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Originally Posted by shiiboi
I have no doubt that the oil executives are looking out for their own interests and fuck everybody else.
I even believe that they orchestrated this whole thing to manipulate us into getting what they want.
Now we are left with nothing but hard choices. There's been no investment in alternative energy sources, so we are a decade or more away from being able to get off the oil crack pipe.
Do we 'punish' the oil companies by denying offshore drilling, insuring that oil prices will continue to spiral out of control, demolishing what's left of our economy.
Or do we give them what they want and hold back the prices while we transition? Which makes more logical sense? We've been fucked up the ass. But we can't go backwards. What's in our best interest moving forward?
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We say fuck you oil companies. Remember, if it gets too hard to buy gas then the oil companies lose out on our business. However, if we give in, who is to say that years from now when we basically handed them a blank check, that they won't use their money and power to turn the alternative energies against us by buying them and increasing their "cost" to us?
This is a larger example to the bully situation. When a kid in school is bullied and he has a choice to make, standing up for himself may result in his ass being beaten, but it also usually ends with the situation getting better after that. Giving in and paying the lunch money is what you'd rather us do? For how long? I say we act now and shoot them the bird.