Posted on 12/27/2006 4:51:54 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Women, children and minorities hit hardest.
Republicnns to drivers, 'donate to oil companies, or walk".
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Repunlicans changed gasoline laws, just in time for
recovery from the hurricanes.
Motorists paid during the summer,
Republicans paid in November.
When will they go after Big Law? Or Big Abortion?
From the lib god, Saul Alinsky. He devised and proved thirteen tactical rules for use against opponents vastly superior in power and wealth ...
1. Power is not only what you have but what the enemy thinks you have.
2. Never go outside the experience of your people.
3. Wherever possible go outside of the experience of the enemy.
4. Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules.
5. Ridicule is man's most potent weapon.
6. A good tactic is one that your people enjoy.
7. A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.
8. Keep the pressure on.
9. The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
10. Major premise for tactics is development of operations that will maintain constant pressure upon the opposition.
11. If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside.
12. The price of a successful attack is a constructive alternative.
13. Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.
Because of gas prices? I don't think so.
Why would oil companies invest in renewable energy. I think their business is oil and oil exploration. Maybe I am wrong.
Maybe they canb also make the oil companies pay for cheese sandwiches for the poor.
Clinton
Drive the oil prices through the roof Nancy!
The consumer will happily and cheerfully fill up their vehicles at $8.00 a gallon knowing it's for a good cause: "To stick it to Big Oil."
Keep it up Nancy, You really sound like a winner.
Democrats just cannot stand capitalism! They are so stupid.
I can see where this is going. For those of you who don't remember or were not born during Carter's admin, we had double digit inflation, double digit interest rates, massive layoffs, and gas lines due to OPEC shutting off the spigot.
The only difference was we did not have open borders and jihad had yet to be defined and put into operation. With our gutless and corrupt Government, we are in serious trouble. I hope I am wrong, but in 6 months, our economy will be in shambles. This summer we will have $5.00 per gallon gas nation wide and rampant inflation. Furthermore, gas will be in short supply.
Everyone remember, the 2nd Amendment is the reset button for the Constitution. I am a patriot and believe that there are honorable officials in our Governments. I just hope there are enough.
Gas lines and a stock market crash. "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it"
Putin/Pelosi '08!
"I'm pretty sure the government makes more money from the sale of a gallon of gasoline than the oil companies profit on it. Not to mention the ton of jobs the oil company created to bring the gas to the pump. All of which the government gets a piece of their wages too. Organized crime wish they had it so good."
You are oh so correct, my friend. Now put that in the perspective of the statement by our "friend" Rep. McDermott as reported in the story:
"As for oil companies rolling in profits with $60-a-barrel crude, it is ""a break they didn't earn, deserve or need,"" says Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash. McDermott tried to eliminate the tax break in May but was unsuccessful. He estimates that oil companies are saving as much as $700 million in taxes a year because of it."
The only problem is that much like the direct tax on a gallon of fuel (which, as you correctly stated, exceeds the actual profit the oil companies make on a gallon of fuel), the "tax breaks" that McDermott claims the oil companies are "saving," if "fixed" by McDermott and his ilk, will simply be passed on to us as a cost of doing business. No oil company executive or Saudi sheik will lose a penny. Especially not Hugo Chavez and his phony "donation" of cheap heating oil to Joe Kennedy and Willian Delahunt, who both sing the praises of the communist dictator and Castro licker. Through this one act, Chavez bought himself a Congressman and a member of America's "royal family" (pardon me while I vomit) Just us, the little guys that the Dems so want us to believe they give a tinker's damn about.
If McDermott, Pelosi,Reid and the rest of the neosocialists want to cut the cost of fuel to the little guy, they should cut the government out of the equation or use it for the purposes they want to raise additional taxes for.
Gee, I wonder who is going to pay for the costs the Dems are going to pile onto Big Oil.
Gas will be between $5-10/gal in a year.
Oh, and diesel will be at $8-12/gal. Inflation due to transportation costs will be 10-20%. Our economy is doomed as is the country unless there is an armed uprising. And there will be.
I forget .. who was in charge in 1998-99 when those leases were signed?
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