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| Yes | 22% | 72 votes | Total: 326 votes | |
| No | 78% | 254 votes |
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by Stoneheart
High oil prices are necessary to prevent them from quickly becoming even higher in the future, which could cause a depression making the one that started in 1929 seem not so gre...read more
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The debate on whether these high gas prices are justifiable is volatile and filled with various points of views. Unfortunately, we are only now witnessing some serious debates a...read more
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100 Years from the Model T to Peak Oil, What Now? This year marks the 100th birthday of the Model T and Henry Ford's bold proposition that the workers on the line should be a...read more
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by Stan Dyer
It does not matter if high fuel prices are necessary or not. They are here to stay and we brought them on ourselves. When gas prices were relatively low, lower than any other ...read more
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It is because anything you can imagine, we could already do. I changed that quote a bit to fit properly. The thing we have yet to think of is how we can all live together, pea...read more
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by Eric Wolf
Whether fuel prices are necessary or not depends on the definition of necessary. If it is simply a question of whether oil companies need to charge ever higher prices for the g...read more
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High fuel prices are necessary! If people can afford gas they are going to buy it without regard to how it affects the environment. The higher prices help to show people that th...read more
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Are high fuel prices necessary? The answer is definitely, yes. But here's the big "kicker". The dollars are going to the wrong places. The oil companies are making record br...read more
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Here it is a few months later and prices fuel prices are plumeting. This deal with the exploration in the Dakota's might be truth or it may be a very clever hoax? But I stated t...read more
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by Mark Luke
Government interference cripples energy development and creates high prices. Momentarily setting aside any pie in the sky alternate energy ideas that may or may not become pr...read more
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High fuel prices are not "necessary" and yet fuel prices continue to climb. Some economists predict that they will continue to climb and reach $200 a barrel before they begin t...read more
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by Josiah King
Necessary...what an interesting word in relation to the prices we pay. Is it necessary to charge a price for fuel? Yes. Is it necessary to pay the price we are paying? No....read more
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by E. Manning
Perhaps at no time in recent history has more emotion and contention erupted over the demand for gasoline and fuel during a time of record high prices. Government, business and ...read more
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by Kent Kruse
Of course it is not necessary. The only reason there is high fuel prices is because it puts all of us under there thumb. They don't need money. They need control. They need ...read more
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Every nation is dependant on fuel and as a result the price paid for the fuel is relatively price inelastic. This means that the fuel price is irrelevant and nations and compani...read more
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by Ted Sherman
Oh, sure. High fuel prices are absolutely necessary if you're a fat-cat Exxon oil executive who needs more and more money for upkeep of his two private jets, and to add a multi-...read more
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by Tom Sutcliff
High fuel prices unnecessary and can be easily brought down by increasing the supply. This is basic economics yet many in the US Congress do not seem to understand this. The...read more
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by iiivix
High octane addictions are driving our economy to destruction. Our dependence on crude is insatiable. Now in the throws of gas inflation our pocketbooks are running on empty. Ho...read more
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The short answer is no, they are not. Why are fuel prices so high? It is a tax, but not of the type that most people are familiar with. I, of course, mean the "inflation tax." T...read more
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Are Fuel prices necessary? That's the question we all have to ask ourselves. Are high fuel prices necessary? Is television necessary? How about high taxes? Of course not! All...read more
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