A Most Peculiar Test Drive

Re:A Most Peculiar Test Drive by SilasX on Thursday February 14, 2013 @06:15PM (#5223240)

This is fantasy. Slap a $20/ton or $50/ton carbon tax (highest non-crackpot estimate) on oil and people will still gladly pay it. The idea that oil use would severely diminished by such a cost internalization is pure wishful thinking.

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Re:A Most Peculiar Test Drive by Nrsolis on Thursday February 14, 2013 @07:01PM (#5223498)

Carbon tax? I'm not talking about pollution here. I'm talking about geopolitics. If the cost of maintaining a fleet of ships in the Persian Gulf was fully factored into the cost of oil imported from the middle east, you think it's be close to the price we pay for it now?

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Re:A Most Peculiar Test Drive by SilasX on Thursday February 14, 2013 @09:09PM (#5224011)

Wow, how much does Singapore's Persian Gulf fleet cost?

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Re:A Most Peculiar Test Drive by Nrsolis on Thursday February 14, 2013 @10:30PM (#5224262)

Now you're showing your naiveté. Do you think for a second that if the US wasn't out there securing the supply that the price would be where it is?

SO MANY nations enjoy the umbrella of protection that is provided by the unipolar geopolitical environment we live in now.

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Re:A Most Peculiar Test Drive by SilasX on Thursday February 14, 2013 @10:36PM (#5224281)

Yep, oil is totally non-fungible, and oil-rich nations wouldn't reap the immense profits of selling it on the massive global market without the US government specifically forcing them to.

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Re:A Most Peculiar Test Drive by Nrsolis on Friday February 15, 2013 @08:58AM (#5226143)

Did you miss the part where I mentioned that oil is also a STRATEGIC resource and not just a commodity?

Why else do you think we've committed our military to the purpose of securing supply?

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