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Mark, high fuel prices affect the ENTIRE economy.
They cost everybody money and affect employment and salaries.
You just aren't taking this into account.
As for drilling on federal lands...it's just EMPTY space. I'm not talking about oil gushers in the middle of a national park. I'm talking about millions of acres of desolate uninhabitable land that serves no purpose.
You are also discounting technology. This isn't 1890 with wooden oil towers gushing dirty crude oil all over the ground anymore.
And even when that DID happen in Texas...it didn't destroy nature there. I was in Texas back in May for a wedding. The place is beautiful...and that's despite the fact that there used to be an oil rig every 10 feet there. lol
You are just plain out WRONG if you don't think that these high fuel prices don't hurt the economy and especially destroy the lives of poor folks.
For them it is literally living meal to meal. And it's real, real hard to get a good job when companies are cutting back because of the higher overhead that high fuel costs bring.
I've known a lot of guys who are truckers in my time. Diesel fuel was running around 50 cents and they were making money. Think about that...giant semi trucks having to travel thousands of miles. That's a LOT of fuel.
This week, diesel fuel is on average $3.68 a gallon.
Don't you comprehend what that does to the cost of EVERYTHING? And how that affects the economy?
We literally have more energy than we will ever use right underneath our feet. And millions of acres of DESOLATE land that nobody ever "enjoys" or even steps foot on.
At least your govt. finally wised up and started doing something instead of just being victimized by insane Muslim oil sheiks.
And your other "solution" (to what "problem" I don't know)...is to tax oil companies. Yeah...because fuel isn't too expensive already.
Mark, don't you understand that companies DON'T pay taxes...consumers do. The price is passed on to the consumer.
And for what? So the U.S. federal govt. will have even MORE money to spend on killing people around the world with our military?
I don't think that you realize how corrupt the govt. is. Why on Earth would you want to take money from companies that actually employ people and provide a product that we all need...and give it to a bunch of lazy, shifty bureaucrats who didn't earn a damn thing?
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