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jerm

7/11/2008 6:46 PM

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I like my egos poached actually . :smacks head: duh... Where's that :doh: avatar when you need it?
-- -A government that is powerful enough to do anything for us is powerful enough to do anything to us. -Fred Thompson -There are two races of people, the decent and the indecent. - Victor Frankel -They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. - Benjamin Franklin Consequences

cleopatra143

7/11/2008 7:34 PM

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jerm (7/11/2008) I like my egos poached actually . :smacks head: duh... Where's that :doh: avatar when you need it? Poached? That's how Nick likes them. I thought that was a yankee thing.
-- "Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others." -William Allen White

Tosk

7/11/2008 7:57 PM

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Sigh ... here we go again ... speculation. Speculation ran rampant in the 70's Oil, Sugar, Coffee ... there were protests there were petitions there were lines at the gas pumps, there was inflation ... what did the government do about it? Nothing! Why? you ask ... very good question ... answer taxes ... that's right the government takes some 50% OF SPECULATORS PROFIT IN TAXES ... then there is the income from import levies ... and even Joe six pack can figure out that the government gets more revenue on a $5 item than a $2 item. Now does anyone really expect that the government, with their newly proposed 3.1 trillion dollar budget, is really going to make any attempt to cut tax revenue??? If you do I would like to know what part of Oz you live in. Writing petitions is not going to work ... what may work, I'm not sure ... but it might, is for every American to go to the ballot box with a single focus ... vote against every incumbent, turn them over and see what happens ... can it get worse than the politics as usual we have now? A forward looking, progressive society, studies the past and refuses to make the same mistakes over and over. To bad we have so many that want to keep making the same mistakes ... it's like every generation of teenagers believing they invented sex.
-- **************************** Mine honor is my life; both grow in one: Take honor from me, and my life is done: Da Bard ... But something tosk would say. Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now they bleat like sheep for security. ~ Norman Vincent Peale~ We don't have to live in the kind of America the two Major parties have in store for us. Together, let us lay the foundations for an America worthy of our Founding Fathers. ~Ron Paul~ Edited:** 7/11/2008 7:58 PM by Tosk

Nuclearcow

7/12/2008 1:36 AM

Udderly ridiculous

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Okay... what does that have to do with what I said? Just not sure where you're going... Mr. Jermed warrior. I was just making a general reply on the topic/thread and was not in fact replying to your post, sir.
-- "For in the final analysis, our most basic common link, is that we all inhabit this small planet, we all breathe the same air, we all cherish our children's futures, and we are all mortal. " -- John F. Kennedy "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." --Patrick Overton "It doesn't matter where you are as much as where you are headed." --Mike Shanahan

jerm

7/12/2008 2:01 AM

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I agree that would be great and all if it happened but it's not. The realistic option is to vote for the candidates who are not in the pocket of the environmental lobby. Correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding of the "futures market" is that buyers purchase oil in advance in order to hedge against even higher prices in the future. They'll purchase $150 a barrel becuase they predict it to be at $160 a barrel when they need it or plan to sell it. This market feeds on news basically. They're betting on it being high. If we immediately started to allow drilling in ANWR, drilling offshore and building Nuke Plants (and any green type plant too) to replace Oil Plants this would mean the future price of oil would be lower, hence immediately dropping the price of oil, even though the actual supply wouldn't be affected for a few years... at least that's the theory. Right now, the number one issue affecting the economy is plain and simple, the price of oil. It's barely holding on right now and which candidates in your area are willing to do something about it? Whoever it is, vote for 'em... I don't care which party they belong to...
-- -A government that is powerful enough to do anything for us is powerful enough to do anything to us. -Fred Thompson -There are two races of people, the decent and the indecent. - Victor Frankel -They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. - Benjamin Franklin Consequences

jerm

7/12/2008 2:03 AM

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Mr. Jermed warrior. I was just making a general reply on the topic/thread and was not in fact replying to your post, sir. Yeah, yeah, kick me when I've already been kicked by Locus . You know when you write something and then you come back and read it and think, "what was I thinking?" That's what happened. Can we drop it?
-- -A government that is powerful enough to do anything for us is powerful enough to do anything to us. -Fred Thompson -There are two races of people, the decent and the indecent. - Victor Frankel -They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. - Benjamin Franklin Consequences

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7/12/2008 2:08 AM

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jerm (7/12/2008) Mr. Jermed warrior. I was just making a general reply on the topic/thread and was not in fact replying to your post, sir. Yeah, yeah, kick me when I've already been kicked by Locus . You know when you write something and then you come back and read it and think, "what was I thinking?" That's what happened. Can we drop it? NO, I want to kick you a few more times.
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jerm

7/12/2008 2:10 AM

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Damnit, my ego's all over the floor...
-- -A government that is powerful enough to do anything for us is powerful enough to do anything to us. -Fred Thompson -There are two races of people, the decent and the indecent. - Victor Frankel -They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security. - Benjamin Franklin Consequences

Scipio Africanus

7/12/2008 7:58 AM

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I'm no economist, but isn't the real problem here that the oil miners or whoever is the step before the speculators sell it to speculators instead of directly to refiners? How DARE they s