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[quote user="jeaton"][quote user="Bucyrus"][quote user="UPRR engineer"] <p>I saw they want to raise it a $1.00 a gallon smog tax. I watch alot of C-SPAN waiting to get called to work.</p><p>World Oil Production has peaked, plan on the worst. One plan is to raise the price even more to get people to use less and plan better when they use there cars. Theres not a single thing we do as americans that doesnt tie into oil. [b] GET READY [/B] </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>You are right, raising gas prices to get people to conserve has been a preferred approach by many. They tend to lecture us on how good we have it compared to Europe. However, most of the people who prefer this rationing-by-high-cost approach want the price to be high because of added taxes. They don't want high prices if it is going to oil producer income.</p><p>Personally, I do not believe oil has peaked. There are agenda driven reasons that people declare that oil has peaked. One of those reasons is to promote public sector funding in the name of searching for alternative fuels. The people who don't like oil would like to convince us we are running out of it.</p><p>[/quote]</p><p>I must say that I don't quite understand why you have no problem seing a couple of bucks per gallon of your gas purchases going to places like Dubai where UAE builds such modern conveniences as indoor facilities for snow skiing, high rise buildings for multi-million dollar apartments, or man made islands for single family housing starting in the seven figures and golf courses with green fees that are out of the reach of most of the members of this forum.</p><p>Then on the other hand, you constantly complain about any of your money for gasoline going for a tax that pays for the US highway system that is vital to our national economy and our personal well being. </p><p>May I assume that you have no problem with your money going into the coffers of countries with governments that don't like us very much?</p><p>I don't have a problem with you having decided to go with the experts who argue that oil production hasn't peaked. But one thing has to be abundantly clear and that is oil production is not increasing as fast as worldwide demand for petroleum products. No doubt the higher prices for crude is going to promote some increase in production, but even if environmentalists lose their effort to block exploitation of oil deposits in sensitive areas, it is not likely that production will catch up with demand anytime soon. Until it does, 4 dollars a gallon of gas might become something of a fond memory of the past rather than a grim portend of the future.</p><p>By the way, I should note that higher gas prices for any reason don't put me in any special financial bind. The office for my business is within an easy walk of my house, I have the time to travel by train, or I can drive a fairily short distance to an airport if I am in a rush, and I can also spend enough less on discretionary items to offset increased prices due to higher freight costs.</p><p>Unfortunately, most Americans aren't in my position.</p><p> </p><p>[/quote]</p><p>I have no problem with spending tax money on roads. In fact, I wish it would increase. However, a lot of the gas tax gets spent on things other than roads, while road construction and maintenance falls behind.</p><p>Spending the gas tax on roads is one thing, but ladling on excess gas tax to raise the price in order to discourage use is quite another thing, especially if the excess tax is spent frivolously on things other than roads. It is the recipients of that inflated tax who are the most motivated to falsely tell us we are running out of oil because the concept of resource depletion is their pretext for rationing it by price. This is about the best illustration I can think to be suspicious of proclamations about the peak oil milestone being at hand.</p><p>My objections to the government overtaxing road fuel and driving up the price by over regulating big oil does not mean that I am in favor of being gouged by oil producing countries or enriching countries who are unfriendly to us. I object to both problems. I also object to the slanted way TV media news largely ignores those two sources of the problem, and instead, constantly blames big oil and their profit. </p><p>I agree with your assessment that it is abundantly clear that oil production is not increasing as it pertains to U.S. oil production. In some areas of the world, it is increasing. I believe there is plenty of oil out there to get, even in the U.S., but it is regulated out of reach by the very ones who would like to tax it, ration it, and tell us we don't have much. It is pretty obvious where the problem lies and how to solve it.</p><p>Probably the focal point of lagging U.S. production is the debate of whether to drill in ANWR. The people who want to stabilize the price of fuel tell us that ANWR production would be a substantial help. The people who tell us fuel should be rationed by high taxes tell us that the addition of ANWR production would hardly be measurable, and that it would destroy pristine wilderness. I can see why they say that, and the reason why they say that is the reason that I don't believe them. World oil prices would begin to drop today if the U.S. congress approved drilling in ANWR today, even if the first drop of oil were not recovered for another five years. Just our intentions alone affect the world oil market.</p>
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