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Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy
Let's all be like Estench and enjoy high gasoline prices. Thank you for being our example.
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As always, dearest CoG, you misquote me, I never said enjoy them, I never said they are a good thing, but I am saying they are inevitable.
There is an argument which says they are not all bad, they change the economics of alternative energy and of enhanced recovery etc., which have a long term impact. But I am not pushing that argument, it is complex and I am not competent and the audience here is too prejudiced to debate it. But it is an argument whcih can be made. But it is surely political suicide to encourage higher prices, even if it is to the longer term benefit of human kind (again, I am not pushing that argument, just saying it is a valid argument which needs to be debated).
You have a new assignement. 10,000 lines of:
'Inevitable is not the same as beneficial'.
Hand them in by tomorrow.
ps my link above I think answers some of the questions about what is pushing up prices.
So, do Americans think they are specially blessed and deserve low prices while the rest of the world has high prices?
I have been finishing a book by Paxman on the British Empire, he is a BBC journalist and it is reasonably fair. The main thing about empires is that it instills overwhelming feelings of superiority amongst its citizens, often times without much cause. This is/was certainly true of Britain. I would hate to draw any analogies, as I despise that instrument of argument.
