Tired of high gas prices? Sign this.

[DeftwillP]

http://www.americansolutions.com/actioncenter/petitions/?Guid=54ec6e43-75a8-445b-aa7b-346a1e096659
Please pass it on.

is this where i say nominated?

 

[Stang5lgt]

:sure:

Online petitions are as useless as the time it takes you to sign them.

Don't sign it if you don't want to. Drilling isn't the anwser long term but it is short term. China is drill 50 miles off our coast. As long a China and India are subsidizing there oil so there people can have it for 60 bucks a barrel we will be screwed. Unless we start drilling our own.

 

[Stang5lgt]

Signing not only for drilling but also for Coal gasification, drill crude, and shale oil. Coal gas is being blocked right now. Can be made for around 40 bucks a barrel. Maybe it will make difference maybe it won't but there is already over a 500k signs on it. Time to let congress we are ready to start using our on resources. Signing only takes min. and give them the hint we tired of it.

And yes they can put a oil dike in my backyard and I will go out and kiss it. Cause oil has been real good to me.

 

[5-90]

I got myself one of these...takes about 2.5 gals and can easly get 50mpg

Yeah - I keep kicking around the idea of getting one of those newish Diesel bikes - methinks that 120+ mpg should help take the sting out of $5/gallon...

(I think they're actually spec'd at ~140 - but I make some allowances, I'm a big guy. Extra weight and extra aerodynamic drag...)

[Then I remember the way people drive out here...]

 

[srimes]

I am carpenter so sometimes I drive ten miles sometimes it is 100. So I don't have alot choice.

It's true that it does raise the cost of doing business and therefor the cost of goods and services. A couple of years ago it costed me 65 bucks to get an in-town tow, where just a year before that it was 35 bucks. I'd hate to see what it is now. The cost does hurt.

But we didn't get in to this mess overnight and we won't get out of it quickly either. I'm a big fan of private enterprise but there are things the government can help with or do better. The space race was a prime example. I've thought for a while that we need to develop alternatives to gas, and private enterprise will not invest in developing those alternatives until there is sufficient pain. In situations like this where the pain is forseeable the govenment can help by investing in research and/or infrastructure to ease the transition to new technologies.

People have been bitching about gas prices and talking about lowering gas taxes to ease the pain. I think there should be a gas tax that is used to fund R&D on alternative technologies. If we had been doing this for a while we would have a lot more options than we have now, and it really wouldn't have hurt that much. A few pennies a gallon to develop electric cars and biodiesel infrastructure? Sounds good to me.

 

[5-90]

It's true that it does raise the cost of doing business and therefor the cost of goods and services. A couple of years ago it costed me 65 bucks to get an in-town tow, where just a year before that it was 35 bucks. I'd hate to see what it is now. The cost does hurt.

But we didn't get in to this mess overnight and we won't get out of it quickly either. I'm a big fan of private enterprise but there are things the government can help with or do better. The space race was a prime example. I've thought for a while that we need to develop alternatives to gas, and private enterprise will not invest in developing those alternatives until there is sufficient pain. In situations like this where the pain is forseeable the govenment can help by investing in research and/or infrastructure to ease the transition to new technologies.

People have been bitching about gas prices and talking about lowering gas taxes to ease the pain. I think there should be a gas tax that is used to fund R&D on alternative technologies. If we had been doing this for a while we would have a lot more options than we have now, and it really wouldn't have hurt that much. A few pennies a gallon to develop electric cars and biodiesel infrastructure? Sounds good to me.

Fuel taxes are supposed to go into transportation research and infrastructure (IIRC,) but I think the Romans had better roads before Christ. The problem isn't the funds being raised, it's the allocation of those funds once they've got them.

I constantly hear about how "Europe pays more per gallon than we do," but that's largely a case of apples/oranges. Europe actually spends their infrastructure dollars on transporation infrastructure - especially since the advent of the EU, I'd be willing to bet you could get from, say, Germany to England on public transportation. And do it in about a day.

It takes half a day to get from Santa Cruz to San Francisco on public transit around here.

No reason to raise taxes - just stop funding these petty little quasi-fiefdoms that bureaucrats seem to cherish, and put the money to better use. We could do a lot more with "public funds" if public funds weren't going into so many "private pockets." Government middle management is probably a bigger drain than welfare, contributes less, and is a sinecure for those with no saleable skills or talents.

Most of the inane bureaucrats I've had to deal with over the years simply bear this out (and don't get me started on Congresscritters - most of them are independently wealthy anyhow, so what do they need to be paid for - at all?)

I have always and will continue to vote against any new tax - if a project needs to be funded, there is already plenty in the public coffers (or there damned well should be.) Either stop spending it on useless projects (most of what's come out of the Endowment for the Arts in the last 20 years comes to mind...) stop spending it on middle management, stop spending it on Congresscritters, or stop giving welfare away for free (something akin to a resurrection of WPA would be a good idea. At least we'll be getting some ROI there.)

"If I'd given the money to the government, they'd have just wasted it." -Leo Gallagher.