$7-A-Gallon Gas Needed to Meet Government’s CO2 Cuts

From
blog.heritage.org...’s-co2-cuts/

To meet the Obama administration’s targets for cutting greenhouse gas emissions, some researchers say, Americans may have to experience a sobering reality: gas at $7 a gallon. To reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the transportation sector 14 percent from 2005 levels by 2020, the cost of driving must simply increase, according to a forthcoming report by researchers at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. The 14 percent target was set in the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget for fiscal 2010.”

Here's another nail in the coffin for our economy and way of life.

When gas prices go up,so does the cost of everything else.

I don't really have much to say about this that can't be inferred.

When a barrel of oil was at $150 the price of gasoline went up of course and everything else did as well. The problem is when the price of a barrel of oil went back down to below $50 and gasoline dropped as well. The food company's did not adjust the prices of the food. They got together and decided not to drop the price of food but to keep them the same. This all smells of a planned event.

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Yes,they are always looking for new ways to siphon the money from the working people and eventually lead us all into bigger cities where they can control us even better,ala "Agenda 21".

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Make gas so expensive only middle class and rich can afford to drive.. yes.. this will surely save the world.. More like cut poor from driving and you reduce road clogging, alleviating aging infrastructure so the government doesn't have to keep building highways and bridges.

For a man from a well respected institution he sure comes up with some bogus notions of how to deal with the environmental impacts of emissions. Whether or not they are substantiated.


On a side note if there isn't any connection to emission problems and climate change; changes should be made simply for health reasons. CO2 isn't the most pleasant thing to breathe in considering some larger megalopolis'.

its been found in the uk that people dont drive any less, they simply pay the price and drive the same if not more, thing is how on earth is that extra money the government are making going to change the CO2 emissions? Its not, so what happens to the money? in the back pocket of corrupt criminal government thats where. I for one am getting sick and tired of our governments not listening to the other side of he science, thousands of scientist condemning climate science and yet the continue to charge us and increase taxes, what's going on?

Maybe there should be a greater investment in transportation infrastructure, while also looking at decreasing emission targets through alternative means other than the transportation sector.

CO2 isn't the most pleasant thing to breathe in considering some larger megalopolis'.

CO2 is harmless. iirc, it's Nitrogen Oxide, Sulfur Dioxide & particulates that are bad. Newer cars decrease these hugely iirc. To add, decreasing CO2 emissions should also decrease dependence on foreign fossil fuels.

[edit on 4/3/2010 by C0bzz]