Yeah, tell the factory worker in Indiana who has to drive 20 miles to work every day that "IN THE LONG RUN HIGH OIL PRICES ARE GOOD FOR YOU!"
Or the guy getting minimum wage at mcdonalds who now has to pay more for everything because the fuel cost of transporting goods have skyrocketed.
Not everyone can afford a new Toyota Prius or has access to public transportation.
While there are a lot of things we can do to create more fuel efficient transportation, sky rocketing oil prices in such a short period will not help anyone but the oil producing countries and oil companies.
It's easy for you to sit in your comfy chair on your big computer and think about the great "long term" benefits of this. But you forget how much this hurts poor working people who are deeply affected by the price of gas.
Or are they a necessary sacrifice to your Utopian dream?
What people aren't thinking about is the innumerable things that are affected by the price of oil. More expensive oil means things that require any sort of transportation are more expensive.
How is this good for anyone except oil companies and countries with large deposits of oil?
if the price of oil reached 150 or 200 dollars a barrel its not like we would all magically be in hybrids and everything would become green. Stuff would just become more expensive which hurts the poor to a great extent.
If you want to know why it's cheaper do a little research. Dongguan is a sprawling city of about 6.5 million people.
Spartansburg on the other hand has only 39,000. And that is if we are talking about the city. If the article is refering to the county it is only 250,000 residents.
You could go almost anywhere in the world and this would still be the case.
Thank you gatherdust and Bean, I couldn't have said it better myself.
Sure the United States is going through some rough times with the war in Iraq, and potential economic recession, But I don't see this as a "falling" of the United States. If you look around the world you see other countries facing similar problems. Also, there really is no one country thats stands out to take the "number 1" title.
Or the guy getting minimum wage at mcdonalds who now has to pay more for everything because the fuel cost of transporting goods have skyrocketed.
Not everyone can afford a new Toyota Prius or has access to public transportation.
While there are a lot of things we can do to create more fuel efficient transportation, sky rocketing oil prices in such a short period will not help anyone but the oil producing countries and oil companies.
It's easy for you to sit in your comfy chair on your big computer and think about the great "long term" benefits of this. But you forget how much this hurts poor working people who are deeply affected by the price of gas.
Or are they a necessary sacrifice to your Utopian dream?
How is this good for anyone except oil companies and countries with large deposits of oil?
if the price of oil reached 150 or 200 dollars a barrel its not like we would all magically be in hybrids and everything would become green. Stuff would just become more expensive which hurts the poor to a great extent.
Spartansburg on the other hand has only 39,000. And that is if we are talking about the city. If the article is refering to the county it is only 250,000 residents.
You could go almost anywhere in the world and this would still be the case.
Sure the United States is going through some rough times with the war in Iraq, and potential economic recession, But I don't see this as a "falling" of the United States. If you look around the world you see other countries facing similar problems. Also, there really is no one country thats stands out to take the "number 1" title.