Excuse me???
All these points are relevant.
And...so if you get rid of the tax subsidies to big oil companies, and
the price for gasoline goes up, what are you going to do about it?
Increase the taxes? And if the price goes up more?
If your original post said "I feel the tax subsidies to oil companies
need to be discontinued because ... and it will cause ... to happen", I
probably would have not replied. But when you parroted many Democrats'
position, blaming "GWB" and "big oil", I realized you weren't really
looking for a solution, but just wanted to stir up anger against
Republicans. And you didn't think anyone would call you on this.
If you want to blame someone, I'm sure there's more than enough blame to
go around on both sides of the aisle. And how does anger and blame help
solve the problem? Yes, it's easy to get others on the anger-and-blame
bandwagon; everyone's upset about the price of gas, including me. The
real problem is that our country needs to work together to develop and
implement workable solutions for this problem. We need to put every
possible solution on the table and look at it objectively, and pick what
works and what works best.
In regards to "big oil", two things we could do is nationalize the oil
industry (along with the health-care system). Or we could sell off our
oil industry to foreigners and get out of the oil business entirely (and
see what that would do to gas prices).
I wish we could have had someone from "Big Oil" join this discussion to
hear his side of the story. "Big Oil" needs to be part of this
discussion too.
By the way, I think if we could tap into most of our undeveloped oil
reserves, we could make quite a dent in our needs for energy -- not
forever, but for quite a while. And I am not connected with the oil
industry--I work for the U.S. Geological Survey. We are not permitted
to own oil stock.
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