Reply #27: Agreed ... [View All]

I posted an article yesterday. Basically my thesis is that CARTER defeated the Gas Lines of the 1970s through higher energy efficiencies. The Arabs came to realize that America was weening themselves of Petro-Crack via lack of supply. That's a shitty way to vend a drug!!!!

The low gas prices of the 80s and 90s can be COMPLETELY attributed to the Carter initiatives that signalled that America was poised to push for more energy independence if oil became too expensive. So the Arabs CUT oil prices in order to pre-empt the development of alternative energy technologies. Basically, they took away any economic justification for heavy R&D when gas was .98 cents a gallon!!!

Then you have Bush come into office and start slashing through programs designed to promote alternative energy sources. What happens ... the price of oil goes BACK UP. There is no longer ANY threat with Bush their to slash and hinder energy independence.

You're right ... we SHOULD be at 40mpg CAFE standards right now. Our SUVs should also be reclassified as passenger vehicles instead of TRUCKS!! (exempt from CAFE).

The globalizers have the SAME agenda for companies across the world. Control the resources that people CANNOT due without .... UTILIITIES ... WATER, GAS, ELECTRICY, HEATING OIL!!!! Then, drive up the prices unmercifully once meddlesome "regulation" is eliminated!!!!