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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 02:44 PM Original message |
What *can* we do to oil speculators? What *should* we do to oil speculators? |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 02:58 PM Response to Original message |
1. WE should nationalize our energy industry. Make long term contracts for our oil and other energy |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:06 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. Ok, but our domestic oil resources peaked in the 70's. |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. What part of "Make long term contracts" don't you understand? |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
18. Make long term contracts with whom? |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 04:36 PM Response to Reply #18 |
24. China buys its' oil on long term contracts. Why not US? OR do you have a problem with a rational |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 06:20 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. No problem at all but I do not see this as being a way to reduce |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 06:24 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. China's oil policy is fucked up. Do you support their crash program to deliver cheap oil? |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 06:33 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. I put more miles on my horse than my pick up truck. Project much? Why do y'all |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 06:36 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. And you expect us to support your horse-driven lifestyle by subsidizing the cost of manure? |
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Super Soaker Sniper (332 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 06:52 PM Response to Reply #31 |
32. Didn't we secure a promise |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. Rather like we bailed out the railroads at the nadir of the coal economy and bailed airlines in 2001 |
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taterguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:05 PM Response to Original message |
2. Screw up their scheme by not buying gas |
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Imagevision (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:06 PM Response to Original message |
4. Saudi Arabia stated this morning it was US. speculators driving up the oil costs... |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:07 PM Response to Original message |
5. How about kestrel's stock solution to ALL problems on the right? |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
6. Nothing. Trying to drive down the price of oil goes against everything the Enviro movement has been |
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Redstone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:16 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. Yes, indeed. Much as I'd like to see those parasites taken outside and shot, |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:20 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. My solution is commodity investment co-ops. |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:15 PM Response to Original message |
7. firing squads |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:19 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Nationalize oil to make it cheap? |
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leftofthedial (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:30 PM Response to Reply #10 |
13. I didn't say to artificially make it cheap |
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Vincardog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:31 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Who said anything about keeping oil cheap? The OP asked what to do about speculators. |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
15. nationalize the energy industry. until then we are fucked. |
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NewJeffCT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
16. Require more margin from the speculators |
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Truth2Tell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
17. You want a toe? . |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 04:00 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. There are ways of dealing with peak oil, Dude. Believe me, you don't want to know. |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 04:14 PM Response to Original message |
20. How about public execution of the co-sponsors |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 04:20 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. The bill was severa thousands of page slong. The loophole was a dark of night ...... |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 04:31 PM Response to Reply #21 |
22. And what do we pay these fools to do? |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 05:07 PM Response to Reply #22 |
25. Who read the Patriot Act? |
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ben_meyers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 06:16 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. I think you just made my point |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 07:47 PM Response to Reply #26 |
36. I'm saying yu need to call them **all** fucking idiots or back off on selected ones. |
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Thothmes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 07:03 PM Response to Reply #20 |
33. So much for the concept of |
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orleans (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
23. hard to say. they weren't breaking the law. phil gramm and his dirty |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 06:24 PM Response to Original message |
28. Take all their fucking money and buy housing for the homeless. |
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ColbertWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
34. Hold them accountable; throw the fucking book at them. n/t |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 07:04 PM Response to Original message |
35. hang'em by the nuts |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Jun-23-08 07:50 PM Response to Original message |
37. There's a plot next to Ken Lay's... |
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