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US to Watch for Gas Price-gouging: Bush
Reuters ^
| 4/18/2006
| Staff Writers
Posted on 04/18/2006 8:09:46 AM PDT by ex-Texan
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To: Protagoras
Yours does .. i've read your homepage and know exactly where your point of view is ... speculator!
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posted on
04/18/2006 10:58:50 AM PDT
by
ccc_jr
(Si vis pacem, para bellum - Flavius Vegetius Renatus c. 375 AD)
To: Nathan Zachary
schedule
To: dfwgator
Really? Great!
Uh, where's my $50.00?
;^)
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posted on
04/18/2006 11:01:01 AM PDT
by
SAJ
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Would you rather have no gas at a really cheap price, or enough gas to conduct your business at whatever price the market dictates at the time and place you need it?I prefer gas at a price that gives me some reason to hope that the Democrats won't take control of Congress and the White House.
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posted on
04/18/2006 11:01:10 AM PDT
by
Uncle Fud
(I'm a to hell with them hawk too)
To: flair2000
If you think your being hosed by the gas companies, stop using gas. What's that? You cannot stop using gas?
If that's the case, you just established your demand for it, and are simply whining about the price you have to pay.
To: flair2000
People like Protagoras think we have an unalienable, constitutional right to get hosed by oil companies and speculators and anyone who disagrees gets called a bad name. As opposed to people who think they have a constitutional right to unlimited supplies of cheap gas, regardless of the actual economic facts.
Do tell, what is a "fair" price for gas? Bear in mind that a barrel of oil contains 42 gallons, so the current price of $70/barrel equates to $1.67/gallon, *before* transportation, refining, taxes, and overhead.
To: Uncle Fud
I prefer gas at a price that gives me some reason to hope that the Democrats won't take control of Congress and the White House.BINGO!!!!!
To: HarleyLady27
I'll be doing my part. Summer classes over the 'net, won't have to drive to school every day. That'll be nice for quite a few reasons, not the least are the high gas prices.
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posted on
04/18/2006 11:06:15 AM PDT
by
Ladysmith
((NRA, SAS))
To: 1rudeboy; IowaProf
Another who thinks "free traders" condone illegal behavior. Where does this silly notion originate? I'm a free trader who supports school vouchers. If more kids went to Catholic and other private schools, the economic ignorance of protectionists would decrease.
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posted on
04/18/2006 11:06:22 AM PDT
by
Toddsterpatriot
(Why are protectionists so bad at math?)
To: Uncle Fud
I prefer gas at a price that gives me some reason to hope that the Democrats won't take control of Congress and the White House So you believe that supply and demand have nothing to do with the price of anything, and the only reason that everything isn't free is because the people who produce things are greedy?
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posted on
04/18/2006 11:06:44 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
(Islam Factoid:After forcing young girls to watch his men execute their fathers, Muhammad raped them.)
To: 1rudeboy
there are clearly some on this forum that equate "free trade" with anarchy. And I fail to understand why. Many on this site are opposed to Democrats like Bill and Hillary and equate liberals with lack of structure and regulations. Nothing could be further from the truth of course.
But these people are control freaks and authoritarians first and foremost. They call themselves conservatives on this site, but they favor "order" above all else.
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posted on
04/18/2006 11:08:25 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
(The world is full of successful idiots and genius failures.)
To: John W
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posted on
04/18/2006 11:08:51 AM PDT
by
the OlLine Rebel
(Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
To: Nathan Zachary
Agreed, I was making a point for others. I thought you understood, so I made comment for the economically ignorant who need these little hints so they can have their "cluelessness" exposed to them.
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posted on
04/18/2006 11:11:20 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
(The world is full of successful idiots and genius failures.)
To: ex-Texan
Bush has in his power the ability to lift the ethanol blend mandate by executive order. He can delay it for one year, to give more time for new ethanol production to be ramped up. The same thing was done after Katrina.
Will he do it?
To: ThinkDifferent
There are other products that come from that barrel besides gas. So that figure isn't accurate.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
I believe that $4 a gallon gas will produce a Democratic landslide.
I believe this will happen regardless of whether the oil industry is run by John Galts, Alexander Hamiltons, or Ebenezer Scrooges.
I also believe that there are actions the Bush administration could have been taking for years to increase supply, (not control prices), but has refused to do so.
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posted on
04/18/2006 11:13:14 AM PDT
by
Uncle Fud
(I'm a to hell with them hawk too)
To: IowaProf
The biggest problem with regulation is that someone has to fix the price. Who is going to be that someone? How does he know what the fair price is? As free marketers, we believe that the market is the best way to set those prices. Is it safe to assume that you use or would prefer to use electricity in your home from a regulated electric utility or do you go out of your way to purchase it on a non-regulated free market? Just wondering. Free competitive markets are one thing. Oligopolistic market behavior is not the same thing.
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posted on
04/18/2006 11:13:55 AM PDT
by
OB1kNOb
(America is the land of the free BECAUSE of the BRAVE !! BUILD THE WALL! PROTECT OUR BORDERS!)
To: ccc_jr
i've read your homepage and know exactly where your point of view is ... speculator!You say that like it's a bad thing! LOL
I speculate, I invest, I trade. I love freedom. I love free market economics. I detest socialism, communism, authoritarianism, busybodyism, and anyone who would attempt to undermine liberty and self responsibility.
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posted on
04/18/2006 11:15:15 AM PDT
by
Protagoras
(The world is full of successful idiots and genius failures.)
To: ex-Texan
Oh, brother. This will make the 5,678th time the oil companies have been investigated by the fed for price gouging or price fixing. They've never come up with the slightest evidence of this at any other time, but the sheeple demand we go through the motions yet again.
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posted on
04/18/2006 11:16:35 AM PDT
by
Stultis
(I don't worry about the war turning into "Vietnam" in Iraq; I worry about it doing so in Congress.)
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