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My thoughts on Gas and Oil
ATTENTION AMERICA!!!! ARE YOU LISTENING???
Another GAS TAX is being Proposed by Senator's Joe Leiberman, John Kerry and Lindsey
Graham. They are proposing to raise a NEW Gas Tax up to .15 cents per gallon!!!! They are
claiming it is Bi-Partisan but you have a Liberal Demoncrat turned Independant to win his
seat and you have a Flip Flopping Liberal demoncrat and you have a Republican who should
be a demoncrat because he is liberal and center of most things Right. So people, So
AMERICA!!! What are WE THE PEOPLE going to do about it?
Lloyd Chapman
Small business advocate
Posted: January 5, 2010 08:13 PM
Still No Windfall Profits Tax From Obama After Oil Tops $80 Per Barrel
In the two years running up to the 2008 presidential election, President Barack Obama
routinely promised to enact a windfall profits tax on the oil and gas industry to fund a
$1000 per household energy rebate. Shortly after being elected, President Obama quietly
dropped the promise from his agenda. An anonymous transition team staffer tried to justify
the decision by stating, "President-elect Obama announced the policy during the
campaign because oil prices were above $80 per barrel. They are currently below that now
and expected to stay below that." http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE4B206W20081203
On Monday, the price of crude oil topped $80 per barrel, reaching $81.39, according to a
Bloomberg energy report. Many experts are predicting that oil could top more than $100 per
barrel in the first half of 2010. http://www.bloomberg.com/energy
"I'll make oil companies like Exxon pay a tax on their windfall profits, and we'll
use the money to help families pay for their skyrocketing energy costs and other
bills," President Obama said in a statement released in June of 2008. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSWAT00963020080609
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJPo5IGTd0A
Prior to the 2008 presidential election, President Obama's promise to implement the tax
was displayed prominently at the top of the "Economy" section of the Obama-Biden
campaign website. On November 6, President-elect Obama rolled out his transition website,
Change.gov, which also displayed the promise. However, within 48 hours of being elected
the campaign promise was quietly removed without explanation. (Pre-change, http://www.asbl.com/documents/Economy_Change.pdf
; Post-change, http://change.gov/agenda/economy_agenda)
Proponents of the tax maintain that the oil and gas industry has gouged the public at the
pump to reap excessive profits for nearly a decade, even with barrel prices in the $20
range. In 2003, when the average price of a barrel of oil was $30.06, big oil companies
reaped record profits. http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/international/crude2.html In January of
2004 the Associated Press (AP) reported that Exxon-Mobil earned $21.51 billion in profits
during fiscal year (FY) 2003. At the time the mark nearly doubled the company's profit
during FY 2002. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60862-2004Jan29_2.html
Responding to the abrupt and unexplained disappearance of President Obama's campaign
promise, in a December 2008 blog, columnist David Sirota wrote, "If oil prices are
down and oil industry profits are truly down, what's the harm in passing a windfall
profits tax?" http://www.ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2008124903/mandate-watch-obama-backs-promise-pass-windfall-profits-tax-big-oil
Implementing a windfall profits tax on the oil and gas industry is a reasonable, efficient
and effective means of keeping energy costs down and helping American businesses and
families. Now that oil has topped $80 per barrel, it will be interesting to see what
President Obama's new excuse is going to be for not honoring his campaign promise.
Lloyd Chapman
Small business advocate
According to a Government Accountability Office report, there is a direct link between oil
company mergers and higher gas prices. The high gas prices have not curtailed Americans'
driving. Nor have they spurred U.S. oil companies to expand production or invest in
sustainable energy solutions that would create jobs and help drivers save -- they've
merely induced Big Oil to buy back stock. The five largest oil companies reported almost
$120 billion in profits last year alone but invested only $1.2 billion in renewable energy
sources from 2000 to 2005, according to the American Petroleum Institute. Let me say this
again, that's $120,000,000,000, $120 BILLION in PROFITS last year alone!!!!
Ok, the Gas companies are ripping us off plain and simple. By not making any new
refineries and by purposefully shutting them down for so called "Repairs" or
whatever reason they limit the making of Gas, they are free to make us pay any price they
want. They see that the people of America have no choice and still drive the same amount
no matter the prices they make us pay, so yes, they keep raising the prices. They are not
losing any money. The only people who lose is US!!! My Fellow Americans!!! HELLO!!! WAKe
the F UP!!!
The only way we are going to get them to lower prices is if we massively mail our members
of Congress and the Senate and the President. And if we try to drive less. Try getting a
job closer to where you live, or getting a place to live closer to where you work. Take
Public Transportation or ride a bike one day a week, walk when you go shopping, go for a
walk instead of a drive, stay at home and shop online etc.... There are so many ways so
many people could make a difference. People need to search out the cheapest gas stations
and support them, not go to Mobil, Shell, Exxon, Chevron, BP or 76. These are the big oil
barron companies who deliberately control gas prices by making gas unavailable to us.
THERE ARE NO SHORTAGES!!! Shortages are manufactured so they can control gas prices and we
do not have a choice and we continue to pay what they say we have to! And ALL GAS IS THE
SAME!!! It is Manfactured the SAME!!! It travels through the SAME PIPES!!! The difference
is when it gets to the different gas stations they add their own blends of detergents and
aditives. BUT IT'S THE SAME OIL!!!! So search out the cheaper stations and that will
control Gas Prices!!! If the big guys are not getting the service, they will lower ther
prices to what their neighbors across the street are charging and then all prices will
come down!!! But if you keep paying the higher prices they will keep charging you!!!
Now as for this "Don't buy gas on such and such a date etc..." That was just
majorly stupid and the only ones who were affected by it were the gas station owners.
What? How did they suffer you ask? Well they do not make their money off of selling gas.
They make from 4 to 9 cents per gallon profit. "Well that sounds like profit to me
Mr. SnakeMannn!" Yeah that doesn't even cover payroll or electricity or other bills
they might incur. They make their profits if any on the sales of sodas and snacks etc...
So if no one goes in they do not make any money at all. The Gas companies are hurting them
as much if not more than us. They have no say over what they sell gas for. They have to
pay the delivery truck whatever he tells them they must pay for their deliveries.
So to not buy gas for a day, but have to buy it the day before or the day after is so
stupid because you still bought the same amount of gas America!!! If I or anyone else came
into your house and stole your money you would be outraged!!! Where is the OUTRAGE against
the Gas companies stealing not only from you at the pump, but making everyone else you buy
things from, raise their prices on everything else as well? And now the Senate and
President wants to RAISE YOUR TAXES AGAIN??? Are you not paying enough? What happened to
obummer's Promise of "Words mean things", and I will NOT raise taxes on ANYONE
making less than $250,000 NOT ONE DIME!!!"? Obummer addresing the Nuclear Summit said
again, "Words mean things" and "We need to hold these people accountable
for their actions"! He is ONE OF THESE PEOPLE!!!! HELLO AMERICA!!! ARE YOU
LISTENING???
Here's my idea, and YES!!! It is MY IDEA!!! (If you hear about it on the news or it comes
into play, it is MY IDEA!!! This was the first time I thought of on this day, the 3rd of
June 2007. Well I thought about it a long time ago, like right after the first "Don't
buy gas day" But this was the first time I put it in print.)
First, we need to have a major sick day. This means ALL non critical jobs in America
should take a sick day. This means you do not go to work, you do not drive, you sit on
your ass and watch TV all day or night and go no where. You don't drive or buy anything
and if you own a business you close for the day and give everyone the day off. This way
you have no bills or payroll for the day and so in not making any money you don't spend
any either. Also, if you have to go someplace that day, you walk, ride a bike or take
public transportation so as to not need the gas. All Gas stations that are privately owned
should also shut down for the day and turn off their lights and let everyone off as well.
Police if at all Possible use your bikes and walk more when you can!! WE ALL NEED TO DO
THIS TOGETHER AS ONE!!!
Ok, so you ask, what will this do? Well basically if we do not use the gas for the day,
and we do not buy gas for the day and the country basically shuts down, this will take the
profits out of the gas companies pockets. You have to do alot more than to just continue
on with life and not buy gas for a day and buy it the day before or the day after so that
the gas companies laugh their asses off all the way to the bank and laugh at us and say
"That didn't work!!!"
So here is my proposal. On the day after Memorial day, June 1st, 2010, we have "Take
a day off America day" and we do nothing and go no where and not spend anything. You
have to tell all your friends, your family, email everyone you know, print out flyers and
mark your calenders. Talk to your bosses and let them know. If only 50,000 people do it,
the news won't cover it, and it won't make a dent and the Gas companies will still laugh
all the way to the bank.
Like I said, We Americans need to be MAD and OUTRAGED!!! We need to be the "We the
People" of the Constitution and have a Boston Tea Party that will Change things!!! We
have to have an "AMERICAN GAS PARTY!!! America, STOP being Apathetic and Apologetic
and thinking it's someone else's problem!!! IT IS OUR PROBLEM!!! IT IS OUR COUNTRY!!! ONLY
IF WE STAND UNITED WILL WE BE ABLE TO MAKE ANYTHING CHANGE FOR THE BETTER!!! If you keep
thinking that there is nothing you can do, or it's not your problem because you don't buy
gas etc... then you might as well pack your shit up and get the FUCK out of MY COUNTRY!!!
Why don't you look at History and see the other Apathetic people who did not think they
could do anything and so they joined the English. WOW!!! What happened there? Hmmmm, they
LOST THE WAR!!! Why? BECAUSE PEOPLE WANTED TO LIVE FREE AND TO NOT BE UNDER THE THUMB OF A
KING!!! Well there are new kings right now taking all our money and they are the Gas
companies an the people in the government WHO WORK FOR US!!!! THEY ARE ALL ABOVE THE LAWS
OF OUR LAND!!! No politician will touch the Gas Companies or raise a finger against them.
When was the last time you were watching TV and saw a Gas Commercial? Been a couple years
huh? Hmmmm? They are saving money by not advertising because THEY DO NOT HAVE TOO!!! They
know we do not have a choice because we pay whatever the pump says we have to pay.
PERIOD!!!!
So anyways, tell all your friends and family to read that and to mark their calendars. And
we need to all write our local and network news stations and Congress and the Senate and
the President and make sure everyone knows to take the day off the day after Memorial day,
June 1st, 2010!!! If you have a critical job, i.e. Hospital, public safety, or anything
you can't get out of, then go to work and keep America safe, but if you can do it without
driving, you will have contributed as well!!!
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
 
Life! Liberty! and....
Being unemployed in Nevada's 14.4% unemployment,
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