High pump Prices Fueled by Fear
What is the leading reason for the spike in fuel costs? People, fearing mutual
damage in possible auto accidents, adopt an "either-me-or-them" attitude and buy
big SUV's and pickups, hoping the other guy gets the damage in an accident.
Furthermore, there are pickup drivers out there who are human-hunters. That
minority, and there are people like that peppered throughout human society, who
will find a morbid pleasure in causing the death of another human being and
getting away with it, know that if they "rear-end" a regular car at high speed,
they'll be OK , but they'll kill the occupants of the car. That is something
that gives them satisfaction. You'll see the type, out there needlessly
tail-gating a car at speed.
So now as many as can afford to get pickups and SUVs in an effort to protect
themselves from all kinds of problematic situations on the open road, from
survivability in a sort of automotive anarchy, to making sure they always come
out better in an automobile accident. It reminds me of the Cold War days when
each side frantically tried to make its weapons better and better with more and
more overkill and deadlier and deadlier. This presents a problem for the 80% of
the other drivers who can't afford anything more than a regular sized sedan, who
now face an almost certain guarantee of severe injury, if not death, in any
accident with an SUV or pickup.
And the SUVs are using more than twice the fuel it takes to get anywhere. Add to
that the reality that there's more and more of them all the time; a significant
if not geometrically increasing amount. People ask what's wrong with that? If
someone wants to get something, they have a right to get whatever they want,
don't they? Well, there's a slight problem here in that the fuel they use, a
derivative of petroleum, is a finite resource; someday it will run out, and that
someday is coming really soon.
Though it's doubtful any one of these global governments will get involved in
any sort of standardization of fuel efficiency and safety, they are far too
timid and reticent. The democracies certainly couldn't, the only way they can
get in office is with the backing of the rich, almost all of whom now drive the
larger vehicles. The dictatorships probably won't, although it's arguable that
dictatorship is stronger than democracy, it's almost certain they are far less
efficient than democracies, a point that has yet to be proven. However, were
that not the case, all democracy certainly would have died out in the age of
ancient Greece.
So without the prospect of any standardization of fuel-efficient vehicles, it
looks like the old Darwinian misconception, "survival of the fittest", is going
to reign supreme out there. That means somehow the smaller cars will win out in
the and, with the lemurs over the dinosaurs every time. Darwin was an ex
theologian. That's probably why he hated paradox. There is no such thing as "
the fittest". Only those entities which can cooperate with the totality survive.
Those least likely to succeed survive.
Maybe the problem with Darwin was he had a complex because he actually looked
like an ape. This is the problem when you have academia invade the realm of
science. They don't care about facts in academia, only who can come up with the
best guess. They love to treat these guesswork professors as the lauded
discoverers of profound secrets, which they are not.
Evolutionists have had over a century to prove themselves, and they're still
teaching nothing but what they call theories, what I call pure guesswork. They
have wasted the time of every scientist and every science student, in fact,
every student there is or has been for a century now, from here to Timbuktu and
back again, their teachers have used up valuable classroom time, and their
careers have wasted some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century. Worst
of all, the only ones who have benefited from their teachings have been the
perpetrators of ethnic cleansing throughout the world.
Now, I'll give this much to Darwinians and those digging through the strata of
the Earth to justify evolution: it is a guess not a theory, but it's such a
darned good guess that nobody else has been able to come up with anything else
like it to avert attention to their guesses and theories. But good guess or not,
it's a total waste of time. It's a waste of good scientists. It's a waste of
good workers in the field. It's a waste of almost every student from high school
through the University to graduate school. In fact, the only greater waste of
time on the face of the Earth and throughout history, that I could ever think of
to be greater than their time-waster is chess.
Now back to the SUV problem, which is fear. Back in the eighties, Americans were
using 40% of the world's petroleum reserves. I haven't checked what the
statistic is lately, but I assume it's got to be worse now. OK, that's really
piggy, but when you think of it, who is an American? They came from everywhere
on the planet. Arguably except the Native Americans, only they came from
Mongolia or so it's theorized.
No. The U. S. Americans represent what anyone in the world would probably do
given the same opulence. So how many of the billions of new mid to upper-class
Asian Chinese and Indian drivers would go SUV? Now , you might ask this
question: "who gives a flying great leap forward?", as in, who cares? Well, it's
coming out of your pocket.
If you're buying petrol, gasoline, benzene, diesel, or whatever it is, if it's a
petroleum derivative, you're paying for it, and paying more and more, because of
more and more demand, because more and more the world o're are buying dinosaur,
or buying SUV. And in fact, it's going to get more and more expensive because of
this idiotic SUV glut.
It didn't have to be that way, the price would have gone up of course, however,
if people had learned the lessons taught to the United States back in the
seventies when OPEC deliberately caused a fuel shortage in America, then they
would have sensibly driven in vehicles that got far better gas mileage than, as
the old saying goes, "gas guzzlers".
But people haven't learned, they've sunk into a more decadent state of
selfishness, if not sheer stupidity. As for the people who swallowed that
survival-of-the-fittest doctrine and believed it and acted on it, well, history
has proven that they have assured their own extinction and the extinction of not
only their nation, but also their ideology. The only thing left standing will be
their lauded institutions of learning, handing out accolades to the next best
top 10 series of guesswork hustlers.
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