going to take advice about sexual activity from you????
I buy the generic CVS brand anyway.
Legion, we don’t need any LNG on the east coast. There is glut of natural gas flowing from new gas technologies available to North America. There will be a divergence of natural gas from heating oil in terms of availability (domestic availability) and price for a long time to come. LNG is a very depressed business. I think T Boone Pickens ideas are very compelling about using natural gas as a transition fuel.
Donatella;
The CAFE standards are yet another example of the triumph of mushy “green” thinking that does nothing to address our energy security concerns. In fact, it shows how the law of unintended consequences takes over. How so? Quite easy to see.
Unless we want to engage in wishful thinking, the fact of the matter is that the vast majority of Americans are going to buy a car. They live in places that make it a necessity. So think about what CAFE does. A person has just spent $20K or more on a vehicle. Thanks to CAFE, it now costs LESS to use it – more MPG’s, baby. So what thought process does a normal person go through: “Hey, I just spent $20K on this machine, and it’s cheap to run, so I’m going to use it to go EVERYWHERE”. Net result of CAFE: more car usage, and hence, less support for mass transportation. Brilliant!
I’ll tell you what CAFE is: it’s another opportunity for politicians and the so-called “greens” to preen for the camera and let everyone know how they want to save the planet, without really doing anything at all. If they were really interrested in making folks more carefully consider their transportation choices, they would simply raise the excise tax on gas. Of course, that would take some political balls and a real call for change.
I’ve just made Lech’s case in yet another way: alot of this “green” posturing is just that.
299.5
quote:
“Is K-Y petroleum based? I assume it is.”
no, but you do realize it’s lady lube right?
*rob*
299
“I don’t know anybody who pays more than $150-200”
I admit, I don’t even think I’m worth that much.
***GROAN***
I’ll take the idiot title away from CGar, thank you!
Just realized we’re only at 257 posts when I went for the 300th post.
SIGH!