Socrates,
How did our government, President Bush or congress affect this??
Should they affect the things you listed??
Do you want them to have the power to and if they do, where would you like that power to stop??
Just at rent, food and gas??
What about our free market system and capitalism --- are you ready to trash it??
Oil is a monopoly. There is NO free oil market.
Don't you find it rather strange, that in her speech Palin said she had a hard time figuring out what to do with the excessive profits Alaskans got as tax checks, thanks to the high oil prices?????? If prices were tied to the cost of oil, then the profits would have been the SAME, not inflated, as they were during this last artificial price jump(s).
There was NO oil shortage. It was a bit of monopoly price fixing, that gave Bush's buddies a windfall profit, or, you haven't noticed the oil companies saying they are having record profits? Haven't you noticed these little 'fake shortage' oil price hikes, and then they go away, after we all pay double what the gas should cost?
By law, congress should have the AG's office all over this.
At the very least, a federal law, banning the tax of oil, or gasoline, by states or federal government would seriously reduce the inflated cost of gas.
Yes, I have the exact opposite position of Pelosi, the Demos, and that Drunken sailor Bush. LESS taxes, not more.
And yes, I think the government needs to start repealing taxes, getting rid of government agencies, and quit giving foreign dictators billions of dollars. Those are the kinds of actions Congress should be taking.
And what is this: Bush is giving a billion dollars to Georgia?????
Why not give it to OUR Georgia, or Louisiana, or any number of areas that have been hard hit lately?
Bush is not supposed to have such power. It's supposed to require congress to vote on this. So, yes, I think Congress should do their job, and quit giving the executive branch latitude it was not intended to have.
My rent hike is due to people having to move out of houses that are being foreclosed, and, again, what the market will bare, if you'll excuse a pun. It's also due to the 100% hike in energy costs PG^E has been charging.
They used the Enron fraud to jack their prices, when, in fact, they helped create the Enron fraud, by having plants down for 'maintenance" at the same time Enron had bought pipe time, and, did not use that time to supply gas, creating between the two of them, an artificial excuse to shut down grids, and fake high energy prices.
PGandE is another monopoly, that should be either split, or, some of that tax money put into solar panels, so the average home owner can tell PG&E to pay them...
