Re: Oil Economics, a (long) thought experiment

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@yahoo.com)
Date: Sun Feb 02 2003 - 15:16:18 MST


--- Kai Becker <kmb@kai-m-becker.de> wrote:
> Am Samstag, 1. Februar 2003 20:37 schrieb Rafal Smigrodzki:
> > ### If gas costs .85 $/gallon, I can drive to visit my wife in
> > Pittsburgh and still have money left to invest in a high-tech
> company.
> > If you increase the cost of gas to 5 $/gallon, as in Europe, I
> won't be able to drive 700 miles a week,
>
> Pardon, but I assume that your real interest is not to buy oil/gas,
> but to travel these 700 miles/week in a comfortable, self-determined
> way, isn't it? So, the real problem is not the price of oil/gas, but
> the missing alternatives to todays cars for transportation, which
> use a)a large amount of b) oil/gas, which is c) neither unlimited
> nor d) produced in an ideal free market.
>
> I'd set on (a) first, and on developing (b) and (c), which would
> probably
> solve (d) as a result (iff the b/c-solution doesn't produce another
> single factor dependency).

Taxing the hell out of oil and spending 99% of those taxes on welfare
state agendas does nothing to develop alternatives, produce unlimited
supplies, or in any way create a more ideal market. Quite the contrary.

=====
Mike Lorrey
"Live Free or Die, Death is not the Worst of Evils."
                                                     - Gen. John Stark
"Pacifists are Objectively Pro-Fascist." - George Orwell
"Treason doth never Prosper. What is the Reason?
For if it Prosper, none Dare call it Treason..." - Ovid

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