Re: Gas Prices Are Down: I Told You Price Manipulation Was Involved

WBYeats@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:31:38 -0300, NeoLibertarian
<cognac756@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


It's criminals like you who claim it "good" and "righteous" to steal other mens' property.

But it's okay in your eyes for corporations to rip off the consumer?

When did THAT happen?

Does the gasoline you buy not work in your car? Is it laced with melamine or water or something?

If there's actually gasoline in the gasoline you buy, you can't honestly say you, a consumer, were "ripped off."

Or for hedge funds and other speculators to drive up the price
ARTIFICIALLY for products necessary for most folks to live?

The only entity that drives up the price "artificially" is the government--sometimes groups of governments.

You know, dummy, I'm certainly not alone in my understanding of how a market economy works--it only seems that way here at Usenet.

I assure you, there's a Nobel Prize in Economics awaiting any economist anywhere who can show supply and demand DON'T work.

It's cowards like you who vote themselves chairman of the board of oil corporations, without having the first idea of how to get the nasty, poisonous oil out of the ground.

What the heck is that supposed to mean?

It means that any time you and your criminal buddies decide you're being "ripped off," you convince yourselves that you own other people's private property--Exxon-Mobil, for instance.

You don't own it. Get over it. If you want to steal it, then you should be the equal of your crime:

Call yourself a morally bankrupt thief, and quit cloaking yourself in righteous indignation.

Oh, you mean those wonderful
oil companies who have turned much of the North Slope into a garbage
dump.

Provide proof or retract.

Or those wonderful energy companies that have turned parts of
Colorado and Wyoming into ecological disaster zones every time they
reinstate shale strip mining. You may now return to the 19th Century.

Whatever "damage" you imagine mining does, doesn't exonerate you from most of the blame.

If you listen to his tune, you must pay the piper.

--
Neolibertarian

"Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
---Ronald Reagan
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