# The "Oil Prices" thread.

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**Created:** [March 10, 2008, 10:44am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-oil-prices-thread/44739 "2008-03-10T10:44:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 9:09am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/the-oil-prices-thread/44739/326 "2008-05-21T09:09:11Z")

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> [@JayS](#):
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> And what does congress do today? Drags the oil executives out to yell at them.
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> 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.
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> 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.

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