Energy Secretary wants gas prices at European levels, gives himself an A

Let's hope that it never comes to that.

We'll all have to go back to the old days and buy horses. Or stay at home, get welfare and maybe, just maybe...we'll all be more easy to control? But tell me please, who will pay for 300,000,000 million people out of work and not paying ANY taxes. Of course, that is a worst case scenario, you know.

So you think that we should WANT higher gas prices so we will use less energy because if we use more energy we will have higher gas prices? Do you realize how ridiculous that sounds? I use the energy saver bulbs when possible, but me choosing to use them is far different than the government FORCING me to use them. The government is already forcing us to have ethanol in our gasoline which is bad for some cars an a LOT of boats. Of course I know that you oppose letting people have choices. You are big on forcing your will onto others and that is the left wing way right now.

The 'energy saving' light bulbs are an enviromental hazard. They contain mercury and if broken, legally require a hazmat team to clean up. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7431198 But the enviromentalists don't admit to that.

Taskr, the price of gas is going up if you want to or not. Remember under Clinton gas topped out at $2.00 a gallon, ten years latter it topped out at $4. Do you really think that the price is going to go back down, and stay down? I hope you have a prescription for what you are smoking. The only way to control your OWN energy price is to limit your PERSONAL consumption. I don't want high gas prices, but if you can show me any study that shows them going down, and provide ANY logic I will read it. We can drill in this country for centuries and still the price of gas will STILL go up. Do you understand that countries like China and India have BILLIONS, YES BILLIONS WITH A B, of people that have NEVER driven a car in their lives, and they are starting to move to cities and want to drive cars. The need for oil in China alone has driven the cost of oil and gas up. I hate to tell you people this, but we aren't making more oil, and you can't just grow more. Taskr, when you drive down an expressway have you ever noticed the signs that says motorized vehicles only? Isn't that an example of the government forcing us to drive cars? Have you ever started a discussion on here about how the government is putting the horse and buggy industry out of business because they can't go on expressways? See, someones ignorance is causing my energy prices to go up. You can call it choice all you want, but it is costing ME money!!! It is call EVOLUTION baby!!!! Deal with it!!!!

How much you want to bet, the next industry to be nationalize like the auto industry is the oil industry? We're going down folks. And it was planned. IT IS NOT capialism that is to blame. It is the government with their hands in almost every industry, whether it's over regulation or over taxing them. The government provided the loopholes for the corporations...and now they're turning on them like a wild animal who eats it's young. Read the history guys.

I did the coversion because most Americans can convert 1.7 pounds per litre to dollars and gallons in their heads. I've actually seen people claim that gas prices were lower in Europe because they didn't realize the price was per litre instead of per gallon. I don't expect Europeans to feel sorry for us. I actually feel sorry for you guys with your gas prices. 4-7 might seem like a long way, but 1.75 to 4.10 seemed like a long way in 2008. It's also an issue when we have a president and energy secretary that WANT higher gas prices. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt that you are hoping for your gas prices to go up. I don't know why the US has no desire to change our system of units. You'd think they'd at least attempt a gradual change, but they just won't touch it despite the fact that it's creeping in due to all the international trade. You're right, I believe Venezuela has the cheapest gas followed by Saudi Arabia.

Contact the government about your roads. Gas taxes here are anywhere from $0.50 to $1.00 a gallon and those tax dollars are supposed to be spent on the roads. I don't know what bugs you have where you are, but in Florida the worst were the lovebugs. There is literally a lovebug season each year where you know your car will be covered with those things.

I don't really mind the high gas prices that much. What annoys me is that they don't manage to use the money (as most of it is tax) to fix the roads so that they are safer (saves money, less people crashes) and use it for research on more efficient and less polluting cars. I've got no idea really what they use it for, most road repair etc. seem to be financed with extra road tax. Also, the bus going from me to where I work annoy me. It goes through the town centre, takes more than twice the time it takes to drive and it'll probably make me very terribly car-sick. *grumble*

you just may have a point there evanhunter.

If the guy would have said a B I wouldn't be getting on him. I would say "He believes he did well with what he had." Giving himself an A means that he thinks he has done a perfect job. Having gas cost over $4/gallon, more than twice what it was when Obama takes office, means that this is EXACTLY what he wants.