Truckers' strike/slowdown

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Originally Posted by BrianR

Oh my! $4.409/gal. Where will it end?

Show me where $3.50 per gallon has changed driving habits. Well, for the first time, anti-American designed vehicles (pickup trucks and SUVs with 1968 technology engines) have finally seen a downturn in sales. Mass transit ridership has only increases a paltry 5 or 8%. Price of gasoline went from $0.85 to $3.50 before we see such paltry attitude changes? Well, yah. Now how much higher must prices go before we actually do address the problem - Americans waste oil easily by a factor of two and probably a factor of four. We must decrease our oil consumption to 50% and maybe to 25%.

Same professionals that predicted $100 per barrel oil when the majority denied it are now talking about $200 per barrel oil because so many people in America remain so wasteful. Tens gallons of gasoline but only 1 to 2 do any useful work.

More numbers. $5.00 per gallon gasoline (previously as the point at which Americans will finally admit to the problem) means oil must go to $175 per barrel. History says oil must go to those prices before Americans finally decide that Cheney, et al (a famous liar and anti-American) was wrong about consumption and production being the solution.

Remember when George Jr was first elected? Government officials suggested we should increase the weight of automobiles to 4000 pounds so that SUVs don't kill so many people. Well, the SUV is so anti-American that - view a distance between the top of a front wheel and the hood line. A larger distance means the vehicle is that anti-American and does more to waste oil. Patriotic passenger vehicles have almost no distance between the top of its hood and top of front wheels. Every SUV could do that AND would weigh massively less. But that means engineering. And engineering only increases costs - according bean counters.

When will prices stop rising? Well when do the thousands of little innovation indicators - ie less distance between hood and front wheel - start to appear. Until we see things innovative - which also means patriotic and not as dumb as UG - only then are the reasons for higher oil prices being solved.

Every mid-size car I have owned since 1980s has routinely done 30+ MPG even in local traffic. Technology has always existed. But with so many so anti-Americans as to even need SUVs, well, who gets punished? BrianR suffers first. But again, another lesson from the 1970s when another scumbag president would also lie routinely.

What is the latest suggestion discussed by some government officials? Price controls. Who did that previously? Nixon - another lying president who cared more about his political agenda; America be damned. Obviously prices controls would not work then. Obviously price controls on oil would only protect those who most create this problem - the most wasteful of fuel - SUV and pickup truck owners who said, "Keep making crappy products."

When will prices moderate? When will America finally concede that Americans who stifle innovation have always been the problem? Next post demonstrates how long ago everyone should have known this.