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View Poll Results: How many gallons of gas/diesel do you use per week?
0 to 10 gallons 15 37.50%
10 to 20 gallons 12 30.00%
20 to 30 gallons 7 17.50%
more than 30 gallons per week 6 15.00%
Voters: 40. You may not vote on this poll

 
 
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Old 04-25-2008, 09:21 PM   #11
HungLikeJesus
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I tend to agree with this guy (from Newsweek):

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But America's top car dealer says what we really need in this country is high gas prices—something in the neighborhood of $6 a gallon—if we ever really want to tackle the critical issues of the day: global warming and our oil addiction. "The biggest lie in America politics today is to say you care deeply about global warming and advocate for the price of gas to go down," says Mike Jackson, CEO of the AutoNation car dealer chain. "Those are mutually exclusive concepts."

The fact is, as much as we gripe about gas prices, we're pumping just as much of the precious liquid into our tanks as ever. Every day in America we burn through 391 million gallons of motor fuel. That burn rate is the same as last year, when gas prices were 70 cents per gallon lower. And gas consumption is up 18 percent from a decade ago. The federal Energy Information Administration just predicted we would finally begin to curb our consumption this year for the first time since 1991—by an underwhelming 0.3 percent...
(there's more at the link, above)
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