The way i see it we are all in big doo doo ...why can't our gov help us with lowing prices at the pump and for food?
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Posted by SouthernPlains Feb 26th, 2012 at 6:27AM
Nixon tried it with "Wages and Price Control" freezes in 1971. It was an economic disaster. Government is not your caretaker.
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Posted by JVTool Feb 27th, 2012 at 10:12AM
Government intervention caused the problems in the first place.
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Posted by mjt550 Feb 26th, 2012 at 7:39AM
Because the socialists that occupy the White House want you to pay more for gas so we get off oil. They have no idea what we are supposed to use for energy after oil, solar panels and wind, happy thoughts and unicorn farts I suppose. They want you to buy a Chevy Volt and run on the juice that comes out of the magic hole in the wall where it plugs in (but that is generated by coal, OOPS! Failed again).
Remember, when Hussein was running for president he told everyone right up front, "Under my plan energy prices will naturally have to skyrocket." And yet all you duped and deluded Useful Idiot fools voted for him anyway.
Hope and change, yes we can! How do you feel about that change now, when change is all you have left in your pocket?
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Reply by GnatFree Feb 26th, 2012 at 10:02PM
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Posted by GnatFree Feb 26th, 2012 at 10:12PM
Because oil is a commodity that the government doesn't control. Didn't you take economics?
Disruptions or even the fear of them in oil producing nations cause the price of oil to spike, which causes gas to go up. Harvesting requires oil for fuel, shipping the food to stores does as well, causing it to be more expensive to distribute. This sends wholesale prices companies pay for raw materials up, which in turn raises the prices of the finished product which is then shipped to stores, who jack up their prices in response. Rarely are prices reduced once the consumer gets over the sticker shock because even if it no longer takes an extra five cents to get each unit to the store they know we will pay the extra five cents.
In short, It's Capitalism.
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Posted by OOzyRiDer Feb 26th, 2012 at 6:30AM
SIMPLE : it's not in "their" best interest.
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Posted by deltadon Feb 26th, 2012 at 6:26AM
now why would they do that?.......tax payers are easily replaced......open the doors? & in they flow! ;-)
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