Are you gonna vote "OUT"?
2006-10-16 16:32:48 · 16 answers · asked by sincere12_26 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
How did you figure out I was Einstein, alannin? Are you a Bohr?
2006-10-16 17:04:36 · update #1
Either the GOP-controlled Congress DOES have control over the gas prices (in which case they are responsible for the price-gouging over the past year), or they don't (in which case, they get no credit for the current lower prices). So if they are claiming that they are in any way responsible for the current lower prices, the question becomes, were they screwing us before, or are they lying to us now?
I don't think Congress has that control. But I think oil companies DO have that control, and are using it to try to take the pressure off their GOP buddies. If the GOP maintains a majority in both houses, prices will shoot right back up. If the Democrats take one or both houses, then the oil companies will have to test the waters to see how far they can go before congressional hearings are started.
BTW: People who say OPEC controls the prices are absolutely wrong. We buy less than 20% of our crude oil from OPEC. The majority of the gas sold in America is refined from crude oil produced by those exact same compaines. If Exxon's crude oil unit wanted to sell crude to their refinery unit for less, they could and OPEC could not stop them. Stop blaming 20% of our supply for 100% of our problems.
2006-10-16 17:37:51 · answer #1 · answered by Chredon 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Are you kidding me? Americans are paying $1.00 for 12 oz of bottled water----that's $12.00 a gallon, we're paying twice that for starbuck's coffee and the europeans have been paying $5.00 a gallon for gas for a decade. In America, the price of gas is set by a competing free market, not by politicians. The only influence moronic politicians have on the price of gas is the outragous taxes they add to the price. Oil companies are making a 10% profit by providing a product we all need. The government taxes that profit and then adds 20+% to the price in the form of "road tax," instead of being upset at the oil companies maybe we should be upset at the government for all the taxes they're collecting on a gallon of gas.
So I'm upset at the government, but not the way you meant, you'd have us elect more democrats that would tax us even more. Bad decision.
2006-10-17 09:47:37 · answer #2 · answered by Ron H 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You can bet that most will vote angry. Now that gas prices are falling, you can almost hear the wheels turning at Democrankie Party HQ. They just figure on heaping on a lot more taxes on gasoline. Since we've all been conditionsed to paying over $3.00 a gallon for gas, we should be used to it. TAX 'N SPEND that's all thek know.
2006-10-17 08:12:43 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I vote for the best person not out of "anger" ... Now that gas is $2 / gallon are you going to vote "IN". Pretty sad when people don't think about the big picture before they vote. Who is going to do the best job overall .. not party politics...
2006-10-16 23:39:06 · answer #4 · answered by MeInUSA 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
"ell since the political people don't control the oil and gas price and we can't vote OPEC out of thier positions, I guess the gas price has nothing to do with the elections does it "
I love how republicans pick and choose which issues are affected by the president. Hmm, it's going wrong? Well, then of course the president and republicans have nothing to do with it.
I guess as long as the Reps keep the gays down and keep up your vain hopes of ever overturning Roe v Wade (which, by the way, they dont care about and they laugh at you privately, at least we libs do it to your face) they can botch up foreign policy, create educational policies that ensure that kids are'nt educated and destroy the environment.
Good thing we'll stop them and you. we always do.
2006-10-16 23:40:50 · answer #5 · answered by mark r 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Once again, this administration has no affect on the price of gas. OPEC controls how much to sell the oil for and that forces the oil refineries to raise the cost of gas. In recent days the price of gas has dropped mearly because people have stopped driving as much. (Supply and Demand)
2006-10-16 23:36:00 · answer #6 · answered by Squawkers 4 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Yup, but not just because of gas pains...
Prices for crude are set each year by the Bilderberg group so they say, this year they set the cap at $150/bbl. That will increase a certain chief executives income (based on last years return) to $10,000/day.
Last year U.S. input to the Bilderberg meeting set the price at $80/bbl, and it came up to very near that limit.
Isn't it amazing that when gas prices go up, the administration tells us they are helpless to influence them but when they go down the same people take credit for it?
2006-10-16 23:35:03 · answer #7 · answered by Gaspode 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Well since the political people don't control the oil and gas price and we can't vote OPEC out of thier positions, I guess the gas price has nothing to do with the elections does it
2006-10-16 23:34:38 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
No & it will soon go much higher. The politicain have nothing to do with the price of gasoline. The politicians wish they did since our economy runs on energy both to make us more efficient & to sell our toys requires the consumer to have energy. Can't capture it all for ourselves. We have to share.
2006-10-16 23:38:57 · answer #9 · answered by viablerenewables 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
OPEC makes the oil price.
USA messes in the middle east
Arabs are getting rich.
There is nothing more to it.
2006-10-17 10:51:00 · answer #10 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋