Some news makes you want to go postal at Pandagon
I lurk at Pandagon, liberal feminist blog extraordinaire, and the numbers in the post drove home to me just how we are NEVER going to see low gas prices again.
Someone recently forwarded one of those “hey, let’s all boycott Exxon and Mobil to get them to drop prices” emails. While I am completely aware that I am ignorant of the process by which prices are determined, I’m really doubting that this would work, and said so to my friend — for one thing, gas stations set pricing as low as they can without taking a loss, because it’s not the station owners that do it. And the small single owner stations are just as high as the big boys. And you know they’ll never go down again; all the murmurings over peak oil and so forth may or may not be valid, I don’t know, I don’t have a giant dipstick to go test it myself — but things aren’t ever going to go back to the days of fifty cents per gallon. They’re not going back to two bucks a gallon. And the reasons have a lot to do with the supply chain and every link in it wanting as much as they can get out of the deal now, because like the professional football player, it’s a short term business. They’re on the way out and it’s only a matter of a few years. Already, lots of people around my town are unable to drive a car. I can predict a push to better and more efficient public transportation. Our city buses are already driven by something other than gasoline.
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