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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (78841)	8/3/2006 3:50:26 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

Hard evidence of price gouging (above and beyond the proven Bush-Cheney-Enron conected gouging in 2000-2001) can only come with a real investigation into suspected gouging , all the way to the top levels of the energy industry and politics. 1 - You haven't proven any Bush connection to price-fixing or manipulation by Enron in 2000, 2001, or any other time frame. 2 - An investigation "ll the way to the top levels" requires some real evidence before it can start. You don't need "proof", that's what your supposed to get from the investigation, but its also unreasonable and destructive to just randomly investigate companies and people with no evidence to indicate that anything was done wrong. The sort of evidence that you throw out isn't even the type of preliminary evidence that would be needed to start a serious investigation. 3 - So you admit there is no hard evidence yet, but you still call people who disagree with you this criminals. Do you see why that is irrational?

To: American Spirit who wrote (78841)	8/3/2006 4:25:52 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

<<<<<price gouging>>>>>>> Most people agree that oil companies could sell their products for much less and still make a very respectable profit. --------------------------- The following is from Harpers Magazine Weekly Review dated February 6, 2001. Cheney is sure doing a good job, isn't he? President George W. Bush, a former oil man, named Vice President Dick Cheney, a former oil man, to head a special task force to devise ways to increase the profits of oil companies.