businessweek.com— It would be years before production hits the market?and Big Oil would have to spend heavily. Even then, prices may not drop
Jun 24, 2008View in Crawl 4
So then you support oil companies making record profits while independent drivers have to shutdown because it costs too much to haul the crap you want to buy at the store?
-Diesel - You, me and the rest of the country that doesn't have a lofty amount in savings will not own a car ten years from now if we continue to rely on gasoline. Can I ask what makes anyone think that even if the proposal for this off-shore drilling passed and oil reserves grew, that in ten years the oil companies would lower the price of gas? Crude oil is finite, if you are in the business of distributing this product and somewhere along the line you stumble upon more of it you're not going to speed up the distribution to help the consumer save money.tl:dr - If oil companies found more gas they'd still gouge and say they're tying to boost production.
It gets us to pursue alternatives to our addiction.Otherwise, ten years from now our demand will be higher and we'll still be sending money to countries that are conducting an economic war against us, and the handful of US citizens who make money off big oil will be laughing at the rest of us.
Closed AccountJun 24, 2008
A dubious promise of temporarily lower prices isn't worth the permanent destruction of irreplaceable wilderness.
relic180Jun 24, 2008
I'll definitely second that. Nothing like hitting a consumer in the wallet to wake them the f**k up.
Closed AccountJun 25, 2008
So then you support oil companies making record profits while independent drivers have to shutdown because it costs too much to haul the crap you want to buy at the store?
sanmanJun 25, 2008
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four5Jun 25, 2008
-Diesel - You, me and the rest of the country that doesn't have a lofty amount in savings will not own a car ten years from now if we continue to rely on gasoline. Can I ask what makes anyone think that even if the proposal for this off-shore drilling passed and oil reserves grew, that in ten years the oil companies would lower the price of gas? Crude oil is finite, if you are in the business of distributing this product and somewhere along the line you stumble upon more of it you're not going to speed up the distribution to help the consumer save money.tl:dr - If oil companies found more gas they'd still gouge and say they're tying to boost production.
nodramaJun 25, 2008
It gets us to pursue alternatives to our addiction.Otherwise, ten years from now our demand will be higher and we'll still be sending money to countries that are conducting an economic war against us, and the handful of US citizens who make money off big oil will be laughing at the rest of us.