Uh oh, gas prices to continue to decline. Sorry, GOP, I know you wish things sucked

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^^ And there will be "unplanned" shutdowns.. God forbid a Gulf Hurricane, there will be nothing on the east coast to pick up the slack. Thank you EPA and the green weanies for the draconian air pollution regs, can't build a refinery anymore.
 
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Btw, are you saying my gas prices are going to come back down to $3.20? from $3.75? Thats an increase of .55 in 4months. Waiting for this to happen should help with my trip to Florida this year.
 
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hog88 said:
^^ And there will be "unplanned" shutdowns.. God forbid a Gulf Hurricane, there will be nothing on the east coast to pick up the slack. Thank you EPA and the green weanies for the draconian air pollution regs, can't build a refinery anymore.
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On a side note...

I plan on reading The Great oil Conspiracy


A shocking investigation revealing why greedy oil companies are lying to the American people.

At the end of World War II, U.S. intelligence agents confiscated thousands of Nazi documents on what was known as the “Fischer-Tropsch Process”—a series of equations developed by German chemists unlocking the secrets of how oil is formed. When the Nazis took power, Germany had resolved to develop enough synthetic oil to wage war successfully, even without abundant national oil reserves. For decades, these confiscated German documents remained largely ignored in a United States where petro-geologists and petro-chemists were convinced that oil was a “fossil fuel” created by ancient decaying biological debris.

Clearly, big U.S. oil companies had no financial interest in explaining to the American people that oil was a natural product made on a continual basis deep within the earth. If there were only so many fossils in geological time, there could only be so much oil. Big oil could then charge more for a finite, rapidly disappearing resource than for a natural, renewable, and probably inexhaustible one.

The Great Oil Conspiracy explains how Stalin at the end of World War II demanded his petro-geologists “dig deeper” when petro-scientists in the United States had determined that the Soviet Union, like Germany, lacked national oil reserves. Russia today has challenged Saudi Arabia for the lead in oil production and exportation. Once oil is understood as an abundantly available resource, there is no reason hydro-carbon fuels cannot indefinitely propel the development and production of cheap energy reserves the United States needs to maintain its dominant position in the emerging global economy.
 
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weren't democrats busy convincing us that the president has no control over gas prices?

if the decline continues -> gas is cheaper. Obama is wonderful! time for a slow jam

if gas prices go up -> not the president's fault. gas prices are too complicated for simps.
 
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dreVol said:
weren't democrats busy convincing us that the president has no control over gas prices?

if the decline continues -> gas is cheaper. Obama is wonderful! time for a slow jam

if gas prices go up -> not the president's fault. gas prices are too complicated for simps.
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was just about to say something like this. you made it sound so much cooler than I could have.
 
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Knuckelhead - It's more of a refining and transportation issue now than crude supply. Yes if we got off our duffs and drilled we could become energy independent for hundreds of years and stop shipping $$ to countries that want us killed off. But if we can't refine the crude and transport the refined product efficiently it does us no good.

A responsible energy policy would include increased crude production AND increased refining capacity with a better distribution network (pipelines). BO and the Dems oppose all of it.

The oil companies as they should to maximize profits for their shareholders take full advantage of this by having "unplanned" shutdowns and interuptions. If the Dems really wanted to stick it to big oil they would ease up on the enviro BS make it a condition of some of their tax breaks that they build more refinerys (off the gulf coast) and improve the distribution network. If you drill down you will find it's better for big oil to have the Dems in charge.
 
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Oh yeah, I'm overjoyed it's "only" $3.60 a gallon. That's still a $.60 increase since the beginning of the year around here.
 
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I kind of liked Ron Paul's idea of doing away with the EPA altogether.

Scratch that. I really like Ron Paul's idea of doing away with the EPA altogether.
 
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dreVol said:
weren't democrats busy convincing us that the president has no control over gas prices?

if the decline continues -> gas is cheaper. Obama is wonderful! time for a slow jam

if gas prices go up -> not the president's fault. gas prices are too complicated for simps.
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Same scenario with reversed roles played out when prices went up under Bush.
 
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dreVol said:
I don't recall the elite media going to the mat convincing American voters that Bush had no control over gas prices.
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Fox News?

But I wasn't really talking about the media. I'm honestly not trying to defend Obama or bash Bush. Just pointing out that the opposing side of the aisle always blames the president for gas prices while the home party says its the market. Should Romney win and gas prices continue to climb the Dems will flip back to blaming the president.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Read the article. Experts say we've hit the high and that summer travel season likely won't cause the run up many had feared.
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OPEC could announce this publicly and I'd still have to see it to believe it. Never put stock in so called "experts".
 
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GOP is attacked-Obama gets a bit of praise. Board goes into ultra defense mode. Lawgator just trolled you guys....hard. Hook. Line. Sinker.
 
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hog88 said:
Knuckelhead - It's more of a refining and transportation issue now than crude supply. Yes if we got off our duffs and drilled we could become energy independent for hundreds of years and stop shipping $$ to countries that want us killed off. But if we can't refine the crude and transport the refined product efficiently it does us no good.
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I agree, but also that's why I said 'on a side note'. Thought you may think it was interesting.
 
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dreVol said:
weren't democrats busy convincing us that the president has no control over gas prices?

if the decline continues -> gas is cheaper. Obama is wonderful! time for a slow jam

if gas prices go up -> not the president's fault. gas prices are too complicated for simps.
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Not a question of who gets credit for it.

Rather, the point is that if prices do not rapidly go up, as had been predicted at the beginning of the year, the GOP lose a chance to blame Obama for that.
 
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