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pizzi-man is right 71 cents on every dollar is for health care in europe on the averge. DO THE math. 9-dollar gas x71cents=6.39 . 9.00 -639 =2.61 per gallon.OH buy the way it takes two weeks to see a DR .WHAT aDEAL!

just so you all know as of today Exxon-Mobile announced that due to lack of profits and increased taxation, they are no longer able to compete selling gas in the US and withdrawing all interest in selling of gas in the US for the time being.... speculation alone could bring gas to $8/gallon by Monday i reccomend we all sign this if you have not yet, http://www.americansolutions.com/act...b-346a1e096659 Drill Here Drill Now, even without increasing production instantly, it will cause i threat to foreign markets and hopefully use speculation to cause prices to drop a little bit...... if not, well.... start rationing your gas..... only drive for utter importance..... or i guess as Jimmy Carter and his africanized clone Barak Obama would say... "its time for america to tighten their belts"

As intriguing an idea as that is (an Atlas Shrugged moment would perhaps shock some sense into the public which would then, hopefully, reach the politicians), they're actually just selling the 2200 retail units they own, they'll be strictly a wholesale supplier for that part of the company.

[QUOTE=Bob Parmenter]As intriguing an idea as that is (an Atlas Shrugged moment would perhaps shock some sense into the public which would then, hopefully, reach the politicians),QUOTE]


Kind of doubt it would make a bit of difference Uncle Bob.... As with anything else, the democrats would blame the republicans, the republicans would blame the democrats, and the majority of the population would just sit on their thumbs and wait for the government to fix it.... DDSS

Just a correction, the tax on gas in the UK is not allocated to healthcare, it is just added to the piggy bank for our government to waste, sorry spend, healthis one but it is not specific.
We also pay an average of $400 in road tax per year to be on the road in the first place, before you push the gas peddle.
Over and out on this one.

.....yes, we are not suppose to discuse politics so I won't mention any particular party; BUT the bottom line is that one political party is FOR offshore drilling & FOR drilling in Alaska and the other party is AGAINST It!!! If we were to drill in Alaska & offshore the price of oil would plummit because of increased supply..... Some in the 'against party' also want to increase taxes on the oil company's profits. Money that is used on research & development. Research & development that will lead to more supply which will lead to cheaper oil. Money that is used to hire more employees for research & development, which will lead to improving the economy by lowering the unemployment rate. 'They' also want to raise the tax rate on dividend income from 15% back to 35%. Which will lead to less money being reinvested in the economy. Yes, raise the tax rate on dividends when dividend income is ALREADY taxed TWICE! Yes, they tax corporations on their profits, then the corporations pay out dividends to shareholders {the owners of the company's} & then the shareholders are taxed on the money AGAIN! The economy WILL improve by people reinvesting their money in the economy NOT by the government taxing people more so they {the govenment} can spend more on 'free be' programs. 'Free be' programs DON'T stimulate the economy! Company's & shareholders do it by reinvesting in the economy!!!! And while I'm on it, another thing, is the 'other party' wants to raise the capital gains rate on stock sales, home sales, etc. Well when you raise capital gains rates people DON'T sell their investments because they don't want to pay the rediculously high taxes. So they just hold them. If they hold them nothing gets reinvested in the economy. If capital gains rates stay low then people sell assets, pay their tax {which helps the govenments deficite} & then reinvest the procedes in another investment, which in turn helps the economy....... & so on..... I'm done... Good nite.... Bill

Don Shillady wrote:

Hey it's time for another time out for me!

Why Don?? You're just stating what so many of us are thinking and you say it so elegantly!

I am damn sick and tired of all of the eco-terrorist, tree huggers and do gooders who feel all the rest of us need to suffer for our sins. I say if we got oil in our territories, let's drill it and let's build the refineries to refine it. We also could use a few more nuke plants (hell, I live 20 miles for 3 Mile Island) to support the growing need of electricity and to help the continously upward spiraling of the cost of de-regulated electricity. I also think we need more prisons and less paroling of criminals, and I also don't think we need more sex offenders and psychiatric nut cases living in our communities like the some of the well meaning activists do. ( I notice the offenders never seem to end up in the same neighborhoods as the activists ). And while this may not be popular, I believe that the death penalty can be a deterrent and that rehabilitation does not work in the majority of cases.

Unfortunately, those who we have elected are less concerned about our needs, then they are about theirs.

Well, Don, I guess maybe it's nap time for both us.

Originally Posted by marco

pizzi-man is right 71 cents on every dollar is for health care in europe on the averge. DO THE math. 9-dollar gas x71cents=6.39 . 9.00 -639 =2.61 per gallon.OH buy the way it takes two weeks to see a DR .WHAT aDEAL!

If you lost your job and health insurance with it then it is a deal.
If gas had kept up with the price of houses then gas would be $7.50 per gallon based on the price of gas and homes from the early 70's.

Originally Posted by marco

pizzi-man is right 71 cents on every dollar is for health care in europe on the averge. DO THE math. 9-dollar gas x71cents=6.39 . 9.00 -639 =2.61 per gallon.OH buy the way it takes two weeks to see a DR .WHAT aDEAL!

I have to make my appointments at least 3 weeks out with the VA...and I'm in the 2nd highest catagory as far as appointment priorities go.... It's not the best system in the world, but it's the system I have to use.... Don't think I could buy health insurance at any price...

Health care is just another issue that has to be resolved...but other then a lot of finger pointing and blame casting, nothing will be done about it either....