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[cixel]

apparently theres another oil platform just washed up on the beach and no oil company has claimed it yet

hahaha

ill be laughing all the way to $5/gal gas =(

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[cieldumort]

owwwwww!

[mactavish]

It's six bucks a gallon (more or less, depending on exchange rate and oil prices) in England.

[cixel]

its not the price that crippes the economy its the spike, you have to do it very gradually to allow incomes to rise to accomodate it. if you do it too fast it may become expensive enough where people will be unable to drive to work and not everyone can carpool.

[mactavish]

And in Britain, incomes aren't necessarily higher, they do pay more, in real dollars, for gas. But they're used to it, they have better public transit than we do, etc. I know not everyone can carpool -- I can't -- but we really have been fortunate, as far as gas prices, for years. In most other countries, people have been paying more in terms of percentage of income per mile driven, for a very long time.

[cixel]

the problem is we're in a period where companies are trying to pay people LESS or if they cant, outsource the labor.

theres no way we can create a mass transit infrastructure overnight.

we've found the perfect recipe to completely eliminate the middle class.

[cobalt420]

Hopefully releasing some of the surplus will offer some small relief.

Overall for the long term, its time for this country to start putting more money and research into alternate forms of fuel or at the very least make hybrid technology an industry standard instead of a high priced specialty. (and personally ... I wouldn't mind if they stopped producing the Hummer -- theres just no need for a car like that)

[katfairy]

Much as I hate the Hummer, there is a real use for it. However, that real use is for the real Hummer, not the tarted-up version that the idiots are buying to make up for certain deficiencies elsewhere. A real Hummer is useful for those areas where you almost need a tank but a tank would be too large. That's what it was designed to do, not hauling around the adipose carcass of some idiot with more money than brains.

[mactavish]

Folks often say "Hummer," here, when they mean H2.

[katfairy]

Ah. That would be the tarted up version I meant. Now that is a truly useless piece of... machinery.