Oil jumps above $100 on refinery outage

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Originally Posted by TheMercenary

It may give those idiots in Congress the stimulus to go after the issues and get something done.

Solution does not resided in Congress. Problems such as corporate welfare have only made the problem worse. Technology developed in GM in the 1970s, found standard in foreign models in the 1990s; and GM still could not install it in the 2000s? Engines in SUVs using 1960 technology.

Solutions are found only in one fundamental principle - do more work with less energy. Nothing in Congress can fix the problem. Although some Federal regulations did liberate car guys, how many more innovations must be stifled for 10 and 20 years by bean counters? Those are lessons from history.

Those who learn from history would than complain about ethanol - corporate welfare that solves nothing.

Let's see. The US government gave these automakers $100million to develop a hybrid. 12 years later - still no hybrid? Patriotic Americans (with Japanese citizenship) had to do it? I don't see the problem identified and blamed.

An F-150 pickup that could weight less than a Camry has lower gas mileage? Yes. They are not selling to people who meet the definition of patriotic Americans. American patriot wants, works for, and contributes to innovation. We need more work from less energy. We don't need cars that burn 10 gallons of gas while using less than 2 gallons in productive work. Vehicles are that inefficient. What will Congressman do? Pass more laws to protect GM - an anti-American auto company?

From history, gasoline had to rise to $5 per gallon before automakers conceded - started using pre-WWII technologies such as fuel injection - in cars. Costs had to increases that high before bean counters would finally concede that a decades obsolete technology - a carburetor - could finally be replaced.