A........ the Republicans or the ones donating to there campaigns are the ones who price gouge and profiteer

 

Why blame the politicians? Why blame the Liberals? Blame the other dumb Americans who are driving cars and vehicles that are too big and heavy at rediculous speeds and not chainging their buying habits AT ALL. When the demand drops, the prices will too. As long as the moron races go on and they keep filling up these big cars and trucks without slowing down or limiting their use of the vehilces, it just proves that gas and fuel is too cheap and they may need to raise the prices even higher. I'd like to see $5 a gallon, maybe then the people will "get it". If you don't like how much the fuel is.. change your habits and quit buying that crap as often! If you want to make money in this situation, buy an oil company.

 

Why blame the politicians? Because they have shut and locked the door and prevented us for too long from drilling for oil in the contiguous 48 states, because they have stopped us from drilling for oil on the outer continental shelf, and because they have prevented us from drilling for oil in ANWR. All of which would not only make us much less dependent on foreign oil and thus our national security much more secure than it is today, but with the added supplies combined from all these sources together when added to the pool of already existing available oil would make the price substantially lower than what it is today also. While at the same time also depriving the likes of the Islamofascist Jihadists and the Leftist Hugo Chavez?s of the world hard currency in which to wreck havoc and spread their misery.

Never mind the thousands of high paying lucrative jobs that would also be created domestically by the expansion of the oil industry and that would further be a boost to the economy, and never mind the fact that the Left's environmental extremism also prevents us from building any new oil refineries or even building environmentally clean nuclear plants.

And what?s behind it all? Why a lot of it has to do with the junk science that led to the global warming scare and now being widely debunked by new revelations almost on a daily basis, but a lot of it also has to do with a collective guilt complex suffered by the Left because America has been so enormously economically successful relative to the rest of the world, and also a lot of it has to do with the Left?s insane and inane hatred of all things having to do with corporations, capitalism, and especially, God forbid, profits.

Moreover, I?m one of those heavy footed dumb ass Americans driving one of those way too big and way too heavy gas guzzling vehicles that consumes entirely way too much fuel, and I?m not about to change my lifestyle or any of my wasteful habits because some dumb assed liberals believe in junk science and all suffer from some sort of insane collective guilt complex. Furthermore, if you hate capitalism and corporations so much, get over it, move to Sweden or something because that?s your problem and you have no right to foolishly attempt to force the rest of us sane Americans to conform to your idiotic idiosyncrasies. Anybody who professes that they would like to see $5 a gallon gasoline in order to force us to conform to their idiotic ideas of a socialist utopia, ought to have their head examined to see if their pea-sized brain is still intact and not atrophying.

 

Uhm....Flash...the FTC has concluded their investigation and like the other 11 times previously, when demogogued by the Left that the oil companies were price gouging, no price gouging was found. It's just impossible for some people to wake up and smell the coffee.

 

There is no supply problem and there really never has been. You can drill all the oil you want, you still cannot push it through the ancient refining systems that we have now. Right now the only thing that will work is dropping the demand for the fuel. As for socialist remark.. its not I who is asking that the government provide fuel and cheap prices now is it? The fact is that you reap what you sow. You have declared your position about not chaning your habits so just enjoy the prices because it's this mindset that has allowed it to happen to us again. The Liberals get a lot of help from the general public (including the supposed conservatives), when they offer to build a refinery, they get shot down by the LOCALS! The liberal politicians are not stupid, they'd love to have a new refinery whereever they can get one. The people are just delusional and just like the groceries in the store appearing like magic, so does the fuel at the gas station.

 

Kinda old thread, I just had to wonder if anyone was <u>blameing</u> Mr Bush for the recent lower price of fuel? Seems they blame him for everything!

 

Fuel prices ARE down...and they'll STAY down......
...............until the November elections are behind us!!

To quote the words of the immortal "Church Lady" of "Saturday Night Live"...

"Isn't that CONVEEEEENIENT!!!"

 

Hell any party Democrats or Republican, that can dictate the world market of oil for elections need to stay in office if they have that much power.

 

I have suspected since the beginning that the war in Iraq is not about getting oil out of the ground; but keeping it IN the ground. They used to supply 15% of our oil. Keeping it in the ground is nothing new. I saw it firsthand with my own eyes in '76. I worked for a barge line in the gulf of mexico and as we passed Orange Texas it looked like a large city out on the water at night. One week later we came through and most of the lights on the rigs were out. Two days later in New Orleans the Sunday paper's headline read "Oil Shortage". It took those idiots in congress 6 months to figure this one out!
Last year there was news of the Alaska pipeline not being properly mantained. Gee big surprise! The oil companies never keep their promises to the govt. They were supposed to build a natural gas pipeline in Alaska. They haven't. Currenty they have 4 jet engines pumping natural gas BACK INTO the ground.
All of the oil companies have a long history of financing BOTH parties at the same time. That way no matter who is elected THEY WIN!
We will continue to be the losers until there is a serious threat to nationalize the oil comanies and take all this power and greed away from them.

 

Hate to tell you all. We had the answer.

It wasn't until I watch "Who killed the electric car?" that I figured out why we have this need for oil.

This is why you pay a higher price. It's because when a alternative is found, it is truly shot down, and hushed up.

Did ya know that the EV could get up too 85 MPH?

Range of 100 miles?

Could you have used this car?

At first, I had my idea of what a electric car was. I NEVER knew that this type of vehicle existed. If it had progressed like the average car did, the range could have been up and around 250 miles.

Makes you wonder if the price your paying for gas could have been cheaper if these cars were still around. :evil: :evil:

just my .02 cents.