HOW ABOUT $6 A GALLON GAS?
from those radical socialists at Newsweek:
…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.
What’s driving this demand? Our lust for large cars and long trips.
meanwhile…
Norwegian automaker Think Global said Monday it planned to sell low-priced electric cars to the masses and will introduce its first models in the U.S. by the end of next year.
The battery-powered Think City will be able to travel up to 110 miles on a single charge, with a top speed of about 65 mph, the company said. It will be priced below $25,000…..
What I want to know is, when can I get a plug-in electric beater pickup truck that i can take out in the woods and use for hauling firewood, manure, and other dirty stuff? Twenty-five grand buys a lot of bus tokens, if all you’re trying to do is schlep your ass around town. You want privacy? Wear shades and carry an mp3 player! Of course, you’ve gotta have a public transportation system that works, and you’ve gotta have communities that are organized so that public transportation works, and we have neither here in the states. Ever since the automobile companies bought up the interurban railroads in order to shut them down, this country has been on a private-car ego trip that is now in a high-speed collision with reality.
Furthermore, consumer credit is in the toilet. Who’s gonna be able afford to buy these things?
