"Joshua Goldberg" wrote in message
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At the last OPEC meeting the price per barrel was set at $55.00 per barrel
for 2005/2006,
this was set as the bare minimum, I think their calendar year kicks in
around June 2005 and yes I agree $100.00 should be the base price.
Expect a major price hike after Washington threatens to go ballistic on
Iran
and more car bombs light up the sky in Saudi Arabia...the mid-east is
about
to get very interesting,

Actually it appears to be calming down but we'll wait and see, if so many of
you think the price of gas is too low then why not pay more? I'm sure the
stations will accept the additional funds, and if so many of you believe
taxes are too low then why not write a bigger check to the government? My
bet is nobody does or will because deep down they really don't believe some
of the things they say

North American reaction of course will be to build
and buy bigger and more powerful automobile engines for the drive to Wal
Mart 200 miles away to take advantage of all those deep discount savings
on
stuff no longer made in America.

Most Wal Marts are within 10 to 20 miles, I don't know where you get 200, if
someone drives that far they are idiots

Interesting story last week, seems California and Oregon is looking at
taxing cars by miles driven, the reasoning however isn't what one thinks
since it seems so many people are buying hybrid cars then the state loses
money from gas taxes. Damned if you do and damned if you don't

Might be a bit premature to look into becoming hippie survivalists, but
then
again as the air we breath ends up on par with Mexico City and the only
really good jobs left in America include you asking if your customer wants
Fries with their burger...might not hurt to read up on planting a veggie
garden.

Jeez now your starting to sound like Sherman,Last jobs statistics I saw
indicated higher average wages not lower. I guess thats happens to "the
other guy"

Oh and as America becomes more interesting, expect the cost of tires to
rise
a few pennies and everything else we import goes up as fuel costs go
up
to get stuff to America.

The cost of tires will rise quite a bit more than a few pennies with $100
per barrel oil prices, I'd wager IF that were to happen the very same people
here crying about the low price of oil now will cry even more when
EVERYTHING they buy is doubled in price, you people who want these things
know not what you say

Nice thing about being old is you have learned to not get excited and take
all this global insanity in stride...if I was 30 years younger, I'd be
pretty ****ed & worried with the way the nation and the environment is
going
downhill.

I don't know how old you are but I'm old enough to have heard a lot of the
doomsday scenarios you guys talk 20-30 years ago, call me someone with my
head in the sand but I've heard all of this before and seen none of it. What
people fail to understand time and time again is regardless what happens
people adapt to changes, there will be no mass devastation or panic due wars
because of oil running out since IF that were to happen we'd have adapted to
something else ages ago, the human race always does