Cars also get better mileage than when we were kids. I think minimum wage was $4.50 or $5.00 when I got my first job around 89 or 90.Still, most kids only make the minimum,i made it when i was living at home.Mind you back then it was only .27 cents/ litre & i was making $3.65/ hr at my 1st job,that's less than 10% of my hourly wage. Now it's an average of $1.15? not sure what the min. wage is now, but it's probably not $11.50?
Isn't that the price you pay to look so tuff in your big bad truck? Keep in mind as with any gov subsidies, long term it's a losing proposition.
What subsidies are those? There are some basic extraction subsidies that go to producers, but I don't think the consumer is seeing any of that.
Okay, right. I have heard of the ethanol subsidies, but those accrue to producers, not consumers.Ethanol is not a viable renewable fuel source as it takes more energy to produce than it creates. The only reason it's floating right now is because of gov funding propping corn up. In a unregulated free market with no monopoly it would never have gotten to this level of retardedness. However the alternative fuel source of the future will be NG or "eagle diesel" alot of big shippers already have their fleets converted and best of all ....... north america has the biggest nautural gas reserves.
Okay, right. I have heard of the ethanol subsidies, but those accrue to producers, not consumers.
They may not need the subsidy. They may just be getting that as an extra result from successful lobbying. Remember the tarsands started out subsidized, and today they pay for new plants out of current "earnings".Yes which means that realistically it's not a viable source of energy if it can't stand on it's own feet.






