Out here in the Canadian prairies, a liter of gas is around $1.25 a liter
and diesel is about the same. This equates to about $4.75 a US gallon.
Since when does any government care about the working people, they are
bought and paid for by big business, always was always will be - no matter
which party!
I wonder how much tax those big multinational oil company's pay on their
billions and billions in profits. I bet you and me pay more than they do!
The ultimate energy source will be nuclear power but that is still down
the
road. Big business cannot make enough money out of it or will not get
enough handouts from the government currently and probably not
"politically
correct" either.
"Mike" <notavailable@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Litre of Diesel now costs £1.20 (about $2.5) here in the UK.
"K2NNJ" <k2nnj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Fight Back Against Big Oil
> By Bill O'Reilly for BillOReilly.com
> Thursday, Apr 24, 2008
>
> So now we have the presidential candidates running around telling
> voters that they will help solve high gas prices. Well, if you believe
> that, you'll believe that Hugo Chavez drives a Yugo. It's just bull.
>
> Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are calling for
> "investigations" into "price gouging" by American oil companies. Good.
> There's plenty of price manipulation going on and, under Presidents Bush
> and Clinton, little federal oversight. If a big oil company wants to
> tighten supply, for example, it's a snap. Just slow down the refinery
> process by ordering some extra "maintenance" or something.
>
> But who is going to investigate Senators Obama and Clinton over
their
> opposition to oil drilling? The Democratic Party has consistently
opposed
> new drilling, and nuclear energy as well. Even the dedicated liberal
> governments in France and Sweden bought into nuclear. But not the
American
> left, no way.
>
> On the Republican side, President Bush has done absolutely nothing
> about rising gas prices, which is part of the reason is approval rating
is
> approaching 20%. He blames the Democrats. Fine. But the President should
> be telling all Americans to cut back their gas consumption by 15%. He
> should be urging us to use less gas. That would at least cut into big
> oil's record profit margins.
>
> Senator John McCain proposes a gas tax "holiday" this summer. True,
> that would save the folks a few bucks, but it would also add to the
> massive spending deficit. The government better start balancing the
budget
> soon before Häagen-Dazs becomes more valuable than the U.S. currency.
>
> The sad truth is that both political parties have sold out the
folks.
> For decades, economists knew China and India were industrializing and
> those countries would demand much greater amounts of oil. Everybody knew
> that OPEC could slow down production and gouge the world if it could
and,
> of course, now it can.
>
> But if Americans would get angry and begin puni****ng the oil
bandits,
> then prices would drop. However, we are often a selfish people. We want
> those gas-guzzling Hummers and SUVs, and we're paying a big price for
that
> above and beyond the sticker.
>
>
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