So it is your contention that the news story was a lie? Going to the MMS site you will find the same information. It is just that I watched the new for the last week the day I replied to you and I remembered the story.
I knew it! I knew it! You are a left wing nut job with no solutions to the problem just excuses why other people’s solutions won’t work.
So far your solution is to let the price go up and then people will use alternative sources of fuel and energy. The problem with that is there are no alternative sources of energy or fuel that is closer than 10 years away. Solar cars are impractical, wind power does not work, and no one will buy a nuclear powered car. And the consequences of your solution are people freezing to death because they can’t afford to heat their homes when winter comes.
You see the high price of oil is more than gasoline. Oil heats homes, provides electricity (to heat homes) diesel fuel to move produce and products to market. Higher oil prices mean that the cost of everything goes up. When your chewing gum costs a dollar, because of high oil prices you will complain that the president is not helping the poor and middle class. So what if every nut job thinks that higher prices are good to save the planet and reduce pollution. But in saving the planet and reducing pollution people that don’t even own or drive cars will suffer. The cost of food is going up with the price of oil. I think it is called unintended consequences. So thinking short term the idea sounds good but long term the idea will kill people.
Accurate thinking is based upon two fundamentals, namely:
Induction: The act or process of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, from the individual to the universal.
Deduction: The use of inference by which a conclusion necessarily follows from the premises.
The accurate thinker takes these important steps as a means of making his thinking effective:
He separates fact from fiction, or hearsay evidence.
He separates facts into two classes: important and unimportant.
The accurate thinker scrutinizes everything he reads in books or newspapers, everything he hears and sees over radio and television. He never accepts any statement as fact merely because he has read it or has heard it spoken. And he knows that statements bearing some portion of facts are often intentionally or carelessly colored, modified and exaggerated to give them an erroneous meaning.
Before the accurate thinker accepts the statements of others as facts, he tries to find the motive which prompted the statements, for he knows that no one ever does anything, and seldom says anything, without a definite motive. The accurate thinker examines with care all statement made by people who have obvious motives. He is equally careful about accepting the statements of over-zealous people who have the habit of allowing their imagination to run wild.
The accurate thinker learns to use his own judgment, and to be cautious, no matter who may endeavor to influence him. If a statement does not seem reasonable to him, or does not harmonize with his experience, he holds it in abeyance for further examination. He knows that a falsehood has a peculiar way of bringing with it some warning, perhaps in the tone of voice, or the facial expression of the speaker, if it is a spoken falsehood. And it is one of the unexplained facts of psychology that written words carry with them something of a warning as to their truth or falsehood, something which corresponds precisely to the mental attitude and the belief or unbelief of the writer.
