TakeAStepBack
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All the people blaming speculators are basically saying the market is not an efficent platform. Sure speculators may drive up prices for a while, but the market ALWAYS corrects to reflect demand.
You need to take Ron Paul's hand out of your ass you puppet. First of all, oil companies aren't free markets that should be unregulated. If you want to build a product and sell it in the USA, then you can sell it on the free market. But Oil companies, like Healthcare insurance companies and Wallstreet, need to be regulated. Stop thinking that the billionaire robber barons are playing by the same rules that you and I play by. For that you middle class Republicans are sooo stupid. You think free unregulated markets are going to save you money? HA! UPS tried to charge me $60 to ship something to Switzerland. The USPost Office was under $10.
First of all, the US Government is GIVING the oil companies our land to drill for really cheap prices! Too cheap. Its a monopoly. And they don't pay their fair share of taxes like you and I. Nor do they pass on the savings to us. So stop thinking that they are doing free trade. It is unfair trade.
And if we let them do free unregulated trade on gas, then just like healthcare, eventually too many Americans won't be able to afford to drive. And do you think the oil companies care? When unregulated, they let poor granny die without heat in the winter. Remember that?
Same reason healthcare needs to be regulated. If left up to free markets, those monopolies can maximize profits by raising the prices until 10 million more Americans can't afford health insurance. Should they be allowed.
Yet another one that has no clue what a free market is, capitalism or corporatism.
These "robber barons" you speak of have a nice cozy relationship with govt. Which is how they drive out competition and corner an industry as a monopoly. The constitution is expicit about monopolies. Apparently this is all way over most peoples head.