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In defense of "big oil" - RonaldReagan.com Forums
Http://www.townhall.com/Columnists/C...nse_of_big_oil
Quote: : With gas prices topping four dollars a gallon in some regions of the country, now may not be the best time to say something positive about "big oil," but here goes anyway.
Where is it written that the cost for a product or service should be frozen in place and in time, never to rise again, or to rise at a pace commensurate with our incomes?
People who think this way know little to nothing about supply and demand and less than nothing about the profit motive.
That's because at least three generations have been raised on the notion of entitlement, and when one feels entitled to something, one believes someone else should pay.
Senate Democrats last week sought to ingratiate themselves with voters, while doing nothing to produce more energy, with a familiar attack on "big oil." They want to repeal $17 billion in tax breaks for the oil companies over 10 years and on top of that impose a windfall profit tax on companies that don't invest in new energy sources.
This is political expediency at its worst.
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Nothing like getting penalized for making a profit
In my thinking, if fuel prices actually kept pace with inflation over the past 40 years we wouldn't be thinking twice about the cost.
If my thinking is skewed, please feel free to correct me.
I'd appreciate it.
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Both of you make xlnt points.
I look at it as a "poor prone" attitude from leftists, a kind of everyone owes me something mindset.
Your thinking isn't skewed at all, the lefts is, in a major way.
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Just choose to out earn the problem.
You have it in front of you...take advantage of it.
This is the land of the free, home of the brave.
Find a way that you can own the company that signs your paycheck and get busy.
Foriegners understand that better than those of us that were born here.
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Quote: : Just choose to out earn the problem.
You have it in front of you...take advantage of it.
This is the land of the free, home of the brave.
Find a way that you can own the company that signs your paycheck and get busy.
Foriegners understand that better than those of us that were born here.
CCE is one of the last employers I'd want to own .
I work for them and I wouldn't even know where to begin to straighten that company out
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Quote: : CCE is one of the last employers I'd want to own .
I work for them and I wouldn't even know where to begin to straighten that company out Ahhhh....my bad...I shouldn't have used the terminology that I did....
Find a way that you are the boss by starting your own business.
The tax advantages are great for business owners, and you don't have to ask anyones permission not to go in...then, out earn the price of oil.
We are turning to a service industry nation.
Find a service that you love providing and turn it into your business.
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