Oil is down 12 percent for the week...........I WONDER

[kydonky]

Show me ONE that posted 500 billion in profits in 1 quarter........just ONE.

Your numbers are inflated by about 100 fold, but I guess posting crap is better than posting facts.......

Here are some facts for ya.....

http://www.politifact.com/virginia/s...mpanies-raked/

AND who gives a rip if you don't believe the 20 - 28 cents profit/gallon.....READ their yearly earnings reports......they TOO are public record.

Later,

Geo

Sorry, typo should be 5 billion. Still a lot of moola.

Anyway the point is that gouging is occurring. Big oil has no conscience. It you remove the tax, oil companies will rasie the price to the level it was at with the tax. Why? because this is what people will pay.

My father used to tell me Business has no Conscience. When you think about it it is true. Donald Trump does not file bankrupcy, his business does.
Heck I just work here
I'm sorry it's just business.
The whole idea of corporation is to remove personal responsibility from actions.
Limited liability company, ever heared that.

Now there are also very very good reasons for corporations. Who would risk all on a venture without some degree protection. Inovation would be stiffled without them.

Sad but true. Government is the conscence of business. Without some regulations and limits we would be in deep stuff from the bottom end.


Last point. We do not need to reduce our dependancy on foreign oil. We need to reduce dependancy on oil period. Saudi oil is the same price as Texas or Tennessee oil. Convert my car to hydrogen, alcohol or any renewable source. In the mean time lets just make a start reducing the dependance on oil.

[GeoFisher]

Sad but true. Government is the conscence of business. Without some regulations and limits we would be in deep stuff from the bottom end.

THAT is the most single laughable thing I've read on this site in a very, VERY long time.

If government had ANY concious, we'd NOT be in the fiscal mess we're IN.

* Who do you suppose SPENT like drunken sailors.

* Who do you suppose CREATED medicare and medicaid.

* Who do you suppose CREATED Welfare......

* Who do you suppose SPENDS money they don't have and NEVER planned on having.

* Who do you suppose GETS us into messes all round the world ( not that some are not justified.......like the current actions).

Yes my friend.......LAUGHABLE.

Later,

Geo

[kydonky]

THAT is the most single laughable thing I've read on this site in a very, VERY long time.

If government had ANY concious, we'd NOT be in the fiscal mess we're IN.

* Who do you suppose SPENT like drunken sailors.

* Who do you suppose CREATED medicare and medicaid.

* Who do you suppose CREATED Welfare......

* Who do you suppose SPENDS money they don't have and NEVER planned on having.

* Who do you suppose GETS us into messes all round the world ( not that some are not justified.......like the current actions).

Yes my friend.......LAUGHABLE.

Later,

Geo

Agree with some of this ^. But.......Medicare and Medicaid are programs that do protect citizens.

I have worked witha lot of children and adults with profound retardation, cerebral palsy. If it were not for medicaid they would not be in our community, The would be in a warehouse under the worst conditions you can imagine and many of them would not be here at all. Same for medicare, a lot fewer seniors around.

So some may think this would be a good thing. I think Hitler sent the mentally retarded to the showers to purge the unpure.

But I do agree with war spending out of control (world police), deficit year after deficit year and look at the national debt now. Medicare and medicaid have driven up health care costs, but the programs are needed. Some health care changes are needed.

Back to big oil. Look how much money goes into blacktop, bridges, roads, traffic lights, stop signs, road stripping, guard rails. All to use the oil companies product. All this infastructure that has been base on a single commodity (oil). No wonder the have so much power now. So they have benifited tremendously on government spending. Let them pay their fair share.

So I'm not necessarily for less government but more responsible govenment.

[Chubminnow]

Agree with some of this ^. But.......Medicare and Medicaid are programs that do protect citizens. I have worked witha lot of children and adults with profound retardation, cerebral palsy. If it were not for medicaid they would not be in our community, So I'm not necessarily for less government but more responsible govenment.

I hear what you're saying....but right now Medicare and medicaid are both under the radar, being looked at, etc....and this WILL change life as we now know it to be.

I'm still kind of thinking Willie Nelson had the right idea several years ago when he wasn't paying his taxes....heck why not screw the government, when all is said and done they're gonna wind up screwing us in the end anyway...no pun intended there fella's