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Posted: 1/23/2021 8:40:06 PM EDT
This is going to sound like an embarrassingly fundamental question, but why do Democrats intentionally do things to cause the price of oil and gas to increase and, along with that, increase the chance of conflict in the Middle East?
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So you have to buy a Prius and be just as pussified as they are.
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Could argue a couple of reasons
- perceived environmental benefits - easier to justify a shift away from fossil fuels if they’re expensive |
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They hate America. What better way to distribute our wealth to other countries?
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Quoted: So you have to buy a Prius and be just as pussified as they are. View Quote Lol no. It's literally how they get paid. When we're buying gas and oil from other countries politicians get sweet kickbacks. Their kids get prime jobs. It's the money laundering mechanism. The environment has nothing to do with it. The environment is just cover cause it's hard to argue against "Save the environment" It's a cover to levy taxes and laws. It reduces freedom, it increases dependency. |
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Couple of reasons.
In conjunction with other policies that take money out of the working person’s pocket, it puts more heat on people, pushing them past poverty lines. Meaning more assistance. Meaning more people on govt assistance. That justifies them cyclically raising taxes to fund more of their programs - that really just put more money in their pockets and gives them more control. Next, look closely - a lot of them, despite their rhetoric, are making a lot of money from investments in oil companies. So more cash flow to oil companies means higher returns and dividends to them. |
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If you believe that anthropogenic climate change is real and an existential threat, then reducing the use of fossil fuels would help to combat that.
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Cheap and plentiful fuel does not get them to there mass transit mastubatory fantasy of the electric car utopia.
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a lot think we can all just take the bus and why do we need cars?
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They are heavily invested in the alternative energy companies the way the RINOs were in big oil. Fastest way to get people to use green energy is to cause the price of oil to skyrocket...which is what they are actively doing.
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Quoted: Quoted: So you have to buy a Prius and be just as pussified as they are. Is it really that simple? Democracy isn't "I'm going to help make us all as well-off as you are." It's "I'm going to fight, steal, and destroy until you are as bad off as I am." |
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They want a crippled middle class with a lower standard of living and to siphon off your income for wealth redistribution schemes.
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Quoted: Yes. They want most to be dependent on mass transit. And they hate you. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: So you have to buy a Prius and be just as pussified as they are. Is it really that simple? Yes. They want most to be dependent on mass transit. And they hate you. The more people are piled on top of each other the easier they are to control. And as we've seen over the last year lots of people have no problems ratting each other out so that's a benefit to government. |
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Vehicle ownership and the mobility it provides is an impediment to urban serfdom. When you own a vehicle, you don't need to live physically close to where you work, shop or eat, and you can pack your belongings in your car and leave if you find conditions in your present location to be objectionable. People who don't own vehicles are incredibly dependent on the government class.
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You think the ones in charge actually buy into global warming?
The real reason is more likely that they are in bed with Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern companies who will get to drive up oil prices, who of course will use some of their profits to ramp of their terrorism financing, so expect a rise in terrorist attacks as gas prices rise. |
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Quoted: Could argue a couple of reasons - perceived environmental benefits - easier to justify a shift away from fossil fuels if they’re expensive View Quote Nobody gives a shit about electric cars when gas is $2/gallon. You have $6/gal gas and people will explore their options. Too bad they don't think about the increase they'll see in their electric bills. I think it's that simple. You economically force people into alternative energy. |
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Because they hate America and they hate American manufacturing and industries.
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Quoted: This is going to sound like an embarrassingly fundamental question, but why do Democrats intentionally do things to cause the price of oil and gas to increase and, along with that, increase the chance of conflict in the Middle East? Discuss. View Quote The War On Cars |
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Environment things.
Fossil fuels = bad, even if cheaper and provides jobs Clean energy = good, even if more expensive and inefficient |
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Quoted: Lol no. It's literally how they get paid. When we're buying gas and oil from other countries politicians get sweet kickbacks. Their kids get prime jobs. It's the money laundering mechanism. The environment has nothing to do with it. The environment is just cover cause it's hard to argue against "Dave the environment" It's a cover to levy taxes and laws. It reduces freedom, it increases dependency. View Quote Ding ! Ding ! Ding ! We have a winner ! kwg |
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They don’t mind ‘taking one for the team’ or think some rich dude is gonna Be hurt by it.
Fucking morons really. |
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You mean the real democrats or the retarded useful idiots.
The guys at the top want to destroy the middle class and have us all live as peasants. We take up to much room on their earth and sickitate them. |
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"The Big Guy" needs to get paid!
Hunter needs a new crack pipe! Jill needs to buy more mexican babies to bathe in their blood! Schumer needs more little girls! |
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To break the back of the middle class.
To usher in their green utopia. |
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Quoted: Could argue a couple of reasons - perceived environmental benefits - easier to justify a shift away from fossil fuels if they’re expensive View Quote Two good points, but also to restrict who and when you can travel. Getting rid of fossil fuels also makes libTARDs feel morally superior. |
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They have to create conditions for them to grift off of government spending on green energy. Green energy can't compete against fossil fuels under normal market conditions. It requires government to create artificially high prices of fossil fuel energy and subsidies for renewable energy.
That's all this is about, making money for political insiders off of the taxpayer. All this global warming stuff is smokescreen and fake justification. |
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Tax revenue for one. Everything goes up in price when gas prices go up.
Back in 2006 when dems took over congress, pelosi refused to do anything about gas prices reach $5 or over, screeching about vacation, killed power to the media,.. cost of living started to double immediately after. Tax brackets remain the same as they were for who knows how long making it so that just to make enough to survive, you must first make enough to pay the king his/hers annual duty for that meager existence. Creating more dependents loyal to gov for survival, who cant. |
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The democrats main constituency is poor desperate people and the hyper rich who want to control them. How best to create more poor desperate people?
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Quoted: Lol no. It's literally how they get paid. When we're buying gas and oil from other countries politicians get sweet kickbacks. Their kids get prime jobs. It's the money laundering mechanism. The environment has nothing to do with it. The environment is just cover cause it's hard to argue against "Dave the environment" It's a cover to levy taxes and laws. It reduces freedom, it increases dependency. View Quote ^ 100% THIS! |
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Quoted: This is going to sound like an embarrassingly fundamental question, but why do Democrats intentionally do things to cause the price of oil and gas to increase and, along with that, increase the chance of conflict in the Middle East? Discuss. View Quote To get away from fossil fuels by any means. |
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Simply put, to punish rural conservatives.
Rural areas are conservative. Many drive trucks, work, and commute. High gas prices punish rural conservatives more. In the end, they want centralized control of zoning, to make gas so expensive that rural folk are forced back into cities, where they are controlled easier and their votes diluted. They have already said as much |
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Higher prices and higher taxes hurt people .
Hurting people has been the Democrat platform for decades . |
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