>Everyone wants to live as well as they humanly can, if that's greed, >they I plead guilty.
Of course one wants to live the best possible, but (don't take this personally), I was taught when it was my turn at the cookie jar that I did not fill my pockets, cram as many as possible in my mouth and grab during retreat as many as my hands would hold. I fully understand that this is not the way the children of today are taught and that is part of the problem. >Have you ever heard of congressional oversight? Now you said it, nailed on the head, lets get some more feds involved. Maybe with NO feds things could work themselves out. Time to stop with oversight and get to enforcement, period. -----Original Message----- >From: thomas malloy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Aug 10, 2007 12:28 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Vo]:Can the MIBs stop a Paradigm shift? > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>>Have you ever heard of supply and demand? >>> >>For sure I have, and I also have heard of supply manipulation to increase >>profit. >> >The oil companies are out to charge as much as the market will bare. >However the world wide automobile population is exploding, and more >plants are being built. > >> >>Why not shut done portions of refineries and reduce apparent supply to bring >>about price increase? >> >Have you ever heard of congressional oversight? They aren't building any >additional refinerys, perhaps it is the environmental regulations, or >maybe they have sufficient refining capability to process all of the >remaining oil reserves, until recently their return on invested capital >wasn't all that great either. > >> >>I also hear the mantra that oil companies don't set price that the stock >>holders do. >> >No the market sets the price! If we were all to modify our cars so that >the milage was doubled, the price would crash. It would slowly rise >again as more Chinese and Indians purchased cars, and the USS Titanic >continues to take on water. > >>Well little man on the street with a few hundred shares has little to gain by >>an increased dividend as >> >When your tank is empty all you care about if refilling it. > >>Global warming is real and mad does contribute, but the difference a tax will >>make is minimal. >> >> >The global mean temperature appears to have increased by 1 degree >centagrate. However there is increased solar irradiance, ocean warming >due to under sea volcanos leading to an increase in the number one green >house gas, water vapor. These factors are mitigating against Algore's >contention of anthropogenic global warming. > >>I can not be moved from the feeling its down and out greed... >> >Everyone wants to live as well as they humanly can, if that's greed, >they I plead guilty. > >> >> >> >> >> > > > >--- http://USFamily.Net/dialup.html - $8.25/mo! -- >http://www.usfamily.net/dsl.html - $19.99/mo! --- >
