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2005-09-30 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Bobby 2005-09-30 10:23|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 BIG OIL = millions of Americans with mutual funds, millions of Americans who receive the core of their retirement income from pension funds, colleges and university with institutional stock portfolios, and state and local government trust funds with stock investments. THEM!

Posted by Hupinemble Thomoger2928 2005-09-30 11:51|| 2005-09-30 11:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Right, my mutual fund shares buy me a BIG say in how Exxon runs their company.

Schumer's an idiot, of course - there's a 20 cent spread in gas prices in my neighborhood, and some people choose to pay extra to avoid the lines at the cheap place. What the market will bear, and not a penny more.

Posted by VAMark 2005-09-30 12:01|| 2005-09-30 12:01|| Front Page Top

#3 This is the Schumer who's been running a dirty tricks operation out of his office, right?

Why doesn't that come up in the story?

Posted by Robert Crawford">Robert Crawford 2005-09-30 12:53|| http://www.kloognome.com/]">[http://www.kloognome.com/] 2005-09-30 12:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Amazing that Boxer called for (yet another) federal investigation. California already does yeoman's work tracking and breaking down the cost of gasoline. For a ridiculously lefty state, there's also a bit of fairly reasonable discussion there as well.

Posted by AzCat 2005-09-30 13:05|| 2005-09-30 13:05|| Front Page Top

#5 Intersting site. But we don't expect Sen. Boxer - excuse me, Sen. Boxer's STAFF - to read all that, do we?

Posted by Bobby 2005-09-30 13:29|| 2005-09-30 13:29|| Front Page Top

#6 I actually wouldn't expect the overwhelming majority of senators or representatives to have much of an idea what goes on outside the beltway.

Posted by AzCat 2005-09-30 13:39|| 2005-09-30 13:39|| Front Page Top

#7 ..if one station jacks up prices artificially, others will steal business by holding prices at true market rates.

I dunno, out here the stations with the best prices are usually ARCO stations, and the worst are Shell, Union 76, and Chevron. But people still gas up their cars at Shells, Onion 76s, and Chevrons. And the lines at the ARCOs are typically unremarkable.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-09-30 15:56|| 2005-09-30 15:56|| Front Page Top

#8 BAR - That's because people believe the sales pitch that this-or-that brand is better than the others because of some additive-or-other.

Posted by Bobby 2005-09-30 17:54|| 2005-09-30 17:54|| Front Page Top

#9 Here's a few thought's:

1) Allow the industry to build some more frickin oil refineries. Preferably not ALL co-located in hurricane prone areas. Waive a few environmental regulations to do so.

1a) Waive the goevernment rules requiring production of different blends of gas permanently.

2) Approve exploration and drilling off the east and west coasts, in ANWR, and off the coast of Florida (sorry Jeb). Take the money from auctioning off drilling and exploration rights and use it for Hurricane relief.

3) Offer tax breaks for production of oil from US oil shale.

4) Standardize a design for nuclear plants. Offer an accelerated approval process for utilities that want to build a plant using the design. Waive environmental impact statements.

5) Enroll all Democratic congress critters in a first year Intro. to Economics course. Though, NOT one taught by a Marxist college professor.

Posted by DMFD 2005-09-30 19:08|| 2005-09-30 19:08|| Front Page Top

#10 1) Allow the industry to build some more frickin oil refineries. Preferably not ALL co-located in hurricane prone areas.

If the greenies don't object to this, the NIMBYs probably will.

Waive a few environmental regulations to do so.

For the greenies, that's a non-starter right there.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2005-09-30 20:12|| 2005-09-30 20:12|| Front Page Top

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