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Our country went downhill fast when Affirmative Action was passed.
Affirmative Action dropped more minorities out of college than ever would have happened without government interference.
Then the minimum wage wiped out opportunity for those with no skills to be trained on the job.
Like most Americans, I'm not as well off $, as I was last summer, thanks, in part to gas prices....Libya and supply and demand and shortages?
High oil, gas prices lift Chevron 2Q profit 43 pct - Business wire - bellinghamherald.com (http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2011/07/29/2121332/chevron-2q-profit-jumps-43-percent.html - broken link)
While I like Obama overall, this proves, sadly, that maybe both adminstrations were/are in bed with big oil...? While Bush had the connections, that likely big time contributed to the prices this high.....Obama's acting like the parent who tells the kids to clean the room, kids refuse to do it and keep on making it a pig stuy, while the parent (in this case Obama) does nothing with teeth to make the kids clean their room.
Obama is an improvement over Bush, but, doesn't even hold a candle to Bill Clinton.
If the government didn't cause so much inflation, oil is very affordable.
Thank gods that the USD is the world reverses, if not, we would be paying $10/gallon if not more.
Gas here in England is $9 a gallon. Does'nt stop people driving. They complain for
a while each time it goes up, but the roads are full of cars. Gas here has always been
taxed heavily, so we're used to it. Somethings got to pay for the NHS!!!
Would the American public still call the oil giants greedy if they shared their profits with them.
The good thing is that Americans realise that boycotting and going against the giants to lower their prices would be a waste of time. Your just going to have to go along and pay whatever forecourt prices are. Either that or sell your car and get the shuttle to work everyday. Americans have to break their dependence of foreign oil. Band together, petition for American oil wells to be reopened, like they were years ago (Source: THERE WILL BE BLOOD movie).
Could it have been manipulation to get the population to this point for a purpose?
Absolutely, as a Brit I feel the same has happened in my country. Its like, all of a sudden, the government doesn't want the working class to have any money.
Gasonline is $3.65 a gallon here in LA, but the fact that Obama & his henchmen at the EPA & elsewhere have put the overwhelming majority of evergy exploration in North American on lockdown certainly hasn't helped either.
Democrats and their environmental fanatics have certainly helped destroy the standard of living of the middle class throughout California via nonstop screaming about 'open space' & 'slow growth', policies which when combined with banning oil exploration from coast to coast, another job-killing policy that Democrats are totally responsible for, have sent prices for everything into the stratosphere as a result.
Gas here in England is $9 a gallon. Does'nt stop people driving. They complain for
a while each time it goes up, but the roads are full of cars. Gas here has always been
taxed heavily, so we're used to it. Somethings got to pay for the NHS!!!
No kidding, can't tell you how many times I see Canadians say elsewhere that their healthcare is free.
Right.
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