Double, Double Oil and Trouble

[Salandriagado]

Hopefully when the prices slingshot back, people will have been so used to low prices that they invest that saved money in renewable methods for cars.

Tesla, water engines, clean-burning fuels.
All of it needs to come so we can kill oil and have a shot at saving our godforsaken planet.

Why should we as a species desire to stay on our mundane planet when hopefully within the next thousand years we can conquer others?

Let's play "spot the nearby habitable planet", shall we? Oh look, there's precisely one.

[United States of Devonta]

Damn you Barack Hussein Obama! I new you raised gas prices in a desperate attempt to make us by those hippy liberal hybrid and electric cars.

[Phocidaea]

Being in a region with negligible oil and lots of cars, it is nearly impossible to conceive that low gas prices could actually be a problem in some places.

Fortunately, I don't live in any of those places, so here's hoping it gets below two bucks a gallon!

[Acharastan]

Isn't that due to Saudi Arabia lowering prices to smack Putin in the face?

[The Confederacy of Nationalism]

Why should we as a species desire to stay on our mundane planet when hopefully within the next thousand years we can conquer others?

Let's play "spot the nearby habitable planet", shall we? Oh look, there's precisely one.

nearby is irrelevant

[The Liberated Territories]

Hooray for fracking! The total benefits of lower fuel costs and a more pressured, submissive middle east, and potentially less of an incentive for America to be involved, is a net sum.

[The Confederacy of Nationalism]

Isn't that due to Saudi Arabia lowering prices to smack Putin in the face?

They're doing Putin a favor. If the Ruble crisis gets too bad, Russia will have reason to switch to a gold standard, which as I said earlier, would be a slap in the face to dollar imperialism.

[Marcurix]

Isn't that due to Saudi Arabia lowering prices to smack Putin in the face?

They're doing Putin a favor. If the Ruble crisis gets too bad, Russia will have reason to switch to a gold standard, which as I said earlier, would be a slap in the face to dollar imperialism.

Also a really bad idea.

But that doesn't seem to matter.

[The Confederacy of Nationalism]

Hooray for fracking! The total benefits of lower fuel costs and a more pressured, submissive middle east, and potentially less of an incentive for America to be involved, is a net sum.

no thanks, I like high fuel costs

[The Confederacy of Nationalism]

They're doing Putin a favor. If the Ruble crisis gets too bad, Russia will have reason to switch to a gold standard, which as I said earlier, would be a slap in the face to dollar imperialism.

Also a really bad idea.

But that doesn't seem to matter.

I'd take a stable, backed currency over hyperinflation any day, thanks, and I'm sure Putin will too.

[The Liberated Territories]

Hooray for fracking! The total benefits of lower fuel costs and a more pressured, submissive middle east, and potentially less of an incentive for America to be involved, is a net sum.

no thanks, I like high fuel costs

You are the reason why America is hated worldwide. >.>

Independence!

[New Werpland]

Also a really bad idea.

But that doesn't seem to matter.

I'd take a stable, backed currency over hyperinflation any day, thanks, and I'm sure Putin will too.

then we can get Mansa Musa to get rid of Putin instead of the U.S taxpayers

[The Confederacy of Nationalism]

no thanks, I like high fuel costs

You are the reason why America is hated worldwide. >.>

Independence!

I like high fuel costs because I make money. I just want to maintain high costs by banning fracking and not blowing up foreign wells, there's a big difference between the two.

[The Confederacy of Nationalism]

I'd take a stable, backed currency over hyperinflation any day, thanks, and I'm sure Putin will too.

then we can get Mansa Musa to get rid of Putin instead of the U.S taxpayers

Who said I wanted to get rid of Putin, he's the single best world leader of the past decade, and he's done a goddamn excellent job of raising Russia out of the cesspool that was the USSR and keeping Russia powerful. I just wish he would see that gold is a better option than a tumbling Ruble.

[Marcurix]

Also a really bad idea.

But that doesn't seem to matter.

I'd take a stable, backed currency over hyperinflation any day, thanks, and I'm sure Putin will too.

I'm not sure you can speak for Putin. Or that you understand why the gold standard was abandoned in the first place.

[The Liberated Territories]

You are the reason why America is hated worldwide. >.>

Independence!

I like high fuel costs because I make money. I just want to maintain high costs by banning fracking and not blowing up foreign wells, there's a big difference between the two.

I like low costs because, as a consumer I wish to save money, both back at home by utilizing fracking methods to extract oil and less of my tax money going toward radicalizing Islamists by invading countries.

[The Confederacy of Nationalism]

I'd take a stable, backed currency over hyperinflation any day, thanks, and I'm sure Putin will too.

I'm not sure you can speak for Putin. Or that you understand why the gold standard was abandoned in the first place.

I can't speak for Putin, you're right, but I do know why the gold standard was abandoned, and I know why it should be brought back.

[New Werpland]

then we can get Mansa Musa to get rid of Putin instead of the U.S taxpayers

Who said I wanted to get rid of Putin, he's the single best world leader of the past decade, and he's done a goddamn excellent job of raising Russia out of the cesspool that was the USSR and keeping Russia powerful. I just wish he would see that gold is a better option than a tumbling Ruble.

Surely you can't love Putin if you wan't him to adopt the gold standard. But anyway I agree with you, Putin is great. He did a good job expanding Russia's list of Puppet states and imprisoning all those evil gay men.

[The Confederacy of Nationalism]

I like high fuel costs because I make money. I just want to maintain high costs by banning fracking and not blowing up foreign wells, there's a big difference between the two.

I like low costs because, as a consumer I wish to save money, both back at home by utilizing fracking methods to extract oil and less of my tax money going toward radicalizing Islamists by invading countries.

I am also a consumer. The difference is that I trade natgas and oil, I don't just consume it. As a trader, I absolutely love the prospect of banning fracking and high oil prices.

[The Confederacy of Nationalism]

Who said I wanted to get rid of Putin, he's the single best world leader of the past decade, and he's done a goddamn excellent job of raising Russia out of the cesspool that was the USSR and keeping Russia powerful. I just wish he would see that gold is a better option than a tumbling Ruble.

Surely you can't love Putin if you wan't him to adopt the gold standard. But anyway I agree with you, Putin is great. He did a good job expanding Russia's list of Puppet states and imprisoning all those evil gay men.

Well, more like reclaiming puppet states, they kind of lost them all after the USSR fell.

[Marcurix]

I'm not sure you can speak for Putin. Or that you understand why the gold standard was abandoned in the first place.

I can't speak for Putin, you're right, but I do know why the gold standard was abandoned, and I know why it should be brought back.

Mhm, well if you're going to dig yourself a hole it might as we'll be a big one.

[The Confederacy of Nationalism]

I can't speak for Putin, you're right, but I do know why the gold standard was abandoned, and I know why it should be brought back.

Mhm, well if you're going to dig yourself a hole it might as we'll be a big one.

It was abandoned because the pseudo-gold standard under the fed and the $2.5 for every $1.00 of gold collapsed when people started making bankruns. So the natural response was obviously not to admit fault, but to confiscate everyone's gold.

[New Werpland]

Surely you can't love Putin if you wan't him to adopt the gold standard. But anyway I agree with you, Putin is great. He did a good job expanding Russia's list of Puppet states and imprisoning all those evil gay men.

Well, more like reclaiming puppet states, they kind of lost them all after the USSR fell.

Well they had a little more control over themselves during soviet times.

[Kelinfort]

I live in California, where gas prices have been extremely high (it's been mostly above $4.00 since the Recession. Hell, I still remember when it was like $5.00 in 2008).

Anyways, gas prices are now below $3.00, for the first time since like 2006. I like this.

Where have you been living? I'ts been about $3.70 ish where I live since 2009. Last time I paid more than four dollars was when I was 16 and that was in SF.

[The Confederacy of Nationalism]

I live in California, where gas prices have been extremely high (it's been mostly above $4.00 since the Recession. Hell, I still remember when it was like $5.00 in 2008).

Anyways, gas prices are now below $3.00, for the first time since like 2006. I like this.

Where have you been living? I'ts been about $3.70 ish where I live since 2009. Last time I paid more than four dollars was when I was 16 and that was in SF.

I lived in New York during the recession, it got a bit above $4 for a while.