Brothers and Sisters

**Sarge** · 09-06-2006, 01:45 PM

Can I get an AMEN! Or even a hell yes!
6000 barrels a day....all for me....I'm speechless....thank you Chevron/Shell/Exxon...
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=2395433
I bet gas will be .38 cents a gallon pretty soon....dont you guys?

**SSwt00SS** · 09-06-2006, 01:49 PM

haha...boost/increase 50% of our country's oil...i laugh

see I already am

though i wouldn't laugh at .38 cents a gallon, i'd run out and fill up the tanks in both cars...

**Sarge** · 09-06-2006, 01:51 PM

You aint getting none of my gas. Its mine dammit!

**MISFIT** · 09-06-2006, 01:53 PM

Originally Posted by SSwt00SS

haha...boost/increase 50% of our country's oil...i laugh

see I already am

though i wouldn't laugh at .38 cents a gallon, i'd run out and fill up the tanks in both cars...

why laugh at that? its very possible.

**SSwt00SS** · 09-06-2006, 02:00 PM

government, and oil companies wouldn't even allow the though of that happening. EVER. from the lobbiests (sp) to the profits for the oil companies. too much at stake for both to allow it...

Sarge, it's only nice to share, now...

**MISFIT** · 09-06-2006, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by SSwt00SS

government, and oil companies wouldn't even allow the though of that happening. EVER. from the lobbiests (sp) to the profits for the oil companies. too much at stake for both to allow it...

Sarge, it's only nice to share, now...

well with our economy heading into a recession, the best way to help that fade away is to lower ghas prices and increase oil/gas production.

**Sarge** · 09-06-2006, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by SSwt00SS

government, and oil companies wouldn't even allow the though of that happening. EVER. from the lobbiests (sp) to the profits for the oil companies. too much at stake for both to allow it...

Sarge, it's only nice to share, now...

Bullshit! I want y'all to be happy for me .....I claimed the Gulf Of Mexico as mine years ago and it is fucking my gasoline. LOL...you can't spell lobbyist.
It's spelled ASSHOLE.
Seriously though....This is the tip of the iceberg....they have known since the 50's there is a ocean under the ocean...and that 2nd ocean is oil....and more than we have burned up in the last 100 years wouldn't put a dent in it...the problem was drilling in 5 miles of water...the currents and stuff....this is really really big folks....Hell ol Zboner will have oil to keep his BigWheel from squeaking for years to come.

**SSwt00SS** · 09-06-2006, 02:10 PM

Originally Posted by MISFIT

well with our economy heading into a recession, the best way to help that fade away is to lower ghas prices and increase oil/gas production.

i'm not disagreeing with you in that regards, it's already dropped 60+ cents over 3 weeks here. If gas were to go under $2/gal ever again I would be surprised. I'm just saying I don't see it happening because Big Oil wants the profits, and politicians will back anyone that throws major dollars at them and kiss their feet.

**Shpoone** · 09-06-2006, 03:06 PM

Hmmm, if we don't need oil from the Middle East anymore, what are all those kind, peaceful people going to do?

**Tide** · 09-06-2006, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by MISFIT

well with our economy heading into a recession, the best way to help that fade away is to lower ghas prices and increase oil/gas production.

Curious as to why you think we're heading into a recession?

Because the housing market has slowed?
No way possible that it could have kept up that pace
Because of a slow lurch in the NASDAQ?
Not to worry, it's all part of the nature of things.
A "normalization" of interest rates?
Call me when prime goes past 10 percent on a home mortgage. Then we'll talk about a recession.

Unemployment is down.
New job creation is up.

Recession is just a nice buzzword talking heads like to use on the TV. Don't buy into the hype.

**Tide** · 09-06-2006, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by SSwt00SS

i'm not disagreeing with you in that regards, it's already dropped 60+ cents over 3 weeks here. If gas were to go under $2/gal ever again I would be surprised. I'm just saying I don't see it happening because Big Oil wants the profits, and politicians will back anyone that throws major dollars at them and kiss their feet.

If you own a business, do you not want to be profitable? Do you not want to make money? Always cracks me up when people complain about (insert company name here) making money. Tell you what, send me all your left over money every month instead of saving it. Pay your bills, yeah, but at the end of the month, send me every last dime you have left.

Call it a charitible contribution.

Look, if you want to send a message to Big Oil, don't buy cars that get 15 mpg. Buy a hybrid.

Noone is going to send any kind of message to the powers that be by driving 8 passenger SUVs, 400 hp sports cars, or by being reluctant to use mass transit.

**Modulistic** · 09-06-2006, 03:19 PM

Originally Posted by Wade M

Curious as to why you think we're heading into a recession?

Because the housing market has slowed?
No way possible that it could have kept up that pace
Because of a slow lurch in the NASDAQ?
Not to worry, it's all part of the nature of things.
A "normalization" of interest rates?
Call me when prime goes past 10 percent on a home mortgage. Then we'll talk about a recession.

Unemployment is down.
New job creation is up.

Recession is just a nice buzzword talking heads like to use on the TV. Don't buy into the hype.

median income is down.
savings rate is negative.
1 trillion worth of ARMs are going to reset early next year
intel is cutting 10-2000 jobs
GM and Ford are nearly insolvent
More than half of certified public accountants polled by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, many of them CFOs or controllers, are pessimistic about the state of the U.S. economy.

nah its all just hype. dont buy into it.

**Danger731** · 09-06-2006, 03:24 PM

At the rate americans use oil, It was figured it would last 7 years.

**Tide** · 09-06-2006, 04:22 PM

Originally Posted by Modulistic

1) median income is down.
2) savings rate is negative.
3) 1 trillion worth of ARMs are going to reset early next year
4) intel is cutting 10-2000 jobs
5) GM and Ford are nearly insolvent
6) More than half of certified public accountants polled by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, many of them CFOs or controllers, are pessimistic about the state of the U.S. economy.

nah its all just hype. dont buy into it.

1) Show where median income is down, and not some fly by night leftist propaganda website.

2) Savings rate? Clarify. Do you mean, for example mine? Yours? Joe Blows? You honestly think that that is anyone else's fault but each individual? Don't know about yours, but my savings account and 401Ks are in fantastic shape.

3) Do you know how ARMs work?

4) Intel cutting jobs 10,500 (not 10-2000, or 20,000 which is what I think you were trying to say - if you're going to argue something, at least be accurate in your facts) doesnt amount to ANYTHING NOTHING ZIP NADDA ZILCH when you're talking about billions of dollars being paid everyday into the economy by millions of companies and businesses.

5) GM and Ford havent contributed to the "economy" in YEARS. You act like this is new?

6) Ah yes, polls. Those are always accurate :snort:

**SSmoky01** · 09-06-2006, 04:28 PM

Originally Posted by Danger731

At the rate americans use oil, It was figured it would last 7 years.

And how did they figure that???? They pulled it out of there...hats yeah that's it there hats.

**MISFIT** · 09-06-2006, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by Wade M

Curious as to why you think we're heading into a recession?

Because the housing market has slowed?
No way possible that it could have kept up that pace
Because of a slow lurch in the NASDAQ?
Not to worry, it's all part of the nature of things.
A "normalization" of interest rates?
Call me when prime goes past 10 percent on a home mortgage. Then we'll talk about a recession.

Unemployment is down.
New job creation is up.

Recession is just a nice buzzword talking heads like to use on the TV. Don't buy into the hype.

Im not buying into any hype.

Housing, interest rates, costs of a grilled stufft burrito and a crunch wrap surpeme at taco bell wont make or break a recession......

but oil and the price fluctuation in the upwards direction, certainly can....and will. Oil controls our economy, with rising gas prices, companies will be forced to layoff employees, prices on goods will rise, people wont want to spend money, or invest in anything because they cant afford it, or are scared. Housing market will stay where it is, but the price for a apartment will rise up because of costs to operate them because of the fuel cost.

People who bought homes will suddenly find it much more expensive to live in their home, getting too and from work.... $100 every 2 days or so, and people having jobs where they commute 40+ miles each way, and then the gas guzzling trucks and SUV's.....costs $70-$75 to fillup my silverado every 2 days. thats a lil less then $300 a week in fuel alone, just to get me to and from work.

**Sarge** · 09-06-2006, 05:27 PM

I done stirred up the shit.

How bout them COWBOYS?

**Tide** · 09-06-2006, 05:32 PM

The 'boys?

Wishing they'd never picked up TO.

**Sarge** · 09-06-2006, 05:34 PM

I dont even think about that shit cuz I really dont give a shit....
Just another overpaid fucking dipshit.....clueless about life....

**Modulistic** · 09-06-2006, 05:55 PM

Originally Posted by Wade M

1) Show where median income is down, and not some fly by night leftist propaganda website.

U.S. census, commerce dept.

detriot free press

2) Savings rate? Clarify. Do you mean, for example mine? Yours? Joe Blows? You honestly think that that is anyone else's fault but each individual? Don't know about yours, but my savings account and 401Ks are in fantastic shape.

The government has stated that, after tax revenues, the american people have spent more than they earned, as a collective whole. they have spent 100.5% of what they earned. this is the first time that that has happened since 1932

3) Do you know how ARMs work?

yes.

4) Intel cutting jobs 10,500 (not 10-2000, or 20,000 which is what I think you were trying to say - if you're going to argue something, at least be accurate in your facts) doesnt amount to ANYTHING NOTHING ZIP NADDA ZILCH when you're talking about billions of dollars being paid everyday into the economy by millions of companies and businesses.

yeah I left a zero out. job cuts amount to more than nada. especially in one of the last industries america still has. technology. remember what happened in 2001 when Dell announced its job cuts? was that meltdown of the nasdaq "nada, zilch" or were you commenting on what the nasdaq ended at?

5) GM and Ford havent contributed to the "economy" in YEARS. You act like this is new?

youre out of your mind.

6) Ah yes, polls. Those are always accurate :snort:

those CPAs were accountants for major corporations and they were asked how they thought their employers would fare in the coming year.

i :snort: at you.