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The price of oil has gone up because of the nutbag in Iran talking trash !
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You really need something besides the normal republican talking points.
What makes the president of Iran any more of a nutbag than our president. He saw what happened in Iraq and your president is talking about using nukes to take out their possible nukes ( most experts say are at least 8-10 years away at best) Now that is fucking brilliant.
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1) Oil companies and presidents don't control the price of oil the market does !
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I'm sure all those tax breaks for big oil, and easing of restrictions are market driven. Just like the energy policy that was written by big oil and energy execs in closed door meetings.
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2) The oil companies made an average of 10% profit the last year and Walmart, Google, Starbucks and hundreds of others made 35%-45% profit so
should they pay a windfall tax?
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Where do you get your information? From your thick head?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...072802085.html
Try a 32% profit!
Here's another link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4223573.stm
$25.3 BILLION profit gain. Not gross, but profit.That's on top of their normal $250 billion profit.
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I think anyone is an idiot for paying $4.50 for coffee but that's what the market allows so they can do it.
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In case you haven't noticed, the price of coffee doesn't effect our every day lives. You can not drink coffee and no worries. How is the food that you eat gonna get delivered without fuel. This is by far your most ridiculous talking point.
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Finally, Katrina caused about 70 Billion $$ in damages to oil platforms and pipelines so if you cap gas and oil or profits do you support the Gov't paying for Hurricane damage?
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I think any company that takes in $298 billion in profit can cover the cost of repairing their own tools of the trade. It's called operational costs. If you don't think they had a plan in place for this problem already, you are even more dim than I thought. Let's see, they built all that infrastructure where they have hurricanes every year, and they don't have a back up plan? Please, tell me you don't believe that.
This isn't a liberal or republican issue. It effects us all. These huge corporations don't give a fuck if Joe Shmoe in the midwest has to choose either gas to go to work, or shoes for his kid.
Think about it, energy costs have more than doubled in the last 2 years. Have wages?