If you want oil to stand a chance of going down, the tree hugging environmentalist wackos need to back off and let us drill our own oil in ANWR, off the cost of florida and california, and other places. Its just insane we have oil we cant get. No, that will not solve the long term problem but it will at least help now until we can get alternatives in place. Of course Hillary and Obobo want to put a big tax on the oil companies because they made a big "profit". Well hell, who do you think will pay that tax? The oil companies? BZZZT, WRONG. You and I will. Companies do not pay taxes, consumers do. All a business does is pass it along to the consumer.
Tom Hargrave wrote: > Last I checked it was higher than here. > > Carter put price control in place in the 70s. Oil companies were only > allowed to charge X amount per barrel of oil and the lack of profits caused > research dollars to dry up. The oil crises in the 70 was a direct result of > his actions because with no research dollars, no new sources for oil were > discovered and demand out stepped supply. > > Regan lifted price control which allowed prices to float & profits to go up. > The result was more research dollars which led to exploration and the end to > the late 70s oil crises. > > The oil companies need to make huge profits in order to fund some of the > high tech exploration going on today. And it's only going to get more > expensive in the future. I guess we haven’t learned from the last round and > are destined to repeat the mistakes made by Carter. > > Thanks, > Tom Hargrave > www.kegkits.com > 256-656-1924 > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Behalf Of OK Don > Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 9:29 PM > To: Mercedes Discussion List > Subject: Re: [MBZ] Fuel price! > > Since it's the traders who set the price, even that won't help unless > we nationalize oil like Mexico and Venzuela did -- I wonder what the > price of gas/Diesel is in Mexico now? > > On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Tom Hargrave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Take charge of what? And how do you propose that we control world oil >> prices? >> >> Maybe we could invade Saudi or Venezuela or maybe Canada or Mexico since > we >> import a lot of oil from our neighbors? >> > > -- Kaleb C. Striplin/Claremore, OK 94 E420, 92 300SD, 92 250D Turbo, 92 300E 4Matic, 91 300D, 89 560SEL, 89 260E, 87 300SDL, 86 560SL, 85 380SE 5.0 Euro, 84 190D, 84 300D euro manny, 81 240D, 80 240D, 76 240D, 76 300D, 72 250C, 69 250 http://www.okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new parts see official list sponsor: http://www.buymbparts.com/ For used parts email [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
