actually one of the problems is the huge regulation of the petroleum industry. The environmentalists who try to prevent the refineries from being built even though gas is approaching 5 dollars per gallon. Plus the fear that the price controls that occurred during the nixon and carter administration might be reinstituted making investing in oil exploration unprofitable. I hope you start responding to the commentors on your blog it would make it much more entertaining.
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jonathan |
June 14, 2008
What’s behind today’s explosion in gas prices?
If you can figure out the causes, you’re doing better than even the Saudis, who have scheduled a VIP meeting for top oil players for June 22. This move reveals (1) they think they’ve lost control over prices, but (2) previously they did have control. See:
dems just voted against a measure that would have allowed us to drill off of florida (china and france are allowed to drill there, but not us though… backwards?)
environmentalists and the left are the root cause of the oil problem today. let us drill and refine and gas prices will be like they were in the 40s. The policies of the left are what causes us to reply on foreign oil and pump money into terrorist havens. Why empower those animals? seems liek a no brainer to me.
there are more polar bears today than there were 40 years ago. so screw the bears. humans are more important than animals anyway – get your priorities in line.
so in short – lets use our own oil until we can figure out a new technology that is better.
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Anonymous |
June 16, 2008
Liberals won’t let Conservatives drill for oil. That’s the problem. Period.
The Right dominates. Since the late 1970s and Ronald Reagan’s inauguration we’ve seen supply side economics, deregulation, an explosive growth of free markets, the sapping of union power.
The Left is at a low ebb. Liberalism gets its spirit from equality and collective action. That spirit is all but broken, witness the precipitous inequalities in America, witness the disappearance from our language of terms like “the common good,” witness unions at their all-time low memberships, witness the Supreme Court retreating from enforcement of anti-trust laws.
Tolerance has melted into passivity. Energetic leftists of the 1960s, once in the media spotlight, have grown wealthy and cautious.
Not just that. What’s left of the left’s spirit is also broken down into fractions. Watch a peace march, a good place to find leftists, and you will see a sea of different banners, for as many different causes. All of them good. But there is no center now.
The left is in deep crisis.
In Congress, liberals stand to protest as if standing in a small, leaking boat. Democracy, we wonder, circles the drain.
The heart of the matter is that there is no new ideology.
Of course there’s leftist commentators, left wing editors. But no coherent new theory, to unify.
Except here.
Only on this blog can you read whetherexploitationis ethical. Only here can you read about the contradiction between the American workplace – undemocratic and authoritarian – and the surrounding democracy. Read why social inequality is a killer (there’s new scientific evidence). About the long shadow of materialism. On widening corruption. Here the zero-sum concept is explained. Read how, in the long run,exorbitant greed threatens democracyitself.
Opinion is power.
But every year for the last 30 years, debate has faded; the left has almost become mute. Liberals now choose not to confront. Not in Congress, not at beer parties.
actually one of the problems is the huge regulation of the petroleum industry. The environmentalists who try to prevent the refineries from being built even though gas is approaching 5 dollars per gallon. Plus the fear that the price controls that occurred during the nixon and carter administration might be reinstituted making investing in oil exploration unprofitable. I hope you start responding to the commentors on your blog it would make it much more entertaining.
Comment by jonathan | June 14, 2008
What’s behind today’s explosion in gas prices?
If you can figure out the causes, you’re doing better than even the Saudis, who have scheduled a VIP meeting for top oil players for June 22. This move reveals (1) they think they’ve lost control over prices, but (2) previously they did have control. See:
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2008/gb20080613_724623.htm?campaign_id=rss_daily
Gas prices? Today everybody’s pointing their finger in twelve different directions.
Exxon’s CEO recently said normal price dynamics don’t apply anymore, because oil is now a tool of international politics.
Or is it simple speculation (greed) as Engdahl writes? If true, then in an unregulated market, we can expect this is all just the beginning:
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8878
If there are currently no price controls on gasoline sales, what regulations are there?
Taxes, of course. State and local sales taxes have correspondingly jumped, so city managers aren’t complaining.
With food prices inflating, rents high, price controls on gas might bring some proportion back into our weekly budgets.
We’ll wait. Let’s see what kind of profits the oil companies make.
But two truckers protesting fuel prices recently died in Europe. So we’re going to want some answers:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080610/ts_afp/europeinflationprotestenergytransport
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Comment by leftblog | June 14, 2008
dems just voted against a measure that would have allowed us to drill off of florida (china and france are allowed to drill there, but not us though… backwards?)
environmentalists and the left are the root cause of the oil problem today. let us drill and refine and gas prices will be like they were in the 40s. The policies of the left are what causes us to reply on foreign oil and pump money into terrorist havens. Why empower those animals? seems liek a no brainer to me.
there are more polar bears today than there were 40 years ago. so screw the bears. humans are more important than animals anyway – get your priorities in line.
so in short – lets use our own oil until we can figure out a new technology that is better.
Comment by Anonymous | June 16, 2008
Liberals won’t let Conservatives drill for oil. That’s the problem. Period.
Comment by Matt | June 16, 2008