OT: Gas Prices

[Phoenix-D]

Rollo said:
Just for reference, gas currently costs about $6.00 per gallon where I live.

What is your complaint about US gas prices exactly?

And how much of that is taxes?

Also, we have states bigger than your entire *country*. Things are a liiiitle bit more spread out here, which leads to longer drives.

I'm moving cross country later this year, and the resulting drive is 1000 miles. You driving that far would probably take you all the way to Portugal, going through several other countries..

[Azselendor]

Pheonix, distance is not a factor in oil prices. If I remember right, Europe is getting much of thier oil out of former soviet bloc countries and I wouldn't be surprised there is some bad blood there.

Wasn't there a thing in the news a few months ago with Russia and Ukraine squabbling over oil access and that was threatening to raise oil prices in europe as a whole?

[Phoenix-D]

No, it isn't. It is a factor in how much gas prices hurt, though.

[Renegade 13]

There is evidence pointing to ocean levels that were 6 meters higher than today's levels. This evidence includes oceanic wear on rocks far above today's high-tide levels on cliffs in Alaska, and old coral reefs that are high and dry above current sea levels.

This shows ocean levels have been much higher in the past and thus the average worldwide temperature must have been much higher. Life adapted, or died out. That's life for you. Attempting to stop climate change is a futile battle, it will happen whether or not you want it to. The rate can be altered, but not forever.

Like I mentioned before, when the Earth heats too much we plunge into another ice age. The Earth is a self-stabilizing system, it will adapt. Perhaps scientists have not surmised the mechanism yet, but it has historically happened, and there's no real reason to believe it will not happen again.

I'm not saying we need another ice age! Though actually, I would like it. I love winter! Maybe you southern people would learn what it's like living in the cold...Floridians would learn 20C isn't cold enough to turn the furnace on!!

[Suicide Junkie]

Sure, there are feedback mechanisms.
But its not a good idea to turn the furnace on when its already hot out.

[Atrocities]

not all of global warming is because of the US and our gas guzzeling wasteful way of erogant living. What about volcano eruptions, forest fires, natural warming trends, tbe changes in the megnetic poles, etc. Don't blame it all on the US.

[Suicide Junkie]

Its not about blame, its about fixing things.

[Atrocities]

I am all for doing my part. I am a big conservationist myself and have always gone out of my way to use less.