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In reply to the discussion: Leaked E-Mails: Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests---NOT--- chemical weapon concern [View all]Volaris
(11,719 posts)(the kind that exists forever, like THE SUN) won't increase next quarter's bonus payout for US Oil exec's; if there can never be a fear of a shortage, how can spikes in prices continue to be justified, hrmmmmm?
See, this is why Dirty Liberals aren't actually allowed to RUN THINGS, because then how in the world would we be able to justify our own greed-driven, narcissistic, otherwise totally POINTLESS existence?
(Sarcasm OFF)
What the US needs is a Department of Energy that is allowed to open a not-for-profit National Energy Corporation, that has the power of it's own volition to open solar panel and Alternative Energy production facilities in whatever county or district wants one. Yeah, the Oil companies will bitch about big government intervention in the Free Market, but fuck them for the following MARKET reasons:
1) It's a FREE MARKET. Anyone (and that includes WE THE PEOPLE) is allowed to open up shop, and compete for customers.
2) We The People are not competing for YOUR CUSTOMERS. We are offering a NOT FOR PROFIT Service to all your former (and want-TO-BE-former) Customers that you have gone and pissed off to the point where they DON'T want to do business with you anymore. Your loss for being so tone-deaf to what your customers actually think is important. Welcome to the FREE MARKET you love to use as a club in political discussions, but then secretly HATEHATEHATE when it comes to sending your lobbyist-army to DC.
3) Yeah it may be a Free Market, but if it's not also a SUSTAINABLE MARKET over the long-term, at some point there won't be ANY market left at all. You think all that cash you've horded will be worth anything more than the price of the nice, warm Fire you can start with it after the Natural Disaster Apocalypse happens? Yeah, those of us with some idea of LONG-TERM Business acumen didn't think so, either.
Wars and Death for Energy, when the Sun is going to (Still) come up every morning for another 4 billion years. With logic like THAT as our Sword and Shield, what could POSSIBLY go wrong with our military intervention in Syria??