U.S. pump prices and projections

RambleTamble said:
The U.S. has increased taxes on renewable energy sources and made it harder to build new clean energy devices such as wind turbines. Instead, it's promoting coal energy and other fossil fuels.
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Wind turbines can have a hypnotic effect. You should not stare at them for more than 20 minutes. I've heard of normal people who have turned into zombies because of wind turbines. I know one guy who accidentally watched a turbine for a half hour. He was a zombie for a while, and he's still not back to normal. They should fill those forests of wind turbines with half clockwise and half counter clockwise turbines so the will cancel each other out.
 
Rider77 said:
Don't forget that there has been a concerted effort to suppress US production of the low sulfur oil. The industry built its refineries to deal with the heavier oil being imported. At the same time there has been an argument that fossil fuels in general were pumping sulfur and carbon into the atmosphere. It seems we once again created a solution requiring a problem. Kind of like shooting yourself in the foot to justify an argument against guns. Maybe I have my hat on backwards again, but I'm a bit tired of snow job causing a heat wave.
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Perhaps you don't recall the late 50s and well into the 70s when our cities were so polluted that one could barely see the tops of the skyscrapers. Every night on the news we would get air quality ratings, often in the summer along with warnings to stay indoors as much as possible. This was cleaned up through environmental regulations, mostly requiring equipment on cars that reduced harmful emissions.
The 1970 Clean Air Act, required major cuts in vehicle and industrial emissions. Automakers added technologies like catalytic converters, and leaded gasoline was phased out. These changes did raise the cost of new cars slightly, but they produced extraordinary results: modern vehicles emit a tiny fraction of the pollutants their 1960s counterparts did, and urban air quality is dramatically cleaner as a result.
Are you suggesting that we would be better off trading clean air for cheaper, dirtier oil?
 

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MACKTEXAS said:
It may take a new $250 bill to fill up our cars soon. ;)
Oh, wait - they don't make those (yet). Maybe soon.
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I was genuinely taken aback when I heard about the proposal for a new $250 bill. Not because the president is once again skirting long standing norms about naming things after living individuals, some of which are prohibited outright, while others are simply considered unseemly. What surprised me was the implication behind the denomination itself. If the $100 bill is no longer sufficient for everyday economic reality, and we now require a $250 note, that signals a deeper problem. To me, it’s a clear indication that inflation is eroding our purchasing power far more quickly than I had expected.
 
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