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To: Osage Orange; an amused spectator

I don’t think an amused spectator was advocating an energy policy. That would be the incompetent senator from Michigan doing so.


73 posted on 05/11/2008 8:03:00 PM PDT by B Knotts (Calvin Coolidge Republican)
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To: B Knotts; Osage Orange
I don’t think an amused spectator was advocating an energy policy.

I didn't post it, but I fell for the media line about "we haven't had an energy policy for the last thirty (forty, insert decade number here, etc.) years.

B Knotts is right - government should get its nose out of the energy business. As we can see, they just mess it up.

After reflecting upon it last night, I realized that our government DOES have an energy policy, and as usual the socialist media is helping their government buddies cover their vile tracks.

The policy is to block many avenues of energy exploration in order to channel energy usage into a few easily controlled (and taxed, taxed, TAXED) resources. Then, the government sticks a PERCENTAGE tax on the resource. When the resource redlines, the government is raking in the dough, due to the percentage taxation.

The media is the dog that doesn't bark in this equation, as I discovered and posted earlier in the thread.

The New York Times had some "big splash" article about how Exxon made 40 billion last year, but nowhere in the article was how much they paid in taxes. That information turned out to be singularly hard to find, though there were a couple of thousand articles pillorying Exxon over its "profits".

But back to my point. The government's energy policy appears to be "gouge the taxpayer" as an alternate means of taxation as the government itself forces energy prices up. Then, Democrats AND Republicans pull the Stabenow Sad Sack routine while Congress is laughing all the way to the bank.

74 posted on 05/12/2008 4:25:57 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Spitzer would have used the Mann Act against an enemy in a New York minute.)
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