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Old 10-15-2014, 12:50 PM
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If the price of a barrel falls enough to make shale and fracking unprofitable, will the response be a tax on cheap oil, let the market play out, or fracking shale subsidies? Given the chimera of energy independece my money would be on subsidies.
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Old 10-15-2014, 03:19 PM
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$3.32/ gallon for midgrade here, yesterday.

Mike, you're right about the price and presidential involvement. I knew that and expressed it even when Happy Clown Bush was busy f**king up everything he touched. So, if it goes back up and anyone blames Obama.......I take the gloves off.

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Old 10-15-2014, 03:22 PM
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Funny how success = spending Europe certainly couldn't be faltering under the weight of too much taxation, regulation and other government interference.

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No, Europe is faltering under the odiferous stench of moldy cheeses.

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Old 10-15-2014, 03:24 PM
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LMAO!!

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$3.32/ gallon for midgrade here, yesterday.
I filled up last Wednesday when it was 3.13 (the sign said 312.9), but I refuse to acknowledge their ridiculous tenth of a cent game. The next day it started to drop and it's now down to 2.86.
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No, Europe is faltering under the odiferous stench of moldy cheeses.

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Yep. Velveeta gives us an edge.
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Government cheese!

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Oh absolutely. I just didn't realize we were together on this

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That's more like it.

I was a bit skeptical over your sudden concern for the poor.
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Old 10-15-2014, 03:42 PM
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Government cheese!

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So what?

It's Nacho Cheese.
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Old 10-15-2014, 05:26 PM
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I absolutely agree.

We should jack up the gas tax to where it is in western Europe.

That's what I would do if I were dictator.

Jack, jack, jack, jack, jack, jack, jack.

Our gas tax goes nowhere near paying for the negative impacts of the American love affair with Land Yachts.

I'd make these big ass 4X4 pickem up truck and SUV drivers feel some serious pain.

The same goes for Truckers.

It's about time they started paying their own way.
They're gonna fix that problem by extra taxes and fees on electric cars, hybrids, and bicycles that use the roads and don't pay their respective share because they don't buy enough gas.
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