-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/11/08 20:37, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:22:10PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> That just violates basic economic principals, setting the price below the >> balance of supply and demand, especially given we're talking about an >> international commodities market and thus don't have the aboslute authority >> to make such a move possible. It can and ought to be solved by taxing the >> everlasting crap out of excess profits, though: Petroleum companies have >> been posting profits increasing at a rate nearly twice that of the price of >> oil. There is precident for taxing excessive profit in the US during World >> War II, and the economy was better off for it. Then again, another thing >> that was different about WWII, back then it was a felony to make a profit >> off >> the war. > > Considering that the proponents of the war are Oil men, and that the > price of oil goes up every time doubYa farts, he has a vested interest > in keeping the middle-east unstable. > > > Personally, I don't have a problem with a high pump-price. Look at the > nice efficient cars and great public transit they have in Europe. > However, I'd rather that happen through taxes that get targeted back at > environmental improvement (the way tobacco tax both discourages use and > helps fund health care). > > If only Canada had a nice place to dump spent nuclear fuel the way China
France doesn't have problems with spent nuclear fuel, because they use breeder reactors. We should, too. > has Tibet... Canada should annex Texas! > > Then there's the oil sands: thousands of square miles of boreal forest > dug up for an open-pit mine. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA We want... a Shrubbery!! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIAB2dS9HxQb37XmcRAkkdAKCiCFLBRgZgoErjiWbaWiC1octirQCgrkfd ppModVaSZWytLfbow1p789Y= =+2Ms -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
