Re: It's official. I'm crossing party lines.


"Omelet" <ompomelet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Paul M. Cook" <pmcook@xxxxxxx> wrote:

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"Giusi" <decobabeone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

"Omelet" <ompomelet@xxxxxxxxx> ha scritto nel messaggio

And that needs to be changed! It's f-ing BS that American oil gets
sold
on the commodities market! We need to use American oil in AMERICA
and
only sell off the excess.

We SHOULD have nationalized oil companies!
--
Peace! Om

Cue hysterical laughter...

that's not only a Socialist take it's like incredibly naive and lacks
understanding of a free market. US oil IS a commodity. It is bought
and
sold on the world market to who will pay. If you make it unavailable
on
the
free market, then the rest of the world may decide to keep their oil
from
the US market. Since the US market is the most wasteful and greedy of
all,
that would leave the US with only Alaskan and Texan and Gulf of Mexico
oil,
pretty much.
Better turn everything off, Om, because your solution could flip the
switch
for the entire country. You think "What's mine is mine and what's
yours
is
mine also."

Babe, all I know is that right now, the cost of energy is hurting and
even killing a lot of people.

There has to be a way to fix that.

The needs of our nation, our tax payers have to come first.
The damn Dem's are living in fields of unicorns and have not really
shown me anything that will help soonest.
--

Yes they have Om. They have proposd ending the "Enron Loophole" which is
causing extreme speculation through dark markets. It was stonewalled by
the
republicans. They have proposed releasing oil from the Strategtic
Reserve,
shot down by the republicans. And this has worked in the past. So they
have tried and each time the republicans obstructed it. The republicans
want leases sold with no strings attached and that by the DOE analysis
won't
do anything for years.

The republicans have had years to deal with this and they did nothing.
Now
in an election year they want to make hay with it.

Paul

Time will tell... My mind is seldom totally closed about things like
this, but I need to be shown by _action_.

Actions always speak louder than words!

We need fixes NOW. Not in 20 years.

Conservation is immediate. You can do a lot to cut down your energy bill.
It all adds up. I just swapped out my fridge. My old clunker was wasting a
huge amount of electricity. I check my tires every week and keep them at
optimal, that is saving money. I line dry clothes and that saves money.
their is a lot that can be done and it really adds up fast. It is not 1 big
thing it is a lot of little things.

Paul


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