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Originally posted by sperbonzo
the problem with blaming opec and the oil companies is that an average of over 40% of the price you pay at the pumps is generated by TAXES. Local, State and Federal. It's pretty funny that the liberals always point to the Bush "oil club" as pushing up prices when these prices would be HALF what they are if we didn't have Libs pushing all the taxation higher for every overbudgeted social program that they can think up.
A price cap? Real easy. You want the price to go down, you don't have to even TOUCH the free market (and all of the nightmares that THAT would cause.) All you need to "cap" is the goverment taxes that are raping your ass at the pumps.
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Exactly right, and then add to that analysis the fact that we're not allowed to build any more refineries -- that's the step in the production process which is slowing getting all that gas to market to meet demand. Thank the leftist EPA and greenies for that bullshit.
Economics should be mandatory, but of course the government has a vested interest in keeping the masses economically ignorant, hence you'll never see real economics in government (public) schools.