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   Ms. Ima said, 3 months ago

   Just as O wants. He has a dream to socialize America.
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   SeaFox10 said, 3 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   Call him Al-obama!
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   ARodney said, 3 months ago

   It’s called “the free, global market.” A conservative cartoonist should be able to understand that no amount of new finds of fossil fuels will overcome Asia’s increasing thirst. And Mr. Ima — that comment is just idiotic. Not only has Obama never been a socialist, a socialist would not want gasoline companies setting their own prices (which is the problem illustrated in the cartoon). We know you hate the president. But if you can’t put together a coherent argument, at least consider shutting up?
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   Chillbilly said, 3 months ago

   Oil companies are like unelected governments who can raise taxes as they wish, when they wish and without having to shoulder any responsibility for the damage they create.

   
   Their constituents are people who refuse to give up their cars. Their millionaires are people who drive big guzzlers.
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   mikefive said, 3 months ago

   I wonder if Rube Goldberg was one of Gary’s heroes.
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   ossiningaling said, 3 months ago

   Why bother with his wallet, if you already have his credit card?
   Need his library card? Old movie stubs? Pictures of his kids?
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   disgustedtaxpayer said, 3 months ago

   “free global market” my eye!
   Obama’s regime has been 4 years promising 4 more years of doing everything possible by government to prevent private industry producing the domestic in-the-ground oil and natural gas for use by Americans.
   Obama’s treasury is prnting dollars out their wazoo which decreases the value of our wages and incomes and pension plans….causing the rising prices of our basic needs….
   “free global market” means government keeps its handcuffs off producers and sellers.
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   disgustedtaxpayer said, 3 months ago

   p.s. this may also be Obama’s Crime and Punishment scheme….you refuse to drive electric vehicles, you suffer the government’s forced consequences.
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   DavidGBA said, 3 months ago

   Inflation helps reduce the real government debt.
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    mikefive said, 3 months ago

    @DavidGBA

    It also almost put me in bankruptcy under Carter.
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    Dycel said, 3 months ago

    More “free” market capitalism rhetoric from the bus bunny’s.
    Oil prices are not based on oil demand even when related to the global demand.
    Oil prices are set based on the futures market prices which are artificially jacked up by the thin air profiteers aka the biggest banks utilization of derivatives.
    When they see a need to let prices fall say at the end of the tax year to write off losses we see the pump price fall when they fear their investments are at risk they hedge the price up.
    Their price fixing affects every corner of our economy not just what we pay at the pump!
    Currently the eight biggest banks have by most accounts over $220 Trillion in derivatives outstanding that they bought on margin (no capital exchanged), but the capital is accounted as money and when there is insufficient capital to flow in our economy the government prints more to maintain the Velocity of Capital at the consumer level which generates tax revenues to pay our debt.
    These banks are classified as To Big To Fail because thanks to the anti-trust law deregulations their risk will be insured by the taxpayers.
    So when will we get to pick up the debt their casino gambit creates and eventually defaults on again remember 2008, sooner than later is my guess!
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    http://demonocracy.info/infographics/usa/derivatives/bank_exposure.html
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    http://www.zerohedge.com/news/five-banks-account-96-250-trillion-outstanding-derivative-exposure-morgan-stanley-sitting-fx-de
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    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-17/derivatives-lobby-has-u-s-regulators-on-the-run.html
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    These are just a few of the recent reports on the derivative timebomb.
    While we get sucked into our political disfunction we have a real threat over all our heads, past time to start screaming about it instead of pissing and moaning about the liberal/conservative bias’s
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    1opinion said, 3 months ago

    @disgustedtaxpayer

    Then why is gas and oil production at such a high point that the U.S. is becoming a leading exporter?
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    Dycel said, 3 months ago

    @1opinion

    http://www.eia.gov/finance/markets/supply-opec.cfm
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    Radish said, 3 months ago

    Supply of oil is up, supply of gasoline is down.
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    Kylie2112 said, 3 months ago

    @disgustedtaxpayer

    Still cheaper than it was in 2008.
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