ESPECIALLY IF YOU HAVE CHILDREN??\n\nI HEAR SOME PEOPLE CLAIM THEY LIKE THESE GAS PRICES BECAUSE IT KEEPS THE 'RIF RAFF OFF THE ROAD'  BUT DO THESE PEOPLE THAT SAY THIS EVER THINK THAT SOMEONE MAY BE ON THE ROAD GOING TO THEIR MENIAL JOB TO PUT FOOD ON THEIR TABLE TO FEED THEIR FAMILY??  SOME PEOPLE ARE AGAINST ABORTION, BUT THEY DON'T SEEM TO CARE ABOUT CHILDREN AND THE PEOPLE THAT SUPPORT THEM AFTER THEY ARE BORN.
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It's a little late to be talking about school when she needs gas tomorrow?\n\nThese people don't understand how it is... it's not always so easy to just "make more money"... hahaha... but I suspect they will learn that soon enough on their own...\n\nI don't think the government cares... so we should all vote...
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I know I do agree with you.I don't get how they don't want you to have a baby out of wedlock and if you do they look down at you and if you have an abortion they look down at you. But their is a lot of people out their who want baby's and can not have their own.But I think that it should be up to the woman.If she wants to have an abortion.It is her body and she has to make that choice for herself.No one should tell someone else what to do with their life's.That is one thing that is wrong with the world now.Everyone in everyone Else's business and everyone trying to tell everyone how to live their life's.
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By now i think every one is as riled up for their own cause as it gets,  some of us are tired of the same old attack adds as we see very little real differences in those running since they all authorise attack and mudd slinging, its like chose the lesser of two evils. I made my decisions a couple of months ago on all the issues. While gas prices may influence some only history will tell if it was connected to the elections or not. I think OPEC looks for excuses to exploit us, anyway.
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How about this.\n\nI am personally opposed to abortion, but know where my business ends and someone Else's starts.\n\nLove and blessings Don
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Gas prices are set based on production,not demand.Boycotting would be a waste of time.
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Sounds like a good choise to me. As in the near future with the cost of petrol going up continually, people wont be able to afford to run a car!
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Absolutely agree. This whole gas thing is like a re-run of the \nRegan administration.\n\nWhen Regan was in office, I had to struggle to pay bills & eat  too, after he was out of office, I was able to catch up. Now,\nit's the same old thing, - only worse. I know of \nso many who are without health insurance, simply because \nthey can't afford it.  So disturbing.\n\nI wonder - Repub administration = high gas prices? \nThey do seem to go together.
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That's one of the reasons I'm pro-choice. Abortion may be the wrong personal choice for me, but who am I to tell someone who can't afford the medical care to have a child -- much less care for it after birth -- that they must have one?\n\nOn an semi-unrelated note -- Ever notice how it's the people who are against abortion are also the ones against educating about birth control in schools and also usually -- but not always -- the ones most likely to limit welfare benefits?\n\nAdoption is nice, but since everyone seems to want to adopt perfect little babies -- not kids whose parents have abandoned them, or kids who have spent time in the foster care system -- it doesn't seem viable to have that as the only solution. **EDIT to clarify** My point here is that even when people do decide to adopt, they often overlook or choose not to adopt at-risk or high-needs children, older children or children who have been  in the foster care system. So simply saying every child that would be aborted should be put up for adoption doesn't seem a viable solution to me.
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I totally agree with you!  Pro-lifers seem to be more concerned about the unborn child than they are about the child (and its mother and/or father) after it is born!  "Okay...I stopped you from having an abortion.  See ya and good luck!  Just don't ask me for money or assistance."  That is one of my problems with the pro-life movement.  It's about wanting to control women.  It has nothing to do with caring about the welfare of the unborn child.  If it did, they would be fighting more for the rights of born children and thier mothers and/or fathers.  Better school, better childcare, etc.\n\nI'm sure if more programs existed to help financially strapped mothers and mothers-to-be, there might be a few less abortions.  I more honestly feel that if birth-control and/or morning after pills were made more readily and easily (ie: over the counter) available to women, there wouldn't be the need for abortions.  An unplanned pregnancy is an unplanned pregnancy, regardless of the money you have in the bank.  Of course, there are those who use abortion as a form of birth-control and, as far as I'm concerned, those women shouldn't breed anyway, but for most women, it's a tough decsion to have to make.  She should be allowed to make that choice on her own, regardless of her situation.  The government and religous groups need to butt out.
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Are you people serious? our oil and gasoline is Subsidized by the US government.  While your crying about $3 a gallon for gasoline, Europe is paying upwards of $7 a liter for their petrol.  The government is the only thing keeping you driving the 4X4 and giant SUV, wake up.\n\nEdit: and while your on Yahoo Answers moaning to all of your "friends" about how evil a democracy the US gov't is, they are loosening the restrictions on your car's waste output, and opening the countries fuel supply for personal use so YOU don't have to ride your bike to the mall tomorrow.\n\nEdit2: YES they CAN use the excuse they cannot convert oil->gasoline.  We are currently refining at MAX capacity (when weather systems allow) We havn't made a new refinery since the 70s, and since it take almost 20 YEARS to complete a new refinery, don't hold your breath. (10 years to complete an oil rig)  Also, why the hell would Exon make a new refinery? From a business standpoint, they have NO motivation to do so, they are getting prime price for their product.
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This is a difficult situation. Oh course my children come first, as I know yours do. Our country was established with the idea that thw petroleum engine would lead us on forever. We individuals have to start thinking of our own solutions; such as carpooling, bus, etc. Let your mind leave the angry place and see if you can come up with a solution that might work for you.
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Personally, I believe abortion to be wrong. I will say that to anyone. Most people don't have a problem with getting someone to at least stop and think before attaining an abortion. You always make a better decision when you think about all available options. BTW, I do help feed the hungry.
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The thing about the abortion debate is that the two sides are arguing entirely unrelated issues. Pro-life people say "abortion is bad". Pro-choice advocates say "The government not should be making personal decisions that like". It's not about abortion. It's about who gets to make the decisions.\n\nFace it -- someone is going to choose.  It's either going to be the individual, or it's going to be the majority (through enacted laws). If the majority gets to choose, then they are effectively imposing their belief system -- which is almost always religiously-based -- on everyone.\n\nRight now, the conservatives happen to be in the majority, so many of them seem to have no objection to imposing their religious and moral views on others.  But allowing the government to choose doesn't resolve the question. It just means that the decision on whether abortion is justified is being made by those in power, rather than those personally affected.\n\nDo you really want to abdicate that much of your personal freedom and choice to a group of politicians? Do people really want to live in a country where state legislatures can decide who can be pregnant, and who cannot, and who must? Do people really have that much trust and faith in government that they think the legislature will always make the right choices? Because we'll be stuck with those decisions.\n\nThe concept of reproductive freedoms is not whether you agree with the individual choices being made. It's whether you think the government should have the right to take away and mandate those choices.\n\nWhy can't people understand that freedom of choice is not a minority value, even if the majority happens to disagree with the minority's choice?
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I think that most Americans have stopped buying "unnecessary" fuel, but they are making more than enough money back off of just the necessary fuel (fuel that is needed for daily life, not all of us can walk to work/carpool)... if you have to have it, you have to have it... cuting consumption further isn't an option for most...\n\nSo what happens when capitiolism fails... seems like we are reaching that point with oil... increasing costs could have a crippling effect on our economy through inflation (especially if costs continue to go up)... is it worth it?\n\nThe reserves should have been released a while back... that's just silly, but that's also a Bush...
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Some people are like that, and the ones that have the bigest voices seam to be..... You shouldn't hold it down on everyone.\n\nI am quite a open minded and tolerant myself and I'm not like that.  \n\nThe world isn't black and white (or should I say red and blue) and I wish some of the political nuts would understand that.\n\n\nAnd on the two topics you brought up if you whant my opention I don't agree with abortion, I think are population is to high and growing to fast and we need a negitive growth rate world wide.... but I think abortion is something that needs to be avoided none the less...... if the mother don't whant to have her child then she can just as well give it away when it's born, she should atleast have to take resposablity for her actions in the meantime.\n\nAnd personaly I feel homosexality and how you veiw it is a matter of personal morals...... gay marriage is a legal matter and a matter of equal rightes. Comitted cupples are legaly given serten rightes that are given when people are married.  And I think it's wrong for people to try and keep people from certen rights just becose of there personal belives and morals..... if we did that women still wouldn't be alowed to vote or own land or anything like that.
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The tests come from the word Republican. The baby oil is the reason they are against Abortion, which is why they are dragging their feet to get all vehicles to run on corn and vegetable oil Eh! As for morality,well, lets just say that answer is the result of not wanting electric cars right now! I guess that sums it up for me now as I've never been to a Chinese wedding.
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I don't want to create a conspiracy theory here - that the gas companies haven't built refineries, so that the supply has remained steady whereas demand skyrocketed, driving up the price...as the companies have seen quarterly profits that are unheard of.  I won't try and say that this was a carefully constructed plot on their behalf, ahem.  Well, ok, I don't think it is but I do think that they've been cheap and that their current plans to expand existing refineries won't solve our problems.\n\nDemand for energy will continue to grow (disproportionately here in the U.S...) and I really believe STRONGLY in seeking alternative sources of energy so that we can not only reduce costs for Americans (costs for living...crude oil costs affect EVERYTHING...prodution, shipping...driving up prices...costs to commute, etc.) but will reduce our dependence on foreign oil - doesn't get much better than THAT!!