Devo, eye's got your number here
Originally Posted by HDGristle
The point is the Presidents agenda is causing the prices to rise, does it have everything to do with the rising costs, no, but, if we had not continued to destroy our own infrastructure, we wouldn't be feeling the pain we are, at least not as badly.
Like I stated, if you free yourself from the international market we would be determining what a barrel of oil cost for our own country.
I'm not a pro government type and am a self described Libertarian, but I also recognize the need for government to at least remain neutral in our economy, and not just try to change it for political reasons, which is exactly what they are doing.
No nuclear plants, forced shutdown of coal fired plants, determined by bureaucrats and not business, forcing electric cars onto the public and sweetening their cost with tax breaks, all while taxing people who dare buy something with too much horsepower.
Dodge is going to stop putting V8s in its Challengers because of the penalty they pay for large engines, those fines are approaching over 3 thousand dollars, yet, people are buying them at far above cost.
Does that reflect the demand of the consumer?
No, its because the government has chosen to be punitive to non electric vehicles.
And, even Germany is realizing they fucked up by taking nuke plants off line and shutting their coal mines, because once you destroy a sector of energy production, its going to be prohibitively expensive to restart it.
Don't sit here and tell me that Poopy Pants pudding covered finger doesn't have some part in what our energy costs are, because it does, he's pointing at what survives, and what dies, and we are the ones paying for his mistakes.