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03-19-2012, 03:56 PM | #1 | |
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"Sorry, Mitt [and Newt], the President Doesn't Get to Set Gas Prices.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/18/op...myth.html?_r=2
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03-19-2012, 04:31 PM | #2 |
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Oh, come on. Obama is responsible for everything negative and nothing positive.
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03-19-2012, 05:54 PM | #3 |
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My darling Bob had a nice closing commentary about gas prices this past Sunday:
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03-19-2012, 06:14 PM | #4 |
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Well, of course they don't set the actual prices, but they can influence the conditions. All they need to do is invade Iran, Saudi and Venezuela, seize the oil, and ship it back, while making it illegal to export petroleum from the US. Which they probably will.
Simple, really.
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03-19-2012, 06:16 PM | #5 |
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"Sorry, Nancy, the President Doesn't Get to Set Gas Prices.
That has never stopped the "other party" from bitching.
The Democrats did and do the same thing. There are plenty more of them if you'd like to see them.
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03-19-2012, 06:24 PM | #6 | |
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03-19-2012, 08:32 PM | #8 | |
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Pelosi (the Nazi witch, and source of all evil) was speaking in 2007, and then, less than 18 months later the U.S. saw a precipitous drop in gas prices from $4+ to less than $3 per gal. Then, the GOP gained the House in 2010, and back up went gas prices again to more than $4 per gal. Nevermind any financial crises or OPEC production levels, the spells of witches and correlations like that just can not be denied. . |
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03-20-2012, 06:54 PM | #10 |
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How about the $1 Trillion plan known as operation Enduring Freedom?
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03-20-2012, 07:20 PM | #11 |
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You seem bitter.
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03-20-2012, 09:00 PM | #13 | |
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I certainly don't believe Pelosi caused the 2009 drop in gas prices, or that the GOP caused them to go back up again in 2010. And likewise, I don't think Pelosi, Reid and/or Obama are the sources of all things evil. Higher or lower gas prices being attributed, one way or the other, during an election year is a faux-issue. |
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03-20-2012, 09:32 PM | #14 |
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Yes Lamp. I knew. I do not however think that Ibby was aware that "his team"
did the same thing and the "other team" before and that its been going on for decades.
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03-20-2012, 11:28 PM | #15 |
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Put $35 of gas in your car. Something like $5 moves the car. The rest is wasted as heat, noise, and pollution. If gasoline was so expensive, then we would have addressed this problem. We don't for one good reason. Gasoline remains cheap. Not if one is emotional. But the facts and numbers are that damning. Gas is so cheap that we waste that much of it.
Worry more about the price of milk - also approaching $4 per gallon. Some organizations sell future contracts. They must have the fuel. When instability or fear exists, then these organizations consume and store fuel for crisis conditions. That also causes price swings. Normal and mostly trivial price changes that still get so many to become emotional. If really concerned about gas prices, then never buy WaWa, Sheets, Hess, grocery store, US Gas, etc products. Because the actual price is something like 29 cents higher than its posted price per gallon. But again, many are only emotional. ignore facts. They buy convenience store gas because the price looks smaller. Add 29 cents to the posted price. That is what you are really paying if replacing feelings with facts. Last edited by tw; 03-20-2012 at 11:35 PM. |
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