The best way to lower the gas prices for the American working people is to:
1. Start taking the profits from the oil companies. (So there billions paid in taxes is not taking profits... NOOOOOOO!)
2. Continue to not drill for oil on our land, and off our shores.
3. Continue to let the everyday problems in the middle east decide how much more we will be paying this fill up, then the last fill up.
4. Continue to allow the fact that whenever Iran's dictator (that dwarf that looks like the mix between a donkey and a horse...) for the 543rd time decides to say Israel is a rotting stinking corpse and will disappear in a flash of light, the prices shoots up at least another 10 cents per gallon...
5. Continue to block the building of a new refineries in the country (what has it been 32 years? maybe more)
6. Continue to make it law that 10%of your gas is ethanol, so that now your gas mileage is actually worse and our food prices are starting to surge out of control.
How long can we continue down this road of pure idiocy? The clowns in Washington say they care about us?
I am not Bush apologist... I disagree with probably 85% of the things the man has done in his time in the oval office... but I do truly get a kick out of these bumper sticker liberals that have the: "When Bush got into office gas was..." blah blah.
Yet in 2006 (because they didn't do anything but spend spend spend, and Bush apparently lost his veto pen) Republicans were thrown out, and the good "caring for the little man Democrats" were given the majority in the House and Senate, Nancy Pelosi vowed that they "had a common sense plan for dealing with gas prices"... and boy did they...
...gas has went up an average of $2 since the election of those that care about us.
Both Obama and McCain support cap and trade. Which by government estimates (and we know they always estimate correctly, yeah right) cap and trade will raise gas prices an average of $1.50/gallon... other groups have studied that it will raise gas prices an average of $5.00/gallon.
How long will we continue to allow the morons in Washington, from both parties... to continue to lie to us. Say they care-- yet continue to screw us.
How long?
You think Obama will actually bring Change for the better or for the worse? Use common sense folks. The man has nothing but more government (which is the problem) in his policies...
...and no McCain will not be much better.
Brandon McGee -- is an Independent Conservative -- you may contact Brandon anytime at branlmc@gmail.com
Thanks for your time.
2 Comments:
1. Oil companies are making record profits. I'm sorry, but you don't get to claim it's all "supply and demand" when those who control the supply are continuing to make record profits and hiking prices on everyone else.
2. Any reasonable intelligent person in today's world realizes that oil is not a long term solution to our energy needs. Further damaging the environment for an extremely short term fix is suspect at best.
3. I'm not sure what your point is with this. I think we should get out of the middle east and attempt to use diplomacy to restore stability to the area.
4. Just so you know Akmenijad (or however you spell his name) doesn't have much power in Iran and is almost certainly going to be voted out in the next election there (yes they have elections). Regardless I'm not sure what you want to do with Iran. If you think gas prices go up a lot when he makes some off the cuff comment, imagine what they'd do if we attacked there. Hell, last week gas prices skyrocketed because there was speculation that Isreal was going to attack them.
5. See 2
6. Hey! a decent point! one out of 6 ain't too bad. Anyway, the spirit of making 10% of your gas ethanol is fine, we want to transition off of gas, however I agree that corn based ethanol isn't a great alternative. There are some other forms of ethanol that are significantly better... or we could just bite the bullet, do the R&D on electric and start to promote our grid to green energy.
I am not against profit. I am not against capitalism because it is the best system out there at this time and has given countless billions t how many countries?
Also oil companies make 4 cents profit per gallon. They just sell soooo much that it makes them a profitable company (which again, is good). The government makes 14 cents profit per gallon. Pure profit because it is taxes and they DO NOTHING TO get it. The oil companies work to get their profit. The government robs peter, not to pay paul, to pay itself.
The government also continues to keep the oil companies from doing anymore.
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