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The problem with boycotts...
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Big name needed
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Re: The problem with boycotts...
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dillweed....
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Snopes
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China and India
Also the GDP of India may be growing rapidly, but it will take a long time with all that money spread out to a billion people for their standard of living to come anywhere close to what it is in America. In India poor people starve to death and die from weak immune systems from bad nutrition, in America poor people get fat off cheeseburgers and die of heart attacks.
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True.
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China and India
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Pick a company any company
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Re: Big name needed
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Around longer than that
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No one cares enough, yet.
Next time your at the pump just remember that most US oil is domestic and the prices really aren't being affected because of the cost of the oil, but the greed of stocks (over simplified and exaggerated, but not much).
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UK
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I've got a better boycott
Boycotting the government makes more sense than boycotting one single gas provider.
Rob Miles
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There are only 10 types of people in the world;
those who understand binary and those who don't.
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First Posters
Just my $0.02
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Energy Policy
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Re: I've got a better boycott
Pardon? Can you site your sources, as to where you obtained this information?
I'm not saying your wrong, but this is highly suspect, considering that gas prices have fluctuated much faster than any legislation could possibly be passed.....I don't remember any sudden tax laws being passed and then repealed when Katrina was going on.
Maybe your statistics are averaged out over the past century or something....
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Try buying gas in Holland?
That’s an amazing 6 dollar 54 a gallon……..
My guess is that your prizes can and will be rising for a while……
Greetz, cyber
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Re: Re: I've got a better boycott
As originally stated, I made it sound as though the Federal taxes alone are 50 to 60 cents, which is incorrect.
My source for this is from Energy Information Administration's Primer on Gasoline Prices (http://www.eia.doe.gov/bookshelf/brochures/gasolinepricesprimer/eia1_2005primerM.html)
Another source is from the company ConocoPhillips, located at http://www.conocophillips.com/newsroom/other_resources/energyanswers/oil_profits.htm. I understand that you might not consider either the Government or oil company's information to be reliable, and I will be willing to review opposing information from other sources.
Rob Miles
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There are only 10 types of people in the world;
those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Well...
Second, the government used the x cents it gets from a gallon of gas to keep the roads and such repaired. Well... at least in theory.
Third, Europe's gas prices are higher than ours but they tax their gas at a far higher rate and use their taxes to pay for roads and public transportation.
Fourth, the odd thing about gas is that in America it's demand is built in and we're fat. I can and do ride a bike into work but most people are either too fat or too far away from where they work for it to be a logical mode of travel. Public transport is out because oil people have gutted public transport at every opportunity and convinced the public that only the poor take the bus, the train is for sight seeing and if it's too far to drive just fly.
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