What a fucking shame that Alaska needs to be pilfered just to quell(temporarily) the gas prices for the U.S. Personally, I don't care if gas hits $10/gal because maybe that's what it's gonna take for people to realize the importance of alternate forms of energy.
Kenneth hit it on the head. Alternate fuels are/have been around for years. Of course you can easily understand why they haven't been utilized, and break it down to the lowest common denominator...greed/stupidity.
Dude, this is the picture thread but do you realize the ignorance of that statement ? Do you drive to work ? Are you one of those smacking down 80,000 + a year or something ? Why do the "people" need to realize ? Do you think we all have said "oh we must burn gas" ? "The people" dont need to learn a fucking thing, we need to be able to afford to get to work and heat our homes. Dont you know the mass of our population bring home between 350-500 a week and drive many miles to get to work. We did not set this thing up, its the way it has been and the past 15 years any industry that can bill "the people" has been slamin us hard every year for more, more, more money, in fact far exceeding our annual raises... and now this ? Then the Hillary Clintons of the world purpose "no problem" everyone just needs to get a car that gets 40mpg... OK sounds fine, if you have brains enough to realize that that 40 mpg car is only going to be as affordable as what we were paying weekly last year with a 25mpg car.... say nothing about your goddamn $10 a gallon. But then some are making car payments... so you look into a trade and find you are 6/8/10 thousand dollars upside down on your 25 mpg car because they are not worth anything anymore... oh, no big deal just take the $6000+ loss. Then what about the people that dont even make enough to get a new car, the ones that buy the 1/2/3/4 thousand dollar cars... well most of them only get 20-25 mpg.
Then what the fuck about heating a house ? The retired folks around here now cannot afford it, they are dwindling their savings if they had one. The poor working class can not afford it either, everyone is getting further and further behind on their bills.
Then what about the school systems ? They heat and use gobs of diesel to get the kids to school and back. What... you think they are not going to pass that along to the people that are already financially backed into the corner ? Then what about the industries and business that operate on fuel ? Like the power company, phone companies, shipping, stores, construction... you name it... do you think they are not going to pass that along to the same already FUCKED people ?
We were not in charge, we did not create this system, we have only been along for the ride in the first place, doing what needed to be done to get by.
Whats going on here is a handful of people figured out a way to get every last available cent plus peoples savings accounts away from them. THe bulk of Americans revenue is now going to OPEC and the handful of "traders" who find themselves quite amusing. Its a good damn war on America and they will win it too, we are so fucked. That is what is wrong with the economy and we are soon going to be hitting times as bad as the great depression. These fucks running the stock exchanges, banks and governments know it and HAVE known it too.
Fucking most ignorant damn statement out there today... oh well you cant see it from your house... APPARENTLY
As proof, here's last year's Chinook growth (I hear they now use hops in clinical drug mixes).
I know a LOT of people who can't afford to change their transportation, and I don't see the government subsidizing fully, (or even a majority of) the price of a new fangled Algeamobile. None of the alternatives are a quick fix. I DO agree that SOMETHING has to be done, but I think it's giong to have to be rather sudden, & dramatic.
