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Topic: What can you get for 15 cents a cup?
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| UGoGirl | Posted – 11/18/2007 11:11:03 AM | show profile Coffee? No. Bottled water? No. Milk? I don't think so. Beer? Wine? Windex? No no no. But what you can get for 15 cents a cup, is a cup of crude oil. Absurdly cheap, given the many uses for it and that fact that it is becoming an increasingly scarce resource. |
| UGoGirl | Posted – 11/23/2007 11:02:45 AM | show profile And furthermore, if you said to some rickshaw driver, "I want you to move me and three of my friends, all of our luggage, also pull along this big heavy vehicle, and take us a mile and a half. And for all that human effort I'm going to give you less than a quarter." He would say you were absolutely insane. The amount of energy in oil is incredible, not to mention its usefulness in petrochemicals. It's an extraordinarily valuable resource and increasingly scarce, and we should be adding a huge tax to it (with that money reinvested in clean energy) in order to conserve it. |
