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Originally Posted by BuckNaked";p="
Merlin;
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If this statement were true the price of gas would never drop... and yet it does.
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Let’s use the right words here! The price of gas fluctuates! It fluctuates up and down, but it never drops lower than the last significant increase??? |
Actually, it does, but that's neither here nor there. In any case, it sounds like you are describing a phenomena known as "inflation". For example, in 1920 the real price of gas (excluding taxes) was twice as high as in 1995.
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Actually it means they would not have to pay the costs of importing oil from a far away land.
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So let me get this straight? The reason gas is so expensive (less than eye drops, WD-40), or the reason they tell us it costs so much (less than Jack Daniel’s, or A-1), is because they (I assume you mean the US oil companies?) cannot keep up with the demand, with our limited amount of refineries, so they have to send oil abroad to be refined to meet our wasteful demands!! And without building refineries to meet that demand, it only results in more oil being shipped around the world for absolutely no other reason than, to create the highest amount of profits possible?? And why not, America can afford it, and if they can’t these companies (and their political clout) will be compensated by the government for their short comings, just like the medical, pharmaceutical, insurance, agriculture, and several other industries that use the government to, how should I say it, subsidize their income??? |
I'm sorry, but I'm unable to decipher your response. My point was simply: the more oil produced in the U.S., the less that needs to be imported (a somewhat costly activty that tends to increase the price). Was any part of your reply aimed at that fact?
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Sorry, but everytime someone investigates oil "price-gouging", they come up with nothing. I know you think this means a cover-up, but you know what? Sometimes, if you keep coming up with nothing, it means that there is nothing to come up with. Most recent example? The Supreme Court's 8 to 0 decision (Justice Alito not yet participating) shot down a claim that oil companies were colluding in setting prices. Liberals and conservatives on the Court were unanimous on this one.
Okay, here's the part where you say the Oil Companies bought the Supreme Court...
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Never in the history of the US has there ever been any evidence that a judge took a bribe or had personal opinions that swayed their decision, or ever based their decision on other beliefs such as religion, race, creed, or the simple threat of financial stability??? Right, are you really that naïve, or just delusional??? |
If I am naive, shouldn't it be rather easy for you to present mountains of evidence proving that every Justice on the Supreme Court is in the pocket of Big Oil? I'll just wait for that, then...
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I am against taxpayer dollars being used to fund that research. After all, how much government seed money did the fledgling oil industry need?
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Who do you think funds it now?? The government and the people who use the product!!! Sure as hell isn't the guy that just walked out with a promissory of 1/2 a billion dollars???  |
Again, I'm not sure what your point might be.
My point is that innovation is quite capable of occurring independent of government funding (as was the case with the first oil well drilled in Titusville, PA in 1859). I see nothing in your response that disproves (or even addresses) that.