ScreamingEagle
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Mr President,
I need to drive a truck for my construction business, can you and the government do something about gas prices?
F you cracker, you need to buy a new electric car sold by my eeerrrrr General Motors. It will only set you back about $40,000 unless you want air conditioning.
Actually they want to tax you for the miles you drive, and top of the tax they have on gas.
Aside from that, reducing non-safety regs will lower the cost of doing biz that can lead to a lower cost of oil.
Of course he can stop causing the suffering of some unemployed workers by allowing companies to drill for more oil. More oil leads to lower prices.
What would you like Obama to do, cracker? Are you actually asking the Federal Government to help out your private business? Sure sounds like Socialism to me.....
I understood that he was asking for government to get out of the way of his business. Government for the last six years has been trying to legislate behavior. Using food for fuel when fuel is available is .... stupid. It is driving up the food prices that drive up the oil prices (ME countries import grains that are paid for with oil money), that drives up the food prices .... vicious circle.
Now that I am through laughing. I assume you have data to support this assertion?
Mr President,
I need to drive a truck for my construction business, can you and the government do something about gas prices?
F you cracker, you need to buy a new electric car sold by my eeerrrrr General Motors. It will only set you back about $40,000 unless you want air conditioning.
What would you like Obama to do, cracker? Are you actually asking the Federal Government to help out your private business? Sure sounds like Socialism to me.....
Mr President,
I need to drive a truck for my construction business, can you and the government do something about gas prices?
F you cracker, you need to buy a new electric car sold by my eeerrrrr General Motors. It will only set you back about $40,000 unless you want air conditioning.
What would you like Obama to do, cracker? Are you actually asking the Federal Government to help out your private business? Sure sounds like Socialism to me.....
What makes you think I'm a cracker? can you see me? well #1 increase supply of oil, coal, wind, sun, and whatever else powers this nation. He can stop demonizing big business like the oil industry and work with them rather than against them.
I find it strange that "progressives" want nothing to do with progress. I'm fortunate to be able to buy gas on base. Right outside the gate I can see a sign $4.25 per gallon. To bad Bush ain't president or the media would be backing the people instead of backing Obama.
And another thing: How dare you libs sit quietly while democrat politicians bash an entire group of American people.
The Tea Party are a group of concerned citizens who help pay the salaries of these politicians and then have to hear Reid and his minions bash them and their beliefs.
And the libs say nothing, and the state run media say nothing.
Disgusting.
What would you like Obama to do, cracker? Are you actually asking the Federal Government to help out your private business? Sure sounds like Socialism to me.....
What makes you think I'm a cracker? can you see me? well #1 increase supply of oil, coal, wind, sun, and whatever else powers this nation. He can stop demonizing big business like the oil industry and work with them rather than against them.
I find it strange that "progressives" want nothing to do with progress. I'm fortunate to be able to buy gas on base. Right outside the gate I can see a sign $4.25 per gallon. To bad Bush ain't president or the media would be backing the people instead of backing Obama.
And another thing: How dare you libs sit quietly while democrat politicians bash an entire group of American people.
The Tea Party are a group of concerned citizens who help pay the salaries of these politicians and then have to hear Reid and his minions bash them and their beliefs.
And the libs say nothing, and the state run media say nothing.
Disgusting.
Consider the high prices the market's way of telling us we're using too much of it. POTUS doesn't personally go to gas stations and change the prices with that giant suction cup himself, you know.
What makes you think I'm a cracker? can you see me? well #1 increase supply of oil, coal, wind, sun, and whatever else powers this nation. He can stop demonizing big business like the oil industry and work with them rather than against them.
I find it strange that "progressives" want nothing to do with progress. I'm fortunate to be able to buy gas on base. Right outside the gate I can see a sign $4.25 per gallon. To bad Bush ain't president or the media would be backing the people instead of backing Obama.
And another thing: How dare you libs sit quietly while democrat politicians bash an entire group of American people.
The Tea Party are a group of concerned citizens who help pay the salaries of these politicians and then have to hear Reid and his minions bash them and their beliefs.
And the libs say nothing, and the state run media say nothing.
Disgusting.
Consider the high prices the market's way of telling us we're using too much of it. POTUS doesn't personally go to gas stations and change the prices with that giant suction cup himself, you know.
Actually it is saying the Chinese and Indians are using way too much. When those economies were in recession gas prices were much lower.
And gov't policies have a big influence on prices, as well as supply and demand. And those policies suck.
Consider the high prices the market's way of telling us we're using too much of it. POTUS doesn't personally go to gas stations and change the prices with that giant suction cup himself, you know.
Actually it is saying the Chinese and Indians are using way too much. When those economies were in recession gas prices were much lower.
And gov't policies have a big influence on prices, as well as supply and demand. And those policies suck.
Listening to the explanation of why the gas prices are so high from the Oil Company is like listening to a home owner why they want so much money for their home.
Rabbi believes it tho... ...just like an authoritarian would.
It cant be that they want more profits could it? Let me scan the thread to see if any RW even considered it
What do you want big government to do about gas prices? Regulate supply and demand? At least the Republicans on board will come on against this.
The thing to do IS to use more efficient vehicles for our daily commutes. Probably no need to force you to buy American, but get some fuel efficient car for non HD use. If everyone, enough people do, demand for fuel will go down and so will prices. Capitalism.
Thanks to the emerging markets in China and the rest of the world I doubt fuel prices will ever hit $1 a gallon again.
Think of it this way. If my 98 MarkVIII got better fuel economy than my 89 Toronado I would be using less fuel now. Apply that to the country on the whole and prices would go down. Obviously if I am driving a 280HP vehicle where a 160HP vehicle used to do I could be doing my part too.
I'm back to siding with you Rambunctious, I want big government to raise the CAFE standards even more to help us support the troops and ourselves.
I want them to open more drilling in the USA. Increase the supply that is already here.
Increasing production at home will only help a bit, and it is only a short term solution. Most of our remaining reserves will be very expensive to draw from which will just bump prices even higher. It would help some though, but it is not the golden egg you may hope it to be. Our largest reserves are in shale, and as of yet, they haven't figured out a way to get the oil out in a cost effective way or an environmentally effective way. If they ever do figure it out, we have more oil than the rest of the world combined, but I wouldn't count on that at this point.
As much as it hurts, with oil prices going up, other forms of energy will become less expensive comparatively and eventually may actually bring down the prices of those alternatives.
What do you want big government to do about gas prices? Regulate supply and demand? At least the Republicans on board will come on against this.
The thing to do IS to use more efficient vehicles for our daily commutes. Probably no need to force you to buy American, but get some fuel efficient car for non HD use. If everyone, enough people do, demand for fuel will go down and so will prices. Capitalism.
Thanks to the emerging markets in China and the rest of the world I doubt fuel prices will ever hit $1 a gallon again.
Think of it this way. If my 98 MarkVIII got better fuel economy than my 89 Toronado I would be using less fuel now. Apply that to the country on the whole and prices would go down. Obviously if I am driving a 280HP vehicle where a 160HP vehicle used to do I could be doing my part too.
I'm back to siding with you Rambunctious, I want big government to raise the CAFE standards even more to help us support the troops and ourselves.
what do you want big government to do about gas prices? Regulate supply and demand? At least the republicans on board will come on against this.
The thing to do is to use more efficient vehicles for our daily commutes. Probably no need to force you to buy american, but get some fuel efficient car for non hd use. If everyone, enough people do, demand for fuel will go down and so will prices. capitalism.
thanks to the emerging markets in china and the rest of the world i doubt fuel prices will ever hit $1 a gallon again.
Think of it this way. If my 98 markviii got better fuel economy than my 89 toronado i would be using less fuel now. Apply that to the country on the whole and prices would go down. Obviously if i am driving a 280hp vehicle where a 160hp vehicle used to do i could be doing my part too.
I'm back to siding with you rambunctious, i want big government to raise the cafe standards even more to help us support the troops and ourselves.
capitalism? Think again.
Allow the oil comjpanies to drill off shore and sell the leases and tax the living piss out of them. Do this up, down and around the coasts and the fiscal problems of the californias go away.
Commit to a policy of zero energy imports within 10 years and that will both fire up the domestic oil drilling, with oil, gas and coal use in cleaner ways and incent the use of the crurrently inefficent and wasteful greener methods of energy production.
Of course, this would require a strong leader with a vision and the courage to carry it out working with all of the politicians and spreading credit around regardless of party afilliation.
The current chicago machine political hack residing in the white house will not do anything that is bi-partisan or intelligent. He is absolutely committed to working against the fiscal interests of this country in every method available.
Capitalism as practiced in america relies on private investment and then taxation.
What you are talking about is a variation of what the president is doing which is socialist control and strangulation of incentives and profits. Eliminate the reward and you eliminate the incentive to take a risk.
Don't raise the cafe standards. Shut down the energy imports. With no oil, the cafe standards will rise all by themselves.
Mr President,
I need to drive a truck for my construction business, can you and the government do something about gas prices?
F you cracker, you need to buy a new electric car sold by my eeerrrrr General Motors. It will only set you back about $40,000 unless you want air conditioning.
Actually they want to tax you for the miles you drive, and top of the tax they have on gas.
Aside from that, reducing non-safety regs will lower the cost of doing biz that can lead to a lower cost of oil.
Of course he can stop causing the suffering of some unemployed workers by allowing companies to drill for more oil. More oil leads to lower prices.
We don't have enough oil to impact prices in any significant way. Even if we did, OPEC would immediately cut production to keep prices high, like they do every time there's a decrease in demand.
What would you like Obama to do, cracker? Are you actually asking the Federal Government to help out your private business? Sure sounds like Socialism to me.....
What makes you think I'm a cracker? can you see me? well #1 increase supply of oil, coal, wind, sun, and whatever else powers this nation. He can stop demonizing big business like the oil industry and work with them rather than against them.
I find it strange that "progressives" want nothing to do with progress. I'm fortunate to be able to buy gas on base. Right outside the gate I can see a sign $4.25 per gallon. To bad Bush ain't president or the media would be backing the people instead of backing Obama.
And another thing: How dare you libs sit quietly while democrat politicians bash an entire group of American people.
The Tea Party are a group of concerned citizens who help pay the salaries of these politicians and then have to hear Reid and his minions bash them and their beliefs.
And the libs say nothing, and the state run media say nothing.
Disgusting.
Consider the high prices the market's way of telling us we're using too much of it. POTUS doesn't personally go to gas stations and change the prices with that giant suction cup himself, you know.
When gas was over $4.00 a gallon when Bush was President all you heard was bitching and moaning about what a hobo he was for allowing the gas prices to get this high. With Obama, hardly anything is being said. What's up with that? Were they bitching because Bush was a Republican, white, and not a muslim or did they show real concern for high gas prices and now that we have a black, Democrat muslim President it doesn't matter any more? Which is it?
Mr President,
I need to drive a truck for my construction business, can you and the government do something about gas prices?
F you cracker, you need to buy a new electric car sold by my eeerrrrr General Motors. It will only set you back about $40,000 unless you want air conditioning.
Mr President,
I need to drive a truck for my construction business, can you and the government do something about gas prices?
F you cracker, you need to buy a new electric car sold by my eeerrrrr General Motors. It will only set you back about $40,000 unless you want air conditioning.
Actually they want to tax you for the miles you drive, and top of the tax they have on gas.
Aside from that, reducing non-safety regs will lower the cost of doing biz that can lead to a lower cost of oil.
Of course he can stop causing the suffering of some unemployed workers by allowing companies to drill for more oil. More oil leads to lower prices.
We don't have enough oil to impact prices in any significant way. Even if we did, OPEC would immediately cut production to keep prices high, like they do every time there's a decrease in demand.