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How is Bush responsible for high gas prices?
« on: May 01, 2008, 10:57:03 AM »
I see/hear people complain about this daily. I figure someone on here has to have some insight as to why the lot is thinking this.
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Re: How is Bush responsible for high gas prices?
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2008, 06:18:14 PM »
Now this isnt a personal opinion just two things I have heard:

1. He is an oil baron
2. He could try to freeze gas prices.
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Re: How is Bush responsible for high gas prices?
« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2008, 09:11:00 AM »
I know Bush "can't" control gas prices, but I also know that a lot of people don't understand this.

Supposedly, he could also relax environmental regulations, etc. on new refineries. Trouble is (and this is a pet peeve of mine) that building a new refinery takes years, not months.  People are clamouring for one, and they think it will reduce gas prices (back to $1 a gallon, no less) by the end of the summer.

The government, in this case, needs to keep out.  If you freeze the gas prices, you still have the demand, and you have to fill in the gap with money from the US government.  That money has to come from somewhere, and while I hope that we quit borrowing money from China to pay for every little thing, I also hope we don't get taxed on some ridiculous not-even-connected aspect of life in order to subsidize people's driving habits.
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Re: How is Bush responsible for high gas prices?
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2008, 09:35:13 PM »
Freezing the price of gas is NOT constitutional.  That means kids that the government has no right to do that.

If you think freezing the price is good consider the success of that move the last time it was used.
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Re: How is Bush responsible for high gas prices?
« Reply #4 on: May 14, 2008, 11:44:02 AM »
Just to clarify those are what I hear, not necessarily what I believe.
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Re: How is Bush responsible for high gas prices?
« Reply #5 on: May 15, 2008, 05:38:45 PM »
Hey, yeah, I read it that way but my response seems to be more personal than I intended.  Re-writing!

I would never talk to you that way.  I love you too much. :3

EDIT:  I can't modify it.
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