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Now first of all, as far as the politics of it, even though no President can really effect gas prices in short term, I think Obama should have approved pipelines and the Democrats like to demagogue the evil "big oil" issue. But why do people whine so much? In USA, gas is relatively low to rest of world. It just gets annoying to hear relatively well off people whining about gas all the time. Other stuff has gone up too. I mean, sell your car and ride transit if its that bad!
It's a nation of whiners. If you're not educated, not that smart and all you do is listen to others whining on talk radio, then you follow suit.
There was no problem with saying no to the pipeline as it was. TC should have done a better job up front. Arrogance on their part. The pipeline is already being built and they'll put together a plan that works. A Republican in office would likely have done the same thing, but it's been politicized so few people really know much about it.
Now first of all, as far as the politics of it, even though no President can really effect gas prices in short term, I think Obama should have approved pipelines and the Democrats like to demagogue the evil "big oil" issue. But why do people whine so much? In USA, gas is relatively low to rest of world. It just gets annoying to hear relatively well off people whining about gas all the time. Other stuff has gone up too. I mean, sell your car and ride transit if its that bad!
But the they would only gripe about tranit then .Its just people griping.
Not everyone has access to mass transit or they still have to drive a way to get to it. The price of gas is a real problem right now. European countries are more equipped with transit systems. Their demand is far less than ours.
Now first of all, as far as the politics of it, even though no President can really effect gas prices in short term, I think Obama should have approved pipelines and the Democrats like to demagogue the evil "big oil" issue. But why do people whine so much? In USA, gas is relatively low to rest of world. It just gets annoying to hear relatively well off people whining about gas all the time. Other stuff has gone up too. I mean, sell your car and ride transit if its that bad!
I gety sick of hearing people whine about "what the rest of the world pays."
We are not the rest of the world an have no intention of being....well, most of us anyway...
I gety sick of hearing people whine about "what the rest of the world pays."
We are not the rest of the world an have no intention of being....well, most of us anyway...
ya, but other crap is going up even faster. Thats what I don't get. Peanut butter or tuna doubling in price is way more of a problem for working people
Riding "transit" is only an option if you HAVE transit! Not all places do!
I don't really care how much the rest of the world is paying for gas.....we've never paid as much as Europe, but it looks like we'll be right in line with them soon.
Obama really wants us to be like Europe..in everyway. He's got to go.
There's just something about gas prices that makes people crazy.
Just today, I was at Costco and dozens of vehicles were lined up waiting to get some $4.01 gas.....the Exxon across the street had it for $4.04 with no waiting.
It just cracked me up to see all these people sitting in their Esacalades and Benz SUVs and playing with their $600 Itoys....to save what?...ONE DOLLAR or less?
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