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svensun1 year, 4 months ago

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stoners,
How about acheiving real energy independence by getting the World's NUMBER THREE OIL PRODUCER to increase production? That country would be... ...US!

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  MRCOFFEECAKE1 year, 4 months ago
  
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  There you go..Just disregard the entire article in your hearty support for Exxon, Mobil and Texaco..You are consistent.
  There's no bring you out from the dark side, is there?
  
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    svensun1 year, 4 months ago
    
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    Disregard? What?
    A plea for 'competition' that would use the GOVERNMENT to MANDATE what kind of car I buy?
    That's not 'competition'! That's STATIST FASCISM, of the worst sort!
    Why not just call it 'the People's Car', and have done with it! (That's Volkswagen, for you non-history buffs)
    So, I am on 'the dark side' because I don't want to use the power of the FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to force people to buy certain kinds of cars? And this from one of the people who thinks Bush is setting up a fascist state?
    Talk about chutzpah!
    
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    svensun1 year, 4 months ago
    
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    Is it 'hearty support' for oil companies to want to INCREASE PRODUCTION? I thought it was the oil companies who are 'gouging' us now, in this tight market?
    How does increasing supply, which will drive down the price, support the oil companies, to the detriment of the consumer?
    Just WHAT is it that you object to? Oil companies making a profit, or Americans driving their cars 'too much'?
    
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      svensun1 year, 4 months ago
      
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      MY suggestion for how to lower oil prices, while preventing foreign oil producers from damaging our production, would be to eliminate ALL domestic energy taxes, every single last one of them. No gas tax, no electricity tax, no fuel tax, NOTHING.
      I would have ZERO taxes on domestic energy production, of ANY kind: nuclear, coal, oil, natural gas, wind, solar, etc, to encourage competition between them.
      Instead, I would charge a TAX on all FOREIGN ENERGY IMPORTS, a sort of VAT tax, which the importer must pay as he brings it into the country, not on the consumer at the pump, or on his bill. That would mean that companies that mostly import oil or natural gas would be at a price disadvantage versus those who do not, and it might just cause downward pressure upon oil prices, as Americans find other domestic fuels that are more competitive with foreign oil.
      
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