I'm surprised there's not an inflation thread yet
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Quote:Too bad how you don't understand who sets fuel prices. It's oil companies. And you can't vote for or against them.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Gas is still more than $2 per gallon more than it was for 4 years under Trump.
Everything else costs a lot more than it did too, and those prices haven't come down at all and are still rising in many cases.
Nobody is going to forget any of this.
And nobody gives a shit about Russia, Ukraine or Roe v Wade that wouldn't have voted for Democrats even if gas was $15 per gallon.
The Democrat Party is dead.
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Originally posted by second:Quote:Too bad how you don't understand who sets fuel prices. It's oil companies. And you can't vote for or against them.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Gas is still more than $2 per gallon more than it was for 4 years under Trump.
Everything else costs a lot more than it did too, and those prices haven't come down at all and are still rising in many cases.
Nobody is going to forget any of this.
And nobody gives a shit about Russia, Ukraine or Roe v Wade that wouldn't have voted for Democrats even if gas was $15 per gallon.
The Democrat Party is dead.
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Uh huh...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-20/if-climate-is-a-
national-emergency-keep-gasoline-prices-high
The Democratic Party is dead.
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Quote:Americans burn more and more gasoline as the price goes down. You can understand that, at least. But that is not what oil companies want. The oil companies will not let the price of gasoline go downward very far because low prices ruin them. The oil companies will raise prices every chance they get. And as time goes by, and there are fewer gasoline powered vehicles, the oil companies will keep raising prices so they can keep making the same level of profit on a smaller sales volume. That is NOT the Democrats raising prices, but your insistent claims that Democrats, not oil companies, are responsible makes you look stupid.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Uh huh...
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-20/if-climate-is-a-
national-emergency-keep-gasoline-prices-high
The Democratic Party is dead.
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There won't be fewer gas powered vehicles. At least not in our lifetime.
The current model for electric vehicles is inefficient, far too expensive, and there is no resale value (or at least there won't be when people who are being lied to figure out that used cars end up requiring $25,000 for a new battery). There is also zero net benefit to climate change unless we start building nuclear power plants all over the world.
And once people figure out that electricity isn't magic and the price to power our homes is going to go up dramatically because of more EVs on the road, there will be a real hatred for EVs and the people that drive them.
Also, I've never claimed that Democrats directly raised oil prices. It is Democrat Party policy that has driven up prices. They will start going back down to reasonable levels after November.
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Quote:You already know the Oil Companies' talking points to persuade Congress to not fund climate change legislation. With all your knowledge, Big Oil will make it worthwhile for you coming out of retirement and being their lobbyist:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There won't be fewer gas powered vehicles. At least not in our lifetime.
The current model for electric vehicles is inefficient, far too expensive, and there is no resale value (or at least there won't be when people who are being lied to figure out that used cars end up requiring $25,000 for a new battery). . . .
The oil and gas industry has delivered $2.8bn (£2.3bn) a day in pure profit for the last 50 years, a new analysis has revealed.
The vast total captured by petrostates and fossil fuel companies since 1970 is $52tn, providing the power to “buy every politician, every system” and delay action on the climate crisis, says Prof Aviel Verbruggen, the author of the analysis. The huge profits were inflated by cartels of countries artificially restricting supply.
The analysis, based on World Bank data, assesses the “rent” secured by global oil and gas sales, which is the economic term for the unearned profit produced after the total cost of production has been deducted.
The study has yet to be published in an academic journal but three experts at University College London, the London School of Economics and the thinktank Carbon Tracker confirmed the analysis as accurate, with one calling the total a “staggering number”.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/revealed-oil-secto
rs-staggering-profits-last-50-years
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Originally posted by second:Quote:You already know the Oil Companies' talking points to persuade Congress to not fund climate change legislation. With all your knowledge, Big Oil will make it worthwhile for you coming out of retirement and being their lobbyist:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There won't be fewer gas powered vehicles. At least not in our lifetime.
The current model for electric vehicles is inefficient, far too expensive, and there is no resale value (or at least there won't be when people who are being lied to figure out that used cars end up requiring $25,000 for a new battery). . . .
The oil and gas industry has delivered $2.8bn (£2.3bn) a day in pure profit for the last 50 years, a new analysis has revealed.
The vast total captured by petrostates and fossil fuel companies since 1970 is $52tn, providing the power to “buy every politician, every system” and delay action on the climate crisis, says Prof Aviel Verbruggen, the author of the analysis. The huge profits were inflated by cartels of countries artificially restricting supply.
The analysis, based on World Bank data, assesses the “rent” secured by global oil and gas sales, which is the economic term for the unearned profit produced after the total cost of production has been deducted.
The study has yet to be published in an academic journal but three experts at University College London, the London School of Economics and the thinktank Carbon Tracker confirmed the analysis as accurate, with one calling the total a “staggering number”.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/21/revealed-oil-secto
rs-staggering-profits-last-50-years
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
None of that addresses anything that you quoted of mine, or the fact that nobody can afford electric cars.
Until the tech is efficient, the price comes way down and we have nuclear power all over the world bolstering an electricity network that already struggles to keep up with demand while using coal to power it, EVs are never going to happen.
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Big Pharma Has Raised Drug Prices 1,186 Times This Year, Analysis Shows
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/20/big-pharma-has-raised-dru
g-prices-1186-times-year-analysis-shows
Big Pharma lobbyists are winning in Congress against Democrats who want to limit price increases. Republicans don't want limits on prices because that is Communism or something.
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Originally posted by second:
Big Pharma Has Raised Drug Prices 1,186 Times This Year, Analysis Shows
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/20/big-pharma-has-raised-dru
g-prices-1186-times-year-analysis-shows
Big Pharma lobbyists are winning in Congress against Democrats who want to limit price increases. Republicans don't want limits on prices because that is Communism or something.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Nancy Pelosi's husband sure doesn't want drug prices going down.
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Quote:6ix, let me help you think about this.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by second:
Big Pharma Has Raised Drug Prices 1,186 Times This Year, Analysis Shows
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/07/20/big-pharma-has-raised-dru
g-prices-1186-times-year-analysis-shows
Big Pharma lobbyists are winning in Congress against Democrats who want to limit price increases. Republicans don't want limits on prices because that is Communism or something.
The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two
Nancy Pelosi's husband sure doesn't want drug prices going down.
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1) I don't want drug prices going down because I own healthcare stocks.
2) I also don't want fuel prices going down because I'm in that business.
But I'm not the Democratic party. Neither is Husband Pelosi. We would both be better off if the Republican Party gets what it wants: prices should be set by the wealthiest Americans because that's Capitalism. Prices should not be lowered to help the poorer Americans because that's Communism or something.
Some references:
1) Republicans vote against lower drug prices
https://www.lowerdrugpricesnow.org/press/republicans-just-voted-agains
t-lowering-the-cost-of-prescription-drugs/
That is not the only article about Republicans and higher prices for medicine:
https://www.google.com/search?q=republicans+vote+against+lower+drug+pr
ices
2) Republicans vote for higher gasoline prices
https://www.salon.com/2022/05/19/every--and-4-democrats--vote-against-
bill-to-stop-big-oils-price-gouging-on-gas/
That is not the only article about Republicans and higher prices for gasoline:
https://www.google.com/search?q=Republicans+vote+for+higher+gasoline+p
rices
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You are so full of shit dude.
Biden*, the diversity hires he put in his cabinet, and their asinine policy did this:
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/26/nearly-half-of-americans-fall-deeper-i
n-debt-as-inflation-boosts-costs.html
November is coming.
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