Panic over Gas Prices?
CanAm1 @ Thu Jun 19, 2008 1:41 pm
Benoit Benoit:
CanAm1 CanAm1:
Rationalist Rationalist:
If people will make their voting choice based on which candidate promises lower fuel prices, it would be a bad day for democracy. It seems with this whole campaign in the US, populist rhetoric is really on the rise.
My dilema is that John McCain is the least Liberal of the Democrats, there really is no Ronald Regan to vote for, not even a conservative. The best thing that could happen to the US is for McCain to get elected and that is a weak arguement for a true conservative to have to make.
Obama while nice seems to me to be too nice. He seems contrived, he seems phony. Not counting the fact that he has no experience at all. I really think he would crumble in a time of important decision making like when and who to go to war with, and be a giant talker on everything. There is certainly a time for talking and a time for action. I don't think he will ever be an action taker. I think he will be a Jimmy Carter or a Neville Chamberlain when it comes to being faced with a tough decision. I hope I am wrong if he does get elected.
I really don't think the American People are ready for him to be president.
Diplomacy can be as effective to stabilize oil price as warring.
Agreed but if and when it ever comes time to make a decision on War, Obama won't have the tostitos to make it. My response was actually in response to the election being based on rhetoric.
Pseudonym @ Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:11 pm
Benoit Benoit:
Pseudonym Pseudonym:
Alaska's Republican Senators are some of the worst if not the worst pork-barrel spending senators in the US.
So don't be naive to expect the price of gas to decrease by drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
It might also be nice if we refined that petroleum into gasoline and increased the supply. Gotcha.
Benoit @ Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:56 pm
Pseudonym Pseudonym:
Benoit Benoit:
Pseudonym Pseudonym:
Alaska's Republican Senators are some of the worst if not the worst pork-barrel spending senators in the US.
So don't be naive to expect the price of gas to decrease by drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
It might also be nice if we refined that petroleum into gasoline and increased the supply. Gotcha.
If we want to direct capital toward new refining capacities, we have to break open these big secretive horizontally and vertically-integrated oil organizations to create more perfect market competition.
dog77_1999 @ Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:09 pm
CanAm1 CanAm1:
Rationalist Rationalist:
If people will make their voting choice based on which candidate promises lower fuel prices, it would be a bad day for democracy. It seems with this whole campaign in the US, populist rhetoric is really on the rise.
My dilema is that John McCain is the least Liberal of the Democrats, there really is no Ronald Regan to vote for, not even a conservative. The best thing that could happen to the US is for McCain to get elected and that is a weak arguement for a true conservative to have to make.
Obama while nice seems to me to be too nice. He seems contrived, he seems phony. Not counting the fact that he has no experience at all. I really think he would crumble in a time of important decision making like when and who to go to war with, and be a giant talker on everything. There is certainly a time for talking and a time for action. I don't think he will ever be an action taker. I think he will be a Jimmy Carter or a Neville Chamberlain when it comes to being faced with a tough decision. I hope I am wrong if he does get elected.
I really don't think the American People are ready for him to be president.
I am in that same dilema. I want an economic conservative, but one does not exist in this race. The Republicans have abandoned this platform. I think a decisive Obama win this time around along with a another beating in Congress would do the Republicans good. Perhaps get rid of this Neoconservative crap that has been festering over the past decade.
It would work because it doesn't matter who is President this time around because the damage to the economy will occur regardless who is in power. But voters won't understand and blame whoever is in office.
Pseudonym @ Fri Jun 20, 2008 7:20 am
I considered taking that position, but the Republicans seem to have failed to learn from 2006, so I am not sure if they will learn from failure so much as angry phone calls, like the situation that occurred with the McCain-Kennedy immigration fiasco.
Benoit @ Fri Jun 20, 2008 9:13 am
The Right should be blame more than the Left for high gas price because, since the Industrial Revolution (1750), the privileges of the rich are based on a hyperactive capitalistic mode of production.
Pseudonym @ Fri Jun 20, 2008 11:08 am
*reads through that a few times*
What?
Benoit @ Fri Jun 20, 2008 2:35 pm
Pseudonym Pseudonym:
*reads through that a few times*
What?
What?
Compare to traditional society, modern society has only made slavery more subtle. A typical modern slave will say his work forces him to consume gas.