Could current oil price gouging be the last straw to destroy the whole Republican Party ?
459948
I TRULY HOPE SO.  WHEN I GOTO BED IN A FEW MINUTES I WILL PRAY FOR THIS TO HAPPEN.  GOOD WILL OVERCOME EVIL, BUT SOMETIMES IT TAKES SOME TIME FOR THAT TO HAPPEN.  IT'S BEEN A LONG 6 YEARS.
781385
You expected otherwise?  The drop in prices was a ploy by the oil companies to help get Repubs elected.  Now that the election is over and the prices are going back up, look for them to hit $3 a gallon by Christmas.  Merry Christmas from the big oil companies.  And besides that, they need to make more money.
823406
Republicans have forgotten about "bread and butter" issues that matter to everyone.\n\nExample:  I spend 45 minutes driving 3 miles to the train station because Republicans can't pass a Transportation Bill in Virginia.  They didn't build shoulders or sidewalks to the train station.  So I'm stuck.\n\nI'm paying $400 a month for health insurance, and I have to change doctors every year because UHC keeps screwing with the billing process so my doctors won't carry them.\n\nHalf my paycheck goes to the mortgage on my 3br home, and they're talking about "slowing new home starts" because it's cheaper than building schools.\n\nMy kids sit in trailers at school because the local republican supervisor said "it's only for one year."  (We're going on 5.)\n\nWhat does it matter to me if my neighbors are two men living together if I can't get home in time for dinner because I'm working longer hours to pay my bills and sitting in traffic at $3.00 a gallon for gas while Exxon posts record profits?
907155
I hope you are right.   There's a lot of news coverage on the new people in politics who are willing to go after what's really important.  But how long will it take for the damage the Republicans have caused to be over.
1073078
Its not a Democrat-Republican thing at all..its a "Money-Power-Control" thing..and as such...Republicans-In-Office are more obvious about what it is theyre chasing..and why. This current fiasco were now involved with has one inevitable outcome...that the Bush cronies will be co-owners in a large chunk of Mideast Oil reserves......it was not for nothing that after the Kuwait confluct his father instigated...Daddy Bush went to check his oil platforms [the family owns a few in the gulf there]..so..its your basic "Robber-Baron" mentality..with greed-against-human-life in the forefront..and theyre all getting VERY VERY rich on all of this too.\n\nBush is the sons of an oil man..he is also an oil man...Cheney is an oil man...Condalessa had an oil tanker names after her before she made the White House...so..what do we have here...OIL..OIL..OIL..AND your ALL  paying 3 bucks a gallon right now...so...what is it you think about your own question now??
1028689
Yep. Correct.  \nBP announced today that they expect the Oil price to fall.\nThey didn't give a specific reason for this sudden announcement.\n& who do you ask?\nDo what I do & make up my own mind.\nWith the Insurgents a lil more fazed after head-honcho dead.\nThey'll be able to pump at full steam ahead instead of half-cocked of late.\n\n& once the OIL's all gone, I suppose it's too late to start debating re. the legality of the Iraq invasion again!
1049330
I dont disagree with your theory.  I just want to add one of my own that helped push the prices up.\n\nA few years ago the oil futures went on the public trading market.  Yes.  The public, the entity as a whole that believed everything from the world is flat to Milli Vanilli can sing, is at the helm of the future prices of crude.  Can you imagine what happens when the public hears that there was a problem, of any magnitude, to a oil line or ship?  What happens when summer comes around and naturally the public again buys up all the oil futures in hopes to make a quick buck.\n\nGreed is what drives prices.  The greedy people that are making the money will call it marketing/economics.  No one entity is to blame for the results.  It would be too easy.  Just dont leave out anyone at fault.  Bush, Iraq, war, EPA, tax, and even the public are all together and individually at fault.
698053
The republican party has died from self inflicted wounds, conservatives need to start over with a new image... Maybe they could call themselves the re-republicans.
493341
For all we know the leaders of Iran are shilling for Bush and his Neocon buddies. maybe they are simply playing a part in the overall geo-political strategy of peak oil.\n\nDont believe the hype.
715634
Republicans cheat. Simply put. \n\nYou think it's a coincidence that gas prices have lowered? It's "strategery" as George Bush might say.  As soon as the elections are over, all these things will be back to the way they are. Saddam is a victim of American "democracy," like millions of others.
714627
I don't think so. Although gas has gone up since the election. I think the prices were down before the elections to help the republicans hold there power, that way the republicans can help them. I look for gas to steadily increase so at the next elections the republicans can blame it on the Dems. The stock market is controlled by the big corp. They won't let it go down on purpose. The hard part will be trying to keep the C.E.O.s hands off the employees pension funds. Luckily my pension is funded through my union and the gov. watches unions like a hawk. They don't seem to watch company pension plans very close.
326194
Yes we are in a crises! And if something is not done it is only going to get worse. I don't know exactly what needs to be done but Americans need to make a stand against this and say enough is enough. It is all over the news, on the net, talk shows and so on. That suggests to me that something is wrong. I don't know what Americans are going to do. The price of everything has went up and continues to go up. And we are not getting any cost of living increases either. The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. And no help from the government because they are some of those getting richer over the oil. When Exxon goes above Wal-mart we have a problem.
958839
Gas prices will go down when Bush is gone! Dems. don't have oil buddies they are trying to make rich!
1097047
If it were a war for oil, wouldn't we be bringing all that oil over here?  It is, in fact, a completely oil-less war.  We've gotten no oil out of it.  If we had taken that oil - free oil - prices would be at an all-time low.\n\nAlso, for those that say it's a war for oil because Bush is an oil baron, the last thing an oil baron would do would be anything that increases supply.  That would make the price go down.  So, if Bush were an oil baron, the absolute last thing he would want would be a war for oil.  Simple supply and demand.\n\nThe truly twisted, tinfoil-hat crowd should be claiming that Bush went to war to PREVENT Iraqi oil from getting to the U.S., thus restricting supply.  So, maybe it would be a war FROM oil.  See, the crazy conspiracists can't even get their conspiracies right.
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in response to neparis2001: How about a car that runs on bull$hit? The conservative republicans are spreading plenty of that around. \n\nOr, you can do what I do. I refuse to support MidEast oil. All of my gas purchases are from Citgo, which comes from Venezuela. The only way that OPEC and the big oil companies are going to lower their prices is if we start hitting them where it hurts - in the wallet.
1087508
Very screwed.  Oil will only go up as we approach (or have already suprassed) the peak oil supply.  At some point, there won't be enough oil to power machinery, to use as pesticide or to make the materials for a modern life. The deficit is insane (thank you Republicans) and will not be gone until another 20 years, if we are lucky.  Our Social Sercurity and all safety nets will be destroyed by the free-marketeers who have enough money so they'll be fine. The government along with the loyal and enthusiastic help of conservatives and spinless liberals is turning us into a police state so get ready for camps. China owns us through Treasury Bonds though that won't stop the U.S. from nuking it in a couple of years. The world will eventually stop putting up with our sh*t and then trade goes down. Basically, we're all f***ed so move out.  I hear Western Europe is nice.
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No. By then it will all have been shuffled off to the stock market, invested and lost. You can blame the current Republican administration for that..