Congresswoman Kaptur Explains How Oil Companies Have A Crisis Every Decade To Gouge Us

[chrstne777]

Marcy Kaptur for President!!!

[TheFallenWon]

Funny how Americans care about 4 dollar a gallon oil, while almost everyone else on the planet already pays that or more, and they don't give a shit about the 100,000+ civilian casualties that have happened in the last decade. Even funnier is that the majority of pro war politicians also claim to be Christians. Killing thousands upon thousands of innocent civilians to allow the petrol companies to maintain a monopoly on the energy market does not sound very Christian to me.

[Zidriz]

The whole world could shake off the dependency of oil if we would just roll out renewable energy to it's full potential.

But companies that got rich from the current system are doing anything in their power to stop this from happening.

[TotalMusicJunkie]

@Zidriz

Your comment on this is so very true and I also wish we would get away from relying on foreign oil for gasoline requirements and other energy derived from oil products too.

We need to move forward with renewal energy and be very cautious in who we sell any innovative small start up companies who are doing just that as the oil/gas companies work hard at buying them through dummy corporations and then shelve the amazing progress we would have made from their creative ideas.

[marniespeaks]

nationalize oil

[LokiScoutSniper]

LOL her a democrat saying energy independent. Geez genius drill here. Democrats are the only people that can get away with conspiracies. Who innovates new energy tech. yeah that would be the oil companies. Third subsidies aside oil companies pay a lot in taxes, that's your spending money Miss government. Finally if people want to spend their money on green energy they are free to do so. Several thousand bucks at HomeDepot will buy you solar panels, a inverter and batteries, by get this B.P.

[DackIsBack]

1) Decrease Supply > Demand Goes Up > Prices Soar...

2) Increase Supply > Demand Goes Down > Prices stay the same because nobody wants to loose the increased revenue.

ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY... Works every time.

The only way this can work is if monopolistic corporations band together and agree not to undercut each other.

Ladies and Gentlemen, We do not have a freemarket system.

The root of the problem is fake fiat currency and a banking system that's more rigged than any casino.

[donnyforte2]

Who do oil companies fund the most? Republicans. Largely in thanks to the Koch brothers.

[karenl1234]

great vid and totally true! I have 30 yrs of time magazines and ever generation gets this along with war, terrorism swine and other flues, fear, war, and now war for water ck out lybia they created the largest manmade inland lake on planet could we be trying to conquor for this? stop war, violence they will attack us again if we do not learn to speak up and gain control of our country theres the air car, water motor hemp oil car first diesel runs on hemp and peanut oil! great vid! thanks!

[bocal701]

Kaptor is one of the few decent people left in Washington. If only we had more people like her who could get elected.

[vthilton]

Share or perish.

[chocomalk]

@ReignbowSmite

That's fine, you may as well try to stop humans from breathing, volcanoes from erupting, matter from decaying and the oceans from spewing it. While you are at it, realize the emissions from one nuclear accident are pretty much forever until we figure out how to sequester or deactivate radioactive materials, of which there is already to much of. We can sequester carbon and plant more trees, reduce emissions, but we cannot get rid of nuclear waste, it is forever.

[chocomalk]

@ReignbowSmite

However you want to define the term is fine, the fact remains that the strain you smoke has been altered and is not the same as the wild variety, and has experienced both pros and cons from it being altered.

Suffice it to say, most people overstate hemps resistance to pests by saying it has no problems. This is of course impossible. It is however one of the most hardy, pest free crop that can grow in almost any climate where other plants are found.

[chocomalk]

@ReignbowSmite

The answer to about 80% of personal energy use is in smart homes that are built to recycle waste and utilize the energy from that waste and from the environment. Almost everything else could find a workaround using solid alternatives such as street lighting from geothermal sources, public transport on a mix of NG/Biofuel/solar/geothermal and industry/farming would require the small portion of heavy fuels until science offers better solutions.

We need to reduce emissions not stop.

[chocomalk]

@ReignbowSmite

There are 4 species of hemp, one of them happens to be of the Cannabis family, of which there are numerous variants besides a male/female variety. The weed you smoke is "genetically modified" through cloning and other methods over time just like bananas and corn prior to GMOs.

[chocomalk]

@ReignbowSmite

Weed is modified hemp and is weaker than the non THC producing strains.

All fossil fuels release carbon.

Great strides have been made in solar energy as well as in extracting fuels from waste biomass and faeces. The University of Toronto created an aerosol solar spray with 5X the efficiency of current models with the added benefit of utilizing UV radiation making cloudy days as efficient as sunny ones presently. Living solar cels are being developed from Cyanobacteria.

[koolbreeeeeze]

but is she doing anything about it - i say no becuz -the price is still the same here $4.30

[mistertakeda]

@koolbreeeeeze What I don't understand is how this woman controls the price of oil, directly, complains about it being too high, and yet does nothing about it.

[deepfriedchocobo]

carter = most underrated and vilified prez in us history

[LouieArrighi]

the trade war? the trade war? when Carter was president we had protectionist policies and EVERYTHING was made in the USA. fuck the libertarian globalists who preach the free market.

[myhipsi]

@LouieArrighi

Protectionist policies may bring some jobs back to America, however it is at a cost. In order to support the higher wages demanded by U.S. workers, manufacturers will have to raise the prices of the products they make. Which means that the consumer will pay more to buy those things. In most cases the cost is even greater than the wage benefit, IOW, there is a net loss to the economy from protectionist policies.

[LouieArrighi]

@myhipsi of course prices will be higher as they were up until 1994. subsidies are still being given to multinationals that outsource now, and that is corruption, we've had protectionist policies from 1787 up until NAFTA

[myhipsi]

@LouieArrighi

I agree with you that subsidies given to multinationals is corrupt. NAFTA isn't actually about free trade, it's trade that is managed by government and large corporations to the benfit of the corporations.

I believe in a completely FREE market. No subsidies, no taxes, no levies, no duties, and no NAFTA (only real free trade). When world trade is truly free, everybody benefits. Unfortunately the idea of free trade has been basterdized by government and large multinationals.

[raiden409]

Have obama drop some bombs on them ! Oh wait forgot obama wants to industrialize the usa.

[donnyforte2]

@LouieArrighi Ronbots marked your comment as spam. Go figure.

[TheAnubisDrake]

Everyone should keep in mind that just because this woman is telling the truth this once it does not make her a hero. She is just as deep in corporate pockets as the others just not as much into oil.

[pistraurder]

that woman rocks

[chocomalk]

@ReignbowSmite

There is no free ride dealing with chemical fuels. Even solar requires initial energy investment.

Hemp is easy to grow and needs little encouragement, hence "Weed".

It needs no herbicides and is pest resistant.

Of course there is always an energy cost and resource cost, but as with any industry there is always waste, even without oil extraction from hemp, if Biomass centres were part of production it would offset energy costs greatly. It is essentially composting for fuel.

[HerbanTracker]

@ReignbowSmite face it, if 'the people' had ANY influence at ALL... the energy monopolies wouldn't exist, telecom monopolies wouldn't exist, war wouldn't exist, bankster bailouts wouldn't exist, and dare I say liberty WOULD exist!

[HerbanTracker]

@ReignbowSmite idk where you've been but brazil is doing it with sugarcane and our government has been subsidizing corn farmers for ethanol so by you're logic (i will lump you in with government shills) is that it makes more sense to waste food for fuel or stick with black gold or maybe build more nuclear plants? Unfortunately, typical statists refuse to let facts, logic, or the free market decide on how to fix the mess. Instead they fall back on statism to solve everything. fail

[grandmachristine42]

@ReignbowSmite The nuclear energy plants use 3% of all the energy produced in US to make that nuclear energy. Its a very expensive (and poison) way to boil water.

[justonefirefly1]

THE FUICKIN REPUBLICUNTS ARE TO BLAME FOR THIS - THEY ARE THE ONES THAT CREATED THE WELFARE SUBSIDIES FOR THE OIL COMPANIES - FUCK YOU DAMN FUCKING REPUBLICUNTS - HOPE NOT ONE OF YOU GET YOUR FUCKING ASSES BACK INTO OFFICE YOU G DAMNED PIECE OF TERRORIST SHIT

[chocomalk]

@ReignbowSmite

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...There are algae that are not GMO that produce oils and Cyanobacteria is the life-form that all plants have formed a symbiotic relationship with in order to effect photosynthesis. They are the only species of life known that manufactures their own food.

The answer is not in one energy source, it is in the way we choose to live in our environment. Using alternative methods, a home could provide most of the energy it needed while converting waste for power or fertilizer.

[chocomalk]

@ReignbowSmite

Hemp is the most viable crop bar none, it can replace paper, cotton and any petrochemical textile while reducing cost, pollution, growing time and energy spent. It is nutritious and revitalizes the earth. It can be made into products ranging from clothing, energy, food and textiles as strong as steel using pre 1950s tech.

If only 10% of this is fuel it is still worth it, the problem is in our mismanagement.

Cont

[karenl1234]

@chocomalk very well said and we must all demand legalization of hemp ck out the hempcar hemp fuesa as well hemp is high in all 3 omegas and protein and can be a valuable food source when the so caloled founding fathers came here they become wealthy with vaste hemp plantations n made it law requiring it to be grown! medically shrink tumors and kills deadly flesh eating virus! after this madrid bombing levee I know they r totally destroying us! federal reserves charter up in 2012 ck that out!

[chocomalk]

@ReignbowSmite

Please note "alternative methods" in my comment and there is a 500 character limit.

America is huge and mismanaged, farmers are paid subsidies to not grow crops so you can import Canadian and SA crops(NAFTA etc). Hemp is a buffer crop and can be used in between regular crops and as a multi year replacement to regular crops for profit and for soil revitalization.

Algae can be grown in the ocean in conjunction with hydroelectric and desalinization plants.

[chocomalk]

@ReignbowSmite

Using conventional growing techniques, there are few biofuels that are feasible. Although there are a number of alternative growing techniques that are feasible in conjunction with other energy sources.

Algal fuels are promising as is research into Cyanobacteria.

[HerbanTracker]

i believe she just made the argument for hemp biofuels...

[TheHashtonKusher]

109 a gallon? Lol is it 2013 already?

[vVv11511vVv]

Oil companies have the right to screw us. The US gov doesn't have the right to devalue our currency.

[IamCJT76]

Awesome stand!!

[skiandride]

We rely too heavily on oil imports from canada and it seems that the only logical course of action is to invade canada. I mean they've had it coming for a while

[StAnDnWaKeUp]

@skiandride Bring it.

[skiandride]

@nett103 @StAnDnWaKeUp just wanted to say that I was being sarcastic and that i was clearly joking. I was just saying that the vast majority of our oil comes from domestic production and from canada.

[skiandride]

@nett103 @StAnDnWaKeUp ahahaha it was jokes, I was being sarcastic but i guess thats kind of hard to tell on the internet, sorry. I was just saying that the majority of our Foreign oil comes from canada and the dems need to stop trying to decrease our reliance on "foreign oil" with ridiculous programs that demonstrate both scientific and economic ignorance and the republicans need to stop fighting wars for oil

[nett103]

@skiandride As soon as I pressed 'post', I was like ahhh Im a fool...that was probably a joke. My fault. Anyway, Yes, I fully agree with you. Just imagine the possible green innovations that could have been dsicovered if money was taken away from war and put to science.