Gas Prices Under a Cap-and-Trade System (They're not pretty)

Copenhagen gives us a preview of what gas prices will look like in the United States under a Cap-and-Trade system. But don't worry, you can always bike to work.

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• Americans for Prosperity
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• Copenhagen
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• climate change
• global warming
• al gore
• climate change conference
• cop15
• cap and trade

[1965ace]

USA should remain sovereign. The rest of the world can KMA.

[Yakko77]

It's a half hour drive for me to get to my work. To ride a bike that same distance would require a couple hours most likely at the very least let alone doing that in a foot of snow like we have here in Omaha right now. If this disaster passes then anyone and everyone running for office in 2010 and 2012 had better be running on a repeal platform or there's no point in even voting.

[rock3tcat]

Lol how arrogant, the rest of the world vs the US...

Take off your blinders boy, it's actually just a bunch of elitist assholes vs the people Nobody wants to take out a mortgage loan in order to fill up their tanks.

And how about the people in sub-Sahara Africa? You're effectively telling them not to touch all of their resources like oil, gas, uranium, etc. because it could hurt the environment...

[rock3tcat]

@Yakko77

Stay productive and buy yourself a helicopter.

[swckswck]

Americans for Prosperity would be better named "Plutocrats for World Domination." This oil-industry front group screws the American consumer every minute of the day. Suddenly, they claim to care about oil prices? These guys PROFIT from high oil prices.

[ieatdeadbabies101]

thats why we need hemp gas (yes people marajuana) grow your own gas and you can drink it

[HokiesAndDawgs]

@rnwernerma

Stupidity must run in your family.

[legendarymoe]

@outpostprime wow! do you even ride a bicycle??? You CANNOT go 25-40mph on a bike unless you are in extremely good physical shape and have a solid road bike. The world record on a bicycle is 140 mph going straight down a mountain in a speed-suit on a specially made bike and the flat ground speed was gained over the course of 200m on a carbon fiber streamlined bike... I agree with the diesel comment though. Bike comment is ridiculous.

[outpostprime]

@Yakko77 Actually if you look at it this way. With a bicycle you can prob do about 25~40mph and don't have to worry about traffic. You might actually make it to work faster on a bicycle then a car. Now if bikes got the same specialized road system cars get...

Don't underestimate what you can do on a bicycle. World speed record on a bike is like 140mph lol.

Also what he's saying is very misleading. The primary fuel in the EU is diesel not gasoline and they get like 50~60 mpg with 3 cylinders.

[mukashakapaka1]

thats why its so expensive, because they arent so reliant on gas, so prices go up to  cover the loss in individual consumers

[summerfunteam]

poor oil companies....  :-/

[rnwernerma]

The Fear Tim! The Fear!

Can you imagine what the United States would be like with all those fuel efficient or hydrogen powered cars? SCREW that! Let's spread fear among the population by saying "The rest of the world doesn't understand us! They are trying to make us like them and ruin our way of life!" What you are proposing is running out a resource until it is gone and in the process creating economic instability,

What a "Unites States Liberal Education" moron you have become!