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Related: About this forumSo apparently CONservatives want Big Gubmint Nanny State to provide them cheap gas
Regardless of the market cost of it. That's so Hugo Chavez of them! Hey Freepers in Venezuela cheap gas is considered a birthright and you can fill up for $1 a tank, just sayin'.....
It's just amusing to me how fast their own rhetoric goes out the window. They HATE government interference, except when they don't...
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So apparently CONservatives want Big Gubmint Nanny State to provide them cheap gas (Original Post)
K8-EEE
Mar 2012
OP
Only way you're going to guarantee that all that oil will drive the price of gas down
zbdent
Mar 2012
#1
Don't intervene in the marketplace to save American car companies but
aint_no_life_nowhere
Mar 2012
#4
zbdent
(35,392 posts)1. Only way you're going to guarantee that all that oil will drive the price of gas down
is if Obama nationalizes the oil and gas industry. Use the military as guards for the refineries.
K8-EEE
(15,667 posts)2. Another good way would be to develop wider distribution for bio-fuel
The Saudi princes don't like that....if gas stays at this price bio diesel is cheaper.
The GOP wants to socialize the gas prices.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)4. Don't intervene in the marketplace to save American car companies but
intervene in the marketplace to lower gas prices.
Don't allow mandates under "Obamacare" but allow mandates to require women to have intrusive ultrasounds prior to having an abortion.