You Know Why Gas is so high?

WhKnuckle wrote:

The 2008 $147/bbl WAS Bush's fault, because he and his cohorts never missed an opportunity to threaten Iran with military action, despite warnings from anyone with...

The 2008 $147/bbl WAS Bush's fault, because he and his cohorts never missed an opportunity to threaten Iran with military action, despite warnings from anyone with a brain that Iran would undoubtedly attack tanker traffic in the Strait of Hormuz if he did. There was also the knowledge that Bush would rather castrate himself than to question Israel's right to bomb Iran if America didn't do it, and of course Israel had nothing to lose by doing so. That is what created the fear factor that caused the 2008 irrational oil prices.

This time, the prices are irrational due to internal political upheaval in the Middle East that the US has no hand in whatsoever. See the difference? Well, look who I'm asking, of course you don't.

KAWboy14 wrote:

no......oil prices are high because these guys wont do anything about it. they can save the auto business. the banking business. and every other business except...

no......oil prices are high because these guys wont do anything about it.



they can save the auto business. the banking business. and every other business except the average guys home from high oil and high food prices.


with a stroke of a pen obama could fix it....(for the record i said this same thing about bush) See the difference? Well, look who I'm asking, of course you don't.

WhKnuckle wrote:

So you're advocating that the President of the United States should override free enterprise and artificially set gasoline prices? You might want to think about that...

So you're advocating that the President of the United States should override free enterprise and artificially set gasoline prices? You might want to think about that a little while longer on pure principle. And just so you know (since you obviously slept through civics class in high school, assuming you got that far), the President doesn't write legislation, and he can't do any such thing with "the stroke of a pen". That's what's known as "unconstitutional abuse of power". Gasoline prices are the result of interstate commerce, and to set a cap on them, Congress would have to pass legislation. The President could potentially do some kind of temporary cap if the issue was a threat to national security, but Congress would have to make it a law. And for the President to show in court that such a temporary cap was necessary for national security would be a tough case to make.

WhKnuckle wrote:

So you're advocating that the President of the United States should override free enterprise and artificially set gasoline prices? You might want to think about that...

So you're advocating that the President of the United States should override free enterprise and artificially set gasoline prices? You might want to think about that a little while longer on pure principle. And just so you know (since you obviously slept through civics class in high school, assuming you got that far), the President doesn't write legislation, and he can't do any such thing with "the stroke of a pen". That's what's known as "unconstitutional abuse of power". Gasoline prices are the result of interstate commerce, and to set a cap on them, Congress would have to pass legislation. The President could potentially do some kind of temporary cap if the issue was a threat to national security, but Congress would have to make it a law. And for the President to show in court that such a temporary cap was necessary for national security would be a tough case to make.

GoldenState54 wrote:

Yawn!

kcadrenalin wrote:

1/2 the country are idiots then

WhKnuckle wrote:

Well, after many years of searching, I think it's fair to say we have an all-time winner for the "Stupidest Motherfucker To Ever Post On Vital"...

Well, after many years of searching, I think it's fair to say we have an all-time winner for the "Stupidest Motherfucker To Ever Post On Vital" award. You start a thread about gas, and the only thing you know about it is how to light it when it comes out of your ass.

Not one thing you posted above is even factually true.

(1) Bush ran $739 billion EVERY YEAR FOR 8 YEARS of deficit spending, which is the same thing as a stimulus. The Dem stimulus was $700b/year over TWO YEARS. Since you're slow with math, that means $350b/year. That's less than half of what Bush AVERAGED for 8 years. And it was only done because Bush left a collapsed economy behind - and that means even less tax revenue and more unemployment costs. Stimulating the economy PREVENTED even greater deficits. And also, considering that Bush left a current-year deficit of $1.2 trillion for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2001, the last thing anyone needed was to just let it get worse.
(2) The healthcare provisions phased in over a 4 year period, but some phased in immediately.
(3) He hasn't started any wars. He participated in a joint UN-supported effort to prevent Ghaddafi from slaughtering every man, woman and child in the city of Benghazi.

You really are a pathetic person. You should stick to your assinine one-sentence blurbs and leave the real thinking to people who get some practice at it.