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Apr 22, 2006 | 05:06 PM

#21

Dañiel

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Originally Posted by DRum

While I don't disagree with this statement, I am not upset by high gas prices. They will help drop our huge appetite for oil, help keep the monster SUV's off the road (which are no safer for their occupants, but kill many in other vehicles), and help with air pollution.

Well said.

Apr 22, 2006 | 11:48 PM

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mwqa

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Originally Posted by DRum

I am not upset by high gas prices. They will help drop our huge appetite for oil, help keep the monster SUV's off the road (which are no safer for their occupants, but kill many in other vehicles), and help with air pollution.

I would like to think so, too. However, demand for oil is increasing worldwide, and easily refined oil is becoming scarce. Only the stuff that is hard to refine is going to be left - which means, on top of everything else, there's more pollution resulting from the refining process.

It's already happening in the tar sands of Alberta where they have open pools of waste water that they don't know what to do with.

True - no SUVs, but that doesn't mean that we will live in a cleaner environment.