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"Stabilize natural gas prices through reduced dependence. • Restore America's withering leadership in technological innovation. • Reduce our trade deficit. • Rebuild aging infrastructure. • Improve social equity for low-income workers by increasing job access and mobility. How much will it cost, you wisely ask? A modest investment of $300 billion, or less than one year's budget to prosecure the Iraq War. This seems a paltry sum given the opportunity to eliminate the need for such wars to begin with, save our environment, and reduce our energy expenses." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "Not content with their obscene profits, the oil industry in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina immediately raised gas prices to more than three dollars a gallon—an increase of more than forty-five cents a gallon in two days. The Bush administration used the cover of crisis to suspend environmental laws for refineries and chemical companies so they could "cope" with the economic impact. This was on top of the $14.5 billion worth of tax breaks and incentives given in the industry-friendly energy bill passed in August 2005. Hmm . . ." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "He hears that gas prices are going up again. Barry gets madder. He hears that gasoline might go as high as five dollars a gallon?and Americans should be grateful for it because Europeans pay even more. He swears at the radio. Lately, Barry's finances have been taking a beating every time he fills up at the pump. He has begun to call his SUV The Beast, because it is impossible to satisfy and seems to require more and more money to keep it running. He bought The Beast for its roominess, higher vantage point, cargo area, and its perceived status. He casually brushed aside low mileage ratings." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "We suspect that by the time you read these |^ ^ uires words, you will already be miffed, incensed—fill in the aggravated adjective of your choice here—by gas prices n?expert and your home heating and lighting bills. You've prob- now e ge Or ably already experienced a serious crimp in your complex skills, lifestyle based on profiteering by the energy moguls. Here S the answer. Andrew Bebee, a member of the Apollo Alliance Consume less. Share Executive Steering Committee, had this to say about more." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Hunter, a Canadian, had made millions for the firm after natural gas prices exploded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. He was thought to be so savvy about gas futures that his bosses at Amaranth let him work out of his home in Calgary, where he drove a Ferrari in the summer and a Bentley in the winter. The jazzy wheels matched the snazzy wheeling and dealing at the American energy fund, where 1.4 percent of net assets went for "bonus compensation to designated traders" and another 2.3 percent was doled out for "operating expenses." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.) "Somebody was not monitoring this correctly," said one pro, referring to the extraordinary bet that energy trader Brian Hunter placed on gas prices, a bet so large that at one time he held about 10 percent of the global market in natural gas futures. As far as we can tell, these are the numbers in a nutshell: Hunter was long, and investors were short—as much as $6 billion. "It appears we have had a major malfunction," he might have said." - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"One was that environmental concerns would grow in importance, and the other was that gas prices would go up over time. And they won on both bets. This has gone from being a niche business for Toyota to being a centerpiece of its growth efforts. And it's a perfect example of what can happen when there's a public interest and a business interest in protecting the environment. They coincide in a marketplace opportunity that can make a difference for all of us." Again, I don't want to sugarcoat, either. We're definitely seeing business moving in the right direction." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Travel Virgin Airlines With soaring gas prices, all of the airlines have to make adjustments wherever possible to improve fuel efficiency. So what makes Virgin stand out in this inherently emissions conscious category? Virgin is the first airline to get serious about alternative fuel sources. In November 2005, Virgin Chairman Richard Branson revealed, "We are going to start building cellulosic ethanol plants (to make) fuel that is derived from the waste product of the plant." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"Estill's Biodiesel Power weaves a basic education in biofuels together with a series of anecdotes from his years entrenched in the biodiesel community, which has been moving swiftly into the public purview in the light of skyrocketing gas prices and fear of peak oil. Green Car Congress http://www.greencarcongress.com Mike Millikin's Green Car Congress is the best single source for news on hybrids, hydrogen cars, alternative fuels, and related topics. It's one-stop shopping for the automotive eco-geek. as Bright Green Consumerism Opposite, left: Hydrogen refueling station." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"Mwai Kibaki We have mentioned earlier that during the late 70s and early 80s, government was bogged down with poor economics, high gas prices, and bad karma with the electorate. The time was ripe for Reaganomics. For those suffering from diabetes, the door was opened for the Greedy Bastards at the Top to take over. Pharmaceutical corporations, chemical corporations, manufacturing corporations, and financial corporations proceeded to take complete advantage of the patients, the workers, the consumers." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"I find it amazing that when a local gas station raises gas prices by 20 percent following some national disaster (like a hurricane), people go crazy with accusations of profiteering. Yet when drug companies mark up their drugs 30,000 percent or more over the cost of ingredients, the public seems more than happy to go along with it, repeating the propaganda line, "They need that money to fund tomorrow's cures!" Or, maybe, they just need it to pay massive CEO salaries and keep investors happy. The drug companies spend more on advertising and marketing than research, after all." - Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.)

"But the collective imagination of the public cannot process the notion of a nongrowth economy, even though the limits to growth are visible all around us in everything from the paved-over suburban landscapes, to the steeply rising gas prices, to played out aquifers, to the death of the Atlantic cod fishery. We are not capable of conceiving another economic way. We are hostages to our own system." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "During most of the 1980s and 1990s, gas prices at the pump were lower in constant dollars than at any other time in history. It was the former-hippie boomer yuppies, after all, who started the SUV craze and bought the McMansions way off in the outermost suburbs." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "The period (roughly 1980—2001) during which these international treaties relaxing trade barriers were made—the General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) —coincided with a steep and persistent drop in world oil and gas prices that occurred precisely because the oil crises of the 1970s had stimulated so much frantic drilling and extraction that a twenty-year oil glut ensued. The glut, in turn, allowed world leaders to forget that the global ism they were engineering depended wholly on nonrenewable fossil fuels and the fragile political arrangements that allowed their distribution." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

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