Posted on 01/14/2009 9:39:41 PM PST by JavaJumpy
Saudi's have no say in what taxes a country slaps on it's oil imports or domestic.
By drilling more of our own oil, it keeps demand for imports low, \thus world prices stay low.
Low world prices means Obama can tax gas higher.
Saudi's can't do squat about it. because it's got nothing to do with making a profit on oil. Saudi's would be making the same profit on their oil, because all oil is sold at the world price.
All Obama would be doing is lessening demand for oil imports, much the same as we were going to when Bush removed the order banning drilling.
The only difference is now that Obama is in power, he will realize that it's in his best interest to continue with the plan, because gas taxes are one of the few ways he can raise a lot of revenue.
As he continues to push American away from capitalism and into communism, more and more revenues have to come from commodities, tariffs, manufacturing taxes, consumer taxes because fewer and fewer people will have decent jobs, or jobs at all, making income taxes insufficient to operate the nanny state on.
We Americans won’t even have ANY CHANGE by the time King Hussein gets through with us. We will be like any other third world nation.
Shouldn’t Obama be happy that we are using less gas? Libs don’t really care about progress or the environment. They just use issues to gain power and influence.
Exactly. That's what those Marxist envirowienies envision. We will all live in little grass huts on a tiny 1/2 acres of yard, growing our own veggies, and reading froma single led light at night powered by a car battery, which is charged by a solar panel during the day.
That's what they are forcing all those Africans to do now, rather than allow them to develop the infrastructure in Africa so they could have electricity and running water, develop industry and create employment.
Haven't you seen a UN comercial asking you to buy a African a chicken, a goat, a hoe and shovel? That will be us in 10 years or sooner. The Chinese will be sending us chickens and goats, and cheap chinese hoes and shovels.
Oh, and mosquito nets.
and a package of seeds.
True but would you sell your oil cheap knowing that the country that you were selling it to was going to add a 4 dollar tax?
I would figure that if the economy in that country could absorb that then they could be paying me more a barrel.
There is a wicked voice in my head that says, “I wish the Americans who voted for Hussein, and those who did not vote, get exactly what they voted for”.
The train wreck is just beginning.
The reasons behind this crap must be presented, for and against. Polar bears hunting seals and Caribou looking at a warm line isn't going to cut it. I will ask my Senators point blank what the issue is. This is stupid.
I think some of you people just dont get it. They are trying to BANKRUPT America. It’s over, just a matter of when, not if.
Then we will see $10- $15 gas prices.
The wrath? A majority voted FOR this. There won’t be anger. Dems were open about wanting higher gas prices and dominated in the elections. This is what the Idiocracy wanted.
I want to hear all the comments from the Obama puppets at work who firmly believe Bush raised and lowered the prices at whim to get him and his oil buddies rich. When the Great Spreader makes the prices go higher, what will they say? Probably still blame Bush.
LOL, That is the issue they used to get the votes...High Gas Prices. Hey all of you who voted for The One, get your Vaseline ready and bend over because you’re about to get it.
Pay backs a bitch
They are not that stupid ,they will have a Plan to blame it on the evil Oil Companies, they will not take the Blame, the Media will to that.
“Odumbo cannot be that dumb.”
The African communist doesn’t have to be smart to govern by rote!
Some of them have got what they voted for, and already lost their jobs.
Wonder how many who were so in love with him, idiots and academics, have already changed their mind when it affected them directly. In an un-thought-of way.
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