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the dilemma of gas prices
I’ve always thought that higher gas prices are better for America. We’ve become overdependent on the automobile and cheap gas only gets us to drive without a conscious. Imposing some pain on the pocketbook might be the only way for us release our grip on foreign oil. It’s an oft-discussed topic.
But The Huffington Post discusses Thomas Friedman’s analysis of gas prices on the international landscape:
As Thomas L. Friedman has been saying for years, “the price of oil and the pace of freedom are inversely correlated.” When oil prices are high, anti-democratic regimes become richer and more powerful, terrorists get funding and the world is unsafe. When oil prices are low, the “petroauthoritarian regimes [have] to open themselves to foreign investment and educate and empower their people more in order to earn income.” When there is no demand for oil at all, there is simply no money with which to fund terrorists.
Seems like another problem with no straight forward solution – what do you think?
