Posted on 02/26/2008 4:30:47 PM PST by reaganator
Gasoline is $3.19 here in Ohio today. Is anyone fighting to lower the over reaching, restrictions on production. Is there any hope for the abilty to manufacture gasoline to dramatcally increase in the near future?
If the answer is nothing, what then?
Are you a full fledged communist or just a committed socialist?
Free market capitalism is a good thing.
The law of supply and demand is a good thing.
The correct amount of gasoline which should be produced is that amount which will cause the price to be at a level which will maximize the total return on capital of the producers of gasoline.
This also is a good thing.
Communist or socialist attempts to increase the production of gasoline will not work.
Hmmmm, no responses to your reasoned debate against liberal talking points that substitute for citing any examples or answering questions.
Par for the course, thanks for pointing out some truths.
If a liberal wets his pants, is that the creation of wetlands?
sorry
The most fearsome gang of green ever to vomit words on the energy subject!!!
My veins are pumpin' gasoline
Every time I step on the gas it is way cool
Where and when has it ever succeeded in making any difference???
That's only true because of so many more cars and drivers in the world day by day.
A lot of people are not driving as much because of the price of gas.
That is more than made up for by the surge in cars being put into use across the world.
At a lower price the quanity of gas bought would go up, keeping the profits high.
If oil was being pumped from offshore of the USA and Alaska and the refineries existed to process it into gasoline --- giving say a 15% increase in the supply --- and it was sold at a slightly lower price the oil companies would still make their massive profits and people would drive more.
n the News/Activism forum, on a thread titled What is being done to increase the manufacture of gasoline?, Popman wrote:
Personally, I’d like to see gasoline go to about $8.00 a gallon
Yes, you read that right. $8.00 dollars
At that price Americans will actually storm DC and make our baboons in Congress DO SOMETHING
[snip]
Yeah, great, but how will we get there?
Maybe car pooling will take off...as long as there is room for the pitchforks, tar, and feathers in the trunk.
Cause it's a redblooded American gas thang!!! Giddy yup!!!
FEEL THAT NECK SNAPPIN MUSCLE CAR POWAAAAAAAAAA!!!
ROFLMAO -
Thanks, I needed that...
Much better than what I was prepared to come back to him with: Several years back the environmentalists forced the State to spend $140,000,000.00 to create new wetlands when they built a toll road down the middle of our state. At a big dedication that they were holding onsite, I complimented them for the strategic locations of the new wetlands - they told us how they had studied the topography and the subsoil structure and spent $3.5 Million on the planning. I said that they did an excellent job - they drain all the road grime and any hazardous material spills right into the newly created wetlands which runs it directly into the groundwater instead of the surface water as before. Needless to say, they were somewhat redfaced - very unhappy when a couple of reporters started asking questions about that.
I think a lot of the reasons advanced in these articles are excellent. I'm not up to trying to convince you. Too much trouble since you are not approaching this with an open mind, obviously.
google “offshore drilling+environmental protection” and make up your own mind. I’m not neutral on this. I’m an old surfer. Just having to look at that crap is objectionable enough.
Exxon’s profit is about 10% of their capitalized worth. That is about standard for a large American company.
And where did the surface water previously deposit all that grime and hazardous material? On Mars, perhaps?
Europe’s gas prices are double ours because of taxes idiot. They pay the same amount for oil and gas, they just have more taxes to jack the price up to $5 per liter.
Just in that big sink that covers 70% of the earth - you know, just like we do with all the waste water from sewage treatment plants - instead of into the soil where bacterial action breaks down 98% of it in a couple of hundred feet. (this happens on the surface not the underground aquafers where it can travel for miles)
Environmentalists, government regulation and resistance from the neighbors mean years and years of delays in getting any new refineries built.
Quite simply, demand for gasoline (and Diesel fuel) is growing much faster than the supply can.
People voted for higher prices. Maybe its going to take sticker shock this summer to wake people up to the fact that our politicians brought this on us.
We live in a nation of lemmings that have their world view shaped by the MSM. It ain't gonna happen.
Well I am certainly not going to pry answers out of you.
If you don’t have anything to post (not some link) from your knowledge fine.
You made a declaration, and apparantly you can’t back it up.
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