POLL:Who's responsible for soaring oil prices?

Discussion in 'World Events' started by clusteringflux, May 30, 2008.

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Who's responsible for soaring oil prices?

  1. Oil companies for artificially tightening supplies.

    19.2%
  2. Governments for making new production difficult and expensive.

    7.7%
  3. Stock holders for investing in false speculatory futures.

    7.7%
  4. China and India and their booming industrial growth.

    11.5%
  5. Saudi Arabia for lying about their supply.

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  6. USA because they're fat, lazy,ugly and I hate them.

    3.8%
  7. G.W.Bush because he attacked Iraq.

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  8. None of the above.

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  9. All, or some, of the above (pleas specify)

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  1. Buffalo Roam Registered Senior Member

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    Really? do you know how invasive products from oil are in the society today, this is what I found,..................

    Air conditioners, ammonia, anti-histamines, antiseptics, artificial turf, asphalt, aspirin, balloons, bandages, boats, bottles, bras, bubble gum, butane, cameras, candles, car batteries, car bodies, carpet, cassette tapes, caulking, CDs, chewing gum, cold, combs/brushes, computers, contacts, cortisone, crayons, cream, denture adhesives, deodorant, detergents, dice, dish washing liquid, dresses, dryers, electric blankets, electrician’s tape, fertilizers, fishing lures, fishing rods, floor wax, footballs, glues, glycerin, golf balls, guitar strings, hair, hair coloring, hair curlers, hearing aids, heart valves, heating oil, house paint, ice chests, ink, insect repellent, insulation, jet fuel, life jackets, linoleum, lip balm, lipstick, loudspeakers, medicines, mops, motor oil, motorcycle helmets, movie film, nail polish, oil filters, paddles, paint brushes, paints, parachutes, paraffin, pens, perfumes, petroleum jelly, plastic chairs, plastic cups, plastic forks, plastic wrap, plastics, plywood adhesives, refrigerators, roller-skate wheels, roofing paper, rubber bands, rubber boots, rubber cement, rubbish bags, running shoes, saccharine, seals, shirts (non-cotton), shoe polish, shoes, shower curtains, solvents, spectacles, stereos, sweaters, table tennis balls, tape recorders, telephones, tennis rackets, thermos, tights, toilet seats, toners, toothpaste, transparencies, transparent tape, TV cabinets, typewriter/computer ribbons, tires, umbrellas, upholstery, vaporizers, vitamin capsules, volleyballs, water pipes, water skis, wax, wax paper
     
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  3. kmguru Staff Member

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    I meant the consumption in terms of gasoline for cars. America uses 146 Billion gallons of gasoline per year (not diesel). That is a lot of stuff one can make from 30% savings...
     
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  5. Mickmeister Registered Senior Member

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    I am glad that you posted this. Most people don't realize how important oil is besides for transportation. We use polymers in almost every aspect of life. Sure they say that plastics can be recycled, true, but to a certain extent. The some of the covalent bonds are broken after each recycling and therefor are no longer the same polymer (i.e. polymers can only be recycled so many times). So if we use up all of our oil for transportation, just think what would happen without plastics. That's only a very small part of what oil contributes.
     
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  7. Buffalo Roam Registered Senior Member

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    Yes, only a very small part.
     
  8. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    The oil companies, for tightening up supply. This was inevitable but the event that triggered it was the war in Iraq, started by George Bush.
     
  9. stretched a junkie's broken promise Valued Senior Member

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    It’s a myth that the world’s oil is running out

    (http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/columnists/article3823656.ece)

    Just business as usual. Maxing the profits. :m:
     
  10. OilIsMastery Banned Banned

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    All of those are factors except George W. Bush.
     
  11. OilIsMastery Banned Banned

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  12. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    Why ?
     
  13. madanthonywayne Morning in America Registered Senior Member

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    Oil prices are high because we have a limited supply, rising demand (in the US and most especially world wide), and a falling dollar.

    To address the issue, we should do all we can to increase domestic production (drill in ANWR, off the coast, where ever the fuck there is oil). We should also do what we can to stop the devaluation of the dollar.

    We need to be sensible in our environmental policies (for instance, not pass any idiotic cap and trade deal that would cause the price of gas to double!). We also need to streamline the process for getting refineries/nuke plants/coal plants/ etc on line.
     
  14. clusteringflux Version 1. OH! Valued Senior Member

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  15. draqon Banned Banned

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    clusteringflux is responsible for soaring oil prices, its all because of him, he did it!
     
  16. clusteringflux Version 1. OH! Valued Senior Member

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    You're not the only one to say that.


     
  17. OilIsMastery Banned Banned

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    Oh wait I forgot George W. Bush is an evil genius god that controls the universe on puppet strings. He caused Hurricane Katrina. He sets the oil price.
     
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  18. oreodont I am God Registered Senior Member

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    It's amusing having Americans still navel gazing for 'blame'.

    Hint: oil prices and the world economy are no longer in American control, It's been over thirty years since the mid 70's oil crisis and the USA has DONE NOTHING under 5 Presidents to address the issue.

    Yes, the USA still has influence but that influence is dwindling every day. The American dollar has plummeted and a chunk of the trillions owed is to foreign sources.

    American solution: Bush flies to Saudi Arabia and asks 'please pump more oil'.

    Cripes: the country that defeated the Japanese Empire and helped destroy the Nazis....the country tht put a man on the Moon...the country that stood firm to defeat international communism is now what...asking the Saudis to pump more oil? Pathetic. It's sad that energy dependence is not THE major issue in this election year...4 more years of do nothing. The world needs a strong and independent USA that stands on principles and doesn't go cap in hand to beg more oil from Saudi thugs.
     
  19. superstring01 Moderator

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    Sigh.

    It's pathetic. The USA has had a horrific energy policy for the last three decades. What you sow, so shall you reap.

    ~String
     
    Last edited: Jun 3, 2008
  20. Mickmeister Registered Senior Member

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    I like this country, but the American society really ticks me off on certain things. The public in general is stupid. If congress had enacted much tougher policies and fuel prices and/or vehicle prices had gone up, they would have been voted out because of the public's short sightedness. The same goes with Social Security. We need to do something now before it is too late, but no politician will do anything because they are afraid of the public's reactions to it. This country is like an ostrich. It buries its head in the sand and then when an issue comes to a head, everyone panics. The sad thing is that future generations are going to have to pay for the previous generation's mistakes and stupidity. We are putting this off on the new generation, but you know what, oh well. They will have to deal with it. It won't be so rosy for them. I don't mean to sound mean, but that's how the US likes to do business. They put things off until it's a disaster. I have no sympathy for Americans on this. They asked for it.
     
  21. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    he was the trigger that made oil prices rise higher in a short period of time, than you'd see with slowly reduced supply.
     

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