Freepers reaction to price gouging?

[bbernardini]

Perhaps I missed this in another thread, but has somebody with the stomach to lurk over there been documenting their reaction to the obvious price gouging going on?

[CottonBear]

1. They voted for the bastard now they can enjoy paying $6/gal for gas.

Fuck them

[gatorboy]

2. They love it!

Bush is the gift that keeps on giving!

[Somawas]

3. I thought they'd be preaching about

the Free Market.

[ThoughtCriminal]

4. Just wait for the high praise

When gasoline drops back to "Only" $3.59.9 per gallon thanks to their godlike "Fearless Leader"'s bold action(?). A few more weeks and <$4 gas will be seen as a miracle.

[B Calm]

5. They are blaming the democratic politicans for voting down

Bush's energy plan that would have allowed for more refineries..

[Aunt Anti-bush]

6. and harmed public health, the environment and consumers.

Among other things...

[ThoughtCriminal]

7. Earlier today, when they released SRP oil

Bush's economist said there were refineries running below capacity.

Edit - quote and link in case someone is dumb enough to take this argument outside of FR:

Bernanke, chairman of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, said the administration's decision to release oil from emergency stockpiles should be helpful.

"There are some petroleum refineries that don't have crude and by allowing them to draw from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve they will be able to produce more gasoline," he said

http://aolsvc.news.aol.com/business/article.adp?id=20050831115209990016

[gatorboy]

8. Skip that and let's see what Cheney's energy plan said....

Oh, wait..He's keeping it secret....

[yurbud]

12. how do more refineries help when you don't have the oil to refine?

Hillbilly Hitler art:

[ck4829]

9. As long as those Lib'ruls suffer...

They wouldn't care if Bush nuked the nation.

[yurbud]

10. people who make less than $500K a year and vote GOP are like

gays who are log cabins republicans

or Jews who are brick oven nazis (as far as I know, there aren't any).

Hillbilly Hitler art:

[AussieDave]

11. Here's a couple of links

They tend to dance around the issue instead of blaming their sainted W - after all, isn't that why he invaded Iraq - for their OIL ??????

Post number 8 here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474373/posts


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474365/posts

[Whoa_Nelly]

13. I just checked (wash me PLEASE!!!)

They are dissing Michael Savage (whom they previously held as a leader in Truth-Telling), implying that the corporate bastards are liberals, and wondering if this is going to create a recession, maybe a depression.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1474365/posts#comment?q=1

[yurbud]

14. that doesn't even make conservative sense--unrestrained market is

LIBERAL?

Hillbilly Hitler art:

[soboko]

15. What they're saying...

Argument #1: Stations are raising their prices because they DON'T want people to buy their gas. They're providing a public service by stopping a run on gasoline before it starts!

- I'm not even going to respond to this one.

Argument #2: The Free Market will fix everything. It's government restrictions on new refineries that caused the shortage.

- As if the oil companies care about building new refining capacity. Why should they? When demand goes up and supply stays constant, profits go up. People will buy the gasoline no matter what. Of course, they're also glad the government has a strategic petroleum reserve and that Bush has opened it. Wait a minute, that doesn't sound like the Free Market to me...