American Broadside

Cheap Gas: Introduction to an Interrupted Rant

A couple of days ago I allowed myself to get sucked into a debate about Cheap Gas. Not the kind that Beano takes care of but inexpensive oil-based energy sources.

Normally, this wouldn't bean issue. However, I engaged on a technical list and after a few days, I was reminded that the list was not the place for political debate. So I agreed to take it off-line and here it is. I left a note to the list that I would post it here and, if anyone was interested, continue it.

The whole thing started with someone, not me, posting the old Urban Myth, the way to get cheap gas is to boycott the big chains and buy gas from the second or third tier companies.

I responded with an impassioned but not very carefully crafted rant about cheap gas being an artifical price and that the genuine cost of gas should reflect our military culture over the last 50 years, in particular the last 5 years.

Well that got the ball rolling and over the next few days I got responses from folks: pro, con, and take it off the list.

That is where it rests now: off the list and here.

posted by Les @ 7:10 AM