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Originally Posted by raymr
Would you rather pay $10 for gas, or lose the lives of a few men? Thought so. The US is there for the oil, and by extension for you and me. Unless you heat your house with wood or coal and drive with WVO, you and your life style are to blame for this. Ugly as it is, that's the truth.
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I would rather pay $10 per gallon. I heat my house with fuel oil just like most of the northeast US. Maybe if prices really went up, we would look for alternatives to oil and possibly even think about conserving a bit. IIRC, keep in mind that we are 5% of the world's population, and consume 25% of the world's energy. Not a whole lot of conservation going on.
Keep in mind that we use most of our energy heating and cooling our buildings, not propelling our cars and trucks. So if we could focus on more efficient buildings, maybe we could make some real gains.
Europe already pays around 5.26 Euros per gallon for gasoline. Maybe that is why they have smaller, more fuel efficient cars.