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What Congress Can Do About Soaring Gas Prices

Discussion in 'Political Debate & Discussion' started by KenH, May 6, 2006.

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  1. KenH

    KenH Well-Known Member

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    Anyone is free to buy gasoline from any gasoline station. If some folks choose a station other than Exxon Mobil that's fine with me. That will just be more revenue for the rest of us. [​IMG]
     
    #21 KenH, May 11, 2006
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    let's all start riding horses. plenty grass out there.
     
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    Unless there's a drought.

    Then the price of feeding the horses rises exponentially.

    Supply and demand , just like oil products.
     
    #23 carpro, May 11, 2006
  4. KenH

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    A period of years would elapse between violating the NPT and producing a nuclear weapon.

    We need to reject the thinking of the neocons and apply thinking that is best for America and the rest of the world to the situation with Iran.
     
    #24 KenH, May 11, 2006
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    Ken,

    How do you see a violation of the NPT as happening...

    That is what would you call a violation?

    What would it look like?

    And, how would we know that it had happened?

    Can you give us reasonable assurances that Russia, Germany or France has not already made under the table deals to secretly transfer the required bits and pieces to Iranian control?

    I would like to believe in "Peace and Safety"

    But, my reading of end prophecy indicates it will only get less peaceful and less safe...

    SMM
     
    #25 SpiritualMadMan, May 11, 2006
  6. KenH

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    How do you know that they haven't done that with Ghana, Venezuela, or any other nation?

    Should we attack every other nation in the world because of the potential of under the table deals?
     
    #26 KenH, May 11, 2006
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    In Venezuela Gasoline costs 12 cents per litre (46 cents per gallon) now.
    When I lived in Saudi Arabia, one fill up tank cost 1.5 Dollar, and some passers by came to my job site and asked if they can fill up the tank free. I said Ok, then they filled up their tanks free.
    I wish we can have that here in North America.

    I receive mails asking to do something for the gas price. We cannot lower the whole gas price, but we can control the market in this way.
    We distribute the mails to hundreds of acquaintances to boycott only Exxon first, then only Exxon will suffer the big loss, then they will reduce the price, thereafter we attack another Oil refinery, and continue that way, then they will surrender. Thereby the consumers can find the controls over the Oligoploy.
    Could you understand what I am saying?
     
    #27 Eliyahu, May 12, 2006
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    #28 KenH, May 13, 2006
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    In the price hike, there is a certain portion of the oil refineries to be blamed.
    Also, in the economics, psychology is an important factor as well.
    At least we can relocate the wealth among the oil industries, which will trigger the action by the losers thereof.
     
    #29 Eliyahu, May 13, 2006
  10. KenH

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    The oil refiners are not to blame.

    The blame is on government policies that have hampered supply by restricting drilling and the range of boutique fuels that now have to be produced in various regions of the country, and the bureaucratic difficulties involved in building new oil refineries; and by what we now know have turned out to be poor choices by consumers in purchases gas guzzling vehicles and situating themselves where they have long commutes to their jobs.
     
    #30 KenH, May 13, 2006
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