"Posted on 07/01/2008 9:56:49 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, whose nation is the world's number one oil exporter, called on consumer countries to get used to high prices in comments published on Tuesday.
"Consumer countries have to adapt to the prices and the mechanisms of the market," the king said in an interview published by the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassah.
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Already stopped attending movies. Not until the *ickheads in hollywood shutup!
Already stopped attending movies. Will not go back until the *ickheads in hollywood shutup!
It isn’t his fault. He is as always, our friend an ally.
Nancy Palosi et all are your true enemies.
Your wages will rise as a part of the general inflation in process.
For the record, have you calculated exactly how much your cost of living has increased as a result of Gas price increases alone?
Have you calculated the savings over the past few years that accrued from buying very inexpensive imported goods?
That savings will go a very long ways to offset the gas price increases.
This king is no particular friend. King Fahd was a friend of the US. My cost of living has jumped almost 30 percent due to the price of gas alone. I drive 80 miles a day commuting to work. Last months fuel bill almost $600. I had to cut back on use of my full size pickup and buy an american car that gets double the mileage of it. So factor in the price of a new car also. In aerospace your wages don’t automatically go up with the pace of inflation. As far as buying imported goods goes, I don’t buy that many when I can avoid it.
That’s not a house. That’s the Emirates Palace Hotel of Abu Dhabi.
In 10 years he might have a hard time giving his oil away.
Yeah I know...it was hyperbole. ;)
That is incredible.
Get off of your high horse because your complete and total ignorance is astounding.
First of all, NOT having capitalism in the oil/gas industry is what is causing this problem, so save the slogans for someone else. Secondly, it is not at all possible, in a technologically advanced nation such as ours, to go through life without having to pay for gas in one form or another - if this needs to be explained to you I apologize and have pity on you. Third, someone stating a FACT that you happen to not like is not whining - throwing insults around because of it on the other hand is.
If I knew that there was oil in my toilet, I would tell them to drill.
And gasoline still isn't that expensive. We went from paying practically nothing for fuel to paying about half of what Europe pays.
The problem is that when we were paying practically nothing for fuel we CHOSE to buy huge cars and live in McMansions 50 miles from where we work.
>>Anyone who isn’t infuriated by this statement...the joke’s on you.
Not quite. If you’re only getting “infuriated” at the Saudis NOW, you’re waaaaaay late to the party.
And no one really got a fire under their behinds about expanding energy supply, or rationalizing some of the crazier policies, or even to have as much testicular fortitude as the French, who generate close to 80% of their electricity needs via, GASP, nucular.
It’s too bad, we’ve only had at least 30 years to try and deal with the issue.
It hurts, no doubt, but, what the hell, drive less or cut back.
For instance, I’m economising by not getting lap dances!
--Shell Oil Company President John Hofmeister
Testimony Before the Senate Judiciary Committee, May 21, 2008
Who the hell do you think you are? You don’t know me. And show me where exactly I said that I said “save me government”.
Congratulations on being well off enough that $4.20 per gallon of gas doesn’t seriously affect your finances; especially when it was $3.00 not all that long ago. But guess what, not everyone is in a position where they aren’t severely affected by such a large increase in the price of gas. And saying that someone is a liberal because they don’t buy into your view that everything is fine and just as it should be does not make it so.
1) That’s right, I chose to where I live, but I work where someone is willing to hire me. And if someone gets laid off (as I was) and has only been able to find work further away from where I live (as I have) then please educate all of us simpletons as to how it is our fault. Not everyone is in a position where they can work wherever they want. I’m sure that this is also my fault according to your twisted logic though.
2) Gas may be cheap for you, and that’s great! But only a self absorbed narcisist would presume to make such a blanket statement like that and think it is true for everyone.
3) Once again, you don’t anything about me. And once again, only a self absorbed narcissist would proclaim to know that the reason why skyrocketing gas prices are affecting people is because they are poor money managers. And once again, congratulations on being in a situation where you are well off enough where these high prices don’t affect you, or where you don’t rely on gas getting you to and from work.
On a related matter, would you say that long haul truck drivers are poor money managers and living beyond their means now that gas prices are severely affecting them? What a bunch of dumbasses they are for bringing this upon themselves!!
4) And your point is what exactly? I never said that the oil and gas companies weren’t privately owned. In fact, I never said anything against them at all. Perhaps you should pay attention instead of jumping to conclusions about what everyone else is thinking.
As for your statement “if you don’t like it don’t buy it” - well that may be a clever little bumper sticker slogan you have there, but it doesn’t change the facts. It is also a statement based in ignorance since, as I said earlier and as every thinking person already knows, it is impossible to live as a civilized person in an advanced country like this without having to pay for gas/oil.
I suppose now you’ll come back with another witty remark about how this is all liberal talk that belongs on DU. Whatever. Refute it, only with logic this time.
Problem is, nobody in America can do that anymore because of all the stifling and contradictory federal and state regulations that are killing the industry and our pocket books. That was the point that Hofmeister was making when he told Leahy off.
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