Why is the govenment not regulating the high price of gas and the oil companies high profits?
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Glad to hear you believe in liberty.
So how else do you want the government to forcibly control people you don't like.
"maybe they should act on our best interests for once"
>>So increasing government power is in our best interest. As long as they are not going after you and instead going after some evil rich guy, I bet you like that.
Government takes $2.3 Trillion dollars of the American people's money and you are not bothered by that. Exxon makes $10 Billion in profit and you are outraged.
“Few men desire liberty. The majority are satisfied with a just master.”
-Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
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Because, little one, those profits go directly into the pockets of the legislators who should have our best interests at heart. It's very hard for someone who has their fingers in their ears to hear what we are saying...
the government is not interested in lowering the price of oil because it has high stakes in that f#######ng product.
oil is one reason why bush wants iraq
Because the free market works better than a managed economy.
You pay more in road taxes than you do in oil company profits on each gallon of gasoline that you buy.
Until today, the price of gas was lower, in inflation adjusted dollars, than it was in 1981.
The system is actually working quite well.
PS: I own no stocks in oil companies.
Who do you think controls the govenment. Both Bush and Cheney are oil men. they love what is going on. They can afford the oil and will get rich of the high prices once they are out of office. They aren't going to do anything that hurts their friends.
It certainly isn't supply and demand since oil is such a contrived commodity.
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