I say raise the gas prices. People need to realize we can’t live like this. If they raise prices, people start getting rid of money fast.
People will actually start buying economic cars instead of gas guzzlers. Why do you think gas prices went up? Economic cars are 99% helpful for our planet and country over all. Once more and more people start buying more fuel efficient, solar powered cars ( if they tend to be available). Then the major oil producers will be in trouble. Losing a major client won’t help them, it will hurt a lot. Tell me your opinion.. And give and EXPLANATION for you opinion. Do you think the prices should lower and hurt our ecosystem and planet or should they raise and make people realize we just can’t live like this!
Thanks you so much!
Love ya
Haley Maley
Thanks for bringing up all these points of the cos of economic cars. THANKS YOU!
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If this continues, we would probably start using solar power (if we have money for it). Whoknows what will happen. We might go through a revolution.
I think they should continue to rise. But keep it gradual. This will give people enough time to change their car and hopefully start investing in alternately fuled cars.
Relying on one source of power is inherently dangerous. I think we need to offer more than one type of food. Its going to happen sometime or later weather people like it or not. Gas prices are not going to fall. We can’t remain oil dependent forever.
You say that the new cars would be expensive. Isn’t it funny how we spent all that money on a war instead of R&D to make this stuff cheaper? What a waste.
Oh, yeah. And let’s put food and heat out of the reach of the poor, too. And then you take school, money, and clothes away, too. Sure. Let’s feed ourselves to the animals.
i say you shut the fukk up.
Meanwhile what happens to the poor people that can’t afford the Economic cars? I am all for energy efficient and solar power. Raising gas prices is not the answer, because raising gas prices raises prices of everything.
I say we start getting off the couch and start walking and biking. Gas in my area went up 8 cents in 2 days. My explanation: Today sucks. Its real estate that’s making gas go up. Hard to explain. Later, I promise.
As someone who couldn’t give two rips about the vehicle I drive, I ask you, do you know that hybrid vehicles are actually quite expensive? It’s the same old “greenie” paradox- you have to be a well-to-do art-fart to truly live an environmentally-friendly lifestyle.
However, I think a step in the right direction would be to discontinue the manufacturing of these ridiculously indulging SUVs. I know many who own them, and none of them have any logical reason to.
Well here’s the thing. There are HUNDREDS of people who can’t afford a economic car. They might be helpful to our planet, but I’m not going to crap out all my money for a hybrid. That’s MORE than the gas prices.
one major problem. A lot of people want better cars but it all comes down to the fact they don’t have money to buy a new one and they can’t get approved for a loan unless they take really high interest rates and that will hurt everyone even more.
I agree that the above approach would be effective, but it would also allow the oil countries to make even more money…. if you charge more for a gallon, so will they.
I think we should lower gas prices, and set standards on all cars, like emission fuel economy etc. This way we use up the oil faster, and we can protect the environment. Although I am aware that while we have access to oil alternative energy cars will take the back seat to gas guzzlers.
The US is not the only client of the Middle East oil producers…. Japan and Europe also buy the stuff.
The price of gas in Kuwait is $ .75 / gallon. What is it at home?
I live on minimum wage right now. It’s not that pleasant. While the big picture is a nice thing to dream about, for many of us it is inaccessible. The gas prices right now have made it difficult for me to buy necessities like groceries. I will be right on board with your plan as soon as I become rich, but I don’t foresee that happening anytime soon.
I have an economic car (a Ford Focus hatchback,) but my drive to the radio station where I work is pretty long. The argument doesn’t hold water in my case because the distance is a factor I can’t change. For most people, it’s a halfway alright idea, but it really just sounds like you haven’t thought this through well at all. Listen to the person who talked about the greenie paradox—you have to be well-off to live “simply” in America.
Well, this opinion of yours does sound, well, retarded, I guess.
How about a $ 50/gallon tax to be used to promote and develop fuel-efficient hydrogen-powered cars, and nuclear power plants. The power plants to be used to make hydrogen for the cars. That would eliminate the petroleum problem, wouldn’t it? Just one thing left-the environmentalists screaming about all those nuclear power plants, and the lawyers filing all those lawsuits about their locations. Not in my backyard! signs everywhere.
Maybe put solar collectors in the deserts to….no no no, can’t visually pollute the deserts, either.
There just seem to be too many wackos everywhere.
Lets go to space. No, NASA lost that dream years ago. They are getting ready to send an expedition to Mars. MARS!!!! WHY? We don’t have a base on the moon yet, and they want to go to Mars! More stupidity. We can explore Mars later, and do it from the Moon base, when we get one.
The French get 80% of their electricity from nuclear. We get 13%. The French have the world’s fastest railroads. We have Amtrack. (In Chicago, some years ago, a drunk climbed over an 8-foot chainlink fence, topped by barbed wire, and went to sleep on a railroad track, got hit by a train, and a jury awarded his decendants some $ 6 million for their grief and suffering over this idiot, because the railroad had made it too easy for this guy to lie down on a working track. And we wonder why our legal system is in the shape it is, and why we have to pay so much for things.) Maybe we need fewer lawyers. Can we burn them for fuel? They seem to be polluting our world. Some we actually need. Many, well,,,,,
What do you think now about raising fuel prices?
Regards,
Dan
The only way gas prices will come down is if America gets the oil from the USA. We should be dependent on ourselves for fuel. Because we are getting our gas from other countries it is costing us more. We have fuel right here on American soil. But the government doesn’t want us to get it because there might be a oil spill and kill sea life. Good grief!! My goodness gracious. What idiots. I did a one page paper on this. I was listening to this Senator from one of the states and he was saying that we really need to get our oil from right here on American soil. If we get it off shore, the price will come down. There are so many barrels of oil underneath the water that we could get it if we clean up the oil spills right away. ASAP. We can’t depend on other countries for oil.