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1 posted on 06/21/2007 12:26:50 PM PDT by freemarket_kenshepherd
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd

Vote Democtratic so we can find out!!!


2 posted on 06/21/2007 12:32:00 PM PDT by ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton (To those who believe the world was safer with Saddam, get treatment for that!)
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To: freemarket_kenshepherd

The press used this same old acorn back in 1974 and 1979.

Why don’t they ask states to lighten up on gasoline taxes, or the federal government for that matter.

No one, in the media, ever says anything about increasing the number of nuclear plants in America; none of them ever talk about building more refineries; none of them ever ask about drilling off shore or in ANWAR.

All they can do is whip up on the oil companies.


3 posted on 06/21/2007 12:32:48 PM PDT by RexBeach (Americans never quit. -Douglas MacArthur)
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1) Communism has the concept of "immiseration" -- it is good for people to be miserable, because it gets them in the mood for revolution. Higher gas prices help us in this way.

2) "Shouldn't you be investing more than one-tenth of one-percent of your total sales?" Is she pulling that out of the air? As he points out, they are investing $2.5B which is a lot more than she's giving them credit for.

4 posted on 06/21/2007 12:33:23 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (Enoch Powell was right.)
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Stupid broad should confine her remarks to things she knows about.....like.....um...


5 posted on 06/21/2007 12:34:18 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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Well, this should make her mercenary little heart happy:

Senate Energy Bill Would Increase Gas Prices ($6.40 by 2016)

6 posted on 06/21/2007 12:35:09 PM PDT by backhoe (Fred Thompson- because No Other will Do...)
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Viera is such a dumb fool. We already have real world examples of what happens when gas taxes are high. Look at how “energy independent” countries in Europe are, and their gas taxes are amongst the highest in the world.
7 posted on 06/21/2007 12:36:53 PM PDT by pnh102
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“one tenth of one percent of total sales”
I believe that their margin or markup on a gallon of gas is 3%, and there has to be some profit for the share holders and reinvestment etc. You can’t calculate based on the gross,but instead the net.But said this way it makes them sound as if they are doing nothing, and the uneducated public will never catch on.
9 posted on 06/21/2007 12:41:53 PM PDT by Forrestfire (("To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society." Theodore Roosevelt))
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Only if Democrats were in total control of government would the media be championing high gas prices.


10 posted on 06/21/2007 12:45:12 PM PDT by weegee (Libs want us to learn to live with terrorism, but if a gun is used they want to rewrite the Const.)
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With a Democrat controlled Congress, and a soon to be Democrat controlled White House, the DBM will now wonder if higher gas prices aren’t better for the greater good. If the Republicans were still in control, there would be no wondering, high gas prices would be a plot to fleece the sheeple.


11 posted on 06/21/2007 12:47:08 PM PDT by brownsfan (America has "jumped the shark")
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NBC Today co-host Meredith Vieira opened her Today at the Pump segment cheering the recent decrease in gas prices as "sweet relief" but then wondered: "Would we be better off...if gas prices were even higher?

Gee Meredith, I dunno. What does your limousine driver have to say about that?
13 posted on 06/21/2007 12:51:02 PM PDT by silverleaf (Fasten your seat belts- it's going to be a BUMPY ride.)
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How much of her profit is she investing in alternative broadcasting, so we don’t have to be exposed to anymore idiocy from a twit from “The View”? Funding animal trank darts for Rosie is just symbolic and does not address the problem completely.


15 posted on 06/21/2007 12:57:06 PM PDT by WildcatClan (Duncan Hunter '08 'Doing the jobs Americans aren't willing to do.')
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Perhaps this twit should give some thought as to how Mr. & Mrs. Joe Sixpack are going to afford getting to work in the vast areas of the country where there is no mass transit alternative? ...or who will pay for the higher costs of anything moved in a truck? ...or who will have jobs when the US economy tanks in response to these higher prices?


16 posted on 06/21/2007 12:59:18 PM PDT by The Great RJ ("Mir we bleiwen wat mir sin" or "We want to remain what we are." ..Luxembourg motto)
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In the interest of reducing our dependence on foreign oil, I propose we flatten every hybrid vehicle we can find.

That way they can't use any oil at all. That should make their owners feel even better.

18 posted on 06/21/2007 1:09:15 PM PDT by siunevada (If we learn nothing from history, what's the point of having one? - Peggy Hill)
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No. QED


20 posted on 06/21/2007 1:52:11 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Islam is the religion of violins, NOT peas.)
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I think we would all be better off if there were a very substantial surcharge imposed on gasoline sold to anyone on television. If that fails to level the price of gasoline for ordinary working stiffs, maybe, the surcharge could be extended (and increased, of course) to included anyone in the movies.


21 posted on 06/21/2007 1:56:18 PM PDT by Continental Soldier
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I think we’d be better off without NBC.


22 posted on 06/21/2007 6:07:25 PM PDT by pray4liberty (http://totallyunjust.tripod.com)
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