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Post #76,270 by boxley 1/22/03 11:41:51 PM Reply	Nit " To ignore that the need for US ecnomic stability and growth, is rooted in a stable supply of cheap oil." the WORLD economy depends on a STABLE supply of oil with an optimised price between 25 to 31 dollars a barrel. Cheaper than that the oil industry itself and the several US states that produce oil and the rest of the energy sector start to hurt. If you remember when oil was $9 per barrel 3 years ago Clinton had to put pressure on various suppliers to slow production. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] You think that you can trust the government to look after your rights? ask an Indian
Post #76,278 by dmarker 1/23/03 1:47:35 AM Reply	Adjustment What you may not taking into account here is the volume of petrol & oil consumed daily by the US compared to every other nation. The US consumes a grossly disproportionate amount and pays amongs the cheapest pump prices. Many other countries economies would be greatly boosted & thus wealth created, if there was some balance between globval demand, need & cost. Cheers Doug (Hmmm back on this endless merry-go-round again)
Post #76,330 by boxley 1/23/03 10:41:19 AM Reply	I find it hard to beleive that the price of gas in HK is due to cost. Other countries buy on the same spot market from the same countries we do. The cost of gas at the pumps is due to our population refusing to accept the criminally high taxes imposed by other nations on their subjects. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] You think that you can trust the government to look after your rights? ask an Indian
Post #76,592 by Ashton 1/23/03 11:47:54 PM Reply	Yeah, criminal all right - Pissed away on health care even for the dregs, schools which kick our ass - and resulting generally fewer despicable acts of violence -- which the people with no hope tend to ramp up, as the toffs begin to flaunt their haul. (Why.. they coulda spent it for all new nukes! like US.) Funny idea of a 'criminal' voted-for taxation, all right. Ashton
Post #76,594 by boxley 1/23/03 11:50:48 PM Reply	taxes of 7 to 8 times value is criminal and encourages civil disobedience of bad laws, prohibition comes to mind. thanx, bill will work for cash and other incentives [link\|http://home.tampabay.rr.com/boxley/resume/Resume.html\|skill set] You think that you can trust the government to look after your rights? ask an Indian
Post #76,811 by a6l6e6x 1/24/03 7:13:30 PM Reply	Re: prohibition A major difference is that you can make your own liquor but not your own gasoline. On the other hand, one similarity is the occurrence of [link\|http://www.indianexpress.com/fe/daily/19990409/fma09006.html\|smuggling]. Alex "No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session."\t-- Mark Twain
Post #76,871 by Ashton 1/25/03 6:06:27 AM Reply	Nothing 'immoral' in that - A society makes all kinds of laws and statutes to 'encourage' the direction of change. The sin-taxes fare the worst, as cheating on those is OK by the folk-consensus. Using gas taxes to repair infrastructure, subsidize other services to all -- makes just as much sense as making evryone buy a tenth of a nuke. And in those countries mentioned: if the populace didn't Like It - they could change it. Here - we'd rather have our juvenile car-fetish subsidized by all - rather than vice versa. And it shows. Ashton

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