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Graeme
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 Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 10:57 pm Post subject: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel
| Quote: | What a week it has been for the giant oil companies! Billions in record quarterly profits rushing into their coffers. An even bigger round of quarterly profits coming up. Gargantuan executive pay bonanzas. And a pile of "forces beyond our control" excuses to publicize in response to the empty outrage of Washington politicians and the real squeeze on consumers and small businesses.
Oil man Bush, atop his administration marinated with ex-oil executives in high positions, keeps saying there is little he can do. It is the market of supply and demand. Only fuel cells and hydrogen sometime down the 21st-century road can save the country from dependency on foreign oil, he says repeatedly. Plus more drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge.
The small business revolt can start with several hundred economically squeezed truckers bringing their 18 wheelers to Washington in a protest that encircles in a wide arc the Congress and the White House and the federal buildings in between. Now that would be more than a message. It would be an irresistible visual image for the television cameras day after day. |
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joewp
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| Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 11:04 pm Post subject: Re: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel
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The small business revolt can start with several hundred economically squeezed truckers bringing their 18 wheelers to Washington in a protest that encircles in a wide arc the Congress and the White House and the federal buildings in between. Now that would be more than a message. It would be an irresistible visual image for the television cameras day after day. |
A lot of good that will do, Ralph. It would waste a lot of diesel. No chance that oil is a finite resource and we're near the peak of extraction, huh? What little respect I had for you is gone. You're as much a tool of the growth machine as any developer.
Who knew Nader was this clueless?
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emersonbiggins
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| Posted: Tue May 02, 2006 11:04 pm Post subject: Re: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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| Quote: | | The small business revolt can start with several hundred economically squeezed truckers bringing their 18 wheelers to Washington in a protest that encircles in a wide arc the Congress and the White House and the federal buildings in between. |
...what better advertisement for expanding freight rail networks!
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jaws
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 12:02 am Post subject: Re: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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Did Nader just endorse the war on Iraq?  |
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dub_scratch
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 1:16 am Post subject: Re: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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[quote="Graeme"]Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel
| Quote: | What a week it has been for the giant oil companies! Billions in record quarterly profits rushing into their coffers. An even bigger round of quarterly profits coming up. Gargantuan executive pay bonanzas. And a pile of "forces beyond our control" excuses to publicize in response to the empty outrage of Washington politicians and the real squeeze on consumers and small businesses.
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There we go again. Let's bash the greedy oil companies who now are just beginning to close the price-per-volume gap with Coca-Cola. Oh, and those greedy consumers who squander most of the oil they use on cars, Mr. Nader comes to their defense and demands that the last dregs of dwindling energy be given away to them for almost nothing.
Of course when gasoline is cheap, our worthless liberal village idiot, Nader, will go on about how we are destroying the environment with-- you guessed it-- cheap gasoline. If these types of people really cared about the environment more then the spotlight that comes with criticizing the corporations, then they should be ecstatic about $75 and $3.50 gasoline. If Nader was a true leader, he would direct his criticism on our wasteful consumption patterns and try to suggest meaningful changes we need to make.
This commentary is proof that Nader is nothing more than a populist asshole willing to score points on Big Oil bashing when the opportunity arises. |
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Zardoz
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 1:24 am Post subject: Re: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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| Funny, Ralph didn't mention anything about his complicity in putting Dubya in the White House by siphoning off votes from Gore in 2000. |
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mekrob
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 4:45 am Post subject: Re: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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| Quote: | | The small business revolt can start with several hundred economically squeezed truckers bringing their 18 wheelers to Washington in a protest that encircles in a wide arc the Congress and the White House and the federal buildings in between. |
Oil Storm, anyone? |
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Yavicleus
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 10:30 am Post subject: Re: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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As the saying goes, "When the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail."
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XOVERX
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 10:53 am Post subject: Re: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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| Nader's old. Obviously out of touch. And uninformed, to boot. |
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0mar
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 11:10 am Post subject: Re: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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The thing I don't understand is that every single sector of the economy is allowed to profit except for oil. When oil companies profit, something illegal/unethical must be going on. The #1 priority of a corporation is to post higher and higher profits each quarter/year. ExxonMobil is no different. We don't get all huffy and puffy when any other sector in the economy posts record profits, in fact, we laud them.
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 12:05 pm Post subject: Re: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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| Quote: | | The thing I don't understand is that every single sector of the economy is allowed to profit except for oil. When oil companies profit, something illegal/unethical must be going on. The #1 priority of a corporation is to post higher and higher profits each quarter/year. ExxonMobil is no different. We don't get all huffy and puffy when any other sector in the economy posts record profits, in fact, we laud them. |
Come on Omar. That's just silly talk. Oil companies steal the money from our pockets to make their high profits. It's not like people are complicit in the transaction. Silly Omar. |
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mjdlight
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject: Re: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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| 0mar wrote: | | The thing I don't understand is that every single sector of the economy is allowed to profit except for oil. When oil companies profit, something illegal/unethical must be going on. The #1 priority of a corporation is to post higher and higher profits each quarter/year. ExxonMobil is no different. We don't get all huffy and puffy when any other sector in the economy posts record profits, in fact, we laud them. |
I've always wondered about this myself. The only answer I've been able to come to that feels somewhat satisfactory is that in America oil = LIFE, like no other product.
Quothe the American Consumer:
"So you want to charge $4.50 for a cup of coffee with some sugary syrup in it and make a killing? Knock yourself out.
But when you profit off my LIFEBLOOD, I will scream bloody murder when I feel the pain at the pump!! Parasites!!!" |
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pea-jay
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| Posted: Wed May 03, 2006 1:19 pm Post subject: Re: Ralph Nader: Break Up the Big Oil Cartel |
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I used to have respect for old Ralphie. Unfortunately his has slipped further and further out of touch with reality. Instead of bashing oil companies like the rest of the politicians, he could be out bashing car companies for continuing to produce grossly inefficient cars. Or our wasteful lifestyle. If he really wants to chide business for something, how about Globalism? Their desire for companies to outsource jobs and insource labor (mass immigration) is far more detrimental than the actions of whats left of big oil.
Instead he has decided to follow the herds. Nader is irrelevent. Go home ralph.
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