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Worried About Gas Prices? Ben Stein Says Don’t Look To Government Or OPEC To Help

[shanev137]

But here''s even better news: You can get a more fuel efficient car; car dealers are very much in a mood to deal, and they will make it easier than you can even imagine to get a fuel saving car or truck.


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That is a blatant outright lie.

The cost of hybrids and economy cars and trucks are going up daily now that demand for them skyrocketing. Even old little Hondas with 100K miles or more have doubled in value.

Ben is obviously a chump who needs to try living in reality sometime.

[sharncedar]

If everyone in the U.S. does this, it will affect the world demand for oil meaningfully,"


It sure will - world demand will go up. India and China those great "markets" Ben Stein and his other rich friends keep drooling about haven''t evne gotten close to using the kind of gas that US residents do. But they want to , they say constantly they deserve to and will not accept anythinhg less, and they are growing at 20%, 30%, 4% or whatever outrageous growth rate your tax dollars and the money the rich steal from America to invest i those countries is currently producing as a resource waste growth rate.

So an american can work hard and sacrifice and save a few gallons of gas; in that same period of time the 5 Indians and Chinese that our the Americans counterpart (they outnumber us 6 to 1) will have increased their gasoline use by some 50 gallons or some astronomical figure.

This is ridiculous; the only legitimate purpose of a government is to intervene for the public good in these kind of prisoner''s dilemma situations; we need massive import taxes on Chinese and Indian goods NOW! The fate of the world is at stake, and the old selfishness masquerading as "free market" is failing.

[hypnotoad72]

The ploy here is the rich want the rest of us to ''''save, conserve, etc.'''' so they can ride in their custom buses, limos and planes to where ever they want to go. We''''re costing them too much money, so the have-nots have to give up something....

Posted by NonayaBiness
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Does that include Al Gore? :)

[hypnotoad72]

It should be pointed out that much of the rise in gas prices has to do with the dollar hitting all time lows as a currency. Which, could be argued, has been caused by borrowing money from the Chinese to pay for the war in Iraq (while giving massive tax cuts to the most wealthy Americans.)

That might have something to do with it as well, Mr. Stein - you shameless conservative douch.ebag.

Posted by roger_inkart
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You have some valid viewpoints, but name calling like that won''t do anyone much good. Believe it or not, he''s more of a moderate; on an interview with Bill O''Reilly a few months ago, he did put Bill in his place. (or at least came up with some *** good responses.)

[rushlimpdrug]

boy, talk about censorship on this article.

[omega39-2009]

As I noted in my earlier article, ICE was the focus of a recent congressional investigation. It was named both in the Senate''s Permanent Sub-committee on Investigations'' June 27, 2006, Staff Report and in the House Committee on Energy and Commerce''s hearing in December 2007, which looked into unregulated trading in energy futures.

Both studies concluded that the energy price climb to $128 and beyond is driven by billions of dollars'' worth of oil and natural gas futures contracts being placed on the ICE. Through a convenient regulation exception granted by the George W Bush administration in January 2006, the ICE Futures trading of US energy futures is not regulated by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), even though the ICE Futures US oil contracts are traded in ICE affiliates in the US. And at Enron''s request, the CFTC exempted the over-the-counter oil futures trades in 2000.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/JE24Dj02.html

[joyous88]

navyjimfl,

army here, there mess got started when we listened to a bad actor by the name og ronald regan,

the conservative have destroyed our country and they

started this war in Iraq and killed all these soldiers

to keep the republicons in office, for no other reason

bush, cheney, mcbushcain, rumsfeld, rice, belong in prison, and tale leiberman with them

unamerican criminals, fascists everyone

[jimfinster]

The invasion of Iraq by Britain and the US has trebled the price of oil, according to a leading expert, costing the world a staggering $6 trillion in higher energy prices alone.

The oil economist Dr Mamdouh Salameh, who advises both the World Bank and the UN Industrial Development Organisation (Unido), told The Independent on Sunday that the price of oil would now be no more than $40 a barrel, less than a third of the record $135 a barrel reached last week, if it had not been for the Iraq war.

He spoke after oil prices set a new record on 13 consecutive days over the past two weeks. They have now multiplied sixfold since 2002, compared with the fourfold increase of the 1973 and 1974 "oil shock" that ended the world''s long postwar boom.

[navyjimfl]

people should not listen to what a bad actor has to say about investing or the economy

[jimfinster]

LOL ... Is this the same Ben Stein who:

1) Said last year that the housing market would be fine?

2) Said last week that there "is no recession"?

3) Just released a movie promoting Intelligent Design?


Ben? Ben? Ben?







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