The price of gas

Roger Halstead wrote:

I still maintain until the average American learns to conserve, gas is
going to be a problem.

It's going to be a problem whether we learn to conserve or not. We *will* learn to
conserve to some extent, because it's going to get more and more expensive as the
Saudi oil runs out.

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.

In article , Roger Halstead wrote:
On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 21:18:20 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

I'm no expert in the field, but one of my best friends is.

Thank you for taking the time to write a most enlightening post.

One thing though: You're going to ruin Usenet's reputation for hyperbole if
you keep this up!

I still maintain until the average American learns to conserve, gas is
going to be a problem.

The geologist who gave the information above showed exactly the point I
tried to make earlier - we aren't going to run out of oil in absolute
terms, but we are close to running out of _cheap_ oil. All the sources
that were identified in the grandparent post all had one thing in common
- they weren't cheap oil, they were all more expensive oil.

I also agree that we (not just the US, but ourselves) need to reduce
dependence on foreign oil. It's strategically worthwhile to develop
alternative fuel sources. If the fact that our oil is coming largely
from countries that dislike us doesn't get us, then the environmental
consequences may well do. (We'd do well to switch our electricity
generation more to nuclear energy using modern reactor designs, for a
start).

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"Roger Halstead" wrote in message
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On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 21:18:20 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

I still maintain until the average American learns to conserve, gas is
going to be a problem.

That's the function _prices_ serve in a free market.