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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gas should get more expensive.  Good.  Let the people buying these ridiculous oversized SUVs and trucks that are a danger to every other road user internalize some of the consequences of their own decisions for a while.[/quote]

Again, you are not just owning the rednecks here. Price of oil gets incorporated into anything that gets shipped (which is just about everything). Wait until you try to buy airplane tickets for that European vacation this summer.

Higher oil prices will hurt everybody.

An oil tanker left Russian port yesterday destined for the eastern seaboard of the USA. That’s about $60 million worth of oil Americans will pay Russia for. Last year Russia was the second largest importer of oil to the USA.  We’re huffing and puffing about sanctions and Nordstream 2 but there isn’t a single politician right now even whispering about actually hitting Russia where it hurts economically because it would cause a ton of pain here in the USA. [/quote]

...unless higher oil prices force us to change our energy consumption system in a way that benefits us all in the long run...[/quote]

You’re talking about a decades long transition that we aren’t close to being ready to complete or even seriously start. As the price of oil goes up EVERYTHING else will increase in price, including the cost of the energy transition you’re talking about. Where do you think the diesel energy you need to extract and transport minerals for the energy transition come from?  Yes, we’ll have to do in the long term.  But screw this up in the short run and you’ll see a wave of populism across the whole planet that will make you wish for the good old days of Trump. [/quote]

Sure, and if prices stay the same or low then the transition will never get underway. We've seen oil shocks and crises for at least half a century and we've barely made any effort to do something about it. It's not even the politicians' fault, because it's people like you who've lost their minds at the cost of upgrading from an oil-based system. So now here we are, with Russia owning 60% of the gas to Europe and we wonder why we don't have leverage. Look in the mirror and get tough. [/quote]

Ok city rat.  The technology isn’t there yet.  There aren’t hybrid or electric trucks that can perform the way we need them to. All the new trucks coming on the market for the weekend warriors only have a range of 100 miles when they are actually loaded up.  Sorry— but facts matter and in a lot of this country, people drive 100 all the time and they can’t wait a day for their truck to refuel. Nope. Tech isn’t there yet for our consumer truck market or vans or for our shipping trucks.  You need to get out of your condo, stop reading the New Yorker and interact with the real world.  Or, we can all starve while our food rots in fields and factories because the electro trucks ran out of power along the highway.  It all makes sense that Biden won.  Our country is filled with absolute imbecile like you. [/quote]

Republicans are bullies. See how they never can discuss anything without calling names?

If you can’t afford to live on rural land 100 miles from the nearest grocery that is really not any problem that the US government should solve. [b]Move closer to a city if you can’t afford fuel.[/b] We have electric cars right now and the only reason that there are not more is because auto companies are slow walking the technology so that they can wring every last penny from ICE engines first. Blame them and people who voted against higher mandated fuel efficiency…Republicans.[/quote]

You are clueless.  
Not every one can or even wants to live closer to cities.  And, they shouldn't have to in order to satisfy your crazy Utopia. In fact, if everyone did live closer to cities you could not survive because that would mean we would be sacrificing our farming needs. 
You have no clue how rural people live.  They have trucks because they are essential to their work.  [/quote]

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