Comments on: Falling Gas Prices = The Big Carrot? http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2006/09/12/falling-gas-prices-the-big-carrot/ Tips on fuel efficiency, gas mileage, and help improving your fuel economy to help fight high gas costs. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:56:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Fuelishness! » Blog Archive » Won’t Return to Gas-Guzzling Habits http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2006/09/12/falling-gas-prices-the-big-carrot/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Fuelishness! » Blog Archive » Won’t Return to Gas-Guzzling Habits Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:52:55 +0000 http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2006/09/12/falling-gas-prices-the-big-carrot/#comment-6 [...] A recent article from America’s cheese-capitol indicates that the sustained high gas prices of this spring and summer have changed the gas-guzzling habits of survey respondents, and that the recent drop in gasoline prices will not change them back. Let’s hope there are similar mid-west sensibilities from the right coast to the left coast. From Wisconsin State Journal Survey: Driving won’t climb as gas prices fall MARV BALOUSEK [...] [...] A recent article from America’s cheese-capitol indicates that the sustained high gas prices of this spring and summer have changed the gas-guzzling habits of survey respondents, and that the recent drop in gasoline prices will not change them back. Let’s hope there are similar mid-west sensibilities from the right coast to the left coast. From Wisconsin State Journal Survey: Driving won’t climb as gas prices fall MARV BALOUSEK [...]

]]> By: Doc Miles http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2006/09/12/falling-gas-prices-the-big-carrot/comment-page-1/#comment-4 Doc Miles Wed, 13 Sep 2006 13:34:21 +0000 http://blog.fuelclinic.com/2006/09/12/falling-gas-prices-the-big-carrot/#comment-4 More news from OPEC meeting suggesting that they have noticed a change in behavior, this time called "economic nationalism" <blockquote>From The Washington Post Wednesday September 9th, 2006 "When prices are high, passions can run high," Tillerson said. "Economic nationalism may gain in popularity" at the expense of developing global markets and the world economy, he said. <a target="_blank" href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/13/AR2006091300425.html">Read it in context...</a></blockquote> I'd like to offer that the phrase "at the expense of developing global markets and the world economy" is a euphemism for "at the expense of our record profit margins of the last three years". By the way, the focus of the article where I culled this quote is Aramco's (Saudi Arabia's state owned oil company) claim that only 18% of the world oil reserve has been consumed so far, suggesting that we can continue to consume at current levels for 140 more years - which really isn't great news, considering Exxon Mobile believes that demand for oil products will increase by 50% in the next 10 years. (More on this later...) More news from OPEC meeting suggesting that they have noticed a change in behavior, this time called “economic nationalism”

From The Washington Post
Wednesday September 9th, 2006

“When prices are high, passions can run high,” Tillerson said. “Economic nationalism may gain in popularity” at the expense of developing global markets and the world economy, he said.

Read it in context…

I’d like to offer that the phrase “at the expense of developing global markets and the world economy” is a euphemism for “at the expense of our record profit margins of the last three years”.

By the way, the focus of the article where I culled this quote is Aramco’s (Saudi Arabia’s state owned oil company) claim that only 18% of the world oil reserve has been consumed so far, suggesting that we can continue to consume at current levels for 140 more years – which really isn’t great news, considering Exxon Mobile believes that demand for oil products will increase by 50% in the next 10 years. (More on this later…)

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