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1 posted on 08/28/2003 9:32:19 PM PDT by buzzyboop
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The guy knows how to pander.
2 posted on 08/28/2003 9:34:29 PM PDT by tallhappy
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If the citizens of California actually pass this abomination every oil company in America should announce that they will no longer supply CA with petroleum products of any kind.

It's just about time for Atlas to shrug.

L

3 posted on 08/28/2003 9:35:57 PM PDT by Lurker ("First get the facts right. Later on you can distort them any way you please." Mark Twain)
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There's a good article on Opininion Journal about how the Democrats are driving the people out of Californinia and the rest of the blue states and into the red states. They mentioned that just about the only place in the country that you can still live at the national average and still be a Democrat is Pittsburgh, not exactly a garden spot.
4 posted on 08/28/2003 9:39:11 PM PDT by Eva
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It would be nice if we could take credit for Cruz's downfall...but alas, he implodes on his very own...

Not much fun...(sob, sob, sob)...

DD

5 posted on 08/28/2003 9:46:31 PM PDT by DiamondDon1
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Well the cheapest gas I can find here in the Bay Area is $2.21 and I'm almost ready to agree with Bustamonkey... The issue needs to be addressed, it's just getting ridiculous. We got hit for a $.40 raise in what seemed like 3 days. At this point I don't care what the causes are, be it refinery down time, pipeline bursts, over-regulation or specialized Cal formulations. The latest excuse I heard was "jitters over the situation in Iraq"... Why must I pay for this idiocy?
6 posted on 08/28/2003 9:59:56 PM PDT by Helvan
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Large Breasts wants to regulate oil supplies and fix prices. Funny but the thing is his party's decades old mantra has been "no drilling off the California coast!" But there's no connection indeed between the Democrats pandering to the enviro wackos and gas shortages. Just put all the blame on the eevil oil companies for the situation instead of the idiocy of the failed liberal policy prohibiting new domestic oil production that could alleviate the current shortages and lower the price consumers have to pay at their local gas station. For Large Breasts and the Democrats, reason will not do when you can try to run on demagoguery and hot air.
7 posted on 08/28/2003 10:02:35 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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I wonder if this idiot and others of his ilk realize the last refinery built in the US was in 1977 by Marathon Oil Company (from which I am retired) in Garyville Louisiana.

Since then it has been all but impossible to get a refinery built (the same for new pipelines to transport refined products) in America thanks to the Green's filing law suits ad nauseam to block even one getting permitted.

Anytime the lefty's want an answer as to why petroleum products such as gasoline and fuel oil are overpriced and in such short supply, all they have to do is look in the mirror.

If you like it the way OPEC controls crude today, why hell, you will love it when they are the sole suppliers of refined products, for thanks to the enviroNazis, that is the road we all will soon be forced to follow.

I wonder it the average Joe and Jane will every wake up and demand their country back? Nah. Sleep, breed and multiply, do not question authority, obey, sleep, sleep, sleep, life is good, nothing behind the curtain, move along.
11 posted on 08/28/2003 10:27:14 PM PDT by Ursus arctos horribilis ("It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!" Emiliano Zapata 1879-1919)
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"Bustamante [...] called for state regulation of gasoline supplies and prices [...]"

This quote seems to come to mind when I read something like this:

"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." -Milton Friedman

Also from this story [regarding gasoline regulation]:

"[...] [A]n idea no state has ever tried."

Sure this idea has been tried by 'other states': North Korea, U.S.S.R., Cuba, etc. Does anyone see a pattern?
12 posted on 08/28/2003 10:41:15 PM PDT by MayDay72 (...Socialism kills...Free markets feed...)
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Bustamante on Thursday called for state regulation of gasoline supplies and prices, an idea no state has ever tried.

Not content with chronic electricity shortages, California prepares to socialize the petroleum industry. What a laugh, and probably violates a few hundred interstate commerce laws. Wonder how many in old CA are dumb enough to buy the logic that gov't can control supplies and prices? Short of a totalitarian takeover, it can't be done.

13 posted on 08/28/2003 10:51:00 PM PDT by ARepublicanForAllReasons (Oh, that was what they had in mind all along?)
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15 posted on 08/28/2003 11:20:04 PM PDT by DoctorZIn
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Nothing in this article surprises me at all... he's running hard-liberal or progressive and sounds just like a DU-er. What DOES absolutely boggle my mind is that we have hard-core conservative Freepers that state they will vote for Bustamante if McClintock is not on the ticket.

To me it would be akin to Holocaust victims voting for Hitler... and somehow relating that to "principles"?

17 posted on 08/29/2003 12:35:57 AM PDT by Tamzee (Finish your beer. There are sober people in India.)
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