mindwalker_i (606 posts) Sun Dec-26-10 09:35 PM
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12. GOOD!!
Does it suck? Yup. Is it going to hurt people? Yup! And I'm sorry for that to a certain extent. But there are electric or hybrid cars coming out next year and $5 gas will not only give them a boost, but prompt auto makers to make more of them. Things don't change unless there's a significant amount of pain, but the long-term problems with gas and oil don't cause pain now, so this is what's needed.
Maybe a little more speculator-caused pain will help us rethink the whole wall street idea too.
Mindlesswalker_i misses a lot of points. Most glaring one is:
Products are not delivered to stores by hybrid or electric trucks. Those use diesel, and if diesel cost more, GUESS WHAT?
Everything on that truck costs more, because that's how the evil trucking companies PAY for the diesel fuel to run their trucks.
It doesn't matter if you shop at Target, or Walmart, or Kosco, or the Quicky Jiffy Lube on the corner. Everything will cost more, because the energy to get the stuff to the store will cost more.
THEN, the store will have to charge more, because not only did the freight cost more, because the fuel cost more, but now the electricity to run the store's lights, registers, coolers, heaters, etc., will also cost more.
BUT, the factories that manufacture the products will have to charge more to begin with, because the energy to run the factory will cost more, adding an additional cost to the end product as it leaves the plant.
SO, if you increase energy costs, you increase the cost of making, moving, storing, and selling a product.
That doesn't even account for the added expense TO YOU to drive your whateverthe****itis vehicle whereeverthehellitisyougo to whateverthehellitis store you like to frequent.
Just like the typical DUmbass, he can't see the forest for the trees, but he doesn't care, he likes the trees.
