"HK" wrote in message
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Eisboch wrote:
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Eisboch wrote:
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I'll bet that Dicque Cheney is working right now with his "BIG OIL"
buddies to try to knock the price of gas down temporarily two weeks
before the November elections.

Sure he is Harry. Sure he is.

The blame for the price of oil doesn't reside with politicians, current
or past.
The blame resides with us.

Eisboch

I think a steep "excess profits tax" would tighten things up a hair,
that and members representing the public and responsible to it sitting
on big oil boards.

How will that affect the price of a barrel of oil here? Or in Japan?
or in China? or in Sweden? or in Great Britain? or in Germany? or
Italy?

Eisboch

Oversight and pressure, and the excess profits tax could be used to help
non-profit entities unaffiliated with big oil develop alternative energy
sources.

Wistful thinking. Despite your protests, industry drives innovation and
technical development, not "non-profit" centers staffed with lifelong
members of academia making a living on government grants. I've been
exposed to both for many, many years.
Industry is what makes things happen and imposing more taxes on it simply
slows things down.

Eisboch