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Price controls on fuel?
"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... How long do you think it will be before President Idiot is forced to impose price controls on gasoline and diesel? I would welcome that, but not for financial reasons. I'm sure that shortly after he suggested or implemented the idea, one of his oily friends would invite him to visit an oil rig in the Gulf, ride in a real live hel-i-o-copter (pretending to fly it), and put on a hard hat & pretend to be an oil rig guy. I suspect they'd arrange for him to "slip and fall in the ocean", by accident, of course. |
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Excuse me? president Idiot? You are the freeking idiot....the laws of
supply and demand dictate that if we force the price down, the supply will not be able to keep up with demand.... I'd rather pay $3/gallon and have gas than pay $2 per gallon and not be able to get it. There are two solutions... use less or make more. Doug Kanter wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... How long do you think it will be before President Idiot is forced to impose price controls on gasoline and diesel? I would welcome that, but not for financial reasons. I'm sure that shortly after he suggested or implemented the idea, one of his oily friends would invite him to visit an oil rig in the Gulf, ride in a real live hel-i-o-copter (pretending to fly it), and put on a hard hat & pretend to be an oil rig guy. I suspect they'd arrange for him to "slip and fall in the ocean", by accident, of course. |
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"Ed" wrote in message ... Excuse me? president Idiot? You are the freeking idiot....the laws of supply and demand dictate that if we force the price down, the supply will not be able to keep up with demand.... I'd rather pay $3/gallon and have gas than pay $2 per gallon and not be able to get it. It just proves that harry, doug, and crew arre suffering from terminal BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) There are two solutions... use less or make more. Doug Kanter wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... How long do you think it will be before President Idiot is forced to impose price controls on gasoline and diesel? I would welcome that, but not for financial reasons. I'm sure that shortly after he suggested or implemented the idea, one of his oily friends would invite him to visit an oil rig in the Gulf, ride in a real live hel-i-o-copter (pretending to fly it), and put on a hard hat & pretend to be an oil rig guy. I suspect they'd arrange for him to "slip and fall in the ocean", by accident, of course. |
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I don't know about you, but if the price was 25 cents a gallon, I wouldn't
buy more gas. Before it went up, I was already adverse to driving more than necessary. "Ed" wrote in message ... Excuse me? president Idiot? You are the freeking idiot....the laws of supply and demand dictate that if we force the price down, the supply will not be able to keep up with demand.... I'd rather pay $3/gallon and have gas than pay $2 per gallon and not be able to get it. There are two solutions... use less or make more. Doug Kanter wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... How long do you think it will be before President Idiot is forced to impose price controls on gasoline and diesel? I would welcome that, but not for financial reasons. I'm sure that shortly after he suggested or implemented the idea, one of his oily friends would invite him to visit an oil rig in the Gulf, ride in a real live hel-i-o-copter (pretending to fly it), and put on a hard hat & pretend to be an oil rig guy. I suspect they'd arrange for him to "slip and fall in the ocean", by accident, of course. |
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Doug Kanter wrote:
: "Harry Krause" wrote in message : ... : : How long do you think it will be before President Idiot is forced to : impose price controls on gasoline and diesel? : I would welcome that, but not for financial reasons. I'm sure that shortly : after he suggested or implemented the idea, one of his oily friends would : invite him to visit an oil rig in the Gulf, ride in a real live : hel-i-o-copter (pretending to fly it), and put on a hard hat & pretend to be : an oil rig guy. I suspect they'd arrange for him to "slip and fall in the : ocean", by accident, of course. Already being done: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9071642/ Oil runs the gubment though and there's little hope for real relief. b. |
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wrote in message roups.com... Doug Kanter wrote: : "Harry Krause" wrote in message : ... : : How long do you think it will be before President Idiot is forced to : impose price controls on gasoline and diesel? : I would welcome that, but not for financial reasons. I'm sure that shortly : after he suggested or implemented the idea, one of his oily friends would : invite him to visit an oil rig in the Gulf, ride in a real live : hel-i-o-copter (pretending to fly it), and put on a hard hat & pretend to be : an oil rig guy. I suspect they'd arrange for him to "slip and fall in the : ocean", by accident, of course. Already being done: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9071642/ Oil runs the gubment though and there's little hope for real relief. b. Just saw a news report about a Marathon station in Chicago that's charging 3.69 for regular. That's a 3, not a 2. No typo error. The owners slipped out the back when the TV crew tried to interview them. This is going to get ugly. |
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"Harry Krause" wrote in message ... How long do you think it will be before President Idiot is forced to impose price controls on gasoline and diesel? never - because doing that would be the worst thing ever... and no one in his administration is that dumb |
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Doug Kanter wrote: "Harry Krause" wrote in message ... How long do you think it will be before President Idiot is forced to impose price controls on gasoline and diesel? I would welcome that, but not for financial reasons. I'm sure that shortly after he suggested or implemented the idea, one of his oily friends would invite him to visit an oil rig in the Gulf, ride in a real live hel-i-o-copter (pretending to fly it), and put on a hard hat & pretend to be an oil rig guy. I suspect they'd arrange for him to "slip and fall in the ocean", by accident, of course. Should those that are calling for prosecution of Pat Robertson (for his stupid remarks about Hugo Chavez) be going after you now? After all, it sounds like you just threatened the president. |
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"Doug Kanter" wrote in message ... wrote in message roups.com... Doug Kanter wrote: : "Harry Krause" wrote in message : ... : : How long do you think it will be before President Idiot is forced to : impose price controls on gasoline and diesel? : I would welcome that, but not for financial reasons. I'm sure that shortly : after he suggested or implemented the idea, one of his oily friends would : invite him to visit an oil rig in the Gulf, ride in a real live : hel-i-o-copter (pretending to fly it), and put on a hard hat & pretend to be : an oil rig guy. I suspect they'd arrange for him to "slip and fall in the : ocean", by accident, of course. Already being done: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9071642/ Oil runs the gubment though and there's little hope for real relief. b. Just saw a news report about a Marathon station in Chicago that's charging 3.69 for regular. That's a 3, not a 2. No typo error. The owners slipped out the back when the TV crew tried to interview them. This is going to get ugly. I live in Chicago, and have not seen anything around 3.69, but I don't doubt it... however, check this out http://www.gaspricewatch.com/new/ Highest gas is in Death Valley, CA at 3.88 a gallon... |
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Not knowing of a President Idiot, I cannot answer the question.
However, price controls would have the opposite effect of that intended, they would make gasoline scarce by removing the incentive to produce more oil. In the early 80s, I was a drill stem tester on oil and gas rigs. That meant I actually went out and made the flow and pressure measurements that would determine if a oil or gas well would be completed or plugged and abandonded. The price controls on gas meant that most wells I tested had to be plugged because there was no way to make them economical. Today, most oil in the USA comes from "stripper" wells producing less than 10 barrels/day. Thousands of such stripper wells are pluggedand abandonded each year not because the oil ran out but because it cannot be economically produced. Price controls will force the abandoning of even more. Once abandonded, it is as expensive to re-open them as it is to drill new wells so the they would not be re-drilled because the operator would never recover his cost. Price controls are thus a really bad idea that will force us to use even more foreign oil. Even small increases in the price of oil can make it feasible to keep a stripper well running so I welcome increases in the price of oil by reasonable amounts. I estimate that a price of $3.50/gal would be enough (for gas) to re-plumb some older stripper wells to be economical. The greatest cost of such wells is that of the energy to keep them running. Most of them produce more water than oil and any method that reduces the ratio of water to oil pumped greatly increases the probability of keeping these wells running. |
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