Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]
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On 04/11/08 20:37, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 06:22:10PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>> That just violates basic economic principals, setting the price below the
>> balance of supply and demand, especially given we're talking about an
>> international commodities market and thus don't have the aboslute authority
>> to make such a move possible. It can and ought to be solved by taxing the
>> everlasting crap out of excess profits, though: Petroleum companies have
>> been posting profits increasing at a rate nearly twice that of the price of
>> oil. There is precident for taxing excessive profit in the US during World
>> War II, and the economy was better off for it. Then again, another thing
>> that was different about WWII, back then it was a felony to make a profit off
>> the war.
>
> Considering that the proponents of the war are Oil men, and that the
> price of oil goes up every time doubYa farts, he has a vested interest
> in keeping the middle-east unstable.
>
>
> Personally, I don't have a problem with a high pump-price. Look at the
> nice efficient cars and great public transit they have in Europe.
> However, I'd rather that happen through taxes that get targeted back at
> environmental improvement (the way tobacco tax both discourages use and
> helps fund health care).
>
> If only Canada had a nice place to dump spent nuclear fuel the way China
France doesn't have problems with spent nuclear fuel, because they
use breeder reactors. We should, too.
> has Tibet... Canada should annex Texas!
>
> Then there's the oil sands: thousands of square miles of boreal forest
> dug up for an open-pit mine.
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
We want... a Shrubbery!!
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