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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 05:33 PM
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Bush popularity mainly depends on gas prices.
If Bush's goal is popularity, all he really has to do is manipulate the petroleum market, say by selling off the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Of course, that would be if Bush's goal was popularity. If his goal were to make huge oil profits for himself and his pals, at any cost, he would, well, do exactly what he's doing:

Invade and shut down one of his biggest foreign competitors (Iraq).

Threaten another one with Regime change: Venezuela.

Threaten another one with Regime change: Iran.

Talk pretty about alternative energy, while slashing the budget for alternative energy research.

Allow one of the major centers for petroleum extraction and refining to be submerged and destroyed: New Orleans.

Threaten to drill in a pristine wilderness, creating a false sense that oil is the only energy and it is so scarce that desperate measures are justified.

Subsidize the oil companies to the tune of many billions of dollars in tax breaks.


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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 05:35 PM
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1. I've said this for a long time
when people start to feel it in the pocketbook that is when they start caring. The war hasn't been the major reason for the dramatic declines but energy and gas prices have been and it affects all of his policies now.
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Broken_Hero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 05:40 PM
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2. Yeah, I agree with that statement ...n/t
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leveymg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 05:42 PM
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4. They're masking it by keeping gas low but letting heating oil & diesel
Edited on Thu Mar-16-06 05:46 PM by leveymg
rise. The big energy companies are all diversified, so they also own natural gas and electric generation, as well. In places where they've been deregulated, those costs have risen most steeply in the past year.

They manipulated prices before the 2004 elections, also. See, http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0408/S00278.htm
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ladjf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 05:42 PM
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3. The oil companies will lower the prices at the opportune time
prior to November. They definitely want Bush and the Pubs (their alter ego) to stay in power.
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jedicord Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 05:42 PM
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5. Yeah, but Rush said gas prices really aren't going up that much.
He couldn't understand what the big liberal MSM hoopla was about. "Gas has gone up, what - 7 cents? Big deal!"

That's in ONE DAY pigboy. Then the next day it goes up 4 cents. Then the next day it goes up 8 cents.

But then he wouldn't know that, 'cause his driver gasses up the Hummer limo.
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The_Casual_Observer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 05:43 PM
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6. It was the same thing only reversed with Bill. Those super low prices
helped keep him over the 70% line for quite a while.
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Pab Sungenis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 05:52 PM
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7. Bush can't sell out of the SPR
because he knows he's going to need it when we invade Iran.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 06:10 PM
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8. SPR?
Super Pretty Rabbit? Stupid Petty Repug? :shrug:
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Oneliest Donating Member (25 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 06:17 PM
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9. More of a commentary on us
If a presidents popularity is tied to such a pittance as a nickle or so per gallon of gas , that means our price (as a nation) is pretty low.

http://lonelyistheoneliestnumber.blogspot.com/
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Strelnikov_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 07:43 PM
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10. Strategic Petroleum Reserve
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Massacure Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 11:07 PM
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14. That link is interesting.
They say that can go without imports for 59 days, but the draw down capacity is only 4.4 million barrels per day. That means that they will only be able to draw down 259.6 million barrels out of the 700 million in a 59 day period.
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electropop Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 08:40 AM
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18. Bit of fuzzy math, huh?
Maybe they didn't mean 59 days in a row. :sarcasm:
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Strelnikov_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 07:51 PM
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11. So, Will It Be Negative Popularity When Gas Goes Over $5/gal This Year?
How low can he go?
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Joe Fields Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 07:53 PM
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12. What Poularity? 35%?
No dems and one half repubs?
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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 08:24 PM
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13. My gas has shot up like 30 cents in 2 weeks
Not that Bush had any popularity in my home... but, still.
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 11:11 PM
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15. Gas is only the tip of the iceberg - he's totally incompetant!
he cares about big business as he takes away medicare benefits from the disabled and Nam vets and the list is just to long - remember the 2 babies who died waiting for water in New Orleans,
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Imagevision Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 11:29 PM
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16. Gas prices always drop after sunner vacations are over no-one is traveling
Factories are back in full swing - kids are back in school.
this is the way it has always been before Bush became president
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-16-06 11:32 PM
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17. $2.50/gal here in Midland.
And ya better not saying nothing mean about junior here.
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newportdadde Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 08:48 AM
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19. If gas was 1.25 most Americans would give two shits about Iraq or spying.
Personally the average American cares about one person, themselves and their wallet. If gas was a buck they could care less if some poor kid they don't know got the crap shot out of him/her as long as they had cheap gas to drive to the lake and fill up the ski boat.
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