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More from PulseHow long will the oil companies run this country and keep us hostages?
In May, U.S. senators lined up the Big Oil executives to ask them about their corporate conscience! The Senate should know by now that oil company executives have no conscience as long as the Senate allows oil companies to run this country and it. I guess you can say that the oil companies have the government in their back pockets.
I wonder why Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., told the oil profit-making companies that the people he represents are hurting. Wonder where he got that information? Duh! What is becoming of our country? I don't believe that there is one person in our government willing to stand up and stop corporate greed and truly stand behind us, the people.
Between the cost of a war we didn't want to get involved in to a country that doesn't want our help in time of crisis, I wonder why the United States has to be the rescuers of the world when we have starving adults and children in this country, working men and women having to make milestone decisions as to whether to get gas to go to work, pay bills they can no longer afford, or put food on the table; the elderly on fixed incomes (that never go up) can't afford to get medicines they need, pay their rent and so on. I believe if we continue on this road that, eventually, it will catch up to us and we will become a Third World country if we are not careful and get our control back. Our government should take a real hard look at the people in the U.S. and represent them to the fullest.
So, people, yes, get out and vote, but be sure those we put in office will stand behind the people and the USA.
— Ryta Fofanoff lives in Simi Valley.
Posted by cassandra2 on July 6, 2008 at 8:30 a.m. (Suggest removal)
We should tax the bleep out of the $%#^& for lying to us about oil reserves, about funding disinformation about peak oil and global warming, and trashing everybody's environment. Maybe a friendly Court can protect against paying the price for their misdeeds, but Congress can still kick their behinds.
The 800 pound gorilla in the room that nobody wants to talk about--we are at peak oil. Supply is static for a few years though the industry tries to cover its prior lies about reserves by giving figures in "liquid fuels" so that ethanol, tar sands and any oleant but your salad dressing can count.
We will never have cheap oil again. It isn't speculator's messing with the market, though they probably do that. It isn't failure to drill in coastal waters. It isn't those pesky moslems refusing to jack up availability. We have simply reached the point where it is not economically feasible to increase supplies significantly.
And it never will be again.
Posted by mikeb6804 on July 7, 2008 at 12:58 a.m. (Suggest removal)
yada yada yada --- and Cassie goes on and on. We are not at peak oil in spite of what indoctrinators tell you. I have an assignment for you, Cassie. Can you make one input giving good words to the U S of A? Maybe even one of your extra long paragraphs? C'mon, say something good!
Posted by sslocal on July 7, 2008 at 12:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Does nobody ever give thought to how much money we pump into saving endangered critters?
How much has the public given to protect the Condor? How about the Channel Islands? No one ever questions how much money we pump into this stuff but god forbid we should give the military more money. Or let the oil companies do their job by finding more oil.
No, lets just sit back and complain about how horrible the conservatives are.
You folks need to get a life and change the focus of your delusion
Posted by mikeb6804 on July 7, 2008 at 12:55 p.m. (Suggest removal)
ss--I'm with you!
Posted by nelsonknows on July 8, 2008 at 9:45 p.m. (Suggest removal)
ANYONE who thinks Democrats care about gas prices is either naive or has lost their mind. Democrats, take a long look at Democrats in Congress, the 25 Wealthiest members of Congress are ALL DEMOCRATS and they are highly invested in oil.
Take a look at the California Legislature, the Richest there are ALSO Democrats that are invested in oil to their eyebrows.
I worked in the oil business for 6 years and I agree, the oil companies from the exporters to the retailers have stuck it to the American People but it's not just us. Gas prices are through the roof WORLDWIDE!
It started just before Hurricane Katrina and I have testified personally that the pipeline from Amarillo TX to Butler Mo was shut down on 25 August 2005, fully 4 days before Katrina struck the gulf coast.
Face it folks, more taxes on oil companies are just going to drive up the cost even more. Let the oil industry drill and refine oil until it's coming out of their ears, THEN if the prices don't go down, even Conservatives will be for some kind of regulation.
Start NOW, heck we should have started 27 years ago but tree huggers and leftists have fought drilling and refining at every step.
We need nuclear power plants, wave and tidal plants, heck, everything the left doesn't want will contribute to weaning us off of oil.
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