The Hypocrisy of Republicans on Gas Prices

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  1. TheTaoOfBill

    TheTaoOfBill Well-Known Member

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    How can republicans possibly blame Obama when all they've done is obstruct ways to reduce oil consumption in America.
     
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    Absolutely. If you're not prepared to put all of your money into the Amazing Perpetual Motion Machine then you're a hypocrite if you object to...well...anything. And ignore the man behind the curtain who wants to raise energy costs.
     
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    Just another example of the our way or no way mentality that plagues our country.

    Oil isn't going away. Deal with it.
     
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    I know it's really important for you to conjure up hypocrisy where there is none (I'm sure it gives you comfort when you view your own), but there is none there.

    Those things are examples of Government meddling. They raise costs of living without providing tangible benefits. Socialist leftists have been pushing those things instead of passing policy which would maximize our own drilling and refining capability, while simultaneously working very hard to ensure high gas taxes and complicated EPA fuel regulations.

    Fail, liberals. I sense fear that lefties believe it will bite them in the butt in November.
     
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    onalandline Well-Known Member Past Donor

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    Chevy Volt: Millions of taxpayer's money wasted: Fail.
     
  6. signcutter

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    Dont see the irony in that statement huh?:confuse:
     
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    There is none.

    Oil isn't going away not because you can't change Conservatives; oil isn't going away because you can't change reality.
     
  8. Albert Di Salvo

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    Bill, we are engaged in a civil war. Anything goes.

    Green energy sounds like something I might like. The problem is that it is part of the leftist agenda, and I don't cooperate with enemies.
     
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    so compromise is not part of your vocabulary?
     
  10. Albert Di Salvo

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    We've tried compromise during the Reagan and Bush I administrations. We tried it on immigration when Reagan was in office and on taxation and spending when Bush I was in office. The left pocketed our compromises and sandbagged us. We aren't interested in any more foolish compromises. We want to fight.
     
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    Complete Bull(*)(*)(*)(*). Oil doesnt have to go away... thats a pathetic strawman arguement. Fossil fuels could very easily be augmented by green renewable energy sources.

    Anybody with an eye on the long term would see that the country that can develope cheap renewable energy will dictate the future and secure its independence and be head and shoulders above everybody else in production costs.

    You refuse to see this because your masters have told you its all or nothing... no compromise. I can see why they feel that way... they get paid millions of dollars by the fossil fuel industry and get cushy jobs from them after politics. Now why is it that you feel that way when all you get is the big red white and blue shlong at the gas pump as a reward for your fealty?
     
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    I agree. Compromise screwed us again with Solyndra, and now the Volt.
     
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    signcutter New Member

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    Ahhh the quintessential self destructive ideologue... success and progress be (*)(*)(*)(*)ed if it doesnt happen like I say it will happen.
     
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    Is that what you all call the Bush 2 presidency? Fighting?
     
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    Time for blowhards like you to pick up a gun or ****.. if you have declared war on your fellow countrymen because they dont think exactly like you do.. start shooting or leave.
     
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    There is nothing Strawman about it, and - while I know that liberals can ignore and rationalize about anything they need to in order to continue to insulate their psychosis - even you should probably admit that Obama himself proudly proclaimed that his policies would make the cost of energy "skyrocket".

    Which is happening.

    In short: you and your boy's idea of "augmentation" sucks ass, because the only way that the cost of energy "skyrockets" is if augmentation isn't happening; legislated replacement and suppression is happening instead.

    Admit it, and set yourself free from the web of lies you've spun.

    More psychobabble. We can develop cheap energy - rah, rah!! Yaaaay! I'm a liberal! I said we can DO it!

    Waitaminute. Energy prices are skyrocketing? That sorta....doesn't go with my wishful cheering.

    The market will present a better source of energy when a better source of energy is developed. Not a moment before that. You and yours are inherently distrustful of free enterprise and private innovation, so you're trying to artificially create it by simply demanding it - while simultaneously crushing the market factors that would limit the upward pressure on the energy which does fulfill its purposes: oil.

    Stupid delusional paragraph. WTF does it even mean "my masters"? I'm a private citizen just as you are. I see morons espousing the need for green energy - and spending billions on it - without virtually any positive impact (and much of it negative, including forced ethanol, asinine windmills and stupid solar panels which don't work).

    I don't think you'd know what a cost-benefit analysis was if it sat on your face.
     
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    Bubba, that is the last thing you want.
     
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    Obama wants high traditional energy costs.
     
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    Signcutter: "Fossil fuels could very easily be augmented by green renewable energy sources."

    Then augment them. Create legitimate green renewarble sources that actually work. Quit using "green" to mean channeling tons of taxpayer money to friends and supporters who will return a percentageof it as kickbacks.

    I'd love to see an electric car that actually works but quit pooping on my toast and telling me it's marmalade. That only works with the faithful and I'm an atheist.
     
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    You may be right, but being right isn't going to save your stupid fokking country is it?
     
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    Hey Annie Oakley,

    Violence isn't necessary. The Perfect Storm has arrived for your Amerika. Your country can't pay its bills. No polity in all of history has survived a prolonged and protracted period of financial instability. All that is necessary to take your country down is to keep the political system paralyzed. The forces of history will do the rest.
     
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    We've learned from our past mistakes.
     
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    Republicans want to drive big ass obscenely huge gas guzzling monstrocities, and then beotch about paying a lot in gas. *****
     
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    This from the guy who was whining about society forcing him to have insurance when driving.

    You'll pardon us if we simply laugh at your posts.
     
  25. Albert Di Salvo

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    In coastal California the illegal aliens drive the monster vehicles because they are cheap. So you're complaining about illegals not conservatives.
     

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