Gas Poll

[firstofeight]

11-8-2015 2.37 a gallon in northern Wisconsin.......

1.92 here in No TX

[Utah Blaine]

1.92 here in No TX

central TX $1.72

[Az-Buicks]

thanks to Russia overproducing !
2.19 super
1.75 for 87 octane

[BornBuick]

Actually very little to do with russia over producing and more actually with Shell, Chevron & Exon Mobil over stockpiling and demand slipping due among many other reasons but to name one, the financial crisis throughout not only our country but the world as well starting in 2007 and taking till just last year to go into full swing. They have actually slow exploration and pumping due to surpluses. Thats why Shell shelved their Polar barge drilling campaign this past year. The companies do their forecasts apparently 7 years or so in advance.

[Utah Blaine]

Actually very little to do with russia over producing and more actually with Shell, Chevron & Exon Mobil over stockpiling and demand slipping due among many other reasons but to name one, the financial crisis throughout not only our country but the world as well starting in 2007 and taking till just last year to go into full swing. They have actually slow exploration and pumping due to surpluses. Thats why Shell shelved their Polar barge drilling campaign this past year. The companies do their forecasts apparently 7 years or so in advance.

Wait just a dang minute! There can't be a financial crisis anywhere, much less here. If there were it means someone is lying to us and that just can't be. You must take us for a bunch of dummies dud! Financial crisis, next thing you'll say is unemployment is at 25% and over100 million Americans are on some kind of government handout.

[BornBuick]

…. ha ha that's funny. However, the only thing I don't agree was the part regarding a …. " Government handout "

Our government by declaration and decree is constitutionally a government of the people, by the people and for the people. It is the employer of last resort and provider and protector of the commons. In that capacity it provides where others cannot or will not. With that said then, we the people if so necessary are being provided and cared for as is this, our type of government's duty and responsibility. A handout is what you throw to charity and people with signs on the side of the road.

Therefore, assistance is what is required to help and to aid. Yes it is true a large proportion of our population is receiving Government Assistance but it is not a hand out.

[bob k. mando]

<i>BornBuick
It is the employer of last resort </i>


weirdly, i did a Ctrl+F on the Constitution ... and found no references to "employment" or "employer" anywhere.

which, by the 10th Amendment, would mean that un/employment programs would be one of the innumerable functions and powers "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people."


it's quite odd, isn't it, that almost all of the un-Constitutional bullshit that the FedGov has gotten into since 1900 comes straight out of the Communist Manifesto? a central bank controlling interest rates and money and federal control of education are two more. they're getting pretty far along in destroying the family ( an openly stated Communist goal since 1850 and a founding principle of Marx and Engels ) as well.

[bradhohio]

What does any of this B.S. have to do with what the price of gas is in your area.

[bob k. mando]

FedGov policies ( such as drilling and exploration prohibitions or the refusal to permit pipeline construction ) don't have major effects on commodity prices?

huh.

that's one i haven't heard before.

[Airy Cat]

The government wants to make it as difficult and expensive as they can for you to own and operate a motor vehicle.