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<blockquote data-quote="HitManSE" data-source="post: 3489145" data-attributes="member: 549624">You&#039;re missing the point. It doesnt matter what gets a person motivated, even if its being selfish. As long as that motivational factor is there, that button can be pushed. Sure the middle east situation is a problem, but our gas prices are what effects us here &amp;amp; now. So, we can use that as the motivation. So long as the end result is the same. Who cares what our reason is, I promise the people of the middle east wont care //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gifIf you&#039;re just one person who&#039;s a customer for oil, its not a problem. However there are at least 150 million people that need at the very least 15 gallons of fuel a week (very conservative #s btw). Doing the math, thats well over 2.2 billion gallons of gas every week. So once you start talking #&#039;s every person counts. Its another case of the raindrop doesnt think its responsible for the flood.The 2nd part in bold, well thats the thing. This is why I KNOW our government is supporting the usage of oil. They want it to increase, they dont want the demand to go down. They&#039;re working to increase its demand. Why do you think they&#039;re offering tax breaks to people who buy SUV&#039;s? the car companies dont care because its more incentive for them to make sales &amp;amp; profit. Sure they&#039;ll hand down a tax break, knowing you&#039;ll spend X amount more in the long run in fuel.Its just an investment on their part, all people look at is &quot;ohh look, its a tax break. lets buy it!&quot; but dont consider how much the fuel is going to be. Dumb really, but its working &amp;amp; in great #&#039;s. So the public is doing exactly as the government wants. All it takes is a bit of common sense to put 2 and 2 together and see the picture.My parents ended up falling into this category, they got shafted on taxes this year so they went out and got a new SUV for tax purposes. Yeah its nice, but its not really necessary. Hes 100% sure he&#039;ll sell it after 3 yrs, the tax breaks alone will pay for the truck. Its just ghey they had to go that route, and a lot of people fall into that for that same reason. It would have ended up costing them more for a normal car after 3 years because of the tax.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="HitManSE, post: 3489145, member: 549624"] You're missing the point. It doesnt matter what gets a person motivated, even if its being selfish. As long as that motivational factor is there, that button can be pushed. Sure the middle east situation is a problem, but our gas prices are what effects us here & now. So, we can use that as the motivation. So long as the end result is the same. Who cares what our reason is, I promise the people of the middle east wont care [IMG]//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif[/IMG] If you're just one person who's a customer for oil, its not a problem. However there are at least 150 million people that need at the very least 15 gallons of fuel a week ([B]very[/B] conservative #s btw). Doing the math, thats well [B]over[/B] 2.2 billion gallons of gas every week. So once you start talking #'s every person counts. Its another case of the raindrop doesnt think its responsible for the flood. The 2nd part in bold, well thats the thing. This is why I KNOW our government is supporting the usage of oil. They want it to increase, they dont want the demand to go down. They're working to increase its demand. Why do you think they're offering tax breaks to people who buy SUV's? the car companies dont care because its more incentive for them to make sales & profit. Sure they'll hand down a tax break, knowing you'll spend X amount more in the long run in fuel. Its just an investment on their part, all people look at is "ohh look, its a tax break. lets buy it!" but dont consider how much the fuel is going to be. Dumb really, but its working & in great #'s. So the public is doing exactly as the government wants. All it takes is a bit of common sense to put 2 and 2 together and see the picture. My parents ended up falling into this category, they got shafted on taxes this year so they went out and got a new SUV for tax purposes. Yeah its nice, but its not really necessary. Hes 100% sure he'll sell it after 3 yrs, the tax breaks alone will pay for the truck. Its just ghey they had to go that route, and a lot of people fall into that for that same reason. It would have ended up costing them more for a normal car after 3 years because of the tax. [/QUOTE]

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