Comments on: A Symptom of the Disease

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:52:46 +0000

Mr. Brown, thanks for the link. That’s been my experience, but the hard numbers always help.

By: Bill Brown

Bill Brown — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 04:24:55 +0000

Here are some numbers for Harold's statement, from an earlier post here.

By: Harold

Harold — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:13:42 +0000

As for paying the Islamic oil barons, please understand that crude comes from all over, not just the Middle East. Though, I wouldn’t complain if they took it back.

I rented a vehicle from Enterprise once and they gave me a Prius. It’s too small, but I enjoyed driving it all the same.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:35:45 +0000

As for the spike in the price of gasoline, which induced a wave of hybrid sales, that is exactly what the environmentalists hoped and wished for. And that’s why they are gnashing their teeth about the price of oil coming back to earth. And why they are right there with Mr. Jackson, wanting to raise the price of gasoline back to $4 per gallon via taxes, if all their other methods os raising prices come to naught.

By: Chuck

Chuck — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:32:04 +0000

Mike, why are people excited about getting more mileage per gallon of gasoline? Because prices are high. And why are prices high? Because of taxes, environmental regulations preventing drilling and exploration, and more use of oil in developing countries. Two of those three reasons are government driven, and could be eliminated tomorrow.

And as for paying less to Islamic oil barons, that too could be eliminated, if we took back the oil that the Islamic oil barons stole from Western oil companies.

In a capitalist society, decisions on what kind of cars ought to be made are left to those who make them. Not the government.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:06:47 +0000

Wait, really? Hybrids aren’t selling? I wonder if this is just a consequence of car sales overall being down. Two of my friends sell Toyotas for a living and ever since the gas spike, they say the only cars anyone EVER buys are Prius, Yaris, and Corolla. I know I can’t wait to get a hybrid, because I want to pay less to Islamic oil barons. Only thing stopping me is I want to squeeze every last day of use out of my old car first.

I mean, Jackson would know, since he owns the dealer chain my buddies both actually work for. I don’t doubt him as such that the cars are sitting there. I just wonder if it’s correlation or causation we’re talking about here. More mileage is something virtually every driver is excited about these days.

By: Andrew Dalton

Andrew Dalton — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:02:48 +0000

“would keep money in the good ole USA.”

And notice the unspoken premise: wealth is not created, and it is not even traded value-for-value for imported goods. Rather, it must be jealously hoarded to protect the interests of the group.

By: Madmax

Madmax — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:42:05 +0000

With businessmen like these who needs socialist politicians.

By: Burgess Laughlin

Burgess Laughlin — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 22:11:38 +0000

Chuck, you have produced here a well crafted article. It looks at facts, quotes actual views, draws inferences — and then, like a soft-spoken boxer — delivers a knockout punch at the end.

P. S. — The most chilling line quoted is “What’s wrong with that?”