Posted on 04/26/2005 11:17:40 AM PDT by MikeEdwards
Sure....The oil companies make no sales one day and double sales the next. Sounds like a winning idea to me.
"Let consumer gas prices reflect the real costs including state department policy and the increased demand costs towards basic infrastructure and I would expect people to decide for themselves what frivolous is pretty quickly."
With the exception of those meddling, lace-pants-wearing, hanky-waiving, sniffing, snobbish, foppish, "compromise is always an option," art of the possible, mudheads at state, I agree. Problem is, a free market without government intervention is, at this point, "crazy talk."
Would that the crazy talk side was the reality.
Cheers,
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"...But to blame them (oil companies) for the core problem is just, well, ignorant."
Too true.
The blame for ANY shortage of power, in this country, falls directly into the lap of the eco weenies and their supporters. We haven't built an oil refinery in 30 years, nor have we built one of those cheap (realtively), efficient, and nearly inexhaustable nuc-lear plants since the early 70s!
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The one I am consulting for now drilled 30 wells in just this area last year, and that $60 million investment comes with no guarantees.
That does not include production infrastructure or operating costs, or reclamation bonds/fees either.
Amazing. when they have the money to invest in drilling more which will eventually bring the price down, people gripe about it.
When prices are low and drilling budgets are slashed, people whine (eventually) about the eeeeevil oil companies not keeping their reserves up so the price can stay low.
Sheeesh!
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Don't say that to loud, you'll be called a leftist for telling the truth. I've been plugging holes in my swiss cheese "energy efficient" house for the past two years and cutting our gas use by an average of 20-25% each month compared to the previous month's bill. Yet each month our heating and electric bill goes up about 10%. Cable is up 6%, phone bill up 10%, grad school tuition 90%, health insurance is up 6% and co-pays up 100%. Yup, no inflation anywhere.
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