Oh Lew lol you know I luv's ya bro, but really, how about we make the same 16k per year as kuwait's average income.
Or better yet how about we pay the same price Kuwait pays pre gallon.
You know better than this, don't pull the soundbites out for these guys.
Man, Albania had a $1,400.00 Annual Income, as an example, in 2000, but paid .90 cents a gallon as early as 2002. Weren't we up about $2.50 around then? I think as a nation, even the poorest in NO made a tad more than $1,400.00 per year. As a percentage of the average income, even the poorest of incomes, our buying power is Incredible.
Someone on the TV squaking about not having enough gas to evac, with diamond stud lip earrings, tatoos and expensive tennis shoes has a problem with fiscal management, that's not My problem.
Everyone is up in arms over the price of gasoline, but frankly, I just got back from a trip to Salt Lake from Sacramento this weekend. I paid Exactly $16.00 more in fuel than I did for the same trip last year.
Whoopy, I won $140.00 at Winnemucca and I'm up 12k in income from last year. 16 bucks? Who the flip cares, that's squat.
So the big evil oil companies are making a profit. They had the resources to get the refineries off the Gulf back up Far Faster than anyone expected. Admit it, everyone is stunned at the rapid rebuild. You can't do that on a welfare check, you need Cash, that comes from Profit, Profit is fuel and fuel drives an industrial machine. Starve it because it's "not fair" and you restrict the industrial engine and Nothing Moves.
Small flaw in the utopia of everyone should have everything they need for free. No one is going to work an oil field for "social gain" in a utopian world. They will all want to be artists, poets and singers. It takes Money to attract them to work in the fields, and profits to attract investment to Build the fields.
Jealousy over someone else making profit's is just wrong. Oil is not a necessity for existance, it's a comfort, a luxury. You can have housing with minimal power, burn candles and wood in your fireplace, barbque outside. You can get to work on Busses or a $25.00 Bike from Goodwill. China does it, their wonderful Socialist Society has proven that all will eat and work.
Sometimes I think people take luxury as a right, it's not, it's expensive. Buy into it if you want it.
You know what is stopping the hybrid cars and fuel cell technology? No Profit! They are still trying to find a way to make a Dime of the thing. The investment is Far too Huge to offset the cars. It's close, but the cost of fuel isn't the answer. That brings a huge amount of additional problems. Fuel sales will plummet, and with it, the cost to build the roads for all those nifty non pulluting vehicles.
Sound bites get alot of attention, and stir up the short sighted, but there is usually far more going on than most people have a clue about.
Oh, and if you want to talk hybrids and fuel cells, I'd love to. We have a new fuel cell partnership a mile from my house that is a fantastic facility. All the major auto manufacturers are in the lab making batteries that run off Water. The technology is absolutely Stunning, and...20 years away. But, it works.
Now, 20 years of research costing billions in investments. A battery with $20.00 bucks worth of actual material is going to be expensive. It's going to be a funny discussion when they talk about the obscene profits they are making selling that stupid battery for $15,960.00 , but someone is going to want their investment Back.
