Greedy Rich Oil Mother F*ckers

[2000LaDe 1]

as this guy states in this video.

he makes many of good valid points in this video unlike most people in thier youtube videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2pmCMpI6CA&hl=en

if that link doesnt work try this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2pmCMpI6CA

Edited May 2, 2008 by 2000LaDe

[NDMstang65 403]

totally agreed man

totally agreed.

I hope the truckers pull them out on the interstate...and let them set. That'l drop the shit real quick

[KU40 173]

I ride my bike to work as much as possible, only about twice a week now though because of weather. But when summer hits I expect my Explorer to sit for 4-5 days at a time.

There are a couple issues when dealing with oil. We import about half of our oil because it's actually cheaper to buy from overseas and transport it here, and we export a lot of the oil from Alaska to Japan because, again, it's actually cheaper to transport and export it there than to the continental US. But yeah I agree that a lot of it is just greed. The oil field is one of the best paying jobs for the skill set of the employee from CEO all the way down to oil derrick hand. You can make twice as much working on an oil rig as another similar job that has you doing manual labor outside in all weather conditions. I just watched a show on oil drillers in northern alaska and they said that they make 6 figures for the 6 months they are there.

One of the other things i hate is that you have these greedy kings or power holding people in the middle east in places like UAE who have like 90% of the money in the entire country. These dudes have so much money that they build stupid islands in the shape of palm trees and a 2,000+ foot building, while 90% of the people in that country can barely feed themselves every day. I mean it makes sense in one way because bringing in tourism could provide more jobs, but I don't think tourism is the best way to go about it. Give the people more concrete jobs that don't depend on people choosing to come to your country. But that leads into another problem, which is just what are these people to do in a country of sand? there really aren't a lot of other industries.

[deepindebt 0]

Shame we have to rely on the truckers to change things.We the people should ban together and say with a loud voice this is Bs and we're not going to stand for it.Other than that it's find some cheap form of transportation and lay down and take it.

[KU40 173]

another thing is that americans were spoiled in the 90's when gas was so cheap. Historically, $3 a gallon is about where it's always been when adjusted for inflation, but the 90's dipped below that. I'll have to try and find that graph I saw. We are also unaware of the prices in other nations, most of which are higher than ours. http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/

But also notice on there how it says taxes play a large part in a country's gas prices. I know I've seen a graph that breaks down america's gas price into where all the money goes. I'll have to find it again. I thought it was like 25% taxes though.

well, here's an article that lists it out: http://www.cnn.com/2007/LIVING/studentnews...ices/index.html

[KU40 173]

this has kinda got my mind going. I'm a free thinker and carry an open mind, so don't take any of my suggestions personally. If you provide evidence to the contrary of my way of thinking, I have no qualms about switching my position. I don't know everything there is about the world and I enjoy gaining more from people who have more experience.

With that said, a thing that popped into my mind a few minutes ago was whether Americans would be better off with just a little more government control, at least in the oil area. I know many of you will say "oh my god, I can't believe you just said that, that's sacrelige in this country." But this is what I pondered: Those countries on the low end of that gas price list have governments that control the oil field. There aren't as many private companies like there are in the US, which lives (and may someday) die by capitalism. That article said that those countries keep the gas price down to help their citizens. Then there are countries in Europe who tax the heck out of gas, the article said up to 75% of the $5-6 a gallon gas (as compared to 14% in the US). Shouldn't we be a little happy that we don't have governments like those? That article said that over half of the price of gas goes to the oil companies. If you combined the oil companies and the governmental tax, that's about 70% of the price. But if the two were joined, wouldn't it be reasonable to say that this number would fall because there are fewer hands to dip into it? Even if it fell to 50% (which I figure it would drop even more), that's a savings of 50 cents per gallon. Plus if the government controlled it, oil jobs would pay less (good for us non-oil people, obviously bad for those in it). As some of you may know, state/government jobs are pretty tight with their pay rates, and everything is equal across the board in the same position. You wouldn't have CEO's making 60 million a year, they'd probably make 500,000.

But then there is the downfall of the government controlling more things, which may be the slower economy that some of those countries have. I'm eager to hear what people have to say to this because it's against most people's beliefs about what government should do. Don't worry, I'm not going down the road of communism. I know and agree with how awful that is. But sometimes it seems capitalism has many downfalls itself.

[mrray13 30]

who bought gas yesterday? just throwing this out there, but yesterday was an organized gas strike. i didn't buy any, i bought last week. if they could truely get everyone to strike, it would help. while i believe that it would still be $3 a gallon or so, i can live with that. it goes any higher, like diesel, and damn.

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[sick6ness 1]

I have a 04' Civic, I drive a decent amount about 12K miles a year, little above average which is 10K I believe. I fill up usually once a week, or sometimes once every 1.5 week. Enough times goes by where I actually forget what day I filled up the tank. Here where I live its $3.85 gal.

[coobies5 43]

couldn't agree with him more

i am definitely sharing this video to many many others

[audio-neon 34]

No offense, but there is so much more to this than just greedy oil tycoons. The ignorance of the American population baffles me sometimes. Have you ever stopped to think that maybe the Middle East has nothing to do with our trend of higher gas prices.

Maybe if you did some research you would realize that in the global market, America pays less per barrel of crude oil (again using a global currency scale) than almost if not every single country on the planet.

Maybe if you were paying attention to the economy you would realize that gas prices raising is just a testament to the weakening american dollar. Every time our dollar gets weaker (or the Federal reserve lowers the interest rate) gas prices go up. Let's compare the dollar to the Euro. In 2005 I beleive the Euro was equivalent to .85 american dollars. When my sister was in Italy the american dollar was weaker than the euro. 2 weeks ago 1 euro= 1.65 american dollars.

That means in 2 years the dollar is half lost 50% of it's value in comparison to the euro (meaning that the dollar got weaker while the euro got stronger). In the global market the dollar is much weaker than it was a few years ago. It's actually not the oil tycoon's you should be blaming. Blame china and india for taking over our work. Blame outsourcing and most importantly blame the dollar.

[sick6ness 1]

No offense, but there is so much more to this than just greedy oil tycoons. The ignorance of the American population baffles me sometimes. Have you ever stopped to think that maybe the Middle East has nothing to do with our trend of higher gas prices.

Maybe if you did some research you would realize that in the global market, America pays less per barrel of crude oil (again using a global currency scale) than almost if not every single country on the planet.

Maybe if you were paying attention to the economy you would realize that gas prices raising is just a testament to the weakening american dollar. Every time our dollar gets weaker (or the Federal reserve lowers the interest rate) gas prices go up. Let's compare the dollar to the Euro. In 2005 I beleive the Euro was equivalent to .85 american dollars. When my sister was in Italy the american dollar was weaker than the euro. 2 weeks ago 1 euro= 1.65 american dollars.

That means in 2 years the dollar is half lost 50% of it's value in comparison to the euro (meaning that the dollar got weaker while the euro got stronger). In the global market the dollar is much weaker than it was a few years ago. It's actually not the oil tycoon's you should be blaming. Blame china and india for taking over our work. Blame outsourcing and most importantly blame the dollar.

Slowly this country is going to chit.

[fuzzyping 0]

Cheers to audio-neon. I'm glad that someone had the balls to come out and say this, I didn't.

Just like most everything else in life, you have a choice. If you don't like the price of gasoline, then don't use it. Choose to live closer to work, or choose another line of work (for truckers) that doesn't rely on gasoline as your major overhead. Choose to buy hybrid and limit your dependency on foreign oil. Choose mass transportation.

When he started blaming the "eco" folks I knew for certain he was off the deep end. I find it odd that he chose not to discuss the war, when the policies of this government support (and in many cases, directly sponsor) the factors that have caused this recession.

How typical it is for us, as Americans, to blame someone else when things aren't going our way. Blame the Blacks. Blame the Irish. Blame the Jews. Blame the French. Blame the Mexicans. Blame the Terrorists. Blame the government. We have a choice and a right to exercise that choice. Make a difference in the upcoming election and vote with your brain. Not with your heart, your religion, your sexual orientation, or your fears. Have the courage to stand up and put someone in office that can rebuild our national identity and international relationships.

You have a choice.

[audio-neon 34]

Cheers to audio-neon. I'm glad that someone had the balls to come out and say this, I didn't.

Just like most everything else in life, you have a choice. If you don't like the price of gasoline, then don't use it. Choose to live closer to work, or choose another line of work (for truckers) that doesn't rely on gasoline as your major overhead. Choose to buy hybrid and limit your dependency on foreign oil. Choose mass transportation.

When he started blaming the "eco" folks I knew for certain he was off the deep end. I find it odd that he chose not to discuss the war, when the policies of this government support (and in many cases, directly sponsor) the factors that have caused this recession.

How typical it is for us, as Americans, to blame someone else when things aren't going our way. Blame the Blacks. Blame the Irish. Blame the Jews. Blame the French. Blame the Mexicans. Blame the Terrorists. Blame the government. We have a choice and a right to exercise that choice. Make a difference in the upcoming election and vote with your brain. Not with your heart, your religion, your sexual orientation, or your fears. Have the courage to stand up and put someone in office that can rebuild our national identity and international relationships.

You have a choice.

I myself chose to leave out politics for the simple reason that it's a no-win argument.

And technically the answer isn't boycotting gasoline, it's spending more money. Our economy is driven by cash flow. President Bush actually tried to help out country with the stimulus checks. Think of it this way. 600 dollars doesn't sound like a ton of money. Lets say 200,000,000 people got those checks, that's 12billion dollars the government just injected into our economy.

If you really want gas prices to go down. Support local businesses and those companies that are all american. It's like us complaining about TC sounds. Sadly enough from a car audio standpoint, they were our Dell. Now all of those oem's will be sourced elsewhere and most likely out of this country. On the note about politics, the war is infact a major cost to this country and will hopefully end soon. Do the troops a favor though. Stop bashing them and support your countrymen that are risking their lives for us. Refuse to send money to other countries when possible. Most importantly is try to allocate as much as your spending as you can to local businesses. That might mean shopping at the farmers market but money has a weird way of multiplying.

[fuzzyping 0]

I myself chose to leave out politics for the simple reason that it's a no-win argument.

And technically the answer isn't boycotting gasoline, it's spending more money. Our economy is driven by cash flow. President Bush actually tried to help out country with the stimulus checks. Think of it this way. 600 dollars doesn't sound like a ton of money. Lets say 200,000,000 people got those checks, that's 12billion dollars the government just injected into our economy.

If you really want gas prices to go down. Support local businesses and those companies that are all american. It's like us complaining about TC sounds. Sadly enough from a car audio standpoint, they were our Dell. Now all of those oem's will be sourced elsewhere and most likely out of this country. On the note about politics, the war is infact a major cost to this country and will hopefully end soon. Do the troops a favor though. Stop bashing them and support your countrymen that are risking their lives for us. Refuse to send money to other countries when possible. Most importantly is try to allocate as much as your spending as you can to local businesses. That might mean shopping at the farmers market but money has a weird way of multiplying.

That's $12B that went straight back into the corporate coffers. Granted, it equals jobs, but not at a 1-to-1 ratio. Much of the money spent is for merchandise imported from overseas. Yes, buying American is a wonderful pipe dream, but let's not kid ourselves. There's very little manufacturing of any quality or quantity to be had, certainly very little that would be consumed by the majority of that cash infusion.

Choosing to leave politics out of the discussion is foolish. Politics caused this mess and it will have some part in fixing it.

[audio-neon 34]

I myself chose to leave out politics for the simple reason that it's a no-win argument.

And technically the answer isn't boycotting gasoline, it's spending more money. Our economy is driven by cash flow. President Bush actually tried to help out country with the stimulus checks. Think of it this way. 600 dollars doesn't sound like a ton of money. Lets say 200,000,000 people got those checks, that's 12billion dollars the government just injected into our economy.

If you really want gas prices to go down. Support local businesses and those companies that are all american. It's like us complaining about TC sounds. Sadly enough from a car audio standpoint, they were our Dell. Now all of those oem's will be sourced elsewhere and most likely out of this country. On the note about politics, the war is infact a major cost to this country and will hopefully end soon. Do the troops a favor though. Stop bashing them and support your countrymen that are risking their lives for us. Refuse to send money to other countries when possible. Most importantly is try to allocate as much as your spending as you can to local businesses. That might mean shopping at the farmers market but money has a weird way of multiplying.

That's $12B that went straight back into the corporate coffers. Granted, it equals jobs, but not at a 1-to-1 ratio. Much of the money spent is for merchandise imported from overseas. Yes, buying American is a wonderful pipe dream, but let's not kid ourselves. There's very little manufacturing of any quality or quantity to be had, certainly very little that would be consumed by the majority of that cash infusion.

Choosing to leave politics out of the discussion is foolish. Politics caused this mess and it will have some part in fixing it.

If we were to involve politics, we would have to start placing blame back during the reconstruction after world war II. It is a lot of politics.

[KU40 173]

the strength of the dollar is a good point.