Yellowtail Posted yesterday at 04:12 AM Share Posted yesterday at 04:12 AM 13 hours ago, pattayasan said: The House committee is a Republican outfit. Again, prove you either know nothing, or you are deliberately posting falsehoods. or both. At least 15 democrats on the committee. Is it your position that they so spinless would be silent while they leadership was publishing falsehoods? Members | About | The U.S. House Committee on the Budget - House Budget Committee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowtail Posted yesterday at 04:16 AM Share Posted yesterday at 04:16 AM 6 hours ago, RetiredNavy71 said: You know I've noticed that too. It seems that most of the idiots that you're referring to are high school dropouts or something similar You are unable to state your position or make a coherent argument, call out people for their spelling. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BTB1977 Posted yesterday at 05:24 AM Share Posted yesterday at 05:24 AM Look at the dollar vs Baht. The dollar went up exactly the same day as the election was called. It is up approximately 1.5 baht. My retirement funds jumped at the same time after not performing to well the last four years. Investments and stocks always out perform under a republican president . Under Biden and Obama I was lucky to get a return of 4 or 5 %. Under Trump's last 4 years I was making 9 to 16 % depending on the fund. My property/farm value decreased under Biden by 400,000 dollars.. There is absolutely no confidence in the American economy under a Democratic president. That has been proven time after time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nauseus Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago 16 hours ago, pattayasan said: New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman said that voters who believed President-elect Donald Trump would do a better job of handling inflation than Vice President Kamala Harris are in for a "really rude shock." In a podcast published by the Times this week, Krugman outlined why Trump's proposed economic policies were likely to do the exact opposite of what voters believed they would be getting. And yet, Trump’s economic program, as far as we can tell, is the most inflationary program, probably, that any American president has ever tried to implement." https://www.rawstory.com/trump-inflation-really-rude-shock/ And now...sports news. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Patong2021 Posted 21 hours ago Popular Post Share Posted 21 hours ago 13 hours ago, nauseus said: The United States remained a net crude oil importer in 2022, importing about 6.28 million b/d of crude oil and exporting about 3.58 million b/d. Some of the crude oil that the U.S. imports is refined by U.S. refineries into petroleum products—such as gasoline, heating oil, diesel fuel, and jet fuel—that the U.S. later exports. Also, some of imported petroleum may be stored and later exported. https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/imports-and-exports.php Yes, the USA imports oil, but it is refined and then sold to third parties at a profit, and is not needed by the USA. The Strategic Reserve is not intended to cover the interruption of these imports. That is not the mandate to the Reserve. How many times do you need to be told that the USA has been energy self sufficient for several years? The Canadian oil & gas industry is foreign dominated with the result that a large portion of Canada's oil production is sent to the US for refining. The US buys cheap oil and then sells an expensive product back to Canadians. This allows the USA to exploit Canadian resources. All of that exported oil is sold going back to Canada at an inflated price. The foreign oil owned interests have acted to prevent the construction of new refineries in Canada for decades. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yellowtail Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago 6 minutes ago, Patong2021 said: Yes, the USA imports oil, but it is refined and then sold to third parties at a profit, and is not needed by the USA. The Strategic Reserve is not intended to cover the interruption of these imports. That is not the mandate to the Reserve. How many times do you need to be told that the USA has been energy self sufficient for several years? The Canadian oil & gas industry is foreign dominated with the result that a large portion of Canada's oil production is sent to the US for refining. The US buys cheap oil and then sells an expensive product back to Canadians. This allows the USA to exploit Canadian resources. All of that exported oil is sold going back to Canada at an inflated price. The foreign oil owned interests have acted to prevent the construction of new refineries in Canada for decades. How many oil refineries does the government own? Why did Biden cancel the Keystone XL pipeline? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nauseus Posted 20 hours ago Share Posted 20 hours ago 59 minutes ago, Patong2021 said: Yes, the USA imports oil, but it is refined and then sold to third parties at a profit, and is not needed by the USA. The Strategic Reserve is not intended to cover the interruption of these imports. That is not the mandate to the Reserve. How many times do you need to be told that the USA has been energy self sufficient for several years? The Canadian oil & gas industry is foreign dominated with the result that a large portion of Canada's oil production is sent to the US for refining. The US buys cheap oil and then sells an expensive product back to Canadians. This allows the USA to exploit Canadian resources. All of that exported oil is sold going back to Canada at an inflated price. The foreign oil owned interests have acted to prevent the construction of new refineries in Canada for decades. Perhaps Canada needs new leadership too then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patong2021 Posted 13 hours ago Share Posted 13 hours ago 8 hours ago, Yellowtail said: How many oil refineries does the government own? Why did Biden cancel the Keystone XL pipeline? Biden maintained the Obama administration position on the pipeline. The pipeline went through environmentally sensitive regions of Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. A wide coalition of residents were opposed to the pipeline because of the disruption and dangers posed to the water supplies of ranchers, farmers and small towns. Unfortunately, the Canadian pipelines have a bad history of leaks and spills. There is a serious problem of chemical contamination around the oilsands. A large portion of the Canadian financed pipeline would have passed through First Nation/Native lands, over which these people who have sovereignty were mostly opposed. The pipeline would not have benefited US supplies because it was destined to refineries and then for export. I support a pipeline, and am of the view that Canada should have built a refinery in Canada and expanded its pipeline in Canada. Unfortunately, its natives and the province of British Columbia were opposed. I am forever amazed by the double standard of Canadians. They all complain about the cost of gas and are forever going on a holier than thou lecture about environmental responsibility, yet they are big consumers of cheap gasoline and are ok with importing tankers of petroleum from despotic regimes with nary a concern for oil spills and leaks in the oceans or of the environmental cost of extracting and refining overseas in lands where environmental controls are ignored. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Croc Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago On 11/13/2024 at 1:27 PM, blazes said: Oh dear, you are inviting me to become the nit-picking Nazi that we all have within us (especially on this forum), but never one to resist a challenge, may I, with your permission, point out that if that was not the first time you misspelled "ludicrous", you must, logically, have misspelled it on at least 2 occasions, n'est-ce pas? As far as I am concerned, more than once comes under the rubric of "numerous." Sorry if it's confusing.... What a silly little attempt to justify your flawed interpretation of my words. You didn't need an invitation to become a nit-picking Nazi, you did that all by yourself. Despite studying French for numerous years in school, I have never found it necessary to attempt self-aggrandizement by its use in this English-speaking forum. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Croc Posted 1 hour ago Share Posted 1 hour ago On 11/13/2024 at 1:12 PM, XB12X said: Identitarian? You are talking nonsense. And who are the extreme right? I repeat, you should try research. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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