Take that, big oil!

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[American]

What you advocate is stupid and dangerous. Why not charge 100 dollars a gal for gas? Or how about 500 dollars? We are not talking about an every day item that we simply could do without if need be and get on with our lives. What we are talking about is equivalent to air and water and food! Lives and national security are at stake here. Remember the contrived anti-freeze shortage several years ago? It never occurred to the big boys that people could get by without changing their anti-freeze. It didn't take long for them to realize their mistake and suddenly we were flooded with anti-freeze and about one third cheaper than it had originally risen to.
This is all about money, big money and I wonder how many citizens, particulary the have nots that will die this winter from illness or simply freeze to death because of the inability to pay for inflated oil cost. Think these greedy stock holders of these oil companies have a conscience? Think again!

[mac vs pc showdown]

absurd article. period. the writer seems to equate oil, now a necessity of life, to gadgets and gizmos people can live with or without. perhaps those who can't afford gas as prices rise to histerical levels will simply rvert back to the horse and buggy, the kerosene lantern, and the woodstove? now thats progress, America, greatest nation on earth! what we will soon have is a new gilded age, where those who have money have it in extraordinary amounts, and those who don't will live in dire poverty. oilmen are modern robber barons. the writer skips etirely over common sense (the nations well-being, our standard of living, our national security, to name a few)in his efforts to defend big oil.

[nathan brown]

I agree with the top two posts.

[Ghost Dog]

The first thing to do with "big oil" is to stop the subsidies, next, break up the monopolies and bring back the small competitors, especially the 250+ refineries that big oil bought up and shut down. Let competition work, we don't need the robber barons of old, but it appears we have them and two of them are the POTUS and VP.

We are paying Haliburton $300 per gallon for gas/diesel in Iraq. That equates to $6,000.00 for 20 gallons or $9,000.00 per an SUV that holds 30 gallons. We are also paying $7,500.00 per month to lease that SUV from KBR, formerly a part of Haliburton. Something is wrong and we are being robbed, have been robbed for the last 6+ years by the Bush administration. What do Iraqis pay for gas, about $0.25 per gallon, Kuwaitis get it free! Since we "liberated" them, seems only appropriate we get the same prices they do! Same with the Saudis who we went to war for in 1991 to save from Saddam. They OWE US! Problem is, Bush and his family are in business with the Saudis and others like UAE, the very ones that perpetrated 9/11! Unvelieveable!

[American]

Ghost Dog wrote:

The first thing to do with "big oil" is to stop the subsidies, next, break up the monopolies and bring back the small competitors, especially the 250+ refineries that big oil bought up and shut down. Let competition work, we don't need the robber barons of old, but it appears we have them and two of them are the POTUS and VP.
We are paying Haliburton $300 per gallon for gas/diesel in Iraq. That equates to $6,000.00 for 20 gallons or $9,000.00 per an SUV that holds 30 gallons. We are also paying $7,500.00 per month to lease that SUV from KBR, formerly a part of Haliburton. Something is wrong and we are being robbed, have been robbed for the last 6+ years by the Bush administration. What do Iraqis pay for gas, about $0.25 per gallon, Kuwaitis get it free! Since we "liberated" them, seems only appropriate we get the same prices they do! Same with the Saudis who we went to war for in 1991 to save from Saddam. They OWE US! Problem is, Bush and his family are in business with the Saudis and others like UAE, the very ones that perpetrated 9/11! Unvelieveable!

Ghost Dog,
On occasion, rare occasion, you do make some sense. For example, you are correct in placing blame on big business. But remember! They have to appease large greedy stock holders. These stock holders are different from the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. These modern day robbers want to retire under age 40 as millionaires no matter who gets hurt. Anything goes today. The value system is gone. Principals are no more. But where you go wrong is you and millions like you are constantly blaming George Bush for everything! Bush is only a president, not Lord of the universe! Take a good look at the 535 crooks below the presidensy and their massive stock holdings in big business that are screwing me and you. Big business have the little people in the trenches exactely where they want them, arguing among themselves. Blame the democrats, blame the republicans, blame the black people, blame whites and the blame game goes on forever. This will continue until and only until all little people band together and rise up and fight for the same common good. Our future. I can remember selling pop bottles to get 15 cents to buy a gallon of kersone to start fires in our home but we didn't worry about it! Now I worry my self sick over the 1000 or 1500 dollars it will take to fill my oil tank. We working stiffs need to come together with our own agenda and stop marching to the rich man tune.

[country]

nathan brown wrote:

I agree with the top two posts.

Is this the Nathan Brown from Bluff Creek Outfitters?

[nathan brown]

country wrote:

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Is this the Nathan Brown from Bluff Creek Outfitters?

Yep.

[mlc9852]

Ghost Dog wrote:

The first thing to do with "big oil" is to stop the subsidies, next, break up the monopolies and bring back the small competitors, especially the 250+ refineries that big oil bought up and shut down. Let competition work, we don't need the robber barons of old, but it appears we have them and two of them are the POTUS and VP.
We are paying Haliburton $300 per gallon for gas/diesel in Iraq. That equates to $6,000.00 for 20 gallons or $9,000.00 per an SUV that holds 30 gallons. We are also paying $7,500.00 per month to lease that SUV from KBR, formerly a part of Haliburton. Something is wrong and we are being robbed, have been robbed for the last 6+ years by the Bush administration. What do Iraqis pay for gas, about $0.25 per gallon, Kuwaitis get it free! Since we "liberated" them, seems only appropriate we get the same prices they do! Same with the Saudis who we went to war for in 1991 to save from Saddam. They OWE US! Problem is, Bush and his family are in business with the Saudis and others like UAE, the very ones that perpetrated 9/11! Unvelieveable!

What is the name of President Bush's company that does business with the Saudis? I want to check into that.