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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 01:36 PM Original message |
Poll question: Could high oil prices be a blessing in disguise |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
1. I voted "I don't know" |
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lutefisk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
2. I'm not a believer in people suffering for their own good. . .n/t |
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shain from kane (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 01:39 PM Response to Original message |
3. I just need to see who is benefiting from it. That is enough to piss me off. |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 01:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. I know T Boone Pickens benefits from high oil prices |
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begin_within (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
4. Anything that gets people out of their cars and reduces fossil fuel burning is a good thing. |
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David__77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
6. Other answer, "Yes. Higher oil prices help the developing world economies." |
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Ichingcarpenter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 01:52 PM Response to Original message |
7. The blessing is for the rich |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:30 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. That's so very true.. |
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mike_c (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 01:59 PM Response to Original message |
8. unfortunately, I think yes.... |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:18 PM Response to Original message |
9. No |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:23 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Hydra, if I may ask |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:29 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. You guessed right |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:38 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. how is it that you"pay the gov't for the privilege of working"...? |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 04:05 PM Response to Reply #20 |
26. Taxes |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
11. Invest in wind power! |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:27 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. Wind power hurts migratory birds! |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 08:30 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. Invest in solar!! |
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Virginia Dare (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
13. Unfortunately, the rich will make sure that the poor suffer first and worst.. |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:30 PM Response to Reply #13 |
16. Rich and the WTO, World Bank and IMF. |
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Hydra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #13 |
17. We could switch to something else pretty easily |
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Fovea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:31 PM Response to Original message |
18. Better the sucker punch |
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Mountainman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:33 PM Response to Original message |
19. I ride a bus to work. It's called the "Clean Air Express". I ride 140 miles a day. Everytime the |
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KillCapitalism (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
21. No |
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taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
22. As a nation |
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OmahaBlueDog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 03:13 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Quite honestly, I'm against the gas tax holiday |
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varelse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
24. High oil prices are killing poor people worldwide |
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OhioChick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
25. A Blessing for the Wealthy... |
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TheFriendlyAnarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-29-08 08:44 PM Response to Original message |
28. Society as a whole needs a good kick in the teeth. |
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