Posted on 04/23/2006 4:37:31 PM PDT by Flavius
On the one hand they call him "King George" and pronounce the administration to be fascists.
While in the next breath they complain that he's not doing more for them.
So, he's NOT the King of America?
So, the administration NOT seizing control of the oil companies and the market shows they are NOT fascists because they can't in a free market society?
WHAAHHHH!!!! ride a frickin' bike, it's 'greener' anyways.
Americans. of course, don't know that the Europeans are paying $6.00 a gallons at the pump. There is an easy way to cut your gas costs: drive fewer miles. Move closer to work. For people shipping freight: send it by train. This will help marginally and take the sting out.
Just asking, but there IS a trip wire that shuts down the stock market in certain cases, isn't there? What about one for the world oil market?
The President had his hands just a little full when he first came into office.
Ha, ha!!! Great satire, but I know some Dem dopes who actually believe that Bush tells oil execs when to raise prices. Your satire isn't far from the truth as regards ignorant Dems.
Fifty years ago my dad bought gas for .12 cents a gallon. The lowest wage here was .25 cents an hour. Do the math. One hour's work bought two gallons of gas fifty years ago.
Today, gas is $2.78 a gallon here. The lowest paid worker here makes about $6.00 an hour. Do the math again.
One hour's work will buy you two gallons of gas today.
So, where is the "High" gas prices per hours worked?
"There is an easy way to cut your gas costs: drive fewer miles. Move closer to work."
So lets see ... sell my $200,000 house in NH, and move to Mass. and buy a $700,000 (thats a cheap house down where I work) so I can be closer to work and save a few bucks diesel per week ... sounds like a winner plan! Yeah!!!!
True I suppose, about the only thing the Pres. can do is wave the EPA designer gasoline blends to free up supplies or temporarily cut the gas tax.
It's never a good idea for the government to artificially impose restrictions on the market.
I personally wish W had the swagger of Reagan and just forced his agenda on the libs, but without a strong GOP senate, he's on shaky ground.
Which incidentally, is a good reason to vote GOP no matter what in the upcoming elections. The only way to get what we want is to increase the GOP majority by enough to weed out the RINOs afterwards... but that's another topic for another thread.
- Such drivel -
It's not total drivel. This is an issue that is hitting every American in the wallet and is bound to adversely affect the Republicans. My disapointment with GWB is that he doesn't take his argument to the people. Why doesn't he address the nation from the Oval office about this and the Iraq war, etc?
If we are supposed to believe he cares, why doesn't he demonstrate that not only does he care, but he has ideas on how to solve problems. That's what Reagan was able to do.
I think GWB is no more inspiring than his father.
Little Ms. Loven usually gets an auto-barf alert...
What would we have him do? Control prices and have supply dry up? What good is $1.25 gasoline if you can't get any? Confiscate profits- and shut down exploration and development? Decree that henceforth the Arabs must sell us their oil at $30 a barrel? How will that work? I hear too many voices in the stores and cafes blaming Bush for the high prices. He decreed them so that his oil buddies could get rich. And these are mostly people who have voted Republican for a generation.
lift the blended fuels mandate, delay it for one year. DO SOMETHING.
Drilling for oil where oil is and building nuke plants is hardly modest these days. However, the Pres is severely restricted in what he can do. He ought to get the Energy Secy out front, whoever that is, and have him beat the MSM senseless.
the specualtive bubble can be broken too.
release some physical oil from the SPR to refiners at $50/bbl. sign a contract with the new iraqi government to replace that oil at $45/bbl, the $5 spread being a form of war repayment.
when the stops underneath all the arbitrage positions get taken out, we'll wring $10-15 out of the price of a barrel in no time.
and from day one - he could have tackled the blended fuel requirements. how many do we have in this country now? we need perhaps 4 blends.
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