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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:28 PM
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Where Is The Outrage Over These Gas Prices?
During the last year of the Clinton Presidency, or should I say the last year we actually had a President, gas prices shot up and the nation was in a rage. People were calling for the heads of oil companys and demanding that the Congress take everyone in the oil business to task and better yet, to jail. Over the weekend the pirce of gas hot up by a dime in this area, and not a peep out of anyone. How is this nation of sheep going to act when the hyper inflation that is comming as surely as the midnight express hits?
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deacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:30 PM
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1. Bush hasn't winked at the saudi's to lower the prices yet n/t
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keithyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:43 PM
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21. The folks in power are making money on these prices, hush!
The nitwit dittoheads who listen to Rush everyday think it is their patriotic duty to make the oligarchy more and more wealthy. The right wing nitwits can't bring themselves to admit that Bush is a dolt and that they are worse off than he is because a 'dolt' could make them believe that war is peace and lies are truth. No one likes to admit that they are fooled or foolish. And, their misguided feelings of superiority and their deep-seeded racism is something that they are just not willing to give up.
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Pepperbelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:31 PM
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2. You are right and it is inexplicable...
But people ARE furious about it when you talk to people. The media is not reporting what is there.
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izzie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:34 PM
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6. It is a slow burn
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cosmicdot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:32 PM
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3. now, I wonder if Prince Bandar and Poppy Bu$h arranged that spike?
afterall, the economy needed ruffing up a bit for the 2000 election and *-Cheney's talking down the economy, etc.
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slaveplanet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:32 PM
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4. all that needs to be done
is open up the strategery reserves...simple as that
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Pepperbelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:35 PM
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9. it's not that simple ...
Edited on Mon May-03-04 04:35 PM by Pepperbelly
Bonehead Bush and his Pirates are actually FILLING the reserves.

Can you believe that shit?
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:36 PM
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11. Actually
Actually it would help the prices considerably if the would just stop trying to fill it up, they don't have to actually drain out a drop.

It has bothered me for some time now that the Bush administration has ceaselessly been filling the Stragegic Petroleum Reserves since day one in office. They've just about got that big salt-dome tank topped off right now and I have to wonder just what their great cause for concern is. This one really does scare me.
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Township75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:33 PM
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5. I like the lack of outrage!
Edited on Mon May-03-04 04:34 PM by Township75
I want these prices to stay high, so maybe a few people will start to carpool...maybe a few people will pass on purchasing an SUV...and maybe a few a-holes who had to have a huge SUV to drive to the mall can regret it while they pay enormous gas prices to fill their gas guzzler.

I do NOT want to see congress or the pres open up the oil reserves, so everyone can still drive gas guzzlers.
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:36 PM
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10. Word.
Or some other encouragement in response to your statement to that effect.
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Township75 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:42 PM
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20. Word-up! Or, Word-to-your-mother!
:)
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GirlinContempt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:30 PM
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26. Oh snap?
Nah... too sarcastic...

Any time anyone says 'word to your mother' I'm brought back to a... less than sober moment when I replied with "I'll pass it along" and everyone stared at me for about five minutes...
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rucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:35 PM
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7. Where is the outrage over our gas consumption? n/t
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OneTwentyoNine Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:35 PM
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8. The Repukes SCREAMED for Clinton to tap the strategic reserve in 00
Funny how prices after being in the $1.20-1.25 range here in the Midwest for YEARS suddenly shot up to $1.80 when Gore became the candidate.

Just by Gore being associated with Clinton had the Repukes screaming that the Dems had no energy policy or prices wouldn't have spiked like this. They also screamed and stomped their feet because Clinton hadn't tapped into the SR.

Funny,I don't hear them doing the same this time around. Of course if we had some Dems in Washington that didn't wear pink tutu's and fliter around this might be more of a news issue...
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Pepperbelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:38 PM
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14. actually not quite true ...
they mocked him for opening the reserves and for initiating investigations into price fixing. The price dropped like a rock after he took those two steps.
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NewYorkerfromMass Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:39 PM
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16. and then they called it a political move to help Gore.
you can't win with these creeps.
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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:36 PM
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12. My brother from LA told me last night on the phone that
truckers in CA jacknifed their trailers on the highways yesterday and backed up traffic considerably over gas prices.
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:37 PM
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13. You mean where gas went up this weekend again...
...by four cents to eight cents a gallon in Central Florida? The average price is hovering at around $1.82 per gallon today but I have seen it at $1.79. This summer is when it will hit the fan, but I think Bush has this covered with the Saudis, who are reaping windfall profits now and into the summer. Then they'll stage a roll back of the prices during the Republican National Convention so Bush can claim that he is doing all he can to keep oil prices down.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:38 PM
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15. Somebody has to pay for Bush's campaign!
It may as well be you!
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anarchy1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:40 PM
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17. Why should there be outrage? Many other nations citizens have been
Edited on Mon May-03-04 04:40 PM by anarchy1999
paying far more than we, as Americans, have been paying for years. Where is your outrage? Where is the world's? We are seeing the world outrage come home.
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slaveplanet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:52 PM
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22. Um
there is also a lot more tax on it, a major factor for the pricey eurojuice, and i'm not sure about all Euro countries but in Sweden, where my brother lives, Mininumum wage is higher.
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myomy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:01 PM
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28. Right and these taxes help fund public transportation so
buying gas isn't as much of a necessity. There're other ways to get to work, go to the grocery store ect.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:52 PM
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24. That is a bullshit argument
Yes, gas prices at the pump are higher in much of the world, but it that is not a function of the price of oil or the price of refining. Those countrys choose to tax gas, and we don't. The price of the underlieing product is the same, or nearly so. So it is just pure bullshit to say that europeans pay $20 a gallon or whatever it is, that is meaningless.
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myomy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:41 PM
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18. Where's the outrage about prices vs Oil Co profits?
Here's part of my letter to the editor published a few weeks ago : "Why don't articles on this subject ever mention the obscene profits realized by the oil companies? May I compare oil profits for 2002 and 2003 for just a few of these companies? Exxon Mobile $11.5 billion;$21.5 billion, Chevron-Texaco $1.1 billion; $7.2 billion and BP Plc $8.7 billion; $12.7 billion. This begs the question,"how much profits are enough?" when every aspect of our daily lives are dependent on these companies' products."
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anarchy1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 05:05 PM
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25. All of your questions beg for answers!!
n/t
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anarchy1999 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:42 PM
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19. Does anyone here remember the gas lines of the '70's during the Carter
administration?
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myomy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 06:41 PM
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27. I was living in California then and had an oil change every few weeks
just to be able to fill up my big, fat Oldsmobile.
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 04:52 PM
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23. Where's the outrage about Carter's work to encourage alternative energy
and lower consumption (which would make us less dependent on kissing Saudi ass) getting gutted?
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maxsolomon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:12 PM
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29. $1.82? you poor poor babies!
we're paying $2.11 in seattle, and cali is paying $2.30.

the reason there's little protest: what are you going to do? stop driving? who will you complain to? the russian immigrant behing the counter at the 7-11?

it will drop as soon as you re-elect bush. or shortly before, as some encouragement. you just have to postpone your guzzling till labor day.
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mrdmk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-03-04 07:45 PM
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30. There is a third factor I do not see here
That is the declining U.S. dollar on the world market. Yes, Saudi Arabia may lower prices just before the elections. Yes, the Bush administration is filling up the Strategic Reserve and has been. Yes, the Oil companies are making a killing at this time. But the Bush administration has all but killed off the U.S. dollar with their bullshit policies. Let's see that in the U.S. media.
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