1) -1-Eric144 sez: Oil prices rose more than ten times ($12 to ~$150) beetewn 1997 (Kyoto) and 2007 partly due to global warming awareness reducing downward pressure on price. A) to examine (via a spreadsheet) the actual spot prices beetewn 1997 and 2007 (and beyond).B) for proof that the price of oil is almost purely a simple function of supply and demand (coupled, lately, with a falling dollar).As demonstrated via the previous link, it is an objectively accurate quantitative FACT that ANWR alone could have prevented the oil/gasoline price spikes of 2007/2008.Eco-extremists were — indeed — the cause of the price spikes, but ONLY by virtue of converting the USA into — — the only nation in the world that has curtailed access to its own [] energy supplies .2) I did not take the survey because it demonstrates the self-described Liberal philosophy of its creator. Free market thinking is nowhere to be found. The only solutions described all flow — implicitly or explicitly — from government.Mr. Fuller is a reasonable chap — for a Liberal. But, when analyzing his survey, he will be well advised to take into account that I am certainly not the only Free Market advocate who will choose not to participate. And, that will badly slant his results.
December 20th, 2015 at 9:32 am
1) -1-Eric144 sez: Oil prices rose more than ten times ($12 to ~$150) beetewn 1997 (Kyoto) and 2007 partly due to global warming awareness reducing downward pressure on price. A) to examine (via a spreadsheet) the actual spot prices beetewn 1997 and 2007 (and beyond).B) for proof that the price of oil is almost purely a simple function of supply and demand (coupled, lately, with a falling dollar).As demonstrated via the previous link, it is an objectively accurate quantitative FACT that ANWR alone could have prevented the oil/gasoline price spikes of 2007/2008.Eco-extremists were — indeed — the cause of the price spikes, but ONLY by virtue of converting the USA into — — the only nation in the world that has curtailed access to its own [] energy supplies .2) I did not take the survey because it demonstrates the self-described Liberal philosophy of its creator. Free market thinking is nowhere to be found. The only solutions described all flow — implicitly or explicitly — from government.Mr. Fuller is a reasonable chap — for a Liberal. But, when analyzing his survey, he will be well advised to take into account that I am certainly not the only Free Market advocate who will choose not to participate. And, that will badly slant his results.