The "Oil Prices" thread.

[Joe]

@JayS

And what does congress do today? Drags the oil executives out to yell at them.

How about doing something productive, like looking at how much speculation is adding to the cost of oil, or working on a bill that opens up the domestic oil drilling that both sides can agree on since the democrats blocked the republican bill last week? Maybe address the fact that not a single new refinery has been built, because of regulations blocking them, since the 70’s.

Nah, just keep yelling at the oil executives because that’s who all the dumb fucks in this country think are causing the problem. I thought the reason you have a representative government is so the generally stupid population of a country doesn’t directly control the direction that country takes?

What was wrong with the conditional windfall tax proposed by democrats that said oil companies had to invest x percentage of profits into increasing domestic refining capacity and/or alternative energy research or pay a windfall tax? and the representative government system fails when the generally stupid population elects a generally stupid president to take the country in the direction that they want.