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> "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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John Gangl wrote:
> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> "Mike" <notavailable@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> 1 Litre of Diesel now costs £1.20 (about $2.5) here in the UK.
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Last year when Exxon was blasted for making ~$10B profit in a quarter I
read that they made about $3B in US sales $7B in international sales,
and paid ~$4B in US taxes about 40%, they paid more in taxes then they
made in US sales.
Also on worldnetdaily there are a few articles of people making oil from
organic waste, ie. trash, leaves, grass clippings etc.
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