What is the liberal answer? Mrs. BJ Clinton wants to tax the oil companies more. Won't that just cause them to move to another country? Who is stopping us from drilling oil wells in the gulf of mexico or ANWAR in alaska, or building gasoline refineries, or using nuclear power?
2007-11-14 08:43:20 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Liberals always want it one way. But republicans know reality and are more rational and logical. Like the dumbbass who was filling up his suburban that had an anti-bush sticker on it and started complaing to me about the price of gas and how it was Bush's fault. I told him it was his fault for buying a bus as a car. He didnt like it. Tough. Liberals need to be put in their place.
2007-11-14 08:45:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 9⤋
we need to get away from gasoline altogether..
The longer we stay addicted to oil, the worse it gets...period.
A hydrogen economy is becoming more feasible as an alternative. Recently ...very recently.... scientists have developed a method to mass produce hydrogen using waste materials, bacteria, and enzymes... which is a drastic improvement over the current process which requires fossil fuel to make hydrogen. The new process is very promising.
Poking more holes in the ground isn't going to help. Nuclear is ok with me... and as far as building more refineries...well that is up to the oil companies themselves.. They tend to reduce refining capacity in order to ship less and charge more. One thing is for sure though.. currently our economy relies on oil...and in a capitalist economy..supply and demand economics do not work well on things you HAVE to HAVE..like gasoline. What happens is collusion and price gouging without regulation. Deregulation of energy in all forms has never worked out well for the consumer. There is no "competition" in the oil industy..that is the problem with gasoline.
on the issue of tax breaks... I do not think it's appropriate to give tax breaks to oil companies at a time when consumers are hurting and oil companies are posting record profits. Obviously that is not a solution but rather an addition to the problem.
2007-11-14 08:53:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
That's as far as your thinking goes, oil or nuclear? It's the money people, the investment firms and futures traders that are driving the price of oil. Oil should maybe be forty bucks a barrel if you are going on supply and demand alone. There is no more an oil shortage now then there was in 73' with OPEC. Let's just face the truth, billions and billions in profits while Mr. and Mrs. average America are getting screwed.
2007-11-14 08:58:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, we are supposed to be getting off of oil. Remember, we're addicted. You suggest nuclear. Have you heard about Yucca Mountain? Nobody wants the waste anywhere near them.
Hydrogen would work nicely. The transition will be tough on the auto makers and there will be a problem supplying the fuel thoughout the country. Somebody is just going to have to lay down the law and demand it be done. They might have to dish out some major subsidies in the process.
2007-11-14 09:18:38 · answer #4 · answered by BekindtoAnimals22 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oil companies have been raking in record profits and haven't spent a cent on building new refineries. Look at Lee Raymonds pay and $400 million dollar severance package from Exxon Mobile, a national disgrace. "Lee R. Raymond, who retired from Exxon in December, was paid more than $686 million from 1993 to 2005"
2007-11-14 08:52:20 · answer #5 · answered by Zardoz 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
It's not just liberals complaining about the price of gas. Thing is we have to ween ourselves off of being so dependant on oil. There is other technology and we have to start promoting it. And when we do break our national oil addiction, the following things happen: It's good for the enviroment, and our problems in the middle east disappear. We need to promote technology and there is no reason to take anything off the table.
2007-11-14 08:51:56 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Americans are addicted to oil. You don't conserve because of your ego. The average American family will be suffering for decades over this issue. The politicians don't really give a dam because all they want to do is get elected,that is first and foremost in their minds. The economy is in recession mode and all you have is president dum dum saying everything is OK, well it is for him. He will go down as the worst ever. As a Canadian though we will continue to benefit from your dependence on oil, thank you for your money and as see it the gravy train won't stop for us.
PS. We don't have WMD and are a sovereign nation
2007-11-14 12:33:16 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Maybe we could borrow some from this guy in order to finance a drop in gas prices...?
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=1841989
Of course, he made it all honestly...
...not by the oil companies artificially jacking up gas prices...
http://www.usatoday.com/money/energy/2002-04-30-gas-report-usat.htm
If we go drilling in Alaska, oil prices won't drop one bit. They aren't related to supply and demand any more.
http://stlouisfed.org/publications/re/2005/a/pages/oil_prices.html
2007-11-14 09:04:10 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
What did the Bush administration and a republican congress do for 6 years about the price of gas? Anything? Until you answer that don't try and pass this problem off on the Dem's.
2007-11-14 08:49:55 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
For every dollar an oil company makes the US government makes $1.10.
That is why liberals do not want to drill. They can tax foreign oil more than domestic.
Domestic drilling means less revenue wich means less power for the federal government.
2007-11-14 08:46:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 3⤋
cheap renewable energy will change the world over the next 50 years. Oil won't be worth jack because it will be obsolete.
2007-11-14 08:49:43 · answer #11 · answered by Jerbson 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋