As gas prices have started to quietly descend over the last couple of weeks, I wondered what must be the chatter be going about in “Greenie” blogs and websites
? What are their assessments and their strategy regarding lowered gas prices? Environmentalists have always wanted higher gas prices--just like in
But what happens when gas prices go up so fast that Americans struggle to make ends meet? And then the average American starts to figure out that they can not afford to have expensive energy for the sake of environmentalist goals. Leaving billions of gallons of crude oil sitting idle off our shores has all of a sudden started to seem unreasonable.
The Democrats’ reply to domestic drilling was the same as was heard many years before—“It will take decades to get oil from off shore drilling,” “It won’t matter much to current prices,” and there is the usual, “speculators are the cause of higher oil prices.” None of these straw man arguments have dissuaded the American public however.
This is a curious development. If the prices are low, we go back to consuming more gasoline. This means less incentive for clean alternatives and more pollution but perhaps less public outcry for more domestic drilling. Higher gas prices mean…well, you know.
If gas prices continue to drop, look for a call to a higher gas tax in the name of developing alternative energy or to dissuade people from driving.
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Despite their rhetoric and sophistry, the environ-fascists I think are still getting question by the majority of people. Those people that think "climate change" is a catastrophe waiting to happen come off as a bit chicken little. How unfortunate so many people believe them.
nice post... i linked this on my blog.
VH-
And of course, in wanting higher gas prices the eviros want to make Americans continue to have to fund BOTH side of the war on terror.
How about we don't raise gas taxes, drill now (even if it takes 10 years, we will have lower prices, and even if we don't use oil then, we can sell), and lower the prices.
The less money I spend on gas means more money I have to give to research better fuels!
Environmental groups and Democrats continuously harp that Oil companies and speculators have jacked up the price of oil but they overlook their tactics to do the same exact thing.
Thanks for the comments and Witless Knower thanks for the link.
Great post VH. And amen to all that you've said and of your readers' before me. I hope that the gas prices are not going to get any higher than they are now. My family and I do feel the pinch of the high gas prices. I have to admit that our vehicles are all gas guzzlers, but all of them are over 7 years old and are all paid for. So it's not easy to just go buy some hybrids and start new car payments since we're not that independently wealthy.
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"If the prices are low, we go back to consuming more gasoline. This means less incentive for clean alternatives and more pollution but perhaps less public outcry for more domestic drilling. Higher gas prices mean…well, you know."
And if freedom were more plentiful we could go back to paying more attention to useful pursuits, and spend less time -- the most valuable currency we have -- defending ourselves against control-hungry people.
At bottom, that is what it is all about -- freedom, not just the price of gas.
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