$5 to $6 dollar a gallon gas possible in 18 months, what are you going to do about it?
Brazil has had ethanol, and acholol at every gas station pump in the last 30 years. The politicans knew that, but didn't allow it to happen here, if you are thinking why not, just think of how many people working in Government make money in the oil business. If that makes you as mad as it does me, answer the question and really mean it. I have a few suggestions, write letters to the Editor of your local newspaper, don't buy as much gas, or just don't fill your gas tank. Car pool to work, use your bike when you can, walk if you don't or when you can. We need to send the politicans a message, and it isn't go ahead and allow big business oil men to keep raising the price....this is a war on the middle class, and if you are one of those you should be mad as hell and thinking like me. Believe me it's all up to us, they can't make any money if we don't buy it. Let me read your best answer, and what you are planing to do about it. Some of your comments are saying that it won't go above $3.50 a gallon. I know some people from Norway, and they pay $6.00 a gallon right now. So don't think it can't happen here, because if they are paying $6.00 in Norway, and $4.50 to $5.00 in other countries, what makes you think it won't, or can't happen here? I think it can, and if we (American People) let it, continue to drive without thinking first, it will, because greed doesn't have any limits.
Government - 21 Answers
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no way our great pres.won't this happen will he
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Ride my bicycle more. No more pedicures I guess.
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Really...what can we do about it?
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buy a horse.
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I'll dress up as Peter Pan and shoot the gas companies with my bow and arrow. No, I'll ride a bike. I'm only 15, so I don't care too much yet. But I know I will. And then, I'll buy a diesel VW Jetta. 50 to the gallon, baby!
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well....not much we can do about it. it's either pay or don't go to work for me. eventually we'll just get to the point where we'll taking out a second mortgage just so we have enough money to pay for gas
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I ride a Bike every where that I go, even tho I have a car. -TY
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Continue to not drive.
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Think I'll buy a cart and drive my horse to town .
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what can we do? we arent like brazil or france who have been using alternative fuels for years now, usa is the most technologically advanced country in the world and we cant get that? that is a whole different problem all together, i am gonna do the only thing i can do, suck it up, pay whatever it is, and work to earn more money so it doesnt hurt me as much.
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Well i guess im planning on getting a bike.
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Here in Ontario, Canada we are paying $1.06 per litre - five litres are in one U. S gallon. In other provinces they are paying over $2.00 a litre.
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Stop the aids to Israel and force the OPEC to return the favor by lessening the price of oil.
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i'm gonna jump for joy when it goes that high the price will FORCE america to finally seek alternatives there is no reason to burn fuels for transportation humans should be smarter than that by now i hope it happens gradually though, or there will be chaos
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ditch my car
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like everyone else get a bike , bike as in motorcycle , like hell im gonna petal my ass to work. shoot can u imagine me on bicycle on the the 405 or the 101 freeway
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I drive 32 miles to work/school, so it hits me pretty hard. Lately I've been getting by on fumes and worrying if I'm going to make it at all.. Plus I've had to get a second job. It's already killing me. Possibly with all this extra money I'm thinking about getting a more fuel-efficient car. BP has been talking about putting ethanol into their gasoline so hopefully that will come into effect before long. Otherwise I guess we're all screwed unless people begin standing up for themselves like they're supposed to. I personally avoid buying gasoline as much as possible. When I move closer to work/school I'll probably do a lot more walking as well and maybe write a few angst-filled but justified letters to my local congressman. If everyone wrote a letter once a week to their congressman, it would probably drive them to do SOMETHING. I don't understand why people blindly follow authority. People don't seem to realize that there are more of US than there are THEM. We can take 'em. We have guns too, you know.
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Sorry man my best guess is if gas really goes that high and I don't get a pay raise then I will have to start selling my body or organs. Something that drastic because the prices right now are keeping me home a lot more and really hurting my bank account. I'm not trying to sound like a freak but my life would get so bad that I would have to give up my car and most likely my job because I have no car and if the government is going to let things stay so bad then I'll join in on the other pilferers and go on welfare.
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I know that this answer isn't completely possible for everyone because I live in a small town, but people in cities could carpool more often and so on. Mainly this is for small town folk I guess. If gas reaches 5 to 6 dollars a gallon I am going to walk everywhere because I am not going to let anybody tell me or regulate how I spend my money. I already put less gas in my tank than I would like to already (20 dollars a week to be exact). Although I would prefer to fill my tank 3 dollars 15 cents I believe is what it is here. That is far too much, I really think that if we could get a very high majority of people of the lower and middle class to have one or two days that they don't go to work or at least don't drive their vehicles maybe just maybe we could send a message in one way or another to these Oil Companies, that we aren't going to put up with it anymore. Now by lower and middle class I pretty much mean that we are the ones that are really hurting from this. I really don't believe that writing our congressman/woman is going to work because they aren't feeling the pinch quite as bad as us common folk if you will are, Oil companies have thousands upon thousands of lobbyists that are specifically paid to get our elected officials in there pockets so to speak, but I believe that I could be veering in a different direction so that is all.
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I am going to drive less and at least avoid Citco.
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Take it from me my fellow Americans. Gas prices will never go beyond $3.50 on the average...at least for a long time. The giant oil companies and Bush's administration already settled on that. They figured that this price is set for good to make lots of profits for the oil companies to invest their money (at our expenses of course) to explore and dig out more oil from Iraq and Libya and some parts of Saudi Arabia. Did you know that our American and other British oil companies are now in Libya after new contracts had been struck with the so-called Qaddafi - the terrorist. Qaddafi of Libya is off the terrorist List now since he allowed Bush to explore his oil....nobody talks about that anymore....of course. Keep in mind also that Saudi Arabia and other Arabic oil producing countries are making lots of profits to pay their debt to the USA and reconstructing the New Iraq......all of that at the expenses of all the poor working people on this earth, especially the middle class of America. It is all a political game....wake up America please for your kids sake. By the way, I never said that the Iraqi war was about the oil (partially Yes!). However, it was a golden opportunity for Bush and the oil companies to benefit from that.
Friday, October 28, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
I want out of this 10 year marriage, Help!?
I want out of this 10 year marriage, Help!?
I hate my husband and I want out. I married my husband in 2000 because we loved each other at the time and we both wanted to live in each others countries without having to leave. It was the night of our marriage and we got in some fight, over nothing, and he told me he wanted a divorce. Total shock. That was just the start. Since then there have been bouts of physical and mental abuse for 10 years. He has not had a stable income or job since I met him. I started an exportation business from his country 2 years after we married to help with money and not depend on him to take care of me. Needless to say it took years for this company to make good money. In the meantime I got an inheritance of $200,000 and bought a land in his country and put the rest in savings. We traveled back and forth from each other countries but nothing ever worked out for us, especially after the baby was born. He was satisfied to work pizza and live below the poverty level and live off my inheritance in Hawaii, all while abusing me mentally and physically when he felt the need. Finally, I realized I needed a place and a plan of my own, as later we were living in a house owned by his parents (in Brazil to save money). I took my inheritance and built two homes in his country, Brazil, one to live and one to rent. Although the money was not enough to finish the two homes, my business which I have been taking care of finally started to make money, $40,000 in the last 10 months. So, I used that to finish. He finally got some money from his parents, and invested 15% into the total I invested. Well, I want out of this marriage desperately, and he now wants half of my earnings (which he wont get anymore) and half of my homes. He just wants me to hand over a R$ 350,000 home I built for my daughter and me, that he invested only 75,000, minus the fact I have been supporting the family for the last 5 years minimum, because of my inheritance. He only works with my business because I work, if I stopped working tomorrow he would not have his entire 5 hour work week anymore. I told him, not only do I quit, but he's fired. I told him I'm not giving him my home but he can have the money from the rental second home for 2 years, (so he can organize his life) and I will not charge him child alimony if he releases his rights to both homes. I'm just looking out for my daughter and sick of supporting an ungrateful abusive husband. I want out!
Marriage & Divorce - 9 Answers
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If you are in an abusive marriage. just leave him. what is holding you back?
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GET OUT NOW. this is not a healthy relationship.
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sounds like you got "played" and you need a good lawyer....
4 :
You will be bound by the laws of the place where you got married. In the United States if the tables were turned and it was the woman seeking half of the man's fortune she'd probably get it even if she did nothing to earn it. It's the "what's mine is yours" conception of marriage. You should make your decision about divorce irrespective of the money and fight for your rights in the court. That's pretty much all you can do about that aspect, unless you can work out an amenable distribution of assets with your husband before you make it to court. In that later scenario you will probably have to be more generous with him than you would like to forego the courts that will likely take more of it than that. Get a lawyer though. S/he will guide you better than the yahoos who post here, that's for sure.
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I don't know the laws in Brazil, so it's hard to say about a lot of the property issues and so forth. It does sound to me like you are the main bread winner, so I believe you would be paying him alimony if anyone was to pay. And since you are the one with the most interest in all of this, you can support yourself, so I say get out. But before you do, get a good lawyer.
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first i apologize for what you encountered those years in your marriage . you have a very strategic plan very detailed . because judges don't say u take e this and he take that , they back up the argument from the most truthful story . and since you have been through so much you won't have a problem what i will suggest is that you get a damn good lawyer and be ready for anything that hits you because it will be a nasty divorce good luck . God bless
7 :
well I hope things go your way, what an idiot he is,
8 :
How about letting a lawyer handle your case and just get divorced from the guy? You have way too much money and investments to risk losing. I agree that you need to get out, and a lawyer can help you do just that. Your husband sounds like a leech.
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You are going to need a lawyer to figure this out. Probably more than one. In the US a guy with an inheritance spent like that and earnings like that would have to give a lot fo his wife. In Brazil I don't know.
I hate my husband and I want out. I married my husband in 2000 because we loved each other at the time and we both wanted to live in each others countries without having to leave. It was the night of our marriage and we got in some fight, over nothing, and he told me he wanted a divorce. Total shock. That was just the start. Since then there have been bouts of physical and mental abuse for 10 years. He has not had a stable income or job since I met him. I started an exportation business from his country 2 years after we married to help with money and not depend on him to take care of me. Needless to say it took years for this company to make good money. In the meantime I got an inheritance of $200,000 and bought a land in his country and put the rest in savings. We traveled back and forth from each other countries but nothing ever worked out for us, especially after the baby was born. He was satisfied to work pizza and live below the poverty level and live off my inheritance in Hawaii, all while abusing me mentally and physically when he felt the need. Finally, I realized I needed a place and a plan of my own, as later we were living in a house owned by his parents (in Brazil to save money). I took my inheritance and built two homes in his country, Brazil, one to live and one to rent. Although the money was not enough to finish the two homes, my business which I have been taking care of finally started to make money, $40,000 in the last 10 months. So, I used that to finish. He finally got some money from his parents, and invested 15% into the total I invested. Well, I want out of this marriage desperately, and he now wants half of my earnings (which he wont get anymore) and half of my homes. He just wants me to hand over a R$ 350,000 home I built for my daughter and me, that he invested only 75,000, minus the fact I have been supporting the family for the last 5 years minimum, because of my inheritance. He only works with my business because I work, if I stopped working tomorrow he would not have his entire 5 hour work week anymore. I told him, not only do I quit, but he's fired. I told him I'm not giving him my home but he can have the money from the rental second home for 2 years, (so he can organize his life) and I will not charge him child alimony if he releases his rights to both homes. I'm just looking out for my daughter and sick of supporting an ungrateful abusive husband. I want out!
Marriage & Divorce - 9 Answers
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If you are in an abusive marriage. just leave him. what is holding you back?
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GET OUT NOW. this is not a healthy relationship.
3 :
sounds like you got "played" and you need a good lawyer....
4 :
You will be bound by the laws of the place where you got married. In the United States if the tables were turned and it was the woman seeking half of the man's fortune she'd probably get it even if she did nothing to earn it. It's the "what's mine is yours" conception of marriage. You should make your decision about divorce irrespective of the money and fight for your rights in the court. That's pretty much all you can do about that aspect, unless you can work out an amenable distribution of assets with your husband before you make it to court. In that later scenario you will probably have to be more generous with him than you would like to forego the courts that will likely take more of it than that. Get a lawyer though. S/he will guide you better than the yahoos who post here, that's for sure.
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I don't know the laws in Brazil, so it's hard to say about a lot of the property issues and so forth. It does sound to me like you are the main bread winner, so I believe you would be paying him alimony if anyone was to pay. And since you are the one with the most interest in all of this, you can support yourself, so I say get out. But before you do, get a good lawyer.
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first i apologize for what you encountered those years in your marriage . you have a very strategic plan very detailed . because judges don't say u take e this and he take that , they back up the argument from the most truthful story . and since you have been through so much you won't have a problem what i will suggest is that you get a damn good lawyer and be ready for anything that hits you because it will be a nasty divorce good luck . God bless
7 :
well I hope things go your way, what an idiot he is,
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How about letting a lawyer handle your case and just get divorced from the guy? You have way too much money and investments to risk losing. I agree that you need to get out, and a lawyer can help you do just that. Your husband sounds like a leech.
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You are going to need a lawyer to figure this out. Probably more than one. In the US a guy with an inheritance spent like that and earnings like that would have to give a lot fo his wife. In Brazil I don't know.
Friday, October 7, 2011
Is it illegal to chop down trees for firewood use in your nearby woods?
i live in a town house and its a pretty small neighborhood and theres a few tree huggin residents. WE live in a pretty country side area and once u cross this road its big city. So there is a lot of wood. so cant i just go into the woods and just chop down trees? im 17 and today i was makin the fireplace and my mom always bought wood from some guy that drives to our house every winter. I mean i like this old way of getting heat. im 17 and was raised in this kinda tech era, but i hate touch screens. i despise touch screens, and im alreayd behind with all this crap. so i was wondering if maybe i can just go chopping some trees with a big axe-no chain saw. just axe. And split it up and make a lot of firewood and make a crude post and start stacking firewood and make a roof for it so it can dry for next years winter. and i live in Virginia...and Virginia...has so many stupid laws...so idk man..maybe choppin down some trees is illegal now idk. im not some white dude in a suit trynna make some money in brazil and chop down a rain forest. thanks if its legal, ill figure out which trees are the best for firewood and ill only cut down the almost dead ones.
Garden & Landscape - 10 Answers
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if the woods belong to you --go for it! If not keep you s....n' hand off
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as someone said,, if it is your wood,,,, cut all you want,,,if it is someone elses property,, keep off,,,,,, I think you would be ok if you took deadwood or broken branches
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cutting wood on someone else's property is stealing and tresspassing. How would you like someone breaking into your room and stealing your stuff. If it belongs to the city, they have someone who decides what to do with the wood and trees. Usually it is an arborist. The trees belong to everyone and he is hired to manage them for the good of everyone. Sometimes you can get permission to cut wood on public property. Here in Oregon, the forest service sells permits to cut wood in designated areas.
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You wanna get shot for tresspassing? How about going to jail? It is owned by someone. You need to get permission from the land owner, be it private or government. People pay taxes on that property. Why do you feel its ok to steal? Get permission there first, and you and the blue ox can chop without doing it in the dark!
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Cutting trees that might not belong to you is a pretty risky business. It is one of the cases where the owner can put the value on the property. That tree could end up costing you a lot of money.
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First find out who owns the trees and go ask him if it's all right to cut some down, otherwise you are a big time trespasser.
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Every one else pretty much covered the legalities, but if all your using is an ax don't worry. You will run out of enthusiasm before you can do much damage. Chopping and splitting even one medium size tree with unpowered hand tools is more work than I have seen any teenager do in years.
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I think everyone got the message across. If it isn't on your property it's not yours for the taking. The reason it's better to buy the wood from the guy that does the chopping is that wood probably been dried for some time before he sells it. There is a big difference in a fire built with wet wood and one with dry wood. If you have a legal area to chop you should know what you should and shouldn't chop. Why not talk to the 'GUY' that brings you wood every year? It's probably his livelihood so he knows the correct way and you just might learn a thing or two.
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You go into forests and find fallen dead trees and dead branches. bring those home and if they are not dry enough, store them in a large trash can with the lid on until they are dry enough to use in a fire place or stove. There are sometimes alot of dead fallen trees and broken branches laying on the forest ground which would be better to use rather than killing a
nd chopping down a tree that is still alive. Trees take a "long" time to get to the size they are at, chopping down alot of living trees all of the time would make the forest an empty/ugly disaster.
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It really depends if the land is actually your property or not. If the land is owned by you, then feel free to chop down firewood! You may also need a rack to hold it.
i live in a town house and its a pretty small neighborhood and theres a few tree huggin residents. WE live in a pretty country side area and once u cross this road its big city. So there is a lot of wood. so cant i just go into the woods and just chop down trees? im 17 and today i was makin the fireplace and my mom always bought wood from some guy that drives to our house every winter. I mean i like this old way of getting heat. im 17 and was raised in this kinda tech era, but i hate touch screens. i despise touch screens, and im alreayd behind with all this crap. so i was wondering if maybe i can just go chopping some trees with a big axe-no chain saw. just axe. And split it up and make a lot of firewood and make a crude post and start stacking firewood and make a roof for it so it can dry for next years winter. and i live in Virginia...and Virginia...has so many stupid laws...so idk man..maybe choppin down some trees is illegal now idk. im not some white dude in a suit trynna make some money in brazil and chop down a rain forest. thanks if its legal, ill figure out which trees are the best for firewood and ill only cut down the almost dead ones.
Garden & Landscape - 10 Answers
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1 :
if the woods belong to you --go for it! If not keep you s....n' hand off
2 :
as someone said,, if it is your wood,,,, cut all you want,,,if it is someone elses property,, keep off,,,,,, I think you would be ok if you took deadwood or broken branches
3 :
cutting wood on someone else's property is stealing and tresspassing. How would you like someone breaking into your room and stealing your stuff. If it belongs to the city, they have someone who decides what to do with the wood and trees. Usually it is an arborist. The trees belong to everyone and he is hired to manage them for the good of everyone. Sometimes you can get permission to cut wood on public property. Here in Oregon, the forest service sells permits to cut wood in designated areas.
4 :
You wanna get shot for tresspassing? How about going to jail? It is owned by someone. You need to get permission from the land owner, be it private or government. People pay taxes on that property. Why do you feel its ok to steal? Get permission there first, and you and the blue ox can chop without doing it in the dark!
5 :
Cutting trees that might not belong to you is a pretty risky business. It is one of the cases where the owner can put the value on the property. That tree could end up costing you a lot of money.
6 :
First find out who owns the trees and go ask him if it's all right to cut some down, otherwise you are a big time trespasser.
7 :
Every one else pretty much covered the legalities, but if all your using is an ax don't worry. You will run out of enthusiasm before you can do much damage. Chopping and splitting even one medium size tree with unpowered hand tools is more work than I have seen any teenager do in years.
8 :
I think everyone got the message across. If it isn't on your property it's not yours for the taking. The reason it's better to buy the wood from the guy that does the chopping is that wood probably been dried for some time before he sells it. There is a big difference in a fire built with wet wood and one with dry wood. If you have a legal area to chop you should know what you should and shouldn't chop. Why not talk to the 'GUY' that brings you wood every year? It's probably his livelihood so he knows the correct way and you just might learn a thing or two.
9 :
You go into forests and find fallen dead trees and dead branches. bring those home and if they are not dry enough, store them in a large trash can with the lid on until they are dry enough to use in a fire place or stove. There are sometimes alot of dead fallen trees and broken branches laying on the forest ground which would be better to use rather than killing a
nd chopping down a tree that is still alive. Trees take a "long" time to get to the size they are at, chopping down alot of living trees all of the time would make the forest an empty/ugly disaster.
10 :
It really depends if the land is actually your property or not. If the land is owned by you, then feel free to chop down firewood! You may also need a rack to hold it.
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Will someone PLEASE explain to me why the U.S. is paying Brazil for offshore drilling?
Will someone PLEASE explain to me why the U.S. is paying Brazil for offshore drilling?
We are using taxpayer money to pay the government of Brazil who already has contracted with China for billions of barrels of oil. Now we are sending our much needed jobs to employ Brazilians, paying them multiple billions so they can then turn around and sell that oil back to us. Again, Obama is encouraging the world to hold us hostage. Does he think he can enrich every other country by totally ignoring the Country, U.S., and it's citizens. All Obama and the liberals seem intent on establishing a one world government while making a third world country of the U.S.
Politics - 15 Answers
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Soros invested 11 billion....FOLLOW The money.
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I don't know and it really makes me furious. Especially right now with our economy the way it is. It is very hypocritical as well. If Obama supports drilling, then we should be doing it here in the USA.
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Why don't you cite a source to back up your assertion. I know the major oil companies are paying for Brazilian offshore leases, but heard NOTHING about the US govt. paying.
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Sure; Soros is going to make millions from the deal. Ah, friendship is a wonderful thing...
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Because dems want to save the environment remember? That is why they support off-shore drilling in other countries.
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Even if we did start more of our own offshore drilling, it wouldn't help gas prices.
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Last time I checked, Brazil and the US share the same planet, so if this is really about the environment, wouldn't drilling ANYWHERE affect us eventually? If oil is a necessary evil, why the hell are we so consumed with drilling everywhere BUT the US and building up every other nation but our own? Anyone with a shred of common sense knows this is about making money and building wealth for the government in order to expand it.
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Petrobras, which will do the exploration and presumably get the bulk of the money is one of the primary holdings of George Soros. All clear now?
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Very simple. Political pay back. Nothing more, nothing less. George Soros is the one who benefits the most.
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Because George Soros,who was instrumental in helping Comrade 0bama's ascension to power,has very large investments in the Brazilian Oil Company and will make Billions more off of this deal. In short,more payoffs to Political Allies,just like the Tax Payer funded rescue of the failed,bankrupt company known as GM was a payoff to the Unions for their help.Corruption at its finest!! RWE
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the world used to fear us, now they laugh at us!
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George Soros, who has backed Obama in a big way, has a vested interest in the oil company in Brazil. I believe the news said he is THE biggest investor, anyway, he stands to put billions in his pocket from the profits of that company.------aren't he and Obama great Americans?????? Sure they are------------(sarcastic)
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to all the kool aid drinking and blindly following whatever obama says without ever questioning him read the actual news and it aint just fox news! He has agreed to loan brazil 2 billion dollars for off shore drilling and yet he wants it illegal in America?
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It's not taxpayer money. It's not going to Brazilian workers. The US Import Export Bank is self-funded and profitable. The Bank lends money to foreign companies to buy US goods and services ONLY. The money doesn't actually go directly to the foreign company, it goes to the US companies in the form of loan guarantees so the US companies can compete for contracts. The bank's board of directors (3 Republicans and 2 Democrats) were all appointed by Bush. http://www.exim.gov/brazil/pressrelease_082009.cfm http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/20/loan-brazilian-oil-company-riles-conservatives-favor-offshore-drilling/
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Great question I'm at a loss for an answer, because the SF Bay area is sitting on 1Billion barrels & have known about it for almost 50 yrs.His actions are Treasonous
We are using taxpayer money to pay the government of Brazil who already has contracted with China for billions of barrels of oil. Now we are sending our much needed jobs to employ Brazilians, paying them multiple billions so they can then turn around and sell that oil back to us. Again, Obama is encouraging the world to hold us hostage. Does he think he can enrich every other country by totally ignoring the Country, U.S., and it's citizens. All Obama and the liberals seem intent on establishing a one world government while making a third world country of the U.S.
Politics - 15 Answers
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Soros invested 11 billion....FOLLOW The money.
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I don't know and it really makes me furious. Especially right now with our economy the way it is. It is very hypocritical as well. If Obama supports drilling, then we should be doing it here in the USA.
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Why don't you cite a source to back up your assertion. I know the major oil companies are paying for Brazilian offshore leases, but heard NOTHING about the US govt. paying.
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Sure; Soros is going to make millions from the deal. Ah, friendship is a wonderful thing...
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Because dems want to save the environment remember? That is why they support off-shore drilling in other countries.
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Even if we did start more of our own offshore drilling, it wouldn't help gas prices.
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Last time I checked, Brazil and the US share the same planet, so if this is really about the environment, wouldn't drilling ANYWHERE affect us eventually? If oil is a necessary evil, why the hell are we so consumed with drilling everywhere BUT the US and building up every other nation but our own? Anyone with a shred of common sense knows this is about making money and building wealth for the government in order to expand it.
8 :
Petrobras, which will do the exploration and presumably get the bulk of the money is one of the primary holdings of George Soros. All clear now?
9 :
Very simple. Political pay back. Nothing more, nothing less. George Soros is the one who benefits the most.
10 :
Because George Soros,who was instrumental in helping Comrade 0bama's ascension to power,has very large investments in the Brazilian Oil Company and will make Billions more off of this deal. In short,more payoffs to Political Allies,just like the Tax Payer funded rescue of the failed,bankrupt company known as GM was a payoff to the Unions for their help.Corruption at its finest!! RWE
11 :
the world used to fear us, now they laugh at us!
12 :
George Soros, who has backed Obama in a big way, has a vested interest in the oil company in Brazil. I believe the news said he is THE biggest investor, anyway, he stands to put billions in his pocket from the profits of that company.------aren't he and Obama great Americans?????? Sure they are------------(sarcastic)
13 :
to all the kool aid drinking and blindly following whatever obama says without ever questioning him read the actual news and it aint just fox news! He has agreed to loan brazil 2 billion dollars for off shore drilling and yet he wants it illegal in America?
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It's not taxpayer money. It's not going to Brazilian workers. The US Import Export Bank is self-funded and profitable. The Bank lends money to foreign companies to buy US goods and services ONLY. The money doesn't actually go directly to the foreign company, it goes to the US companies in the form of loan guarantees so the US companies can compete for contracts. The bank's board of directors (3 Republicans and 2 Democrats) were all appointed by Bush. http://www.exim.gov/brazil/pressrelease_082009.cfm http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/08/20/loan-brazilian-oil-company-riles-conservatives-favor-offshore-drilling/
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Great question I'm at a loss for an answer, because the SF Bay area is sitting on 1Billion barrels & have known about it for almost 50 yrs.His actions are Treasonous
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