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$4/gal gas prices are right around the corner and who knows how high they will go in the next three years. Even if they somehow level off and prices stay around the $4 mark, on average through the line of applicable Chrysler models, this more or less equates to a $1500 rebate... but again, its a rebate that's pandering to people who are really smarting over gas prices.
Even at $4.00 a gallon $1.00 x 428.5 gal = $428.50 per year x 3 years = $1,285.50.
None of this changes the fact I'd never buy a Chrysler product, but if I were so inclined, I'd rather take a rebate and manage my own gas through better driving habits, thank you. It's a rebate for sheep.
Airlines and other large petroleum users have been negotiating hedge contracts for years. This is the same thing on a much smaller scale. I would like to be able to do the same thing with my eating oil bill. It's a killer.
Okay... now you're just getting hung up on that 428 gallon number.... I said $1500 as an average for those Chrysler vehicles this is applied to... some vehicles it could be as little as $1100 and others upwards of $2K.
This isn't for everyone... this isn't for you, but it's still a clever gimmick no matter which way you cut it.
It's just like an off-purchase rebate -- half the time, people don't send them in. That's what will happen w/this. All the people who are so dense as to worry about spending an extra couple thousand a year on gas, but will go buy a new car and lose WAY more than that in depreciation will lose their card or forget about it or whatever.
One of the smartest promos I've ever seen -- Chryco will do well w/this. They'll keep their cash and pay it out only if necessary. Just like that "Lifetime" warranty...
I am so tired of the moaning about the gas prices I could scream. I hope it goes to $10/gallon so that the entire economy shuts down and there is rioting in the streets -- and MAYBE there will be enough of an uproar to shut these treehuggers up once and for all. So then MAYBE we can drill our nearby oil instead of the Chinese and build some refineries.
I'm not saying we shouldn't conserve, use alternatives where feasible, develop new technologies -- but we're stuck w/oil for the foreseeable future and we are collectively STUPID if we keep hindering ourselves. Because China and India aren't going to hinder themselves and Russia and the Middle East are going to gouge everyone for as long as they can.
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Does anyone REALLY believe that the US plans on never drilling off the coast of Cali, the Gulf or in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge again?
Military strategy of this country has dictated that we buy THEIRS while its cheap and easy while we sit on OURS for that proverbial rainy day.
Until tanks, warships, bombers and fighters can be run on hugs and goodwill our oil will be saved for when its most "necessary", and National Defense dictates that strategy.
When it is NEEDED it will be taken. Regardless of how many tree-huggers, spotter owls or humpbacks are in the way. The fact that you and I have to pay $4 a gallon doesnt qualify that as a "need".
I don't disagree w/that strategy necessarily, but "our" offshore oil is being developed by other countries right now. And at some point, the cost does become a national security interest. These increases can only be absorbed for so long.
And I don't think the greenies are in collusion w/the generals to keep our oil safe for the military. They and the environmental groups sue anyone who tries to develop.
Does anyone REALLY believe that the US plans on never drilling off the coast of Cali, the Gulf or in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge again?
Military strategy of this country has dictated that we buy THEIRS while its cheap and easy while we sit on OURS for that proverbial rainy day.
Until tanks, warships, bombers and fighters can be run on hugs and goodwill our oil will be saved for when its most "necessary", and National Defense dictates that strategy.
When it is NEEDED it will be taken. Regardless of how many tree-huggers, spotter owls or humpbacks are in the way. The fact that you and I have to pay $4 a gallon doesnt qualify that as a "need".
Beginning in the 1950s the Naval Petroleum reserves have been open for developement. The only one not producing to one degree or another for general use is Naval Pet #4 on the North Slope of Alaska. Little is known about it and the lid has been kept on developement by the posey sniffers. As for me I think we ought to nuke the unborn whales.
whales.
