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**TheBestCheapestOEM** · 01-19-2007, 04:50 PM

Can you seriously prove that prices wouldn't have been higher without the tax breaks to the oil companies?

An as I have explained to you about 3 times, the main reason gas is so expensive in California is environmental regulations, which you have stated you support. So stop complaining that the price of gasoline is so much more expensive here then the rest of the country.

Can you tell me what the reason would have been for the price to be higher at the pump? We saw it rise after Katrina to $3.00 a gallon. At the same time we saw the oil companies make record profits. Then the price went down right before the election last November, now it's back up again. The oil companies still making record profits. Do you think the price would have risen without the subsidies so the oil companies could make those record profits anyway? In other words, I don't have to prove the price would have risen for no reason at all, without subsidies, you have to prove they would have, for no reason at all.

01-19-2007, 04:50 PM	#40
TheBestCheapestOEM Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 378 Senior Member	Can you seriously prove that prices wouldn't have been higher without the tax breaks to the oil companies? An as I have explained to you about 3 times, the main reason gas is so expensive in California is environmental regulations, which you have stated you support. So stop complaining that the price of gasoline is so much more expensive here then the rest of the country. Can you tell me what the reason would have been for the price to be higher at the pump? We saw it rise after Katrina to $3.00 a gallon. At the same time we saw the oil companies make record profits. Then the price went down right before the election last November, now it's back up again. The oil companies still making record profits. Do you think the price would have risen without the subsidies so the oil companies could make those record profits anyway? In other words, I don't have to prove the price would have risen for no reason at all, without subsidies, you have to prove they would have, for no reason at all.
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