John McCain just took a big step toward earning my vote by sticking it to the tree huggers and advocating the opening of the U.S. offshore regions for oil exploration and development.
Yep, I’m still on the drill, drill, drill kick. I just filled my tank again.
The article explains that John McCain made the environmental groups angry with his pronouncement. Good.
The only way those groups will be happy is if McCain agreed to handicap our economy with global warming policies, and even then, the Goracle has already endorsed Obama so I don’t think the tree hugger lobby is going to support John McCain no matter what he does.
I’m guessing McCain’s pollsters told him the same thing, so if he can’t get the environmental vote, he might as well get the “I’m tired of paying $4 for a gallon of gas vote.” That vote has a lot more people in it anyway.
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How much do you freaking drive? It seems like the last time you filled your tank was like 4 days ago. Maybe you should find a different way around…
I fill up 4-5 times a month. My tank only holds 12 gallons and I get pretty good mileage, but I went out of town last weekend so I burned a tank. I bought a car with good gas mileage - it shouldn’t cost me $45 to fill the tank.
it shouldn’t cost me $45 to fill the tank.
Hmm, your sacred market seems to disagree with you there…
So much about us running out of oil. Brazil just finds more huge reserves 33K below, offshore. I’m a link whore again, make sure you read the comments (lots of Dinos died at 33K feet under the water).
http://faustasblog.com/2008/06/brazilians-must-have-been-reading-luke.html
Colby, my sacred market has been influenced by 30 years of interference from tree huggers and their bought-and-paid-for proxies in Congress (otherwise known as “The Democrat Party”).
As I’ve said before, the sacred Market wants to increase supply to meet demand. The sacred Market has wanted to do this for three decades. The tree huggers have been the cog in the market machine so when I fill my tank I’m not paying the free market price, I’m paying the price for 30 years of government intervention and prevention.
Simple question, simple answer:
Do you believe that if given some sort of cut in expenses (via whatever method, just that they have more cash on hand), oil companies would decrease cost?
I do not think that would happen, because the most elementary rule of business is to increase profit. Why arbitrarily drop the cost of something that people can’t help but purchase.
Colby, you’re fundamentally misunderstanding how markets work.
Increased supply - through drilling, for example - isn’t a cut in expenses - it’s a decrease in demand which lowers prices.
That would e true if there was a side range of access options for the consumer. In this case the oil companies could quite easily still bottleneck refinement and force the prices way up through supply control; could they not?
Sure, and if they did, you could attack them for it (and I’d be right there with you). A coordinated supply bottleneck would indicate collusion - and anti-trust legislation would certainly come into play.
As it is, it’s the tree hugger organizations that have bottlenecked the supply of energy with lawsuits and significant donations to liberal candidates. So my wrath is directed at them and their proxies in elected office.
