IN 1979, HE CREATED A DEVICE THAT VAPORIZES GASOLINE BEFORE IT ENTERS THE ENGINE FOR COMBUSTION. HIS 351CI ENGINE, WHICH NORMALLY GOT ABOUT 16MPG ON THE HWY, GOT 100MPG INSTEAD USING THIS DEVICE.
IT BURNS CLEAN AND WILL MORE THAN QUADRUPLE OUR VEHICLE MPG'S!
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IF YOU DO NOT SWITCH IN TIME YOU CANNOT VOTE IN PRIMARY.
IF YOU ARE NOT REGISTERED REPUBLICAN YOU CANNOT VOTE IN PRIMARY.
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Why is it that no one seems to realise that the "record proffits" are really not ground breaking. It costs a pretty flat price to drill the oil, so when the price of it goes up they make more money off of it. This dude is talking out of his ass just like majority of anti oil people. WE CAN'T PHOTOSYNTHISIZE so fucking drill fuel.
4 Bil in "corporate welfare checks" is about 10 times bigger than 700 Bil + another 800 Bil in gov't bailout and takeover of virtually all banks, nortgage banks & auto industry, right Young Turd? So who's contradictory here? Oh did we mention 4 out of every $5 for gas goes to..., um TAXES, to fund CBS, school districts and the politicians employing you to get them votes?
Man, see how timid Obama was treading out into those Fox News-attack waters? No chance we're seeing a progressive president, give up sheeple. Unless we get a primary, you're gonna get the same old bullshit.
That is of course, if people rely on washington democrats. More local & campaigns that can win over people who don't realize they're actually quite progressive, & whammy.
'GasHole full documentary is now available on youtube revealing oil companies conspiring against the 100mile per gallon car...and the disappearance of Tom Vogel inventor of the vapour engine...
Americans think that their gas prices are bad? I live in Montreal, Canada and I pay $1.48 per litre. For you Americans out there at is $5.60 per Gallon!!
Cry me a river about your high gas prices. I agree the GOP is absolutely committing fraud against the world for high gas prices while they make record profits, but this is just to give you some perspective of what other people have to deal with.
@JoeMoney50 You have no idea what you're talking about. Our tax dollars go to the oil/gas companies, and we're still paying the price that we do. We definitely spend way more than 5.60 a gallon in US, it's just not projected because we're taxed on gasoline twice. Once through subsidies and once at the pump.
@ooMONKEYoo The province of Quebec has some of the highest taxes in north america. We pay pay more then you every single time we go to the pumps and we still need to deal with high taxes. Maybe your taxes just happen to go more to the oil companies but that doesnt change the fact that we get shafted every time we fill up.
@JoeMoney50 How does that even make sense? You tax dollars aren't going to the oil companies, so your projected cost at the pump is how much you pay per gallon/liter.
Your taxes go to universal healthcare and infrastructure - ours go to billion dollar cooperations.
I'm on the verge of just fucking moving out into the woods, burning my car and house and every other piece of shit that contributes to these animals and living a good wholesome albeit primitive life. At least I won't have to listen to this rape every time I turn on the news.
Cenk, MSNBC is now going down the shitter, just like Air America did. You are poison to any network. The dreaded and hated Fox News still beats you in ratings. Nobody wants to listen to you except inexperienced pimply faced rebellious youths.
In japan gas is over $6 a gallon. Nobody's crying though. They have brains like everybody else but unlike the u.s., they actually use them. You see, the most popular class of vehicle here are minicars with 660cc engines. They've engineered them so well that they actually have more space inside than many standard cars and even big "western" people have no problem driving them. The minicar class is an incentive for car companies and consumers to drive small.
@TheWingflyer Yea well yall did something right,,so? My 3.5 liter v6 takes alot of gas and i want it cheap so i can save some of the $85,000 a year we make and maybe buy me a huge Escalade or Hummer.
Oil company subsidies were put in place during a period of time when the oil companies were down and out when the oil industry almost went belly up. Now the oil industry has fully recovered and are having extremely healthy profits. So yeah, it's time for the subsidies to end. They should have only been put in place until the oil companies were able to get back on their feet. It makes no sense for us to give away that much money to companies who are already raking in lots of money.
You're also just making the case for why we shouldn't be so dependent on oil. The price of everything shouldn't be dependent on the price of one commodity. The answer isn't to up production but to consume less of it. Exxon certainly doesn't care about oil prices because they're making record profits as we continue to buy oil at record prices. Oil is the problem, not the solution.
@genie0390 "Currently there is no viable alternative."
Exactly. So why are you advocating "drill baby drill" when it's so blatantly obvious that our economy is tied to one non-renewable resource? What is your solution when Peak Oil occurs? Go after oil reserves, like the tar pits in Canada, that take a monstrous amount of energy simply to extract the oil? Expensive and inefficient deep water drilling?
Stop thinking like a hammer. Not everything is a nail. We need alternatives.
funny that Obowma and the Dems are advocating drill baby drill for Brazil, even gave them 2 billion to help out, but don't do the same for America
fact is no viable alternatives currently exist, except natural gas and turning coal to gasoline. if we don't go for more drilling, what do we do until such time other fuels become available, IF EVER?
meanwhile we're transferring trillions in wealth to ME, which they use to buy us, best cos, best real estate
Viable alternatives do exist. We just haven't invested sufficient money into researching viable ways to create widespread solar use, or adequate infrastructure for a hydrogen economy. At this point it's too late simply because we have been following Palin's philosophy for too long. There's nothing to invest in for America. Peak oil passed for this country in the 70's.
At this point we disagree on the fundamental nature of the problem.
listen here you lying prick!,..oil subsidies are nothing more than allowable deductions for expenses oil companies have relative to exploration and depletion allowances, deductions for expenses make sense
funny how Obowma cries about monies going to our companies and then hands Brazil and Geo Soros interests 2 billion for their offshore exploration and tells Brazil America can't wait to buy their oil
@genie0390 Except that they don't need those deductions because they can afford to go without, and still pay their corporate CEO's millions of dollars in salaries, and bonuses. And when it all comes right back to the main issue, it is still a subsidy. I would rather pay for Brazil's Tupi oil field expenditures than give Saudi Arabia any more defense contracts, and or support.
"would rather pay for Brazil's Tupi oil field expenditures than give Saudi Arabia any more defense contracts, and or support."
that kind of position is what makes you such a tool. I would rather pay our own companies to explore for our own oil and create jobs for OUR people so that we can stop transferring trillions in our wealth to other Countries
you would rather destroy our country if it meant getting back at people with greater abilities and ambition than you
@genie0390 I agree some what with your statement. But, the reason we are investing in Brazil's Oil industry is so that we have more then one option then just the oil fields that we already have. Our companies don't even pay for the use of the oil fields, and with the ridiculous speculation that is going on right now. I wouldn't even give them, or Wallstreet a dime. It seems to me that you are the real tool here.
whenever a progressive says i lack "standard analytical abilities" it means i don't share his deranged, depraved thinking and views, hahaha
actually, ya know i happen to have an excellent education plus plenty of experience, so happens, in the oil business, i.e. i know what i'm talking about, you obviously don't,...but you may have more knowledge than Obowma! hahahaha
@genie0390 --- You know, when an American tells me that the have lived in Europe, have a good education, worked in the oil business etc, seen how evil, godless socialism is making us into zombies and how glorious America is and then go on calling their president "Obowma",
I think for myself: Could it actually be that they are telling the truth? If people in the oil business behave like pathetic kindergarden children in America, it is no wonder.
i maintain a home in CR, US and in Canada where i'm currently involved with an oil company
i don't like Europe one bit. I don't like Obowma simply because of his big government politics and the Nanny state he feels can solve all our problems, which is plain stupid
the "pathetic kindergarden children" are really those in socialist Europe looking to gov to provide everything for them. I look after myself being a capable adult
You just spent all the space of that post telling unimportant, probably inaccurate, things about yourself and then don't care? Well, I am used to contradictory right-wingers.
Big government is the right-wing, big army, big navy, big secret police, big oil, big poverty, big wars.
well as far as i know you're still able to drive up to the pump and fill er up so that your car can haul your sorry ass to where you desire to go, you're able to board that jetliner and fly off to visit that feeble minded granny at Thanksgiving, etc etc
oh yes, most of the research into alternate fuels is being done by these evil companies, using some of that subsidy monies decided upon and approved by duly elected members of congress, from both parties
@genie0390 Yes, we can pump gas but with a 75 cent loss per gallon thanks to unneeded speculation. As for your alternate fuel research. Most oil companies keep those projects researched, but buried. So that they can keep milking the economy with their ancient business model. LOL And you have the nerve to call me a tool.
man, i like your comment, "ancient business model',..really?? if they stopped using this relic of a model, America would be in total chaos and extreme violence within a day or sooner
everyone would have to start thinking, HORSES, and the only job you would qualify for would be to shovel horse shit
What I don't get is why conservatives are pro-welfare when it comes to big business. It makes no sense, it's not free market capitalism, it's government subsidized business, and the government and the tax payers have no in how these companies that receive our money are run.
Oil companies make 10s of billions of dollars in profit, gas prices are higher than ever in one of the worst recessions in US history, and they still need 4 billion dollars of welfare from the tax payers?
all members of the Congress should have their voting published publicly automatically, that way people can see for themselves first hand what they do, a lot of people have no idea what their politicians do, they just assume they do what they say they are going to do.
well, lets see how all of those small businesses in the gulf, owned by republicans, that got thrashed and trashed by the BP spill last year, react to this. this week the republicans are doing a good job kicking their own asses in the next election
I would be nice if we elected politicians who made their living solely from what they're paid for that position.For some reason though we put rich people in office thinking they have the interest of the little people in mind.
@genie0390 True,,and part of that "looking after ourselves" should be electing politicians who dont constantly bend us over and let the rich stick it in.
progressives sound like a broken record, keep spending, need money, tax the rich!
want more employment? tax the rich, blah, blah
the rich are not the problem in America, high wages, union thugs, government regulations, stupid liberal politicians drove many millions high paying jobs offshore, leaving hamburger flipping jobs for the liberally educated Americans too concerned with equalities, human rights, PC bullshit. Asians r mftg goods world wants, we spread human rights
@genie0390 Eh,whatever.I dont give a shit about taxing the rich more.It should be clear that our economys fucked because while the price of everything keeps going up wages barely do and the reason wages barely do is so companys can keep that profit report high so the ceo's can get those big bonuses and investers stay happy because their stock value stays high.You can reply back but,,,i really dont give a shit what you have to say.
why is it that these ppl keeping coming back to complaining that money is the root problem for everything , yet they are still 100$% in favor of the idea of money and it's use for the system? they're close but need that extra bit of realization
- first one, good news! We're making record profits! Yahoo! Thanks everybody for your hard work.
- 2nd one, bad news! Due to one of our corporate objectives not exceeding expectations, we won't be paying out merit increases this year. So sorry. Now get back to work.
We're already F'ed by our dependence on the poison of fossil fuels, but of course the Gas & Oil Party would rather keep us addicted until the last minute, and hooked on the drug-like euphoric illusion of 'plentiful oil' until we have no other recourse or options but to find emergency and badly needed alternative energies because of the insufficient supplies of what we always knew was a disappearing and limited supply of oil. The Gas and Oil Party, indeed.
the corps didn't help create jobs in the 10 yrs of no taxes....the republican are owned by oil and the koch bros and insurance corps and banks and they deceive the people with no taxes....they arn't talking about the 98% of america....they are only protecting the top 2%....the rest of us suffer. for the richest and the few they pay for conrol of this country...the jobs they give r overseas.....
American capitalism is a fucking joke. They have these conservative creeps whining about birth certificates and Muslims waah waah and they pump money into this? Tax payer money going into pockets of billionaire oil directors?
Is that how you spend your tax money America?
No social security but pay the oil companies director salaries?
Haha funny that you'd talk about sustainability, just handed in a fat essay about sustainable development and sure as hell the United States is not on the positive end of that one, xD
@underbjorn lol I dont see a problem with that...just trying to figure out to be that "billionaire oil director"...what America needs is less govt intervention on Wall and Main street and more SELF-RELIANCE!
@underbjorn lol did I say I didnt see a problem with that? stupid fuck...learn to read before you start disrespecting people...really makes you look like an asshole :)
please say it over and over....don't let oil kill all of the gulf...death is till happening from the last unbelievable sinful spill....governor scott of florida loves BIG OIL...he refused high speed rails to help the oil corps....
@CHAOSoriginal To keep their bottom line as high as it was the previous fiscal year, they will just raise prices. This is the problem. We are under their control. They have to get paid. Their executives have to get bonuses. They have to help the shareholders. We come #2.
@CHAOSoriginal It's the same all over Western Europe. It's kinda hard for us to take the Americans seriously when they think $4 per gallon is too much.
Subsidies aren't the half of it. Let's not forget that every war we fight in the Middle East is ultimately about keeping the oil flowing. And those wars add up to trillions of dollars of subsidies from the American taxpayer. You're welcome, BP, Exxon, Shell, Chevron, etc.
@jimisback I think T. Boone Pickens has it right. Convert big trucks and commercial vehicles to American Natural Gas. We have plenty, a truck / bus is worth something like 1500 cars worth of consumption and emissions (trucks run all the time, basically), and the resulting drop in the need for diesel would free up so much oil for the average family car market that the price would drop, the need for imports would decrease substantially, etc.
And honestly, would it really hurt to preach "use less"
@jimisback - Many thousands for a commercial truck, but then fuel cost is 1/4 diesel. Something like that.
I've seen people advertising $300 conversion kits for cars, but this is possibly predicated on the idea that they go mass production and sell 100,000s per year.
I saw an old national geographic with pictures from china in it. They were running buses with NG, using giant inflatable bags on top for fuel tanks. Funny. In America, we would insist on compression tanks for big volume. More $.
@jimisback - P.S. and where's the 100 miles per gallon car? They have them, you know. They just don't mass manufacture and market them. See Aptera.com, or fuel-efficient-cars. org, or just google it. We should really get on the job of pushing greater efficiency in this country.
And by the way, you can run any car on natural gas, too. My dad was an alternate fuel engineer at Ford. Decades ago they were running taxi fleets in big cities on natural gas. They sell such cars in Europe, but not here.
@srugel44 -- your idea has merit because natural gas is so cheap now & cleaner than coal & oil, but so much natural gas is now obtained by fracting,
And the greenies want to close that diown. I think their claims about damages are exaggerated, So they are out there looking for lizards or bugs they could use to close it down & then prices would soar up.
@DillonDee1 - I know what you are saying. T. Boone Pickens gave a brilliant explanation of fracking wells recently in which he said he drilled 3000 wells or something without a complaint, down in Texas, while they are going nuts about it in Pennsylvania and Western New York. Clearly, the geology is different in those places and fracking isn't for everywhere, that's for sure. Nonetheless, there is so much NG there are places to get it with few people around. New York is not the best place for it.
@Iamfatbrain So where did you get that figure? Most of the reports I've read that claim something close to what you are quoting are written by the oil companies themselves.
"state and federal excise taxes made up 32 percent of what motorists paid at the pump in January 2000, when the average price for regular was only $1.29." So why is it now at almost 4 dollars and they claim its the governements fault prices are high when before they were taxing the same amount and price was ~3 times lower?
@Iamfatbrain Except the subsidies are not counted in the profit from each litre of oil, . The prices are kept down because of unneeded subsidies. Put simply: The subsidies keep the price of oil down in the US, which increases dependence on oil, which jacks up the profits of the oil companies, as well as pollution, higher levels of traffic, and all the other illeffects of too much reliance on oil.
Who cares if the USA drills for more oil? You can't charge differently for your oil than OPEC oil! It has to be sold on the open market. The market and speculators drive up the cost.
Yeah, but speculators are fearing prices will rise because of the federal reserve and it's printing binge it's been on. They don't "collude" on their own and conspire to say "yeah, I think we should cause prices to rise....now!"
Don't you know it takes a while for the trickle down effect to work its way to regular people? Just be patient like the Repubs keep telling you, it'll happen soon enough I'm sure. :D
Obozo is clearly going to be a 1 term EPIC FAIL and he will LOSE to Sarah Palin in 2012! We NEED President Sarah Palin for she will put a stop to this travesty. President Palin will prevent taxpayer money being funneled into Oil companies and large corporations for she is a true champion of the people!
If we just brought back Tesla technology, we wouldn't even need oil. Everyone could have free energy but noooo...the oil and energy executives would rather billions around the world go without food, water, and energy just so they can keep making profits because apparently, a billion+ dollars isn't enough for these poor CEOs to live on...how long are we gonna sit here and take this?
@SoloWing808 There is nothing superefficient about Tesla's technology. If there was something that produced a spectacular amount of energy, then the power companies would be already generating power with that technology and simply jacking up the price.
@Hammerhead547 we as American people hav a rite to be pissed about these oil prices. Theyre getting 4 billion big ones in subsidies yet they can profit 10 billion in several months. Theyre sitting up in their castles on their golden thrones while our oil supplies are dwindling and our wallets getting burned.
@aacdo Yeah, but American fuel prices are between one half and one third those of Europe or Australia and Japan... Result is most American cars are gas guzzlers, and more Americans have massive military style SUVs than anywhere else on the planet.
We Americans are bitching about $4.50 a gallon gas but when I was up in Toronto visiting friends gas was $1.35 a liter (which equals out to around $6.00 a US gallon) for medium octane and $1.45 for high octane ($6.85 a gallon).
It cost me $65 dollars to fill my car ( I drive a Honda Accord) so we don't got it quite so bad.
People here would save money if they got rid of their pick-ups and sport utility vehicles and buy smaller more fuel efficient cars if they had any brains in their heads.
@Hammerhead547 " People here would save money if they got rid of their pick-ups and sport utility vehicles and buy smaller more fuel efficient cars " People are free to buy any vehicle they want to. Who are you telling people what to do. Next you'll be telling someone in their 80's who needs a pacemaker to just take a pill instead.
@OrthodoxAtheist " He's just lucky his only competition are a bunch of idiots. " Conservatives won in a landslide in Nov 2010 mostly with people nobody had heard of. They won by Campaigning against Nancy, Harry and President Obama. That was only an appetizer for the beatdown you will absorb in Nov 2012. I can't wait to vote.
@jayleeb1 Gas prices are going up because they are printing money. This is just propaganda. I would love to have a state owned oil company but I don't think it will happen.
@DrakeIcn You do know how our system works right? Congress controls the money. He can introduce a bill to end these subsidies, but Congress has to pass it. Now he needs to fight, without his typically bullshit compromise, to get these taken away, but him being President is irrelevant ultimately.
He can't "do" it, he doesn't even have a single vote in the House of Representatives or the right to introduce legislation in Congress. He's the president, you idiot...
@Redfingers Yes, of course, he is the most powerless person in the country.
For instance, he does not have direct access to virtually all major news station, where he could call out his opposition on their bullshit and make republicans scared on losing votes by not agreeing with him.
And its not like Bush could completely disregard Congress whenever the fuck he wanted to.
LOL at his elementary connection: Tax breaks for the rich - even though they weren't really breaks - subsequently lead to higher gas prices. Yeah Cenk, lets just ignore the fact that inflation is taking over the economy...whatevs...something oil companies cannot control...
@Buergs323 Are you sure thats what he was saying...? All I got was that big oil is posting massive profits and therefore dosent need govt. subsidies, and that they arent lowering gas prices to pass any of that profit to the american people. When did he say tax cuts for the rich = higher gas prices?
Put Ron Paul in office and corporate welfare ends. Obama is a puppet people - he's all talk.
And, btw, rising gas prices have little to NOTHING to do with the oil companies. It's called the Federal Reserve, the printing of trillions of dollars; in other words, inflation.
But, please, we shall distract you mindless drones by complaining about "profits," rather than complaining about the real issues. Go on now, check your twitter to what Chloe Kardashian said on twitter....
'Real issues'? You mean how the Repubs have been all over Obama with his birth certificate? That's a 'real issue'? >_>
If the Repubs were serious about talking about the real issues and were upfront and honest about their platform, they would have never won the number of seats they have. Just look at the backlash against them now. Dems suck balls as well, but I'll take them over the Repubs anyday.
Lol. I hate Repubs too. But, you have another choice. Libertarians. Republicans are goons and shills, as well as the democrats. Don't limit yourself - a man like Ron Paul is at least principled...even if you might disagree with some of his policies.
@Buergs323 He wouldn't even tax these corporate hogs, let alone personal income taxes. If you want to kill the middle class entirely, by all means, provide further tax breaks to the super rich.
"It's called the Federal Reserve, the printing of trillions of dollars; in other words, inflation."
It's called Wall Street. Even with record profits, they don't lower the cost of gas.
Haha you understanding of economics and finance is so foolish. The Federal Reserve aids Wall Street, and allows elites to get fatter while the Middle class get shit on.
It's an institutional problem, not one that is solved by yelling at private oil companies, and trying to blame them for everything. It's called cronyism, not capitalism. Some people on Wall Street are not capitalists...they are fucking cronies getting rich off the gov't...there's a fucking difference.
Haha. No. There aren't. Free enterprise has no government involvement whatsoever....even the most capitalist writer - like Ayn Rand - even detested cronies. In fact, Orren Boyle, a crony capitalist, is one of the biggest villains in Atlas Shrugged. You seem too foolish to even accept the fact that you can't blame subsidies and gov't favors on the capitalism/free enterprise system. They are mutually exclusive. Free markets are....FREE. Get that through your head.
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MultiA94 2 days ago
drilling is bad? so you want the arab countries to own us forever?
1clackie 2 weeks ago
This clown is a puppet ...paid for by the corporations ...Boycott the media on T.V.
They are all paid shrills .
freefalable 3 months ago
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EVERYONE PLEASE GOOGLE, "Tom Ogle".
IN 1979, HE CREATED A DEVICE THAT VAPORIZES GASOLINE BEFORE IT ENTERS THE ENGINE FOR COMBUSTION. HIS 351CI ENGINE, WHICH NORMALLY GOT ABOUT 16MPG ON THE HWY, GOT 100MPG INSTEAD USING THIS DEVICE.
IT BURNS CLEAN AND WILL MORE THAN QUADRUPLE OUR VEHICLE MPG'S!
PLEASE SPREAD THIS AROUND! ESPECIALLY TO PEOPLE IN POLITICAL OFFICE THAT ARE UNAWARE OF THIS POTENTIAL DISCOVERY!
WE HAVE THE END TO POLLUTION! WE JUST NEED TO GET THE WORD OUT!
Sixdouble5321 4 months ago
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IF YOU ARE NOT REGISTERED REPUBLICAN YOU CANNOT VOTE IN PRIMARY.
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brscic 4 months ago
Why is it that no one seems to realise that the "record proffits" are really not ground breaking. It costs a pretty flat price to drill the oil, so when the price of it goes up they make more money off of it. This dude is talking out of his ass just like majority of anti oil people. WE CAN'T PHOTOSYNTHISIZE so fucking drill fuel.
CitrusLizard 7 months ago
4 Bil in "corporate welfare checks" is about 10 times bigger than 700 Bil + another 800 Bil in gov't bailout and takeover of virtually all banks, nortgage banks & auto industry, right Young Turd? So who's contradictory here? Oh did we mention 4 out of every $5 for gas goes to..., um TAXES, to fund CBS, school districts and the politicians employing you to get them votes?
OlUncleJoe 9 months ago
Man, see how timid Obama was treading out into those Fox News-attack waters? No chance we're seeing a progressive president, give up sheeple. Unless we get a primary, you're gonna get the same old bullshit.
That is of course, if people rely on washington democrats. More local & campaigns that can win over people who don't realize they're actually quite progressive, & whammy.
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'GasHole full documentary is now available on youtube revealing oil companies conspiring against the 100mile per gallon car...and the disappearance of Tom Vogel inventor of the vapour engine...
aseireann 9 months ago
i hear that...
XMADDMARSX 9 months ago
Americans think that their gas prices are bad? I live in Montreal, Canada and I pay $1.48 per litre. For you Americans out there at is $5.60 per Gallon!!
Cry me a river about your high gas prices. I agree the GOP is absolutely committing fraud against the world for high gas prices while they make record profits, but this is just to give you some perspective of what other people have to deal with.
JoeMoney50 9 months ago
@JoeMoney50 You have no idea what you're talking about. Our tax dollars go to the oil/gas companies, and we're still paying the price that we do. We definitely spend way more than 5.60 a gallon in US, it's just not projected because we're taxed on gasoline twice. Once through subsidies and once at the pump.
I thought Canadians were supposed to be smart.
ooMONKEYoo 9 months ago
@ooMONKEYoo The province of Quebec has some of the highest taxes in north america. We pay pay more then you every single time we go to the pumps and we still need to deal with high taxes. Maybe your taxes just happen to go more to the oil companies but that doesnt change the fact that we get shafted every time we fill up.
JoeMoney50 9 months ago
@JoeMoney50 How does that even make sense? You tax dollars aren't going to the oil companies, so your projected cost at the pump is how much you pay per gallon/liter.
Your taxes go to universal healthcare and infrastructure - ours go to billion dollar cooperations.
ooMONKEYoo 9 months ago
cenk is a bad ass
migasfiesta 9 months ago 4
There is a scarcity of oil, what's the problem?
Houshalter 9 months ago
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TheWingflyer 9 months ago
I'm on the verge of just fucking moving out into the woods, burning my car and house and every other piece of shit that contributes to these animals and living a good wholesome albeit primitive life. At least I won't have to listen to this rape every time I turn on the news.
Judicial78 9 months ago
I double DOG dare you!
UncleFesterius 9 months ago
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Cenk, MSNBC is now going down the shitter, just like Air America did. You are poison to any network. The dreaded and hated Fox News still beats you in ratings. Nobody wants to listen to you except inexperienced pimply faced rebellious youths.
evgenylukin 9 months ago
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Marijuana isn't legalized because a nation of peaceful stoners would not want to go to war...which is what our big government wants yearly it seems.
calmingspeed 9 months ago
How do you know OBama is lying...his mouth is moving.
calmingspeed 9 months ago
I DARE YOU MOTHER FUCKING GOP
U FUCKING GIVE THEM MY MONEY I WILL FUCK U UP
ProtossX 9 months ago
seriously, who in their right mind would dislike this??? i believe 10 people were literally born with no brain
penguinsoulja96 9 months ago
LEGISLATIVE TERM LIMITS NOW!!!
TheWingflyer 9 months ago
In japan gas is over $6 a gallon. Nobody's crying though. They have brains like everybody else but unlike the u.s., they actually use them. You see, the most popular class of vehicle here are minicars with 660cc engines. They've engineered them so well that they actually have more space inside than many standard cars and even big "western" people have no problem driving them. The minicar class is an incentive for car companies and consumers to drive small.
None in us? Surprised?!
TheWingflyer 9 months ago
@TheWingflyer Yea well yall did something right,,so? My 3.5 liter v6 takes alot of gas and i want it cheap so i can save some of the $85,000 a year we make and maybe buy me a huge Escalade or Hummer.
TheoneGodfather 9 months ago
@TheoneGodfather Stay asleep. Don't bother the sheers won't hurt. Neither will the blade.
TheWingflyer 9 months ago
Cenk is a zavant of politics.
SuperAwesomecomment 9 months ago
4 billion dollars is alot of money. It would last almost an entire day in the federal budget before it's depleted.
Fitzcard 9 months ago
USA is fascist. The GOVT is the thug of corruporations.
mba2ceo 9 months ago
@wspol624 damn! where do you live?
XMADDMARSX 9 months ago
Oil company subsidies were put in place during a period of time when the oil companies were down and out when the oil industry almost went belly up. Now the oil industry has fully recovered and are having extremely healthy profits. So yeah, it's time for the subsidies to end. They should have only been put in place until the oil companies were able to get back on their feet. It makes no sense for us to give away that much money to companies who are already raking in lots of money.
scooby1971 9 months ago
I see there was no mention of the gas company's do not give us a dime for the oil they pump from us !
No tariffs on goods from company's who left us for cheep labor !.....
trueclassic1 9 months ago
Yah! Obama said he's going to do something good for the nation. Will he follow up? No.
Ez3monie 9 months ago
I lol when Cenk's voice gets go high.
Ez3monie 9 months ago
Where the fuck is anyone paying $3.88? I haven't seen anything lower than $4.00 in weeks.
Treulos365 9 months ago
@Treulos365
and you deserve to pay every little penny you have
when Palin calls out to drill baby drill you mock her, so......fuck you!
genie0390 9 months ago
@genie0390 Joke's on you, asswhipe. I live in NY and take public transit everywhere. I haven't paid for gas in 3 months.
So Palin can take her "drill baby drill" and shove it down your throat for all I care.
Treulos365 9 months ago
@Treulos365
if you live in NY, the joke is on you. high fuel prices translate to higher prices for everything like food.
genie0390 9 months ago
@genie0390 Why is that specific to NY?
You're also just making the case for why we shouldn't be so dependent on oil. The price of everything shouldn't be dependent on the price of one commodity. The answer isn't to up production but to consume less of it. Exxon certainly doesn't care about oil prices because they're making record profits as we continue to buy oil at record prices. Oil is the problem, not the solution.
Treulos365 9 months ago
@Treulos365
oil has been driving our world for at least a century now and currently there is no viable alternative
our goods we need come to us by 18 wheelers, cargo trains, ships all of which can't run without oil
there ya go!
genie0390 9 months ago
@genie0390 "Currently there is no viable alternative."
Exactly. So why are you advocating "drill baby drill" when it's so blatantly obvious that our economy is tied to one non-renewable resource? What is your solution when Peak Oil occurs? Go after oil reserves, like the tar pits in Canada, that take a monstrous amount of energy simply to extract the oil? Expensive and inefficient deep water drilling?
Stop thinking like a hammer. Not everything is a nail. We need alternatives.
Treulos365 9 months ago
@Treulos365
funny that Obowma and the Dems are advocating drill baby drill for Brazil, even gave them 2 billion to help out, but don't do the same for America
fact is no viable alternatives currently exist, except natural gas and turning coal to gasoline. if we don't go for more drilling, what do we do until such time other fuels become available, IF EVER?
meanwhile we're transferring trillions in wealth to ME, which they use to buy us, best cos, best real estate
BTW tar pits are oil sands
genie0390 9 months ago
@genie0390 Oil sands...whatever.
Viable alternatives do exist. We just haven't invested sufficient money into researching viable ways to create widespread solar use, or adequate infrastructure for a hydrogen economy. At this point it's too late simply because we have been following Palin's philosophy for too long. There's nothing to invest in for America. Peak oil passed for this country in the 70's.
At this point we disagree on the fundamental nature of the problem.
Treulos365 9 months ago
@Town Hall Meetings ask Question "Are you a Salesman or Our Representative?"
lewislwood 9 months ago
here's the answer: STOP BUYING SHIT.
SuperOxideDimutase 9 months ago
@SuperOxideDimutase
Yea that would work, stop buying gas so you can't go to work or anywhere else.
Derp Derp.
mecher3k 9 months ago
@mecher3k buy gas as a necessity, and for travel. When you buy shit you are also paying for the gas to transport it and manufacture it. Derp Derp.
SuperOxideDimutase 9 months ago
@SuperOxideDimutase
So what your saying is people just should starve to death then right?
The only Derp Derp here is you.
mecher3k 9 months ago
listen here you lying prick!,..oil subsidies are nothing more than allowable deductions for expenses oil companies have relative to exploration and depletion allowances, deductions for expenses make sense
funny how Obowma cries about monies going to our companies and then hands Brazil and Geo Soros interests 2 billion for their offshore exploration and tells Brazil America can't wait to buy their oil
i wonder what jobs are being created there??
America deserves what it's getting
genie0390 9 months ago
@genie0390 Except that they don't need those deductions because they can afford to go without, and still pay their corporate CEO's millions of dollars in salaries, and bonuses. And when it all comes right back to the main issue, it is still a subsidy. I would rather pay for Brazil's Tupi oil field expenditures than give Saudi Arabia any more defense contracts, and or support.
edeal86 9 months ago
@edeal86
"would rather pay for Brazil's Tupi oil field expenditures than give Saudi Arabia any more defense contracts, and or support."
that kind of position is what makes you such a tool. I would rather pay our own companies to explore for our own oil and create jobs for OUR people so that we can stop transferring trillions in our wealth to other Countries
you would rather destroy our country if it meant getting back at people with greater abilities and ambition than you
genie0390 9 months ago
@genie0390 I agree some what with your statement. But, the reason we are investing in Brazil's Oil industry is so that we have more then one option then just the oil fields that we already have. Our companies don't even pay for the use of the oil fields, and with the ridiculous speculation that is going on right now. I wouldn't even give them, or Wallstreet a dime. It seems to me that you are the real tool here.
edeal86 9 months ago
@edeal86. Arguing with genie0390 is like hitting your head against a wall. It's pointless and painful.
cne08 9 months ago
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@cne08 ---
"Arguing with genie0390 is like hitting your head against a wall. It's pointless and painful."
Amen to that, some month ago I deemed geenie a troll but it seems he is just lacking standard analytical capabilities.
underbjorn 9 months ago
@underbjorn
whenever a progressive says i lack "standard analytical abilities" it means i don't share his deranged, depraved thinking and views, hahaha
actually, ya know i happen to have an excellent education plus plenty of experience, so happens, in the oil business, i.e. i know what i'm talking about, you obviously don't,...but you may have more knowledge than Obowma! hahahaha
genie0390 9 months ago
@genie0390 --- You know, when an American tells me that the have lived in Europe, have a good education, worked in the oil business etc, seen how evil, godless socialism is making us into zombies and how glorious America is and then go on calling their president "Obowma",
I think for myself: Could it actually be that they are telling the truth? If people in the oil business behave like pathetic kindergarden children in America, it is no wonder.
underbjorn 9 months ago
@underbjorn
i maintain a home in CR, US and in Canada where i'm currently involved with an oil company
i don't like Europe one bit. I don't like Obowma simply because of his big government politics and the Nanny state he feels can solve all our problems, which is plain stupid
the "pathetic kindergarden children" are really those in socialist Europe looking to gov to provide everything for them. I look after myself being a capable adult
who cares what u believe about me
genie0390 9 months ago
@genie0390 ---
You just spent all the space of that post telling unimportant, probably inaccurate, things about yourself and then don't care? Well, I am used to contradictory right-wingers.
Big government is the right-wing, big army, big navy, big secret police, big oil, big poverty, big wars.
That ism y problem with the right-wing.
underbjorn 9 months ago
@genie0390
So geneie, how is the American people benefiting from those subsidies? Hmmm?
*10 years later*
Still waiting.
mecher3k 9 months ago
@mecher3k
well as far as i know you're still able to drive up to the pump and fill er up so that your car can haul your sorry ass to where you desire to go, you're able to board that jetliner and fly off to visit that feeble minded granny at Thanksgiving, etc etc
oh yes, most of the research into alternate fuels is being done by these evil companies, using some of that subsidy monies decided upon and approved by duly elected members of congress, from both parties
genie0390 9 months ago
@genie0390 Yes, we can pump gas but with a 75 cent loss per gallon thanks to unneeded speculation. As for your alternate fuel research. Most oil companies keep those projects researched, but buried. So that they can keep milking the economy with their ancient business model. LOL And you have the nerve to call me a tool.
edeal86 9 months ago 2
@edeal86
man, i like your comment, "ancient business model',..really?? if they stopped using this relic of a model, America would be in total chaos and extreme violence within a day or sooner
everyone would have to start thinking, HORSES, and the only job you would qualify for would be to shovel horse shit
you are a tool for thinking the way you do
genie0390 9 months ago
What I don't get is why conservatives are pro-welfare when it comes to big business. It makes no sense, it's not free market capitalism, it's government subsidized business, and the government and the tax payers have no in how these companies that receive our money are run.
Oil companies make 10s of billions of dollars in profit, gas prices are higher than ever in one of the worst recessions in US history, and they still need 4 billion dollars of welfare from the tax payers?
Bo1618 9 months ago
@Bo1618 They merely bow down to the ones they serve.
Ralfast 9 months ago
all members of the Congress should have their voting published publicly automatically, that way people can see for themselves first hand what they do, a lot of people have no idea what their politicians do, they just assume they do what they say they are going to do.
SweetCash33 9 months ago 13
What? GOP doesn't stand for that... it means "God-n-Oil Party :P (credits to Uncyclopedia for that :P)
AdmiralofTheEmpire 9 months ago
well, lets see how all of those small businesses in the gulf, owned by republicans, that got thrashed and trashed by the BP spill last year, react to this. this week the republicans are doing a good job kicking their own asses in the next election
BeingNobody1956 9 months ago
I would be nice if we elected politicians who made their living solely from what they're paid for that position.For some reason though we put rich people in office thinking they have the interest of the little people in mind.
TheoneGodfather 9 months ago
@TheoneGodfather
there is far more to life and to America than looking out for the "little people". People who can look after themselves are American too
genie0390 9 months ago
@genie0390 True,,and part of that "looking after ourselves" should be electing politicians who dont constantly bend us over and let the rich stick it in.
TheoneGodfather 9 months ago
@TheoneGodfather
progressives sound like a broken record, keep spending, need money, tax the rich!
want more employment? tax the rich, blah, blah
the rich are not the problem in America, high wages, union thugs, government regulations, stupid liberal politicians drove many millions high paying jobs offshore, leaving hamburger flipping jobs for the liberally educated Americans too concerned with equalities, human rights, PC bullshit. Asians r mftg goods world wants, we spread human rights
genie0390 9 months ago
@genie0390 Eh,whatever.I dont give a shit about taxing the rich more.It should be clear that our economys fucked because while the price of everything keeps going up wages barely do and the reason wages barely do is so companys can keep that profit report high so the ceo's can get those big bonuses and investers stay happy because their stock value stays high.You can reply back but,,,i really dont give a shit what you have to say.
TheoneGodfather 9 months ago
@TheoneGodfather
"You can reply back but,,,i really dont give a shit what you have to say."
fine!,..but what gave u the idea i give a shit about what u have to say?
genie0390 9 months ago
@genie0390 Because you replied to my first comment,,doosh.
TheoneGodfather 9 months ago
why is it that these ppl keeping coming back to complaining that money is the root problem for everything , yet they are still 100$% in favor of the idea of money and it's use for the system? they're close but need that extra bit of realization
luckily there's a movie for that
watch?v=EewGMBOB4Gg
iamLI3 9 months ago
My compny sent out 2 memos recently:
- first one, good news! We're making record profits! Yahoo! Thanks everybody for your hard work.
- 2nd one, bad news! Due to one of our corporate objectives not exceeding expectations, we won't be paying out merit increases this year. So sorry. Now get back to work.
Such is the nature of Corporate America.
audadvnc 9 months ago 14
We're already F'ed by our dependence on the poison of fossil fuels, but of course the Gas & Oil Party would rather keep us addicted until the last minute, and hooked on the drug-like euphoric illusion of 'plentiful oil' until we have no other recourse or options but to find emergency and badly needed alternative energies because of the insufficient supplies of what we always knew was a disappearing and limited supply of oil. The Gas and Oil Party, indeed.
frededison 9 months ago
if we don't get off the oil and fossil fuel tit within 50 years we are fucked
theaceofspades39 9 months ago
the corps didn't help create jobs in the 10 yrs of no taxes....the republican are owned by oil and the koch bros and insurance corps and banks and they deceive the people with no taxes....they arn't talking about the 98% of america....they are only protecting the top 2%....the rest of us suffer. for the richest and the few they pay for conrol of this country...the jobs they give r overseas.....
ElnaCopper 9 months ago
American capitalism is a fucking joke. They have these conservative creeps whining about birth certificates and Muslims waah waah and they pump money into this? Tax payer money going into pockets of billionaire oil directors?
Is that how you spend your tax money America?
No social security but pay the oil companies director salaries?
underbjorn 9 months ago 21
@underbjorn
Come on man, expand expand expand expand until you crash. That's the American dream!! Sustain? Hell no!
porterwake 9 months ago
@porterwake ---
Haha funny that you'd talk about sustainability, just handed in a fat essay about sustainable development and sure as hell the United States is not on the positive end of that one, xD
underbjorn 9 months ago
@underbjorn Spaaaaam
eedobee 9 months ago
@underbjorn lol I dont see a problem with that...just trying to figure out to be that "billionaire oil director"...what America needs is less govt intervention on Wall and Main street and more SELF-RELIANCE!
123trymeout 9 months ago
@123trymeout ---
Uhm subventions is government intervention, the government distubring the free market and you don't see a problem with that?
Stupid American.
underbjorn 9 months ago
@underbjorn lol did I say I didnt see a problem with that? stupid fuck...learn to read before you start disrespecting people...really makes you look like an asshole :)
123trymeout 9 months ago
@123trymeout ---
Uhm you just said " lol I dont see a problem with that"...?
underbjorn 9 months ago
please say it over and over....don't let oil kill all of the gulf...death is till happening from the last unbelievable sinful spill....governor scott of florida loves BIG OIL...he refused high speed rails to help the oil corps....
ElnaCopper 9 months ago
Hmmm, maybe we should end those oil subsidies. Just a thought.
CHAOSoriginal 9 months ago
@CHAOSoriginal To keep their bottom line as high as it was the previous fiscal year, they will just raise prices. This is the problem. We are under their control. They have to get paid. Their executives have to get bonuses. They have to help the shareholders. We come #2.
porterwake 9 months ago
In the UK we pay $9.75 per gallon. (based on £1.30 per litre)
soundslave 9 months ago 2
@soundslave Yeah, whats going on with that?
CHAOSoriginal 9 months ago
@CHAOSoriginal It's the same all over Western Europe. It's kinda hard for us to take the Americans seriously when they think $4 per gallon is too much.
soundslave 9 months ago
Subsidies aren't the half of it. Let's not forget that every war we fight in the Middle East is ultimately about keeping the oil flowing. And those wars add up to trillions of dollars of subsidies from the American taxpayer. You're welcome, BP, Exxon, Shell, Chevron, etc.
srugel44 10 months ago 45
@srugel44 So drill here and stop the wars?
jimisback 9 months ago
@jimisback I think T. Boone Pickens has it right. Convert big trucks and commercial vehicles to American Natural Gas. We have plenty, a truck / bus is worth something like 1500 cars worth of consumption and emissions (trucks run all the time, basically), and the resulting drop in the need for diesel would free up so much oil for the average family car market that the price would drop, the need for imports would decrease substantially, etc.
And honestly, would it really hurt to preach "use less"
srugel44 9 months ago
@srugel44 What would the cost be to convert all the trucks/busses for the small bussiness owner per truck/bus?
jimisback 9 months ago
@jimisback - Many thousands for a commercial truck, but then fuel cost is 1/4 diesel. Something like that.
I've seen people advertising $300 conversion kits for cars, but this is possibly predicated on the idea that they go mass production and sell 100,000s per year.
I saw an old national geographic with pictures from china in it. They were running buses with NG, using giant inflatable bags on top for fuel tanks. Funny. In America, we would insist on compression tanks for big volume. More $.
srugel44 9 months ago
@jimisback - P.S. and where's the 100 miles per gallon car? They have them, you know. They just don't mass manufacture and market them. See Aptera.com, or fuel-efficient-cars. org, or just google it. We should really get on the job of pushing greater efficiency in this country.
And by the way, you can run any car on natural gas, too. My dad was an alternate fuel engineer at Ford. Decades ago they were running taxi fleets in big cities on natural gas. They sell such cars in Europe, but not here.
srugel44 9 months ago
@srugel44 -- your idea has merit because natural gas is so cheap now & cleaner than coal & oil, but so much natural gas is now obtained by fracting,
And the greenies want to close that diown. I think their claims about damages are exaggerated, So they are out there looking for lizards or bugs they could use to close it down & then prices would soar up.
DillonDee1 9 months ago
@DillonDee1 - I know what you are saying. T. Boone Pickens gave a brilliant explanation of fracking wells recently in which he said he drilled 3000 wells or something without a complaint, down in Texas, while they are going nuts about it in Pennsylvania and Western New York. Clearly, the geology is different in those places and fracking isn't for everywhere, that's for sure. Nonetheless, there is so much NG there are places to get it with few people around. New York is not the best place for it.
srugel44 9 months ago
@srugel44 --- Whereas much of the fracking in Penn & NY is for Nat Gas, much of it in TX is for oil.
If fracking was closed down in TX, you'd see $10 at the pump
DillonDee1 9 months ago
I have grown to love this Cenk character. I used to think he was too soft on the right wingers, but he has really grown into his voice.
Great job, Cenk. I got your back, man. Keep it up.
srugel44 10 months ago
@srugel44
Cenk has always kept it real. I love the fact that MSNBC gives him wiggle room.
Newssnoop 10 months ago
The poor always gets fucked by the rich. Always had always will.
98bigbutt 10 months ago
It's a great idea, but it won't happen...
langox510x 10 months ago
Cenk, the evil corporate profit is 2cents on every gallon, while the us government makes 42cents on every gallon... So who's the bad guy?!
Iamfatbrain 10 months ago
@Iamfatbrain So where did you get that figure? Most of the reports I've read that claim something close to what you are quoting are written by the oil companies themselves.
"state and federal excise taxes made up 32 percent of what motorists paid at the pump in January 2000, when the average price for regular was only $1.29." So why is it now at almost 4 dollars and they claim its the governements fault prices are high when before they were taxing the same amount and price was ~3 times lower?
sluggdiddyyddidgguls 10 months ago
@Iamfatbrain Except the subsidies are not counted in the profit from each litre of oil, . The prices are kept down because of unneeded subsidies. Put simply: The subsidies keep the price of oil down in the US, which increases dependence on oil, which jacks up the profits of the oil companies, as well as pollution, higher levels of traffic, and all the other illeffects of too much reliance on oil.
dangerouslytalented 9 months ago
FUCK THE GOP!
like2seeit86 10 months ago
Who cares if the USA drills for more oil? You can't charge differently for your oil than OPEC oil! It has to be sold on the open market. The market and speculators drive up the cost.
hassleoffa 10 months ago
@hassleoffa They CAN and do jack up the price.
dangerouslytalented 10 months ago
@hassleoffa I care I don't want another deep water horizen
kokofan50 10 months ago
@hassleoffa
Yeah, but speculators are fearing prices will rise because of the federal reserve and it's printing binge it's been on. They don't "collude" on their own and conspire to say "yeah, I think we should cause prices to rise....now!"
That's illogical.
Buergs323 10 months ago
THIS JUST IN:
bill gates has received 4 billion dollars in welfare because "lol i dont hav enuf monies"
bernie23232323232323 10 months ago
Corporations making record profits yet jobs are on the decline? Didn't someone say that tax breaks for corporations will increase jobs?
TurboDally 10 months ago 70
@TurboDally Just keep holding your breath, that money will be "trickling down" any minute now.
cablepanos 9 months ago 2
@TurboDally It increases jobs just not for the usa since tax breaks gives them the abilities to ship jobs overseas
demonicanthonyalbert 9 months ago
@TurboDally
Don't you know it takes a while for the trickle down effect to work its way to regular people? Just be patient like the Repubs keep telling you, it'll happen soon enough I'm sure. :D
JDubs878 9 months ago
@TurboDally
yeah i reckon! thanks obama!
thegreenseven 9 months ago
yay we are destroying the world like the GOP wants that makes a lot of fucking sense
kazooga1234 10 months ago
LOL, 69% RISE in OIL PROFiTS as the BIG-OiL-COMPANiES continue to SCREW and FUCK America's "bottom" 98% percentile at reigns of the GOP...
xD
TAz69x 10 months ago
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Obozo is clearly going to be a 1 term EPIC FAIL and he will LOSE to Sarah Palin in 2012! We NEED President Sarah Palin for she will put a stop to this travesty. President Palin will prevent taxpayer money being funneled into Oil companies and large corporations for she is a true champion of the people!
ecwaufisxtreme 10 months ago
Seriously guize, were running out of fossil fuels...
Srsly guize...
We should really look into thorium fluoride low pressure nuclear reactions.
nagasako7 10 months ago
The Nissan Leaf has a waiting line for buyers like a supercar.
With gas @ $4-5 forcasted in this year Nissan Leafs might be sold out next year.
Also Thorium. . . Also thorium
nagasako7 10 months ago
@nagasako7 Actually reports of 6-7 a gal. by this time next year.
ROCKSTARVOCALIST 10 months ago
Cenk, how much did Apple make in the same time period?
ROCKSTARVOCALIST 10 months ago
Well Im voting for Ron Paul no matter who runs!
akxeel 10 months ago
I TRIPLE DOG DARE YOU OBAMA!
MRMAGIC305X 10 months ago
If we just brought back Tesla technology, we wouldn't even need oil. Everyone could have free energy but noooo...the oil and energy executives would rather billions around the world go without food, water, and energy just so they can keep making profits because apparently, a billion+ dollars isn't enough for these poor CEOs to live on...how long are we gonna sit here and take this?
SoloWing808 10 months ago
@SoloWing808 There is nothing superefficient about Tesla's technology. If there was something that produced a spectacular amount of energy, then the power companies would be already generating power with that technology and simply jacking up the price.
dangerouslytalented 10 months ago
Cenk has is getting better and better,he needs his own talk show.
interfan63 10 months ago
sadly, the gop is also the god and oil party
cubamexico5567 10 months ago
@Hammerhead547 we as American people hav a rite to be pissed about these oil prices. Theyre getting 4 billion big ones in subsidies yet they can profit 10 billion in several months. Theyre sitting up in their castles on their golden thrones while our oil supplies are dwindling and our wallets getting burned.
aacdo 10 months ago
@aacdo Yeah, but American fuel prices are between one half and one third those of Europe or Australia and Japan... Result is most American cars are gas guzzlers, and more Americans have massive military style SUVs than anywhere else on the planet.
dangerouslytalented 10 months ago
We Americans are bitching about $4.50 a gallon gas but when I was up in Toronto visiting friends gas was $1.35 a liter (which equals out to around $6.00 a US gallon) for medium octane and $1.45 for high octane ($6.85 a gallon).
It cost me $65 dollars to fill my car ( I drive a Honda Accord) so we don't got it quite so bad.
People here would save money if they got rid of their pick-ups and sport utility vehicles and buy smaller more fuel efficient cars if they had any brains in their heads.
Hammerhead547 10 months ago
@Hammerhead547 " People here would save money if they got rid of their pick-ups and sport utility vehicles and buy smaller more fuel efficient cars " People are free to buy any vehicle they want to. Who are you telling people what to do. Next you'll be telling someone in their 80's who needs a pacemaker to just take a pill instead.
chaumont20 10 months ago
The president is fighting back a tad? Have I stepped into LaLa land? This is awesome.
Offense!
DrakeMagnum 10 months ago
@DrakeMagnum Not really. Its all show since his re-election campaign has started. He's just lucky his only competition are a bunch of idiots.
OrthodoxAtheist 10 months ago
@OrthodoxAtheist " He's just lucky his only competition are a bunch of idiots. " Conservatives won in a landslide in Nov 2010 mostly with people nobody had heard of. They won by Campaigning against Nancy, Harry and President Obama. That was only an appetizer for the beatdown you will absorb in Nov 2012. I can't wait to vote.
chaumont20 10 months ago
Who do you work for you fat propagandist?
Graham6762 10 months ago
@Graham6762 Who do you work for, Exxon Mobil?
jayleeb1 10 months ago
@jayleeb1 Gas prices are going up because they are printing money. This is just propaganda. I would love to have a state owned oil company but I don't think it will happen.
Graham6762 10 months ago
Obama, you are the fucking president. This move is popular.
FUCKEN DO IT, YOU SAP!
DrakeIcn 10 months ago 77
@DrakeIcn It is, but i highly doubt he will do it. It's just another campaign move.
Stingerbillion 10 months ago
@DrakeIcn You do know how our system works right? Congress controls the money. He can introduce a bill to end these subsidies, but Congress has to pass it. Now he needs to fight, without his typically bullshit compromise, to get these taken away, but him being President is irrelevant ultimately.
DisturbedHavok 10 months ago
@DrakeIcn
He can't "do" it, he doesn't even have a single vote in the House of Representatives or the right to introduce legislation in Congress. He's the president, you idiot...
Redfingers 10 months ago
@Redfingers Yes, of course, he is the most powerless person in the country.
For instance, he does not have direct access to virtually all major news station, where he could call out his opposition on their bullshit and make republicans scared on losing votes by not agreeing with him.
And its not like Bush could completely disregard Congress whenever the fuck he wanted to.
Yeah, I mean, damn, he cant do shit!
DrakeIcn 10 months ago
Obama,stop talking out yer ass and do something for once
mahatmacoatmahandbag 10 months ago
LOL at his elementary connection: Tax breaks for the rich - even though they weren't really breaks - subsequently lead to higher gas prices. Yeah Cenk, lets just ignore the fact that inflation is taking over the economy...whatevs...something oil companies cannot control...
Buergs323 10 months ago
@Buergs323 Are you sure thats what he was saying...? All I got was that big oil is posting massive profits and therefore dosent need govt. subsidies, and that they arent lowering gas prices to pass any of that profit to the american people. When did he say tax cuts for the rich = higher gas prices?
pykezer 10 months ago
Put Ron Paul in office and corporate welfare ends. Obama is a puppet people - he's all talk.
And, btw, rising gas prices have little to NOTHING to do with the oil companies. It's called the Federal Reserve, the printing of trillions of dollars; in other words, inflation.
But, please, we shall distract you mindless drones by complaining about "profits," rather than complaining about the real issues. Go on now, check your twitter to what Chloe Kardashian said on twitter....
Buergs323 10 months ago
@Buergs323
'Real issues'? You mean how the Repubs have been all over Obama with his birth certificate? That's a 'real issue'? >_>
If the Repubs were serious about talking about the real issues and were upfront and honest about their platform, they would have never won the number of seats they have. Just look at the backlash against them now. Dems suck balls as well, but I'll take them over the Repubs anyday.
JDubs878 10 months ago
@JDubs878 Donald Trump is living rent free in President Obama's head.
chaumont20 10 months ago
@chaumont20
Donald Trump started out as a slum lord in New York.
Hammerhead547 10 months ago
@JDubs878
Lol. I hate Repubs too. But, you have another choice. Libertarians. Republicans are goons and shills, as well as the democrats. Don't limit yourself - a man like Ron Paul is at least principled...even if you might disagree with some of his policies.
Buergs323 10 months ago
@Buergs323 He wouldn't even tax these corporate hogs, let alone personal income taxes. If you want to kill the middle class entirely, by all means, provide further tax breaks to the super rich.
"It's called the Federal Reserve, the printing of trillions of dollars; in other words, inflation."
It's called Wall Street. Even with record profits, they don't lower the cost of gas.
donnyforte2 10 months ago
@donnyforte2
Haha you understanding of economics and finance is so foolish. The Federal Reserve aids Wall Street, and allows elites to get fatter while the Middle class get shit on.
It's an institutional problem, not one that is solved by yelling at private oil companies, and trying to blame them for everything. It's called cronyism, not capitalism. Some people on Wall Street are not capitalists...they are fucking cronies getting rich off the gov't...there's a fucking difference.
Buergs323 10 months ago
@Buergs323 "It's an institutional problem"
Yeah, it's because we allow Wall Street to fuck us over and over and over again. Republicans don't even want to allow BASIC regulation.
"not one that is solved by yelling at private oil companies, and trying to blame them for everything"
It's -a- problem. Not the only. I don't see anyone saying that.
"It's called cronyism, not capitalism"
This is capitalism at its worst. Let's not play these word games.
donnyforte2 9 months ago
@donnyforte2
Capitalism by definition is without government handouts/subsidies/favoritism.
To not distinguish the two and to still blame capitalism is intellectually dishonest.
Buergs323 9 months ago
@Buergs323 "Capitalism by definition"
Oh, whatever. There are many stages and definitions of capitalism.
donnyforte2 9 months ago
@donnyforte2
Haha. No. There aren't. Free enterprise has no government involvement whatsoever....even the most capitalist writer - like Ayn Rand - even detested cronies. In fact, Orren Boyle, a crony capitalist, is one of the biggest villains in Atlas Shrugged. You seem too foolish to even accept the fact that you can't blame subsidies and gov't favors on the capitalism/free enterprise system. They are mutually exclusive. Free markets are....FREE. Get that through your head.
Buergs323 9 months ago