posted April 13, 2011 11:01 AM            

(in the borders of the USA and Hawaii)

I believe a request
to protest gas prices belongs in this Forum....
as the "Global Unity" implies.

Knowing how ridiculous
the whole fossil fuel debate is
and continues to Be,
I received an email stating

A Gas Protest on >APRIL 15th< ...tax day;
to NOT BUY ANY GAS period on that day!

Hopefully "sending a message"
to the powers that Be
that enough is enough
and the working person
cannot afford to afford gas to get to work???
Never mind go on any vacation.

Crazy as it sounds,
Please think Globally and act locally
and pass it on....

This has been a public service announcement.

Signed,
Your Friendly Neighborhood Activist

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posted April 13, 2011 12:28 PM            

when i was growing up my parents and my friends' parents carpooled us to school (no bus available) though they could easily afford the gas...they were not so spoiled in those days and refused to "waste" gas and time on principle. just a little backbone would send the robber barons scuttling for ways to induce us back to the pumps.

posted April 13, 2011 05:33 PM            

Only the one's that know that they have IT
And aren't afraid to do something about IT.

Halo jwop

Not really.
It is not "my gas protest"
but merely an attempt to pass on an "idea" hear;
in a place that invokes and pre-ports "Unity"
to those who may Be interested
Is All.

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posted April 13, 2011 10:08 PM            

Well, in that case, how about this. Scrap the protest and do the usual. Wear a ribbon to show concern.

I suggest a Puce colored ribbon. All the other colors have been taken to signify concern about other matters.

posted April 15, 2011 04:44 PM            

when you realize how long it would take to actually harvest gas from newly opened home drill sites, and how QUICKLY the price drops every time such a moratorium is lifted, you have to add 2+2 and see there are other factors in the chain of events... and not just on OPEC's side.

posted April 15, 2011 05:57 PM            

American refineries are running at near max capacity.

Of course, the anti-civilization crowd has made it almost impossible to build new refineries in the US...or even increase capacity of existing refineries.

Obviously, you don't know why oil prices went up in the first place, why they came down when Bush said drill and why they went back up again when O'Bomber said..No Drilling.

posted April 16, 2011 10:39 AM            

BP, whose performance in the gulf is only overshadowed by profits they made from what was a disaster for the common folk in the area;

GE, who are heavily invested in renewable power technology so not averse to the price of gas going through the roof...

goldman sachs, breaker of nations through bad investment/loan making and advising...

crikey, even david icke who despises big government can see what the push to deregulate EVERYTHING is about. it is NOT about making it possible for everyman to pull himself up by his bootstraps!

my list, like my knowledge, is far from comprehensive but even a five year old can see and read between the lines.

posted April 16, 2011 01:21 PM            

Who says the Koch Brothers are sitting on crude oil reserves they refuse to bring to the market?

BP paid 15 Billion dollars to a commission headed by an O'Bomber appointee who was supposed to distribute the money to those injured by the oil spill. Instead, states, counties and cities wound up with lots of the money to waste on items totally unrelated to spilled oil.

You forgot, you were talking about "robber barons". Yet, the only individuals you mentioned were the Koch brothers and you failed to back up your allegations they are sitting on crude oil reserves.

I can't see any reason to engage the unreasonable in reasonable debate. You throw around allegations...none of which you so much as attempt to prove. Typical leftist fringe rhetoric of class warfare, envy and greed.

posted April 16, 2011 03:34 PM            

Ok.
I'll play along hear...
there can be no harm
adding more empty words.
(Thanks for leaving me a little room here though)

Puce? Interesting choice of color....
Color tells a lot about a person.
Although, technically it is not a color,
it's a shade.... of red.
Perhaps to match the shoes?
Just glad it wasn't "pinko."

Then I would really be concerned.

And as far as ribbons go....
Not one to wear such frivolity,
especially if your wearing red shoes!

You might be taken in the wrong light.

I will agree though,
about the ineffectiveness
of a "symbolic" protest here....
It seems it hasn't worked
in Global Unity for years now.

( oops I meant )

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Gnosis ThySelf

posted April 16, 2011 03:41 PM            

let's see, i think it was tom hartmann who mentioned the kochs and their reserves. they are in more than one business as far as i can see(like buying governors, for instance), but the reason i don't come up with more "names" is because the common M.O. these days is to hide, faceless, behind the corporate banner.

BP may well have forked over 15 billion (it was supposed to be 20 as i recall) but they MADE a good deal more than that what with playing the stocks game, and got away with even more...

who would you give the money to? have the locals line up from new orleans to timbuctoo and hand them each...how much? thought you didn't like handouts?

what would you call doing my homework? would you like me to paste a few outrageously slanted blog entries to make it juicier for you?

this is no court of law, nor am i pretending to be relaying the news...in a conversation that has no rules, and with a conversationalist who considers personal verbal abuse an argument...

your disclaimer that you are just here to tick leftists off and be inflammatory keeps coming back on you, doesn't it? yet you would like others to play by roberts rules or somesuch? lmaokmb!!

posted April 16, 2011 05:08 PM            

Well, you've been saying that for a long time katatonic.

"jwhop you have been pushing lies and suppositions since i first came here"...katatonic

Funny how you never seem to get around to pointing out just what those lies are.

On the other hand, I've been very specific about the mendacity you've shown on this site.

The Koch brothers are not in the oil exploration business, oil drilling, or oil well/field business...so far as I know. They own pipelines and refineries. Now katatonic, if your information is different, post it here and let's have a look at it.

Otherwise, there's no way the Koch brothers are holding crude oil off the market. Further katatonic, with O'Bomber crude prices back over $105 per barrel...it would be a stupid business decision to hold back crude oil...if they had it.

posted April 17, 2011 08:08 AM            

Another lie katatonic. I've said no such thing. I made it clear...several times...that though leftists were lying and still are lying about Bush, I would tell the truth about leftists and I have.

So, this is just you katatonic..shooting your mouth off again.

Not my fault that leftists...and especially the little leftist Messiah O'Bomber provide such a target rich environment.

posted April 17, 2011 11:51 AM            

The best friend O'Bomber has IS Wall Street. AND, the best friend Wall Street has IS Barack Hussein O'Bomber.

Your main problem is that you listen to O'Bomber rhetoric and drink the Kool-Aid, when you should be Looking at what's going on.

posted April 18, 2011 01:10 PM            

quote:

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Originally posted by katatonic:
thank you for yet another example of your "truthfulness" jwhop. were you born on madison avenue? cause it seems you think that if every ten minutes you repeat something it will be mistaken for truth by everyone...

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I thought you knew.. that's how the truth is made!

posted April 18, 2011 01:23 PM            

Oh yeah, now I remember....The truth can't be repeated too often.

posted April 19, 2011 11:11 AM            

I never said O'Bomber is in bed with Wall Street. O'Bomber is using Wall Street or some on Wall Street who will allow themselves to be used to promote O'Bomber's Socialist agenda. Which is not inconsistent with some on Wall Street using O'Bomber for the perks he's handed out to his favored few business types.