4 Responses for "Nice: oil down to $106/barrel"

1. Mari September 2nd, 2008 at 6:14 pm 1

   Greenpeace and Sierra Club weeping, and begging the congress critters that they’ve bought to intervene.

2. Lance September 3rd, 2008 at 1:35 pm 2

   I wouldn’t get too cocky. It’ll be going back up soon. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind seeing it go past $200 a barrel. Then, maybe you on the pre-modern right will come to your senses and get rid of your gas-guzzling SUVs.

3. zeitgeist September 3rd, 2008 at 2:48 pm 3

   The difference between most liberals on this is that liberals feel guilty about driving their gas guzzling SUVs In all seriousness, the correct appeal to get everyone on board is the lowest common denominator — get a technology that saves people money over conventional gas vehicles and they will buy it. Not just a few bucks after amortizing the extra cost of a battery pack and electric drive train, but something like the cool ideas presented by Shai Agassi where the car is subsidized like a phone and you pay for a recharge plan monthly. That’s the kind of thinking that will solve this. Shai is of course from a tech company originally (SAP) and now runs Better Place.

4. zeitgeist September 3rd, 2008 at 3:22 pm 4

   I somehow ended up with a massive typo there. I backspaced and started to retype and I guess it didn’t register with my laptop. Regardless, it was a throwaway joke. This is an area where the government should’ve done more to subsidize technological leaps as its in the interest of national security.