Complaining About Gas Prices?

Complaining About Gas Prices?

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaCjwPvCCXA&feature=related

One thing that I always observe when I talk with family over the holidays is the outrageous complaints about gas prices.  I always find this a bit humorous because we sit on our butts all day and expect gas to get cheaper, as if gas is a renewable and abundant resource.

There is only one direction that petrol oil will go, ladies and gentleman, that’s up.  I cannot pray that it go up fast enough.  Honestly I am like any one of you in the addiction to oil.  I love the traded products (coffee, chocolate, fish, etc.), but I know that they are only going to get more expensive.  Why do I pray that this wonderful resource known as oil gets more expensive at a faster rate?

Because it isn’t renewable and it is not abundant! If we keep going the way we are going we will be out of oil in only a couple of decades.  So since the price is bound to skyrocket why not shoot it higher to prevent a total catastrophic event (I mean that in the sense of global warming, and a economic catastrophe).

Hypothetically lets say we put oil at oh $10 a gallon, which would mean triple the price (for those who are not in the US).  If we do this now as a tax as opposed to watching the market charge more because we have less, we might just save our inevitable economic and ecologic crisis.  How so? Well we would then use the extra money to fund the mass production of renewable energy resources (solar, wind, bio diesel, etc.).  Yes, I did say the mass production.  We already have quite a bit of technology for most renewable energy technology we just don’t use it.  If we do this we will irradiate the world’s addiction to the most massively used drug on the planet, oil.

What oh what will we do if oil is $10 or worse $20 a gallon! It would affect the economy, people wouldn’t be able to afford big houses 100 miles away from their work, or fly all over the world for a very affordable rate (comparatively)! Start carpooling! Buy low emission or zero emission vehicles! Turn your bloody lights off!  Oh so much to do.  This move will not only ready the massive population for the fate that is near.  It will also prevent economic and ecological catastrophe.

Albert Einstein once said, “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.”   Going to war for more oil and keeping low gas prices is merely preparing for war.  If we start taxing oil, and using it to enforce alternative fuel we are preventing war, with the environment!

Just for fun lets give you the hypothetical for what will happen if we don’t do this so called tax that a few presidential candidates (and many other world leaders) intend to enforce.

Our society continues our addiction to oil, consumes like ordinary.  We buy new cars, toys, subsidized food from China.  And by the time 2020 (and that is being very lenient), gas will be completely used up!  Our cars will be stopped in the middle of the roads, gas stations will literally stop pumping gas.  Grocery stores will have no food, because they never bought locally, and total chaos will occur.

Now you might think, come on Harry.  This is unrealistic! That wont happen! You are too extreme!  Am I? it happened in the middle of the 20th century.  Until of course we fought for more oil.  That was just the forewarning, now we can’t fight for more oil, at least not for long.

What can you do now?

Conserve, don’t buy every bloody thing imported to your country for a holiday gift.  Give what each and every human truly needs, but doesn’t get due to our brainwashing of society, Love.  After all that is what the holiday season is about.  Be creative!

Finally when the time comes.  Don’t think a national leader is Koo Koo when he says he wants to raise the tax on oil.  It’s the only bloody tax that makes any sense (since the federal tax goes to what cause?)

Here is a little debate on the topic, which covers both point of views.  Mind you they don't even cover food etc.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzynpLK-Or0&feature=related

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLm2jhR1IbQ

This is an MIT debate if you didn't get it, but the girl representing the anti-gas tax has a very weak argument.  Our country has not done much to lower emissions.   After all our government didn't sign KYOTO (a comment for you babypanda), which shows how much we truly care about the environment.

Funny how this girl talks about how tax is not necessary when the only tax that is truly not necessary is Federal Tax, because we still don't know what Federal Tax pays.  State and sales tax pay for most if not all of the things we "think" our federal tax pays for.

Enjoy!