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Originally posted by DanS
I don't know. It has doubled in price in the past year or so, though.
I don't know. It has doubled in price in the past year or so, though.
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Yep, which is why electricity bills have shot through the roof in Atlanta.. it's mostly from coal fired plants.“I give you a new commandment, that you love one another. Just as I have loved you, you also should love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
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I'm hearing more and more of this BS.Originally posted by Flubber
Huh-- give the projects a chance to payout why don't you -- Oilsands royalties increase dramatically as certain production levels and payouts are reached. Its a feature that allows for quicked repayment of the capital investment and was necessary or the projects would not have gotten off the ground.
People forget . . . Not that many years ago, not many companies wanted to do oilsands as it was uneconomic-- But some companies took a risk and now all the Monday morning quarterbacks with the benefit of perfect hindsight want to appropriate the reward.
They took a risk . .. it paid off spectacularly well. Thats business
They were supposed to break even and then start paying normal royalties. I haven't heard of any acceleration due to the price of oil being double what they originally built based on. ie, if they haven't paid off by now, I have to wonder who they are paying off.
Nobody wants to appropriate the reward. However, projects built at $30 oil are... swimming?.... at $60 and $70 oil.
The rules are changing, for all of us. The argument is that not all of the change should stay in the couch of the oil companies. let some of it shake out to others.
And taxing the economy in a just fashion for all is government.(\__/)
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It's not even only energy commodities. Copper has doubled in the past year too. We'd be in a world of hurt if we tried to run our economy without copper.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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You know what we need? We need a windfall profit tax on those coal producers.Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Yep, which is why electricity bills have shot through the roof in Atlanta.. it's mostly from coal fired plants.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Copper is important, yes, but don't be deliberately obtuse, Dan. Copper ain't oil in the modern scheme of things. The price doesn't have the same effects.(\__/)
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Or on electric companies that are riding shortages to big bucks.Originally posted by DanS
You know what we need? We need a windfall profit tax on those coal producers.(\__/)
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I reserve the right to be deliberately obtuse when you don't even try to detail the basis for your beliefs.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Well, you could start with me arguing for doubling the price of gas through taxation, and then decrying the price of oil, then you might get to where I'm coming from.
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Seriously, you aren't coming from anywhere as far as I see. On what do you base your enshrining of oil as a special commodity?I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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Oh well...
On what do our governments enshrine food as special commodities?(\__/)
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I'll take Public Interest for $100, Alex.(\__/)
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God knows. **** farming subsidies.Originally posted by notyoueither
Oh well...
On what do our governments enshrine food as special commodities?12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
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Killing it is the new killing it
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OK. For $100
This substance makes transporting goods to dispursed distribution points possible and makes it easier to get to work if you don't live in a mass transit city.
Is it oil, Alex?(\__/)
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**** you, Eastern boy.Originally posted by KrazyHorse
God knows. **** farming subsidies.
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Incidently, do you have unregulated milk in Quebec?
I thought not.(\__/)
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