Comments on: Question for the Hopenchangers

By: Ride Fast

Ride Fast — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:49:27 +0000

[...] Oil, hydrogen and wishful thinking [...]

Physics be damned, everyone go fuel cellian!

By: rocinante

rocinante — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:24:23 +0000

Wow. I started to leave a comment, along the lines of “no, we can’t ‘drill our way out’ of a finite supply of oil, but we can sure-as-hell ease the pain while the free market makes the transition to other sources of energy” but then I noticed “Comments (0)” for a post twenty-four hours old.

So I scrolled down.

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I had to go back to May to find any comments at all. Hell, that’s not crickets you hear – it’s tumbleweeds and windchimes. (Reminds me of a certain green-mineral/yellow-metal troll’s site. Heh.)

By: theirritablearchitect

theirritablearchitect — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:36:05 +0000

“Then again, maybe the law of supply and demand is just another one of those failed policies of the past that the new kind of politician audaciously hopes to change.”

If that isn’t the quote of the day, I’d like to read the winner.

By: nk

nk — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:29:05 +0000

We also can’t “build” our way out with nuclear, hydro-electric and geothermal power plants. Let’s face it folks. Nature intended us to chase down our food on Africa’s plains with the thighbone of an antelope and anything else is just plain arrogant ignorance.

By: DirtCrashr

DirtCrashr — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:13:17 +0000

The problem with Marxists is they *think* they understand Economics because their own wildly distorted Theory of the World and religious belief-system contains the words “economics” and “capital” in nearby sentences, but they only get-it insofar as a bank robber “gets” Finance…

By: Xrlq

Xrlq — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 14:07:20 +0000

I know, but then again, how much coursework does one need to understand that anything that increases supply but not demand (or vice-versa) will cause prices to fall (or rise) accordingly? Marbles may be sharp enough to figure that out, but apparently liberals aren’t.

Then again, maybe the law of supply and demand is just another one of those failed policies of the past that the new kind of politician audaciously hopes to change.

By: Robb Allen

Robb Allen — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:31:04 +0000

Not much of an answer. A little course in economics would help tremendously (especially the parts about increasing supply, while decreasing profit per unit, actually increases sales and increasing profits).

By: SayUncle » Your communism is showing

SayUncle » Your communism is showing — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:01:15 +0000

[...] Update: I think I found your answer. [...]

By: The Richmond Democrat

The Richmond Democrat — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:01:26 +0000

Here’s my answer to your question:

http://richmonddemocrat.blogspot.com/2008/06/why-we-cant-drill-our-way-out-of-higher.html