[Grovenet] gas prices,what are we willing to pay? money or inconvenience

[Martha Khoury]

This is a great opportunity to add additional gas taxes to help cover
the actual cost of infrastructure for our car-craze. Government may as
well get in on the action instead of all the profits from price
increases going to the oil companies who are making profits both on the
per barrel prices as well as the refining. 
--Martha K.

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Eric Canon
Sent: Monday, May 01, 2006 9:07 AM
To: Forest Grove local interests list
Subject: Re: [Grovenet] gas prices,what are we willing to pay? money or
inconvenience


Record profits and government handouts, too. 

But the real answer for our nation and for the
world is NOT lower prices for gasoline and
energy. The prices need to be higher. 

So many of us feel it's our right to drive heavy
gas guzzling cars and trucks. We use energy
without a thought in our homes and businesses. We
pay for the gasoline, and then the money goes to
countries who send it on to Osama in hopes of
overcoming the tyranny our addiction creates in
their society. And we create green house gasses
making the power we feel entitled to.

If energy prices were higher, we would use less.
Alternative energy sources would be more
attractive. There would be less CO2, less global
warming, more energy left over for the rest of
the world (they need some, too!). We would have a
better perspective on our own addiction, on our
utter wastefulness and our denial of the reality
of what we consider necessary to our very being
and existence.

We are so very out of touch with reality in this
country. Once we begin to see our role in the
tragic misuse of resources that we require for
our lifestyle, we will direct our incredible
resourcefulness towards sustainable, moral, and
responsible responses to the reality of life on
our planet.

The problem is not the oil companies, or the
government. The problem is us. Nothing will
change until we change.

--- Vickie Madeoneup <whatsupy2k at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> That was an interesting, yet disturbing article
> for a few reasons.
>   
>   But one thing that struck me was this quote
>   
>   "U.S. oil companies are reporting record
> profits even as motorists  struggle to deal
> with the rising prices. Chevron Corp.,
> ConocoPhillips  Ltd. and ExxonMobil Corp.
> combined to earn more than $15.5 billion in
> the first three months of the year."
> 
> Alan _et al <OleHossTreeFarm at webtv.net> wrote:
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12531620/
>   
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