Oil & Fuel Dire fuel predictions

[Poppa]

DocHeb, Don't forget about tobacco. I sure can't /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

Mike

 

[zuiko]

Next they will be telling us how many gallons of water we can flush down the toilet or how big the holes in our showerheads can be... oh wait they already do that. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[StoneHeartFarm]

[quoteAhhh yes.....the so-called "sin taxes". A very different subject for discussion in another thread. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Dave )</font>

Sin taxes would be a lot more palatable if they used the resulting money properly. For instance, a tax on tobacco could be used for free stop smoking clinics. A tax on gasoline could be invested into fuel cell research. Sadly, the money is usually allocated to some other project and the people who pay it see very little return.

Steve

 

[B2400]

They say the oil prices are going up because our reserve levels are low. Apparently nobody has checked them because the majority of our oil is west of the Mississippi and our dipsticks are all in Washington DC! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[DaveNay]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Sin taxes would be a lot more palatable if they used the resulting money properly. )</font>

True, true.....like the procedes from the Illinois lottery game being used for funding education throughout the state. /forums/images/graemlins/blush.gif

Dave

 

[cowboydoc]

like the procedes from the Illinois lottery game being used for funding education throughout the state.

Funny you should mention that. I was invited to a legislative session a few months ago to speak on some healthcare issues. Before my talk they were talking about education and the gambling boats. It seems the education part is pretty much a scam. Yes the money from the boats does go to education. BUT all they do is decrease the money from the state that normally went to education!!!!! So really the tax money is just going to the state to fund who knows what and the education budget still stays the same. I was pretty shocked when I found this out.

 

[5030]

RICHARD "COWBOYDOC" FOR GOVERNOR.......

My campaign pledge:

A John Deere in every driveway. Forget the family SUV. Rush hour in the city would be a much more enjoyable experience in a John Deere Agricultural Tractor. If the roads are gridlock, drive in the median. If you don't like the median , plow it up. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif

 

[DaveNay]

And the beat goes on. /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

Dave

 

[texbaylea]

A few of the reasons that gasoline is so expensive is lack of refinery capacity. The last I read almost 80% of all gasoline is refined in Texas. Perhaps if the west coast econuts would let new refineries be built out there the problems would not be so great. The last new refinery built in California was 20 years ago. Also if the econuts would work with the petroleum industry to find a way to drill some of our reserves in wilderness areas, it would ease things a bit. Also if the current tax structure did not favor overseas oil production I might get a new lease on the oil mineral rights I hold.

Then I would be a big bad Texas oil man.

 

[cowboydoc]

The real scary thing is 50% of the mineral/oil rights in this country are owned by foreign investors. 20% of the land in the west is owned by foreign investors. They are playing havoc with the farming/ranching industry. They come in and buy the land, close out all watering, bid up government leases so nobody can afford them and then just leave the land idle.