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WHY YOUR GASOLINE PRICES ARE HIGH | 2005 | Seldon B. Graham, Jr.

Posted on 05/06/2006 10:26:01 AM PDT by SelGraham

President Carter, on January 23, 1980, gave the US oil market demand to OPEC.

The Democratic Congress, on March 27, 1980, passed the Domestic Crude Oil Windfall Profits Tax which was fatal to the US domestic oil producing industry.

Cheap US oil production has been declining rapidly for 20 years.

Expensive foreign oil has been replacing declining US oil production for 20 years.

Expensive foreign oil has been causing gasoline prices to rise for 20 years.


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Why is it that conservatives do not know this, do not understand this, and do not use this?
1 posted on 05/06/2006 10:26:05 AM PDT by SelGraham
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To: SelGraham

Er ... Welcome to FR.


2 posted on 05/06/2006 10:28:51 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: SelGraham
Your links go to a site for book publishing. Got anything better to click on?

Good beginning to the article to start sending as an email reply to all the "Boycott Exxon-Mobil this Monday" emails.

3 posted on 05/06/2006 10:29:56 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
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To: SelGraham

Um, domestic production has been depressed by low prices.

Now that the prices are high, they're doing it again.

But you're right that a windfall profits tax would shut them down.


4 posted on 05/06/2006 10:34:07 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier (Right makes might.)
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To: SelGraham

"(Excerpt) Read more at iUniverse.com ."

What excerpt??? Give a total link please.


5 posted on 05/06/2006 10:39:08 AM PDT by bwteim (Begin With The End In Mind)
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To: SelGraham
Peanut did it long before that by failing to support the Shah of Iran in 1976, turning Iran over to the Islamic radicals, by not pulverizing them when they took our embassy over , and a hundred other delusional actions and inactions. From day one, Peanut was a failure...miserably and totally.

The WPT was just icing on the cake to insure that OPEC's grip would continue.

6 posted on 05/06/2006 11:02:33 AM PDT by PeaceBeWithYou (De Oppresso Liber! (50 million and counting in Afganistan and Iraq))
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To: SelGraham
Carter also made the oil companies who had good exploration sell their oil at less than replacement costs to companies that had little or very poor exploration.
7 posted on 05/06/2006 11:03:16 AM PDT by HuntsvilleTxVeteran ("Remember the Alamo, Goliad and WACO, It is Time for a new San Jacinto")
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To: SelGraham

Don't forget Lee Raymond's parachute. That added 10 cents to 4 billion gallons of gasoline.


8 posted on 05/06/2006 11:04:39 AM PDT by BW2221
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To: BW2221
That added 10 cents to 4 billion gallons of gasoline.

What a riduculous statement. He lead the company for ~12 years and they produce a multitude of fuels, lubricants and chemicals. They generate income from vehicles as well as avaiation, marine transport and industrial petrochemicals. US gasoline sales makes up a very small percentage of ExxonMobil's income.

9 posted on 05/07/2006 7:46:17 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: SelGraham

Hey newbie - vanities are frowned upon here. Post actual newsarticles.


10 posted on 05/07/2006 7:47:34 AM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (FR's most controversial FReeper)
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