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I don't know what you people are complaining about. Exhorbitant gas prices are EXACTLY what we need in this country to make us appreciate what we have. I say...make it 5 bucks a gallon. People will learn pretty quickly to buy fuel efficient vehicle sand only drive when necessary. There should like like a 3 or 4 dollar tax on every gallon with that money going directly into environmental research and initiatives

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Rob, You sound like Pete Townshend. In fact, that's the thesis behind most of his Psychoderelict Album. When you start to sound like Pete Townshend you either a) have to be a prolific song writer and major influencer of pop culture for the past 40 years or b) certifiably insane and escorted around in a straight jacket.

For each one of us that is ringing our hands and worrying about the impact of driving a car that gets 22mpg on the planet there are 150 chinese people manufacturing the things we sit on, the utensils we eat with, and the clothes we wear. And standing on the new side of shanghai looking through the smog a 1/4 mile to the old side and having difficulty distinguishing cars from people leads me to believe they don't care too much...

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But it's also true that these countries are at radically different points from the US along the industrialisation scale. Over the last 30 years, using inefficient, highly polluting motors and processes probably made little environmental difference in these countries, given the low density of industrialisation, and was probably more economical in most instances. As the number of cars and power plants in China continues to rapidly expand though, one would hope that a certain level of environmental awareness will emerge, and that they will move towards cleaning up somewhat. Most countries go through something roughly similar as they industrialize. In fact recent environmental catastrophies have started to make people there more aware of what may be at stake


Anyway, the point of all this is to say that while any reductions we make in the emissions of greenhouse gases may be marginal, at the global level, in the medium term, there is still an arguement to be made for sensible and moderate efforts to curb emissions.

Dammit, if the world heats up much more, there'll be NO DAKSFEST ANY MORE!!!!!!! Think about that

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Commenting again on the chart I see an 80 cent drop in the two months before the election.

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“That's pretty significant. I'd been predicting a drop long before it began.”

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That’s like saying I’m predicting an increase in retail consumer spending this Dec…..

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Compared to last December? or to say oh... maybe April?

Right now everyone is freaking out and wondering if it will be an increase compared to last year or not...

I say Smike for Fed Chairman!