Comments on: $100 a Barrel Oil – Revisited http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/01/04/100-a-barrel-oil-revisited/ A Future Look at Today Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:38:37 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Future of Energy - $100 a Barrel Oil is the New Normal | Evolution Shift - David Houle, Futurist, Disintermediation, Future Trends, Future of Energy http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/01/04/100-a-barrel-oil-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-64625 Future of Energy - $100 a Barrel Oil is the New Normal | Evolution Shift - David Houle, Futurist, Disintermediation, Future Trends, Future of Energy Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:37:08 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/01/04/100-a-barrel-oil-revisited/#comment-64625 [...] readers of this column know that I have long predicted that oil would reach and then exceed the $100 price barrier. In fact, when this barrier was first [...] [...] readers of this column know that I have long predicted that oil would reach and then exceed the $100 price barrier. In fact, when this barrier was first [...]

]]> By: socialscientist http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/01/04/100-a-barrel-oil-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-40185 socialscientist Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:50:20 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/01/04/100-a-barrel-oil-revisited/#comment-40185 re: no free lunch: Dumping carbon dioxide into the air is currently free. Use of U.S. military to fight oil wars, no extra charge to oil-auto lobby. Streets and highways to funnel profit to carbon-auto lobby, no extra charge. Why not stop penalizing the mostly working-class transit riders, who are mitigating the free ride the carbon auto lobby is getting. Free transit means the same thing as "free" sidewalks... fund it through general revenues. re: no free lunch:
Dumping carbon dioxide into the air is currently free. Use of U.S. military to fight oil wars, no extra charge to oil-auto lobby. Streets and highways to funnel profit to carbon-auto lobby, no extra charge.
Why not stop penalizing the mostly working-class transit riders, who are mitigating the free ride the carbon auto lobby is getting.
Free transit means the same thing as “free” sidewalks… fund it through general revenues.

]]> By: gregory http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/01/04/100-a-barrel-oil-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-38483 gregory Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:28:19 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/01/04/100-a-barrel-oil-revisited/#comment-38483 and off topic, looks like the machine wants mrs.clinton and off topic, looks like the machine wants mrs.clinton

]]> By: gregory http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/01/04/100-a-barrel-oil-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-38481 gregory Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:26:49 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/01/04/100-a-barrel-oil-revisited/#comment-38481 there already <i>is</i> a world-wide mass movement to implement public transportation, it is how the vast majority of people get around on this planet... when they are not walking the only thing you add is "free", but "subsidized" also works and where there is private transport, from cars to planes, no user is paying the true cost of it, if you add in pollution costs, social costs, and all the unquantifiable stuff.... "subsidized" is working there as well... and free is not possible in any system, everything has a cost... there already is a world-wide mass movement to implement public transportation, it is how the vast majority of people get around on this planet… when they are not walking

the only thing you add is “free”, but “subsidized” also works

and where there is private transport, from cars to planes, no user is paying the true cost of it, if you add in pollution costs, social costs, and all the unquantifiable stuff…. “subsidized” is working there as well…

and free is not possible in any system, everything has a cost…

]]> By: david http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/01/04/100-a-barrel-oil-revisited/comment-page-1/#comment-38239 david Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:09:19 +0000 http://www.evolutionshift.com/blog/2008/01/04/100-a-barrel-oil-revisited/#comment-38239 The rub is in the word "free". As Robert Heinlein wrote in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" TANSTAAFL there ain't no such thing as a free lunch. What does free mean. If it is free for riders, then who pays? I am open to the concept, but then the details come in: is it national or just local? And if it is local, does it stop at the city border or county border? I am a frequent user of public transit and support it. How would you suggest free transit be funded? David The rub is in the word “free”. As Robert Heinlein wrote in “The Moon is a Harsh Mistress” TANSTAAFL there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch. What does free mean. If it is free for riders, then who pays? I am open to the concept, but then the details come in: is it national or just local? And if it is local, does it stop at the city border or county border?
I am a frequent user of public transit and support it. How would you suggest free transit be funded?
David

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