If gas got to $3.00 here I think I might get rid of the truck, and get a freaking hybrid or something. That is crazy!

Aaron

 

That is the way it is structured yes, but the top 1% have more write offs than I do hairs on my head. Im very familiar with it. Im in the lower 99% while my mother and her brother are very near the top 1%. Business owners and those with large portfolios can write off so much that the actual percentage paid is much lower than someone such as myself. That is neither here nor there. Oil is big business and they can do as they want with oil prices as the Bush claim to fame is there oil business. I cant see him allowing gas prices to soar when he and his family are making an absolute killing

 

**** OPEC, we should tap alaska and iraqs oil should be are oil....., all i want is cheap gas. simple as that!!!!!!!

 

Bush's entire family is up to there necks in the oil business. That is the source of their wealth. Im a Conservative, but facts are facts.
I agree that we should do more domestic drilling, but doubt that the Bush's would accept a lower profit margin.
These threads always turn out like this. Arguing Politics is the only time when you can have 50 people arguing and each one believes without a shadow of a doubt that they are 100% correct

 

do a little research folks. Iraq doesn't even have that much oil. do not confuse them with the saudi's. With that being said I do think that big US oil companies are benefiting from this and not just OPEC. I personally welcome it as I work in the petrochemical industry designing plants. We are booming. I will pay $3 a gallon and be happy as long as I have a job. It beats the hell out of $0.89 a gallon gas and the unemployment line.

Now to play devil's advocate here......Bush is kinda turning his head because his family and friends are profiting substantialy from this. Have you seen the quarterly profit reports for some of these oil companies???? He could threaten OPEC to release the national reserves on the market and drive the price down but he won't......why you say.......this is his last term and he doesn't have to worry about re-election.

BTW.....I happen to be a card carrying republican so no liberal **** sucker slander please!

 

joesilver01, you're an idiot.

 

I actually spot a few less-than-well-informed people here.

 

so enlighten us as to why the gas prices are high?

 

http://money.howstuffworks.com/gas-price.htm

 

good reading