USAToday/Gallup: Romney breaks 50 against Obama, Santorum trails by 1

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Yep, gas is going up. Unemployment is up to 9.1. Total out of the workforce is close to a 20 year high and people still believe that Obama is doing well?

Baffles me. I remember when Gas was half what it is now, and that was only a couple years ago.

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Considering as I was making good money 4 years ago - yes, yes it was.

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The formation of Massachusettstan?

I'd be all for that...

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New York City is farther from me, than you are from any point in Europe. Including Scotland. USA is not Europe.

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If Austin were in Austria:

El Paso would be Paris.
Amarillo would be Copenhagen.
Beaumont would be Bucharest.
and the Valley would be Rome.

Forget the EU as the United States of Europe, they should aspire to be the Texas of Europe.

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I understand that. I'm just saying. Draw a 500km circle from Frankfurt. You'd encompass, what, several hunded million people?

You can't look at the US as a whole. Average mileage for folks back east is not the same as it is for the average mileage for folks in Texas.

Texas averages 12k miles per person.

Germany averages 12k km per person. So Texas people drive about twice what folks in Germany do.

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It's a function of population density.

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There's something to be said for freedom.

True, emissions associated with oil + gas industry may be bad, but there are major chemical advantages to the use of oil and natural gas to power automobiles.

1, energy density
2, availability.

I can see natural energy used to generate electricity, or heat, but gas in cars works really really well, and is far superior to hybrids. And I haven't even gotten into the issues with rare earth metals that are required to make the hybrids work.

I think the real solution is to accept the fact that gas is just the best fuel for automobiles and work at making them more efficient, or finding a way to generate synthetic gas relatively cheaply. You could probably do that with nuclear power plants.