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High oil prices: Who's to blame?
Waterbury Republican-American ^
| January 6, 2008
| Editorial
Posted on 01/06/2008 4:01:44 PM PST by Graybeard58
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:03:19 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:03:31 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: Graybeard58
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:06:39 PM PST
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the MSM tells you about firearms or explosives--NRA Benefactor)
To: kinoxi
Nope, I’m to blame. I’m a big speculator and it’s been me that has been bidding oil up. Sorry about that.
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:06:47 PM PST
by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: kinoxi
Slick Willy could have done something to help in 1995 but it would have taken 10 years for the oil to get here.
We could use some of that ANWR oil today.
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:07:57 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Graybeard58
Nobody is to blame. There will generally be less and less oil and higher and higher prices. Opening up new sources will only delay this slightly. Politically driven energy policy will generally makes things worse. The old guy freezing with the thermostat set to 40 will have to move further south or move in with someone else, no big deal.
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:08:47 PM PST
by
palmer
To: coloradan
Nope, Im to blame. Im a big speculator and its been me that has been bidding oil up. Sorry about that. I have to take my share of the blame. I keep it toasty warm in my house in the winter and cool in the summer. (I bet Al Gore does the same)
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:10:04 PM PST
by
Graybeard58
( Remember and pray for SSgt. Matt Maupin - MIA/POW- Iraq since 04/09/04)
To: Graybeard58
We need to be able to utilize our own resources. Any other scenario is dependence. We are dependent due to media hype over (among other things) the caribou and their desert wasteland preservation.
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:10:34 PM PST
by
kinoxi
To: Graybeard58
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is said to have enough oil to meet 100 percent of domestic demand for 25 years, It might meet Alaska's need for 25 years.
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:11:30 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: Graybeard58
We are to blame for not taking the wake up call in the 70s and allowing oil based fuels to maintain a monopoly while refusing to acknowledge that the world’s largest superpower needs to be energy independent. If we had started in ‘74, we would have achieved energy independence years ago. The profiteers are only guilty of exploiting the situation that we as a society created.
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:15:13 PM PST
by
mysterio
To: Graybeard58
That article engages in a pet peeve of mine when high fuel prices are bemoaned:
How much per gallon are the local, state, and Federal Taxes?
In my state a gallon of gasoline has 47 cents tacked unto it due to taxes....
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:15:38 PM PST
by
padre35
(Conservative in Exile/ Isaiah 3.3)
To: Graybeard58
Who is to blame?
Sierra Club and ecofreaks who make big owl stories to stop progress.
Idiot congressmen that listen to the above.
There is 36 Billion barrels of oil in Colorado Utah that is untouched.
There is shortage of refineries and plentiful idiots.
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:15:50 PM PST
by
mountainlyons
(Hard core conservative)
To: thackney
Mr. Thackney, your views please?
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:17:24 PM PST
by
Cobra64
(www.BulletBras.net)
To: mountainlyons
With a Rep congress and Slick Willie at the helm, the laws were changed to allow unbridled speculation on oil. We’re seeing the result. At least 25% of every dollar is speculation. Actual demand is well below the current price.
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:18:00 PM PST
by
rstrahan
To: Graybeard58
If slick willy hadn’t held us up, we WOULD have ANWAR oil today.
We should ask Hillary to apologize for Bill not letting us drill, and that her husband is to blame for $100 oil today.
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:19:58 PM PST
by
tbw2
(Science fiction with real science - "Humanity's Edge" - on amazon.com)
To: mysterio
The wake-up call came about 1948 in the USA although in England it was about 1940. England didn’t do it because it would have been an easy target in war, and USA didn’t do it even though there was $10 billion available because foreign oil began to flood the market.
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:20:09 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: tbw2
we WOULD have ANWAR oil today. We would be a good part of the way through that field.
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:21:20 PM PST
by
RightWhale
(Dean Koonz is good, but my favorite authors are Dun and Bradstreet)
To: palmer
“Politically driven energy policy will generally makes things worse.”
I agree. But isn’t it politics that keeps oil companies from drilling in ANWR?
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:21:45 PM PST
by
ChessExpert
(Reagan dismantled the Russian empire of 21 conquered nations)
To: rstrahan
Speculation should be bridled or just outlawed? How? How do determine that actual demand is below the current price?
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posted on
01/06/2008 4:21:52 PM PST
by
palmer
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