what i think should happen that oil prices stay at 50 dollars a barrel, yr around, what do you think
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Simply put, there are probably many people who do not believe in government control of the economy. If the oil prices are too expensive, don't buy oil - look for other sources of energy. They will go down eventually.
People would quit drilling oil because they could not make a profit. Hawaii experimented with caps on gas prices a few years ago and it was an utter failure with shortages on several of the islands because nobody wanted to import and sale gas.
I think SUV and Truck owners should pay 50 cent's more per gallon since they are wasting are resources.There should be different prices for cars and Truck's.I think car owners should get $2.00 a gallon gas and others should pay $3.00.Maybe there would be less Suburbans and wastefull Americans.
I wish there was a way to help prices or at least make them comparable to living costs. Unfortunately there is not a way. We are at the Mersey of the oil people. Try and find other alternatives then to using oil.
YEA! thats still higher than it use to be, but at this rate, its the best were gonna get! That should totally be a law, but u know the goverment, can't get enough of that moolah!! lol
we import oil therefore do not have control over price of most of it
Just so you know, BACk in 1974/5 there were price controls placed on petroleum products and an a special import fee put on crude oil when there were dramatic increases in the prices of fossil energy imports from OPEC. The cost of crude oil jumped from 2.50 USD/ barrel to 11 USD/barrel because of the Arab Oil Embargo. The President who imposed those controls was none other than the Republican, Richard M Nixon who is the very model of what a Republican President should be. NOT.( Please see my recent Q about an Anti- OPEC bill.)
It's called a free market economy. Why should oil companies keep paying to drill and refine oil if the government tells them they are only allowed to sell it at a certain price. If you don't like the price of oil, don't buy it, or buy shares in an oil company.
Why do people always want the government to control oil prices but never say anything about the price of $5000 plasma tv's?
If the leftist stopped holding up drilling and refinery construction the price would come down because we would have greater supply.
No I would make the law that oil goes back down to 10 bucks per barrell. Let's go all the way back down to 90 cents a gallon. We're entitled, dammit!!
I think you better buy a horse or a good pair of walking shoes.
Please, sign up for a good economics course at your local community college.
And how do you propose to enforce that law?
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