It was to be expected (By anyone not sticking their head on the sand which face it is alot of people) that one the recession was at or near over prices would rise near to levels they were before. and lets face it a shitload of unrest in the region isn't helping matters.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
Well... and I'm probably about to expose my severe lack of knowledge when it comes to Australian governance... since Canberra is the seat of federal government, maybe it doesn't have an actual state government as such or be recognised as a state capital (so to speak)...
Am I getting closer?
Why is it that when Miley Cyrus gets naked and licks a hammer it's 'art' and 'edgy' but when I do it I'm 'drunk' and 'banned from the hardware store'?
I didn't forget that. In fact I don't really see how spending more for imported oil and making the trade deficit worse is "on the bright side."
Unfortunately, most of our oil consumption is not discretionary and even if we try to conserve, the total spent on imported oil increases with these crude oil price increases.
Although you do raise a good point: The Democrats like to use the expression "energy independence," but they never do anything to achieve it. They waste their time and effort on initiatives that are not (and will never be) economically viable or scientifically sensible.
Indeed, the U.S. - had the Dems not fought logical development all the way - could have acheived complete energy independence years ago. All we have to do is drill for oil where it exists within our borders, invest in coal gasification and conversion of coal to motor fuel, and exploit our natural gas resources.
You mean shoved off to a later date, with no plans being made for then. Not to mention an increase in pollution from mining and processing all that coal.
Took the bike out today. Don't know if it's bad gas (I did not stabilize it over the winter) or what, but I get a "miss" every once in a while, like it's running on one cylinder.
Then it clears up and is fine. The first time out it happened about 3 times, and only once the second ride. Tomorrow I'll clean the spark plugs and see if one of the is darker than the other.
50+mpg is better than 20mpg.
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I don't know abou Aussie, but much of Europes high gas prices is due to taxes.
A dollar plumbing three-year lows is hitting Americans squarely in the gas tank, and one economist thinks it could drive prices as high as $6 a gallon or more by summertime under the right conditions.
With the greenback coming under increased pressure from Federal Reserve policies and investor appetite for more risk, there seems little direction but up for commodity prices, in particular energy and metals.
Weakness in the US currency feeds upward pressure on commodities, which are priced in dollars and thus come at a discount on the foreign markets.
One result has been a surge higher in gasoline prices to nearly $4 a gallon before the summer driving season even starts, a trend that economists say will be aggravated as demand increases and the summer storm season threatens to disrupt oil supplies.
“If you trust in yourself, and believe in your dreams, and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.”
