Are global warming believers happy about high fuel prices, because it cuts down on fuel consumption and CO2?

Question

If so, How high would you like to see fuel prices go?

Answer 1

Yea, and as an additional consequence, a whole lot of other goods are going up in price, too.

Answer 2

I believe that AGW is real, but am not happy with the fuel prices being so high!

Here in the UK petrol is £5 ($10) per gallon (4.5 litres) and most of it is tax!  If they used some of that money to provide alternatives to driving, then I would be in agreement.  But they don't, we keep on driving and they keep taking the money!

They say it is a green measure, but a recent report has put the reduction in car use due to high prices at less than 1%!

This plays right into the hands of the skeptics!

After all, Global warming can't be real if Governments just use it as an excuse to raise revenue, can it!

Answer 3

Yes I am.  But I also don't drive. My partner does though and he recognises that it is necessary for the price to increase. Fuel is not a finite resource and as it becomes scarcer so it will have to become more expensive.  It is the same with all products which are rare or in limited supply. As for the increased tax on petrol which came with the recent budget in Australia, I am also in approval. It makes sense to place a tax on those things which are detrimental to people, as both an individual or as a society. It baffles me how people can be so enraged at having to pay more for petrol yet be so indifferent to the destruction it is causing to the world which we rely on.

I understand that the rising prices are hard for  working families to cope with but the simple solution is get out of the car and onto public transport - or use your feet if its a short journey.  People coped for a very long time without cars. We have just become lazy and far to reliant on the convenience cars provide us with.   Our continued frivolous use of petrol will have consequences which will be far harder to cope with than the increase in the price of petrol.  

Really, get some perspective people.

Answer 4

High fuel prices lowers the amount of money in your wallet, it does nothing to lower CO2 emissions

Answer 5

Although I don't think anyone is happy about gas prices, maybe it will convince people to put pressure on auto manufacturers and energy providers to  try to find alternative fuels / technologies so we don't have to stay dependent on foreign oil. They knew this was coming since 1972 and they've been sitting with their thumbs in their ears.

Answer 6

Yes they are.  They are political.  Watch this.. lol

http://youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw

Answer 7

I think that the global warming alarmists are very happy about the e***a being given to the people by the political hacks whom they have worked over the coals for so many years. Disinformation on their part will raise taxes on all types of consumption.



The door now has been open because the definitions put out by these frauds has been bought by the public. They can now tax us on anything and everything that emits CO2 either from burning or decomposition in some junk yard, or land fill.

The people in the UK know this well, now they are fighting mad. American’s will find out what the real meaning of global warming is when the temperature drops, but in no way will this deter the Government’s of the planet to cut taxes on carbon emissions.

Answer 8

Prices here are $1.30 a liter or about $5.20 per gallon.

SUV drivers are still driving like a bat out of h**l.

Higher prices are, for some strange reason, not reducing the demand for fuel.

Posts like this make it to the desks of oil producers who then say; 'let us jack up the price a bit more in order to maximize profits'.

Answer 9

The price is not high enough to change demand very much yet.  There is a 2% reduction in US imports from 2006 to 2007 which might reflect reduced consumption due to high prices.  The price has risen because demand is stronger than supply and the very small reduction in demand is telling the market that prices can rise further.  I am not happy about paying higher prices.  

Unlike most others, I am doing something about it.  I recognize the problem posed by global warming and I think that the best solution is is market driven.  If people are offered a better product at the same cost, they will take it.  I own a controlling interest in a plant that will produce biofuel as a byproduct from agricultural waste.  The biofuel will compete with and replace coal on a limited scale.  Unlike coal, the biofuel is renewable, has a stable price, and has half of the carbon emissions.  A year ago when the project was planned, coal was $30 per tonne and the biofuel project was profitable.  The current spot price is $130 per tonne and China recently signed a 5 year contract at $300 per tonne.  My company can raise prices to match coal, but won't produce enough volume to drop the price. Your electric bill will probably double as a result of the increased price of coal.   Some of that increase will land in my wallet.  I would like to thank you in advance for a Rueben when I stop at the deli for lunch.  When you pay your electric bill, remember that my Reuben has half of the carbon footprint of the Reubens that you have been buying for fossil fuel executives over the years (and they never thanked you).

Answer 10

Yes. And fuel prices are not high in the US - I pay over $11/gallon.

Prices do have an impact on ecologically-damaging behaviour as can be seen when communities have had sudden and dramatic price increases.

For example, due to a landslide, energy prices in Juneau, Alaska went up 600% (quintupled) last month. In just one month, the town cut energy use by 30% so it can be done!!

Using this logic, then, gas prices of $15/gallon should start to see some changes in behaviour; $30/gallon is probably about right for meaningful change.

Answer 11

im a global warming partial-believer

and im not happy about it.

the reason i say “partial”-believer, is because i believe in global warming, but i do not thing ALL of the supposed reasons for it are legitimate.

also, i would like to say that i don't think global warming is making a very big impact on the environment. in fact, i think the impact its making is very SMALL.

Answer 12

AS IS THE PRICE OF FUEL IS PRICED BY THE MUSLIMS WE BUY IT FROM. IF YOU DONT LIKE IT DONT BUY IT. AS FOR CO2 WELL IT DOES'NT MEAN ANYTHING TO ME, BECAUSE ALL NON-SOLIDS DECIPATE IN THE FRIDGET THINNED AIR ABOVE YOUR HEADS OUTSIDE. THE PRICE OF GAS DOES'NT BOTHER ME, BUT I DO HAVE A SIMPLE SOLUTION THAT WOULD MAKE OPEC  DROP THEIR PRICES IMMEDIATELY OR NOT HAVE ANY BUYERS WITHOUT FORCE.