Obama: I’d like higher gas prices, just not so quickly

[ericire12]

According to Barack Obama, high gas prices don’t really constitute a problem for Americans. He stated yesterday that the reason for our anger is the rapid increase in prices, not the prices themselves.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gehaf7_TBAs


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[Hazcat]

Real rockett surgeon, that guy is!  

[ericire12]

Whats so sad is that most Dem politicians are happy that prices are going up....... apparently, "It will decrease demand" and as far as they are concerned that is good for America and of course good for the environment........ STUPID PAGANS!


I personally think that they are so damn happy about it because it is yet one more thing that brings them closer to the American people being utterly dependent (pun intended) on the government to take care of them..... I can see it now, in 2012 the Dem presidential campaign will be based on "Universal Gasoline".

[TAB]

he is right about one thing, we rely too much on oil.    god knows higher fuel prices don't help anyone, makes the cost of every thing go up... its called inflation, and its normally not a good thing.

[tombogan03884]

he is right about one thing, we rely too much on oil.    god knows higher fuel prices don't help anyone, makes the cost of every thing go up... its called inflation, and its normally not a good thing.

We COULD have bullet trains and public transport but the tree huggers won't let us build Nuke plants that would power them without oil OR smog.

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[TAB]

Nuclar plants are not a way to go... They actually do more damage in the long run.   Also fuel rods are no longer cost effective when 5% of them is used up.

There is no one solution... we need many, not just as a country, but as a world.   

most of the smog in southern CA( which is famous for it)  its coming from china.

[tombogan03884]

Nuclar plants are not a way to go... They actually do more damage in the long run.   Also fuel rods are no longer cost effective when 5% of them is used up.

There is no one solution... we need many, not just as a country, but as a world.  

most of the smog in southern CA( which is famous for it)  its coming from china.

I know ! lets all just roll over and play dead.   

[rojawe]

Obama has many ideas for us and his global proverty tax will sink us.  Used car salesman at best

[MikeBjerum]

most of the smog in southern CA( which is famous for it)  its coming from china.

Huh 

Back in the 70's when I spent (did) some time in southern Cal, I was taught in school that the smog issue in the LA Basin was due to the inversion layer that kept it from climbing over the mountains.  At that time China was not the industrial nation, pumping out pollution the way it is today.  I also have a hard time believing that you could get the pollutants to hang within 5,000 feet (this is the altitude at which it would be clear of some of the lower passes of the range) of the ocean's surface as it came all the way across the Pacific.

Back on task:

I still say the the Democrats are mostly pleased with the fuel prices being high.  It has long been their hope to price fuel high enough that we would be forced to conserve based on budget issues alone.  They only thing that has them pissed is that they weren't able to do it by taxing us into submission.

[Rastus]

Nuclar plants are not a way to go... They actually do more damage in the long run.   Also fuel rods are no longer cost effective when 5% of them is used up.

Which is why they are sent for reprocessing to remove the spent fuel and recreate new buttons for inclusion in zircaloy rods.  Of the many solutions...I'd like to see an investigation on why solar cells are so expensive...and batteries for that matter.  Simple technology...premium price.  

Sorry, but I don't think that smog is going away any time soon.  Until fusion reactors are created and in place, everything else is pretty much a stop-gap.  Wind, hydro, thermal (really damaging potential) do not and probably will never exist in signficant quantities...solar would be great but it is expensive and around 12-15% effective (need a full spectrum cell) while living it's short life (10-15 years) before a very expensive replacement.  Cost to take my 2,500 sq ft home off the grid....$185k...not going to happen.

A big help would be room temperature superconductors.  If room temp superconductors existed then we would have an excess of about
35+% generating capacity in this nation....that's right, 'bout 35% of your electric bill is for power generated and lost in the lines due to heat.  

This is where I think government is good; funding huge, ponderous research efforts that have the potential for mass benefit but which have exceedingly long lead times for a result that is not guaranteed.  That supercollider in Texas that was scrapped in the 90's may have made a difference in understanding the physical that could have led to room temp s-c's (and other things) in our near future.  Now we fund the European Supercollider...I've a cousin working there from DOE...dang shame we didn't follow through with ours.  Sure wish the nation would step up and have a crash program like the space race on superconductors...the biggest bang for the buck that no one knows or talks about....just us geek engineers.