vote obama, 2012!
end subsidies to oil!
give em to windmills!
take the bus!
vote obama, 2012!
end subsidies to oil!
give em instead to wind and tidal!
carpool!
He has already provided you with 2 sources here: http://www.debatepolitics.com/breaking-news-mainstream-media/88311-oil-rises-above-90-amid-us-crude-supply-drop-134.html#post1059453235
Are you serious that you do not know what subsidies are, or that we are giving them to the oil companies despite their highest profits in history?
Why should my taxes subsidize another corporation? Can't these capitalists start a business and make it work without a sugar tit?
What is your evidence?
"Why should my taxes subsidize another corporation? Can't these capitalists start a business and make it work without a sugar tit?" - shintao
The ugly truth is that corporations do not pay any taxes.
Zero.
Nada.
None.
Any cost they acquire due to taxes is simply added to the cost of the final product and the consumer pays that tax, known as a "hidden tax".
One way to spur the ecomony is to eliminate all corporate taxes (which is being paid for by the consumer, anyway). This will have the effect of reducing the cost of goods and increasing demand for those goods.
Did you even read your article? Limiting drilling in one area isn't limiting drilling in all areas. :doh
What about this one Oil-Drilling Boom Under Way in U.S. - WSJ.com
oil-drilling-boom-under-way: Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance
Every president since Nixon has been a corporatist of some stripe. If Bush was a progressive (of any stripe) he wouldn't have taken away civil liberties.
Why should my taxes subsidize another corporation? Can't these capitalists start a business and make it work without a sugar tit?
Yes, the Democratic policy called the Middle Class.
Nice try but the democrats do not care about the middle class
Nice try but the democrats do not care about the middle class
U.S. gas prices are a joke ... in Norway
"Most Europeans pay at least double what Americans do. Some of them, including the Greeks and the Scandinavians, shell out even more.
In the U.S., the nationwide average for the price of gas was $3.53 per gallon on Thursday, according to AAA. The price has risen for 16 consecutive days, jumping 34 cents.
But that's still less than half the $9.28 per gallon paid in Oslo, according to Din Side, a Norwegian search and news site that monitors gas prices, among other things.
Who's paying what: Most Europeans, including the British, the Irish, the Germans, the Italians and the French, pay somewhere between $7.50 and $8 per gallon, according to the International Energy Administration.
Danes paid $8.20 per gallon at the end of February, according to the IEA. Greeks -- no strangers to economic hard times -- were paying $8.45.
Many people may assume that Europeans pay a lot for gas because they don't have their own source of fossil fuels. In fact, they do.
Norway is awash in oil because of its thriving oil industry in the North Atlantic. The United Kingdom also has access to the oil fields in the same region.
Italy has deep corporate ties with Libya. Its oil production company, Eni, is the largest producer in Libya. But even in the best of times, without civil war in Libya, gas in Italy is expensive when compared to the U.S. Italians on average paid $7.77 a gallon at the end of February, according to the most recent data from the IEA.
"The difference between countries comes down to taxes and subsidies," said Tom Kloza, the chief oil analyst for Oil Price Information Service. "Prices are incredibly high in Europe because of the stiff taxes that EU countries put on fuel. The same holds true for many other countries."
The Japanese also pay more -- $6.30 at the end of February -- and so do the Canadians, at $4.49 per gallon, according to the IEA."
Yet Obama is stopping drilling off shore. Now we have environmentalists wanting drilling stopped because of lizard
Small lizard sparks big debate in NM, Texas - BusinessWeek
Is that because our government hides the real price through subsidies we pay
Your article says it is environmentalists, not Obama that stopped the drilling at that location. But who cares about the facts if there's a chance people won't notice, is that the thinking?
Is that because our government hides the real price through subsidies we pay
Don't use the term if you have no idea what you are talking about please.
j-mac
vote obama, 2012!
end subsidies to oil!
give em instead to wind and tidal!
carpool!
And the republicans do?
Why do you say that?
Dems tend to be more supportive of safety net programs.
Your article says it is environmentalists, not Obama that stopped the drilling at that location. But who cares about the facts if there's a chance people won't notice, is that the thinking?
Subsidies we pay... at least you admit where the money comes from.