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Originally Posted by bonehead
The price was bound to go up, but a near doubling in a few years proves there is more than simple "supply and demand" going on here.
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It doesn't 'prove' any such thing. You SUSPECT there's something more going on, but that's a different thing from PROOF, and here's what I suspect: it's ALL about supply and demand., and continuing on with your post...
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Originally Posted by bonehead
The bottom line is that when you have someone tied to the oil industry in offfice, he is going to look out for his oil baron buddies.
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The bottom line is, you're slinging mud and slandering the president without the slightest bit of fact to back up your ridiculous assertion. HOW is he helping his oil baron buddies, and who might they be? WHY would he do so, when he's being scourged everyday by know-nothings like yourself that have no understanding of how markets work, how a politician calculates risk/benefit or how corporations assert their interests to the government.
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Originally Posted by bonehead
I don't hear the excecutives at Texaco whining about the cost of oil. They just pass on the increases, and a little extra, to the consumers while the executives laugh all the way to the bank. We need to put more of our resources into exploring alternative energy now.
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Of COURSE you don't hear Texaco execs whining about the cost of oil; that's not up to them. But increasing exploration/production IS up to them. Thanks to the Democrats, that avenue is becoming more difficult and less profitable to pursue, and THAT is exactly why we're in the place we're in now, and NOT because this president is favoring any greedy oil barons.
But I'll give you this much: you've accurately described how a corporation works when faced with increased costs (pass on the increase to the consumer), though you've absolutely failed to grasp why that must be so, and for this reason I am assuming you've never run a business yourself.
As for putting more of 'our' resources into exploring alternative energy sources, unless the collective noun you've used means that you're an investor of your own money in risky ventures that won't make a profit for years (if ever), I assume you mean public funds. And whatever progress has been made along those lines you may thank this president for, and I'd like to remind you we could have had an energy bill two years ago, but for the Democrats' opposition, and a better energy bill now, but for the very same reason.
Your dogmatic distrust of this president and the oil industry has made you see demons that aren't there, and prevented you from identifying the enemies of what you claim to want.
The Democrats are counting on people like you - ill-informed, reflexively anti-business, and hopelessly, pathologically unable to grasp that the only reason you are able to enjoy the lifestyle that you lead is because this country is founded on a more-or-less capitalist model.