Posted on 06/08/2008 8:41:42 AM PDT by TennTuxedo
"This entire charade is to hide a new progressive tax so that the funds can be funneled to a select few who cannot use the free-enterprise system to succeed, they need a socialist tax-and-steal system to prop them up."
and
"To ignore these two countries in any dumb CO2 agreement is a clear indication that this entire thing is a charade, a diversion to pick the pockets of Americans."
Wake up people!
Gas prices are starting to wake people up. But it doesn’t help when energy companies are running stupid green ads
Or amnesty.
We have had one of the coolest and wettest springs in almost a century. Very little midwest corn crop has been planted and will not be planted because it is too late for a decent corn crop to produce yields that are feasable to offset production costs.
This pretty much kills the ethanol targets the greenies have mandated.
Where are we going to make up the differences with $4.00 and probably higher gasoline costs?
The envirowackos have set us up to failure in the energy future and no tax or cap or whatever they want to call it is going to stop the sound of America crashing. They will speed up the crash and it is going to be very ugly when the people finally get fed up and revolt against the government enviroweenies.
What I got the biggest laugh out of was the stupid energy companies who signed on to it because they were promised some of the spoils, etc. Some of them started complaining (Duke Energy was one) when they found out they were not going to get what they were promised.
When you say things like this, all I can think of is going to a store and buying some more ammo.
We know all that. But the money number is way low.
“they need a new socialist tax-and-scheme policy to prop them up”
Thank goodness. someone is catching on. those arrogant, self-appointed brilliant intellectuals may very well be getting exposed as the very school yard bullies who steal lunch money.
just a bunch of no-good scu&bags who hide behind anything they can.
imho
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
—Some dead guy said this a few years before he ended it.
Actually, along that line, these are the ones who steal from the school yard bullies.
“Global Warming Pick Pockets”
I love it.
Socialism, which hasn’t worked for 6,000 years and still doesn’t work (hat tip: Milton Friedman),
Oil company execs responding to the Greenies as if all of us wanted "social responsibility" from them when the reality was that all we want from them is a descent product, reasonably priced. Other than that they're just like loud mouthed stars. STFU and drill!
...for later
When BP started apologizing for being an oil company, it set my hair on fire. I assume their shareholders approved of it but I would much rather invest in Exxon, a company that believes social responsibility consists of extracting huge amounts of hydrocarbons from under ground and expediting them to market where productive people can put them to good use.
The author (Strata) could go a bit deeper. It’s not just the money but a desire for what money provides, power. Power to insulate themselves from the consequences of their decisions, power to dictate to and control others, power to pretend success no matter how morally failed their lives.
That narcissistic pathological desire is nothing new, it’s well described by Dante and Orwell and practiced under a thousand guises. So is the author just now discovering this?
But in my mind, it should terrify every American with even a shred of patriotism than almost half of the U.S. Senate cast a "Yes" vote to permanently destroy the American economy as we know it.
thanks
The rumor is spreading gain that the Fed.gov is secretely requiring all civilian ammo to be made with primers that go bad in a year, so 12 months after they ban it, they will hold all the cards. Anybody know anything about this?
The problem is and will be how much corn, esp. in the ECB, got/gets washed out. I think there will be more of this than is currently anticipated, by a LONG chalk. The sequel will depend on the weather, naturally, but the past week has been distinctly UNpromising.
Motor gasoline is at $4.00 for one reason only: the lack of political will required to chase the pension funds and endowments out of energy speculation. At the moment, these groups control not less than 1.2 billion barrels of crude, as well as proportional amounts of #2 oil (diesel) and motor gasoline.
All it takes to clean this situation up -- ALL it takes -- is one lousy little ruling from CFTC that investment banks, even when acting as agents for their clients, are ''speculators'', not ''commercial traders'' (which of course they are not and never have been). Such a ruling would knock at minimum 20%, more likely 30-35%, off the prices of crude, diesel, and motor gasoline in 30-60 days' time, possibly even faster depending on how the ruling is implemented.
Will we see that ruling? Perhaps, but almost surely not until after the elections. CFTC are historically a bunch of timid and inert bozos imitating regulators. In this instance, they are ignoring their prime statutory mission, namely, to protect mkts from manipulation.
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