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 ‘Left, Right & Center’: Higher Gas Prices: Problem or Solution?Posted on Feb 25, 2012
Mitt Romney swipes Rick Santorum with his Senate record. President Obama proposes subsidizing energy innovators as gas shoots up 12 cents a gallon in one week. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton offers a show of support for Assad’s opponents, and Greece signs loan papers, but are they refinancing ... or foreclosing? David Frum joins Matt Miller and Robert Scheer as a guest panelist on this week’s “Left, Right & Center.” Advertisement TAGS:
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By vector56, February 28, 2012 at 6:18 am Link to this comment
“This present booga booga against Iran is in my opinion a bone we are again throwing to the oil and arms companies and not to mention the various levels of Wall Street speculators. “
A agree with PatrickHenry’s above statement and double down on the idea that Speculation plays a big part in what we pay at the pimp.
Obama could drop the price of Gas by about $1.50 per gallon tomorrow by signing an order requiring that his buddies on Wall Street be required to take delivery of the tankers full of oil they are holding off the market.
Report thisBy Gary Wells, February 27, 2012 at 6:54 pm Link to this comment
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Re: Blackspeare’s comment
The America that you long to regain never existed.
Report thisBefore WWII, most people lived on farms. The labour
that the wife (and the children) contributed was
crucial to the success of the farm. Teen pregnancy is
as old as humanity itself. In America, until recent
decades, a pregnant daughter was hidden from view.
Perhaps, she might be put in a home for unwed mothers
and lose her child to adoption. Poverty, too, is
hardly unique to the 21st century. What about all
those freed slaves? Gays were underground, but it
cannot be said they lived happy lives. Crime? Al
Capone; Billy the Kid; Jesse James; Pretty Boy Floyd.
Crime is not new either. What you long for, my
friend, is a fantasy.
By PatrickHenry, February 26, 2012 at 8:31 am Link to this comment
If the U.S. withdrew from the mideast tomorrow, especially away from Iran, gas price would fall. The military burns approximately 11 million gallon per day, putting a large dent in this would help.
The U.S. doesn’t buy oil from Iran, yet our U.S. oil companies raise prices on oil derived off of public lands to sell to those countries who buy Iranian oil.
This present booga booga against Iran is in my opinion a bone we are again throwing to the oil and arms companies and not to mention the various levels of Wall Street speculators.
Report thisBy James Getz, February 26, 2012 at 5:11 am Link to this comment
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Why don’t we force all the american made oil and all it’s by-product’s be sold and used right here in the USA instead of shipping oil over sea’s?It make’s absolutely no sense to import one drop more then we absolutely have too.
Report thisBy Blackspeare, February 25, 2012 at 12:18 pm Link to this comment
The USA, as a whole, is losing traction as to what is right and the GOP is just trying
Report thisto regain that foothold. All the GOP wants to do is return the USA to a saner time
when there was only one breadwinner in the family, the husband. There was no
teen pregnancy or crime or poor people, and immigrants worked hard and didn’t
ask for welfare and had the decency to speak English and abortion was a dirty word.
But, above all, queers stayed in the closet and said nothing. What is so bad with
that vision of life in the USofA???