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To: aShepard

Time for the Free Traders to chime in and insist that Exxon is just a buncha good ole boys never meanin' no harm, and that we should be glad to pay whatever they ask for gas because they're shining examples of the capitalist ideal.


7 posted on 04/14/2006 1:25:18 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: IronJack
The problem here isn't gas prices or profit, it's executive compensation. Exxon is the largest oil company in the world, so it's not a part time job running that organization, but doesn't this seem a bit excessive?
57 posted on 04/14/2006 1:45:29 PM PDT by txroadhawg ("Stuck on stupid? I invented stupid! " Al Gore)
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"we should be glad to pay whatever they ask for gas"
Don't pay for gas - use biodiesel, get powered by moonshine or fly a broom instead. Or maybe Hugo Chavez will take pity at you and give you some subsidized gas.
59 posted on 04/14/2006 1:46:46 PM PDT by GSlob
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To: IronJack

Let's see...We can't have an Arab owned company running a terminal facility....We can't have illegals INVADING our country....and We can't have CEOs getting great compensation packages from multinational corporations. Is a trend developing here on FR?


131 posted on 04/14/2006 2:19:39 PM PDT by Don'tMessWithTexas
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To: IronJack
Time for the Free Traders to chime in and insist that Exxon is just a buncha good ole boys never meanin' no harm

LOLOL

167 posted on 04/14/2006 2:32:57 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (A nickel bag gets sold in the park. I WANT IN!)
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To: IronJack

"Time for the Free Traders to chime in and insist that Exxon is just a buncha good ole boys never meanin' no harm, and that we should be glad to pay whatever they ask for gas because they're shining examples of the capitalist ideal."

Yup. Shining examples. And when someone creates something that works better, we will buy that.

If you don't like Exxon, go to Shell and pay it there. Or maybe Texaco, or BP or Citgo. Then again, maybe we should drill off our shores and lessen our dependence on foreign oil. Or maybe get rid of gasoline taxes and boutique gasolines which drive proces higher.

Amazing, the left said we went to Iraq to steal their oil, yet prices are rising and we don't have their oil.


213 posted on 04/14/2006 3:03:43 PM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (To Serve Man......It's a cookbook!)
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To: IronJack
[Time for the Free Traders to chime in and insist that Exxon is just a buncha good ole boys never meanin' no harm, and that we should be glad to pay whatever they ask for gas because they're shining examples of the capitalist ideal.]


I'll get right on it... as soon as the Anti-Free Market bozos finish whining about how the government needs to step in and control the price of gas and limit how much money oil companies and their employees make.
302 posted on 04/14/2006 3:44:01 PM PDT by spinestein (The mainstream news media are to journalism what fast food chains are to fine dining.)
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To: IronJack

Yep...


359 posted on 04/14/2006 4:05:22 PM PDT by dakine
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To: IronJack

Time for the Free Traders to chime in and insist that Exxon is just a buncha good ole boys never meanin' no harm, and that we should be glad to pay whatever they ask for gas because they're shining examples of the capitalist ideal.




Posts 14, 20, and 22 , to be exact, although I haven't finished reading the thread yet. It's like clockwork. Gas jumped again today (that's twice in one week) to $2.84 a gallon today in Northwest Ohio.


551 posted on 04/14/2006 9:21:41 PM PDT by The Foolkiller (BSXL* The year the NFL became irrelevant..)
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To: IronJack

Gee I thought Free Republic was a Conservative Website. Surprise to find someone like you here pushing Socialist Class Warfare dogma.


575 posted on 04/15/2006 6:56:00 AM PDT by MNJohnnie (The Democrat Party. For those who value slogans over solutions.)
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To: IronJack

Then don't buy their gas.


600 posted on 04/16/2006 4:32:32 PM PDT by SteveMcKing
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