HERE COMES THE SUN, HERE COMES THE SUN, WITH GASOLINE?
(Le soleil vient ici.)
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SECTION I: Gasoline Tests “McCain,” “Hillary,” and “Obama”
So, I said two months ago or so that gasoline prices could be a big challenge to the governments here and there.
It can even test US Presidential candidates:
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Obama, who as a state senator supported temporarily suspending the Illinois gas tax in 2000, cast Clinton's proposal as a ploy that would, according to an estimate by the Congressional Budget Office, save the average family about $30 for the summer -- or, he said yesterday, "30 cents a day, which is less than you can buy a cup of coffee for at 7-Eleven." He began running a 60-second ad showing a clip of him responding to what he calls the "Clinton-McCain proposal" at a rally.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/30/AR2008043003575_pf.html
However, I am concerned with words of a Harvard professor on economy:
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"What you learn in Economics 101 is that if producers can't produce much more, when you cut the tax on that good the tax is kept . . . by the suppliers and is not passed on to consumers," he said.
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It is a basic of economics but cannot be a basic of wisdom.
I will tell you that it is not a matter of supply, demand, and prices, but a potential for supply, a potential for purchase, a differentiated change of prices, and information.
In this case on gasoline prices in the U.S. this summer, it is information that is a key to solving the problem. Necessary information on states of supply and needs, and an expected price change must be disseminated among consumers.
If the US Government provides all the necessary information to consumers, asking them to behave like a Christian and a good neighbor when the US Government suspends an execution of taxation on gasoline for poor Americans, people will start to control their driving practices and habits so as to avoid catastrophe.
Extensive public announcements and media reports on this issue along with this purpose will help US consumers behave like a hero.
It is, however, what a Harvard professor does not want, since US consumers will no more respect cold-blood professors on economics.
It is really what Jesus Christ preached down to. He really lamented 2000 years ago, saying: “Professors do more harm than good to people.”
(From a political point of view, a focus should be on the following part of the Washington Post article:
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Clinton stresses that she, unlike McCain, would push for a windfall-profits tax on oil companies to offset any benefit to them…
Burman called this "utterly incoherent," saying that a windfall-profits tax would over the long term only exacerbate the supply problems…
"So a policy intended to lower prices, but which won't do that, will be offset with a policy that's likely to raise prices over the long term," he said.)
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Indeed, that incoherence in Mrs. Clinton’s policy ideas can be a big issue, since she is an American woman, good or bad, in my humble Japanese view.)
SECTION II: CxHx
Gasoline is mainly made of only carbon and hydrogen.
It includes various types of hydrocarbon molecules, such as C6H6 (benzene), C7H8 (toluene), C4H8 (butene), C4H10 (butane), C6H12 (hexene), etc.
These are all simple chemical structures.
You take six of carbon atoms and six of hydrogen atoms from any convenient sources to combine them together so as to form a molecule; then you can get C6H6, a component of gasoline.
But, 602,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 carbon atoms weigh only 12 grams.
One gallon or 3.8 liters of gasoline must include carbon and hydrogen atoms literally running into astronomical figures.
Mankind cannot still create gasoline while carbon and hydrogen are all around them here and there, even in the air and water.
But, the God created them so easily and put them in crude oil.
As mankind comes to love God less and less while loving money more and more, this gasoline-price problem can be regarded as a natural consequence of human arrogance.
Conversely, when mankind repents and comes to love God more and more and abhors money more and more, this gasoline-price problem can be solved.
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That’s all for today as is usual.
You may be busy, since there seems to be parties and conferences here and there nowadays.
And, remember that the Chinese President is expected to visit Japan the next week.
It is time for Japan to help China set appropriate gasoline prices and develop natural resources including natural gas and crude oil.
(F.Y.I., http://amesei.exblog.jp/ )
(So, have a good weekend. Rest your wings.
And, do not drive much, though I often drove passing Tokyo to the west to serve God.
I saw just only once a remarkable driver in my driving experiences on expressways who could drive a car truly as a master on the road, which made me so humble.
Among ordinary people, there are many hidden masters in various fields in Japan.
Yet, somebody must be in charge of praising God even in this country to save the nation…
May God Come to You like the Sun!)
Revelation 22:5 And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.