booboobear said:
Whose logic yours or mine . I think that 99 % of people would disagree they should pay more but since it's YOUR logic it must be right.
I notice when you can't defend your position with facts you attack someone else. Why not just stick to the points of discussion. What about the point of the so called subsidies coming from our pocket. I also think you are totally wrong about if people used less gas the price would drop. At what magical point would this occur 20 % less.
Your logic is, you drink more so you will end up with liver disease and burden the medical system so you should pay more, got it. Notice I said that's the way you come across . Don't buy into this shortage as a reason for raising prices daily , we haven't even tapped Canada's supply and if you are so concerned then work out alternative fuels. Raising prices does nothing to help us.
Sigh. It's like talking to a high schooler. You can't comprehend the basic rules of supply and demand which, btw, include PRICING.
What about the subsidies? Subsidies come from gov't. Which borrows the money and adds to the debt. Which then uses taxpayer money to pay down the debt (or, more likely, the interest on the debt). So no, the taxpayers are not directly paying the subsidies. The taxpayer is indirectly paying for the subsidies, incurring higher costs than would otherwise be incurred by doing away with the subsidies altogether and just charging the true price to begin with.
I dunno about your weird liver disease comment; those are your statements not mine. And it's not even a logical one b/c getting liver disease isn't a certainty. Using up a limited resource and thereby driving up the price is.
You want to talk about points, well then let's talk about points. The price of a barrel of oil is at AN ALL TIME HIGH. Yet for some unfathomable reason you can't understand why this would raise the price of gasoline at the pumps. Tapping Canada's oil supply? Buddy, you're so without a clue. You just expect us to snap our figures and tanker trucks of gas will magically appear? Who is going to pay for the extraction costs? Not you, b/c you aren't willing to pay more at the pumps. And guess what, it's cheaper to buy gas from Saudi Arabia than it is to extract it from our resources and then refine it. Otherwise we'd be doing just that.
I don't attack people. I attack stupid, ignorant, paranoid, conspiracy-theorist, poorly thought out arguments that are ridiculous to the extreme. In other words, arguments that you tend to put forward.
