Does anyone who voted for the obama have the right to complain about high gas prices ?
Demonic Rat Hunter
2012/02/27 15:58:04
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I say NO, since the obama said he wanted prices for Gas and Electricity to rise, and also remember that those two increases are and will affect how much you pay for food also.
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jr 2012/02/27 16:07:30
Out of all the Industries, the Oil Industry is one of the least greedy.
On average, workers (and I'm talking about the non-salaried time card punchers, not just the managers) are some of the highest paid workers in the United States, and with that have grown booming economies wherever they are.
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“NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Believe it or not, a place exists where companies are hiring like crazy, and you can make $15 an hour serving tacos, $25 an hour waiting tables and $80,000 a year driving trucks.
You just have to move to North Dakota. Specifically, to one of the tiny towns surrounding the oil-rich Bakken formation, estimated to hold anywhere between 4 billion and 24 billion barrels of oil.
Oil companies have only recently discovered ways to tap this reserve. And along with the manpower needed to extract the oil, the town is now scrambling to find workers to support the new rush of labor.
Watford City is at the center of the Bakken formation. While it is home to less than 3,000 permanent residents, there are about 6,500 people there right now, as job hunters relocate to seek out high-paying jobs.
Aaron Pelton, the owner of Outlaws Bar & Grill in Watford, said his sales have been nearly doubling every year -- and it's o...
Out of all the Industries, the Oil Industry is one of the least greedy.
On average, workers (and I'm talking about the non-salaried time card punchers, not just the managers) are some of the highest paid workers in the United States, and with that have grown booming economies wherever they are.
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“NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Believe it or not, a place exists where companies are hiring like crazy, and you can make $15 an hour serving tacos, $25 an hour waiting tables and $80,000 a year driving trucks.
You just have to move to North Dakota. Specifically, to one of the tiny towns surrounding the oil-rich Bakken formation, estimated to hold anywhere between 4 billion and 24 billion barrels of oil.
Oil companies have only recently discovered ways to tap this reserve. And along with the manpower needed to extract the oil, the town is now scrambling to find workers to support the new rush of labor.
Watford City is at the center of the Bakken formation. While it is home to less than 3,000 permanent residents, there are about 6,500 people there right now, as job hunters relocate to seek out high-paying jobs.
Aaron Pelton, the owner of Outlaws Bar & Grill in Watford, said his sales have been nearly doubling every year -- and it's only getting busier. Servers at his restaurant make about $25 an hour when tips are factored in, and kitchen staff employees make around $15 an hour.”
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http://money.cnn.com/2011/09/...
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Add to this, the fact that Oil Companies have one of the lowest profit margins of any Industries in the United States, I would hardly call them greedy.
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“Oil Company Earnings: Reality Over Rhetoric”
“Industry profit margins are cyclical too. But on average, between 2006 and 2010, the largest oil companies averaged a profit margin of around 6.5%. This pales in comparison to profit margins in just about every other industry. The pharmaceutical industry, for example, routinely averages a profit margin of about 16%. The soft drink market is even more lucrative.
At the gas tank integrated oil companies make about 7 cents per gallon. Meanwhile, the government extracts more than 48 cents, on average, per gallon. That's right: Uncle Sam takes nearly seven times more out of drivers' wallets via taxation than "Big Oil." “
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http://www.forbes.com/2011/05...
All Obama has to do, with the swipe of a pen, is place an export tax on oil and gas, and as Newt Gingrich has proposed, the price of gas at the pump would drop to about $2.50 a gallon....perhaps even less.
...and then, as other respondents have pointed out.....there's North Dakota.
They will do what they always do - blame everybody but Empty Suit.
Republicans, Haliburton, Oil Companies, Houston, snail darters, cows, fracking, .....
When Bush was President and gas prices started to rise he told the world that when the oil drilling moratoriums expired ( put there by Democrats) we were going to start drilling and oil prices started falling over-night. That's why when Obama took office, we had a national average gas price of $1.89. How soon we forget!
I am telling you that pretty much nothing has changed in the three decades I have been voting. Each president has ignored the environment and also decided against dangerous ways to produce energy. Study it.....Bush had self interests involved so he does't even count. His family would have made money and that was not ethical. I too think we should revisit our country's resources,but I don't want nuclear energy. I don't think we are responsible enough as a people to hire workers who will take care of the plants.....too dangerous.
Obama had, with the help of a totally Democratic Congress for the first year of his administration, the opportunity to correct everything. He did not. Whether from ignorance, inexperience, or incompetence, or his overpowering ideology, he did nothing except initiate a 2700 page Health Care Law which now more than 60% of Americans do not want. This president is a failure...and for the sake of our country, he has got to go
What we need now is a LEADER who has the ability to unite, not one that is divisive...and I do not care from what party he/she is...just as long as he/she has the best interests of of our country at heart above ideology and above party doctrine....any suggestions?