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- From: woods@claven.ucar.edu (Greg Woods)
- Subject: Re: Emissions Inspections, is new really better than old?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.164700.7502@claven.ucar.edu>
- Organization: Scientific Computing Division/NCAR Boulder, CO
- References: <1993Jan18.202556.18964@ucsu.Colorado.EDU> <1993Jan25.172908.14327@claven.ucar.edu> <1k1ot2INNroq@anthrax.solbourne.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 16:47:00 GMT
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- In article <1k1ot2INNroq@anthrax.solbourne.com> kucharsk@solbourne.com (William Kucharski) writes:
- >The price of gasoline is based on the free flow of oil at market prices.
-
- Your definition of "free flow" is a lot different than mine! When we extract
- it at gunpoint from nations that don't want to sell it to us for whatever
- reason, this isn't "free flow".
-
- >Saddam Hussein decides HE wants to set the world price of oil, then there's a
- >problem.
-
- Did it ever occur to anyone that the "problem" is that we Americans are too
- dependent on our automobiles? If we weren't, Saddam would not be able
- to wield so much influence over us. The "problem" is that we are bent
- on consuming resources that we do not have, so we extract them from others
- by force.
-
- >Prices for any product you could name would go through the ceiling
- >due to increased transportation costs.
-
- Only things that have to be transported to be sold. We'd have to buy more
- stuff that comes from our local area and import less. There might be
- a period of economic upheaval certainly, but I think we'd be better off
- in the long run. And I'm not even getting in to the environmental damage
- caused by this sort of "transportation". I think the end result would be
- a minute drop in the quality of lifestyle, a huge saving of money, and
- an elimination of dependence on people like Saddam Hussein.
-
- --Greg
-