How are YOU telling BP to go **** itself?

[KrazyHorse]

I prefer to win, then impugn. Personal preference I suppose.

Let's try this: you're a self-righteous, stupid little **** who's never accomplished anything in his life, and is thus angry and vengeful toward those who have. This hatred is manifested through support of measures which harm everybody in order to visit harm on the successful.

[ricketyclik]

Just because you said it don't make it right pretty boy. There are plenty of economists who argue against your points.

The fact that you are out to make the most money you can out of everyone else makes your arguments highly suspect.

I don't have anything against most people. But you, on other hand, turd-breath...

[KrazyHorse]

Just because you said it don't make it right pretty boy. There are plenty of economists who argue against your points.

No.

The fact that you are out to make the most money you can out of everyone else makes your arguments highly suspect.

I have no idea how you propose to "make money out of" people, you twit. People make money when they provide services that others find useful. You make little money because you are unable or unwilling to to be useful to other people.

I don't have anything against most people. But you, on other hand, turd-breath...

Oh, I'm crushed.

[MrFun]

You two need to jump in bed together.

[KrazyHorse]

****ing retards is illegal, and I'm a law-abiding man.

[KrazyHorse]

I like how ricketyclick's big insight in this thread is that governments shouldn't give away publicly owned resources for free.

[Hauldren Collider]

Try again.

Hint: It's a profession where people argue that "efficiency" is good for everyone, that the market represents everyone and that there's no such thing as fairness while continually skimming money from everyone who breathes.

You mean the government? On that last bit, anyway. The first bit is spot on correct

[Hauldren Collider]

****ing retards is illegal, and I'm a law-abiding man.

At least that's what Heraclitus would have us know.

[ricketyclik]

You make little money because you are unable or unwilling to to be useful to other people.

It all comes down to this for you doesn't it? That's why you make the assumptions you do, both with respect to your view of the world and what other people's are and what they mean by what they say.

What makes you think you earn more than me anyway?

[KrazyHorse]

Because the market for ****** millionaires is fairly thin.

[KrazyHorse]

To recap, best to worst royalty regimes:

1) Full mineral rights auctioned (either in perpetuity or for long tenors). No further royalties due.
2) Mineral rights auctioned on a per-barrel (or per-dollar gross) basis
3) Mineral rights auctioned on a per-profit basis
4) Mineral rights sold at some fixed, government-set rate
5) Mineral profits taxed at some fixed rate

[ricketyclik]

To recap:

Oil companies have their own way in the world because of their market dominance and long-running head start.

Because they have market dominance does not make them right, or the best solution for providing humanity's energy needs.

KrazyHorse is a bwanker.

[Kuciwalker]

What does that have to do with royalty regimes?

[KrazyHorse]

Oil companies have their own way in the world because of their market dominance and long-running head start.

Note the plural. ****.

[KrazyHorse]

As always, the real "reasoning" comes out:

1) taxing oil company profits is designed to hurt oil companies, not raise government revenues
2) rickety wants to hurt oil companies because by some magic they're preventing some more efficient way of doing things from coming about. If only the government would step in and pick up all that free money from renewables.