I pulled this off another forum. The thread had four pages of comments that seemed to be rationalizing the issue until this goofball posted. I just thought ya'll would either laugh or speed up your preps by reading this. Please don't shoot the messenger.
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 't')his is a complex issue. it's not just about gas prices. global as well as internal issues have created the situation we are in. There are not only economic but social issues underlying the cause. First and foremost it's all the candya$$ed non patriotic liberals that have put us in this situation. Lets get one thing straight, it's our God given rights as Americans to have cheap gas. Period. I don't care what everyone one else in the world has been paying for gas over the years, that doesn't matter. There are several factors that have cuased these price increases, among those global demand, an antiquated delivery platform from hole to pump unable to keep up with global demand, and the decay of the "American Man".
Problem one: how to deal with global demand. Obviously with the economic growth of india and china demand would have to grow. So we need to do something to stop their growth. We have two options, and neither is acceptable by liberals, but the old "American Man" would have no problem with either. Solution one: blow them away. 2 billion people gone, quite a bit of demand eliminated going forward, cheap gas available once again. On a side note, 2 billion less people may also cause a decrease in global warming. Solution two, tank our economy. Let the housing market crash, quit supporting it with ineffective legislation, govt funded corporate bailouts, and interest cuts. It's a hard pill to swallow but it would be short term, and we would recover more quickly than the world. Once we let the housing market crash and realize it's true market valuation, the global economy would follow suit and crash as well (that's one of the benefits of being the largest consumer market in the world). Solution three: take the oil. what's the point in having the best military in the world if we don't use it right. There's a reason for 250k to 500k soldiers being in the middle east, use them. Take the oil fields, expatriate the oil. Of course i'm pretty sure all the liberals would consider these options unacceptable and extreme, but there was a time when men were men and not afriad to do what had to be done.
On a side note it's our fault global economies are growing, we made the demand for their cheap products. If we'd stick to paying for american goods (and to those liberals that are gonna sqwak that american products aren't as good as overseas ones, if that was true then we wouldn't have won both big wars, not to mention that would lead to say that they the people over there are better than americans since we are made here) then we wouldn't have lost so many jobs overseas, and we wouldn't be funneling all that money overseas as well.
Another factor in high prices, once again caused by the liberals is the oil base and fuels types that are legislated for us to use. The gas used in other countries isn't the same quality legislated here. The liberals have made it so we have to use a supposedly "lower polluting" "cleaner burning" fuel. If we'd waive some of those requirements we could bring in cheaper "dirtier" fuel. Would work the same in my truck just wouldn't cost as much. Again the liberals will sqwak about global warming and what not. To that effect I believe china fires up a new high polluting coal plant every month, so our meager fuel contraints aren't really helping global warming if we continue to allow other countries to pollute freely (obvious this problem can be fixed with solution one above).
There's no quick fix for inadequate infrastructure to keep up with demand, this will take time to build more pipelines, refineries, plants, ship yards and so forth. But we should begin to see relief from this development in the next 5- 7 years.
So in conclusion ( and i have to cut this short since i'm at work and am running out of lunch time) the main thing that needs to happen in this country is men need to grow their balls back and be men. Make this country the once powerful, feared nation it once was. Instead of pining about cutting back, we should use are might to invoke our will on the world. After all, WE ARE AMERICANS and it's time we started acting like that instead of acting like the french.







