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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAmericans for Prosperity (Koch Bros) "cheap gas" stunt in Reno.
More like cheap stunt. It is particularly offensive considering how RMoney just announced his meh-ness toward the 47%ers that showed up to get a break on gas prices.
Blech.
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From the article:
The cheap gas offered by the conservative political group Americans for Prosperity in Reno on Tuesday was a political event designed to blame President Barack Obamas energy policies for driving up the cost of petrol.
But many of the scores of people who lined up around the block to fill up their tanks at $1.84 a gallon didnt come for politics. They didnt blame Obama for the gas prices. They just needed cheap gas.
One woman pulled up with a car full of three children, eager to save the 30 bucks on gas money that would go toward school clothes for her kids. She said her family lives on $1,700 a month.
This isnt Obamas fault. Its everyones fault, said Kaylen Hartshorn, of Reno. You cant elect one man and expect him to solve a million peoples problems. Everybody needs to do their part, help their neighbors.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/sep/19/cheap-gas-political-stunt-draws/
rsweets
(307 posts)what a quote ...
This isnt Obamas fault. Its everyones fault, said Kaylen Hartshorn, of Reno. You cant elect one man and expect him to solve a million peoples problems. Everybody needs to do their part, help their neighbors.
rfranklin
(13,200 posts)on the commodity markets....
Bart Chilton, a commissioner at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the federal agency that regulates commodity futures and option trading in the United States, says a very few number of players control too much of the market, allowing them to push the price of gas higher and higher. The American public knows very little about the oil speculation industry because a conservative majority on the CFTC has refused to implement the mandates from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act to curb abuses and provide transparency.
One of those players is the petrochemical multinational Koch Industries. Although oil extraction is a small part of the Kochs oil business the company has major control over every other part of the market as its core venture is shipping crude oil, refining it, distributing it to retailers, then speculating on the future price. The company actively trades about 50 types of crude oil around the world and has trading operations in London, Geneva, Singapore, Houston, New York, Wichita, Rotterdam, and Mumbai.
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/02/26/how-the-gas-prices-are-manipulated-by-the-koch-brothers-and-other-wall-street-players/
nanabugg
(2,198 posts)If they can sell it for 1.84 in Reno, they could do it eslewhere. Don't they undersstand that it proves that the Koch brothers and others are holding the country in economic bonddage so Mitt can be elected?
Panasonic
(2,921 posts)This is the kind of money SuperPAC's buy to woo the voters, and failing to do so miserably.
Koch Brothers should be under heavy indictment for oil manipulation, all assets frozen and returned to the U.S. Treasury, nationalize all Koch Brothers companies, authorize union membership on all Koch Brothers companies, then return it to the Koch Brothers, 50 billion less, and nothing to steal.
SalviaBlue
(2,916 posts)jsr
(7,712 posts)for the 47%.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Pretty rare when you can stick it to the rich bastards. .
Blue Idaho
(5,049 posts)lets bleed the fuckers dry.
Lint Head
(15,064 posts)prices when it is convenient.
maxrandb
(15,324 posts)Can't they do this EVERYDAY!!!!!
The poor dears...wasting all that money on a losing candidate and political party.
I thought these were supposed to be the "smart investment" types.