“What is your idea of the “right thing to do”?”
Suppose your kid has diabetes. You REALY have to have insulin for your kid. Your problem is that I bought all the manufacturer could make for the foreseeable future (he has a patent and nobody else can make it) and I want to charge you 1000 times the price.
It’s a free market right? Quit complaining, just pay my price and your kid can live...
You tell me. What is the right thing to do?
It’s a free market right? Quit complaining, just pay my price and your kid can live...
You tell me. What is the right thing to do?”
you’re talking about medicine to stay alive. my point about market and business is that oil is considered a “commodity” in the futures market, here and worldwide, as are corn, wheat, sugar, minerals, currency and many, many other things along that line.
It’s tragic that we’re so dependent on, and such vast consumers of, foreign oil - our own fault. AND, we can thank the Democrats in the Senate (Harry Reid, specifically) this past week for their disgraceful refusal to approve harvesting our IMMENSE domestic resources of oil, oil shale, coal (which would yield about 3 times the fuel source as Saudi Arabia), pursuing natural gas, nuclear power, etc. - anything. They’ve put their hatred of Bush above the good (and desperate need) of the American people.
We have untold resources here in the U.S., a lot of which could be brought up and used by us within 1-2 years. The ultimate blame goes to many, many people in power on both sides over the last decades.
But the comparison to insulin or other life-saving drug, I can’t agree with - sorry, respectfully.
You tell me. What is the right thing to do?”
P.S. to that - MY idea of “the right thing to do” is to do what’s right for the American people regarding freeing ourselves of foreign oil - and don’t take my word for it - listen to T. Boone Pickens, a billionaire oil man who spoke to congress last week and concluded by saying that he’s an American first, and an oil man second - he said do anything and everything to get away from foreign oil as quickly as possible - aggressively explore ALL sources and alternative energy sources. He’s totally non-partisan and rightly said that this is SO much bigger than politics. (At least it should be). He’s spent many millions of his own money to get the word out to the country on this, and hours laying out his energy plan to congress.
It’s up to us, and NOT blaming the big bad investors and speculators. In fact, what we do greatly affects what THEY do, with overnight evidence at the pump. I’ve been tracking gas pump prices every day since GW publicly announced lifing the executive ban on offshore drilling. Prices have gone down every day, and since he did that a week ago last wednesday, here in kansas city, as of today, gas is down a whopping 38 cents a gallon - in only 12 days. When I checked last week, already oil had gone down over $20 a barrel, a decrease of over 11%. Now, if congress/senate would work together to agree seriously to support the effort, we’d see the price at the pump drop much more dramatically. Immediately.
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