Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here.Sadly the Sheeple will not hear these truths.........
No sh*t!
They have not failed! I can buy as much as I want.
I may not like the price, but the fuel is out there
on most every street corner.
Those who claim this lack basic economic knowledge!
Libertarian ping! To be added or removed freepmail me or post a message here.Watching this go on just makes me sick to my stomach! If these Congressmen want to know why the price at the gas pump is so high, they have only to look in the mirror. No drilling in ANWAR, no drilling in the Gulf or off the coast, no new refineries, no wind power, no new nuclear plants, no, no, no!!! Boy, people deride conspiracy theorists, but how much more of this kind of stuff has to go on before people start to seriously wonder if they’re right?
This, from a politician, is hypocrisy.
I wish these oil company executives who grow a pair and tell off these ahole windbag senators.
“Senator, the American people are paying record prices for gasoline because, for 30 years, you and your corrupt, pathetic, clueless colleagues have been taking campaign contributions and marching orders from a bunch of anti-American, left-wing tree hugging communist moonbats. If you want to see who’s responsible for high oil prices, senator, park your fat ass in front of a mirror and take a good, hard long look. You and the ecofreaks you’re in bed with refuse to drill for oil off the coasts of California and Florida, you refuse to build oil refineries, you won’t build nuclear power plants, you won’t extract natural gas from the ground, you won’t drill in ANWAR, and then you left wing morons wonder why America has an energy problem?
The whole lot of you bastards should be in prison for treason.”
This is the speech the oil company executives should give.
And while they’re at it, the oil companies should be running public service announcements on radio and television saying much the same as I quoted above, as well as full page newspaper ads.
The people at DU think that the oil companies don’t want to build refineries because then they won’t be able to have those record profits.
I heard something that their profits were 8%,9% for this quarter or year and Apple had profits of 13% and Google had 25% profits. Sounds to me like they aren’t making blockbuster profits.
In one breath, Chuckie Schumer says if OPEC increased supply by 1 millions barrels a day, the price will drop $25.
Didn’t I hear him say today (yesterday), that if we opened ANWR, we would only get 1 million barrels a day, a drop in the bucket, might affect prices by only 1 penny. Did I hear that?
So how does 1 millions barrels from OPEC drop the price $25, but if it comes from ANWR it only affects it 1 cent?? More liberal logic.
Ain’t no way I would sit and listen to those puffed-up, arrogant know-nothings in congress, be they dem or rep, talk to me that way. From where I sit, congress itself is the single biggest reason for crude oil being at these prices ($130 and rising). As soon as someone is elected to congress, they get the mistaken notion that they are then an expert on everything.
as I said on the Maxine Water’s thread recently, this is
Classic Congressional Hearing 101:
Bloviating 99
facts 1
In just seconds during the Glenn Beck show tonite a 3 second conversation between Glennn Beck and T. Boone Pickens:
Glenn Beck (playing Congress): “What is goin’ on heah”?
T. Boone Pickens: “Supply is 85 Million bbl/Day; Demand is 86.4 Million bbl/day......Price goes up.”
Case closed
ie, Congress bloviated for 2 days and didn’t come up with an answer due to the confrontational method of venom v. capitalism! Blame America, Blame capitalism, Blame Oil.......Glenn Beck 3 seconds to get answer from someone who knows! (not to detract from the emminence of the Oil CEO team sitting across from congress!)
Congress: Busted
America: screwed ‘til we get rid of Congress, and start drilling again!
and the previous post’s Schummer Math is priceless!
My outrage over the hypocrisy by the investigating Senators is beyond the pale. Like they all haven’t been contributing to this for the past few decades. Throw these bums out!! NOW!
well, uh...yes, of course!
but how do you convince liberal-socialists?
The US Congress has Nationalized our energy sector via laws ans regulations.
Not on the Communist model of nationalizing but the German model, the smae form of socislism that FDR liked.
“The German and Russian systems of socialism have in common the fact that the government has full control of the means of production. It decides what shall be produced and how. It allots to each individual a share of consumer’s goods for his consumption.”
The difference between the systems, wrote Mises, is that the German pattern “maintains private ownership of the means of production and keeps the appearance of ordinary prices, wages, and markets.” But in fact the government directs production decisions, curbs entrepreneurship and the labor market, and determines wages and interest rates by central authority. “Market exchange,” says Mises, “is only a sham.”
from a recent post on fr concerning nationalizing our oil industry.
>BLAME CONGRESS NOT THE OIL COMPANIES<
AMEN To THAT! I got sick to my stomach watching Durbin and Schumer sitting on their fat behinds, arrogantly waving their forefingers at the oil execs. Congress had better get with uncapping our ooil reserves soon and bigtime! They are in league with the Devil!
The sheeple are paying at the pump for re-electing and re-electing corrupt pols like Teddy (May Allah Be With Him) and not paying attention. Who reads IBD, or WSJ? Talking heads tell them it’s the evil oil companies (in which the sheeple’s 401Ks have healthy investments, coincidentally), and the sheeple take that as gospel truth. You can see now why Dan Rather misses his job as a National Evangelist. The blood boils.
“We need to get prices under control,” said Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin. “We can only conclude that the oil markets have failed.”
The prices at Kohl Department Stores are out of control in my opinion. Maybe someone should drag Herb Kohl in front of Congress to find out how his markets has failed.