Comments on: Consumer fuel choice will drive oil independence http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/consumer-fuel-choice-will-drive-oil-independence/ Sun, 19 May 2013 23:59:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: ronwagn http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/consumer-fuel-choice-will-drive-oil-independence/#comment-880976 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:55:30 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=544254#comment-880976 http://ronwagnersrants.blogspot.com/Natural gas is the future of energy. It is replacing dirty, dangerous, expensive coal and nuclear plants. It is producing the electricity for electric cars. It will directly fuel cars,pickup trucks, vans, buses, long haul trucks, dump trucks, locomotives, aircraft, ships etc. It will keep us out of more useless wars, where we shed our blood and money. Here are over 500 recent links for you: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NbaKYme3bqOw0b6KMxXSjOLHLNeflalPy9gIAiTYFMQ/edit

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]]> By: Mark http://gigaom.com/2012/07/19/consumer-fuel-choice-will-drive-oil-independence/#comment-866183 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 08:24:15 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=544254#comment-866183 “Lift offshore and onshore exploration and drilling bans.
Approve Keystone XL.
Require timely environmental review for oil and gas projects to commence on federal lands.
Improve permitting process to drill – that take too long.
Issue leases on time.
Allow development of oil shale.
Stop the land grab and arbitrarily classify federal land areas as “Wilderness” or “Wild Lands”
Implement 50/50 revenue sharing for states for offshore drilling. States now receive 50 percent of the revenues generated by onshore only
Prohibit greenhouse gas and Tier 3 gas regulations.
Repeal the renewable fuel standard.”

Virtually none of these things would affect the price of gas. The price of gas is affected by the price of oil. The price of oil is set on world markets. I urge the Heritage Foundation to examine the lockstep relationship between the price of oil and the gas price in Canada (which imports zero or near zero oil). Since nothing on the above list would have any meaningful effect on the world price of oil, nothing will affect the price of gas. (Well, perhaps a single national fuel blend if that’s what one of them is getting at).

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