Comments on: The Arrogance Of Hillary http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/ Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:58:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Curt http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9889 Curt Thu, 27 Dec 2007 00:58:45 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9889 Sure thing, just above the blogads on the sidebar is a link to email me. Sure thing, just above the blogads on the sidebar is a link to email me.

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9888 Anonymous Wed, 26 Dec 2007 22:59:52 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9888 Hi Curt, I'd like to send you an email, but I can't find out how to do it. If it's possible, please post some sort of instructions I could follow on your blog to email you. What I have to send is not for posting, just for you. Thanks. Hi Curt,

I’d like to send you an email, but I can’t find out how to do it. If it’s possible, please post some sort of instructions I could follow on your blog to email you. What I have to send is not for posting, just for you. Thanks.

]]> By: bbartlog http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9887 bbartlog Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:57:04 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9887 <i>If America honestly embarks on a policy of developing expensive energy alternatives, the world price of oil is more likely to rise rather than fall, all else equal.</i> No. If the substitute is offered at a higher effective price (than the market-clearing price for oil), it will not sell at all. So it's not possible to drive the price of oil up this way(*). What happens is that the real costs of the substitutes are shifted to the taxpayer (see: ethanol), so that the alternative can be offered cheaply enough to sell. The price of oil does get reduced (probably rather slightly, it's a huge market), but the cost to the taxpayer is far more than the net savings to the oil consumer; it's robbing Peter to pay Paul, as is usual with the government. <i>lead us into a disastrous economy just like Jimmy Carter's economy</i> You need the assistance of the Fed to achieve Carter's special blend of inflation and unemployment. I don't know exactly what catastrophe Clinton would inflict on us, but it would probably be something new and different. (*) With the caveat that if your 'alternative energy' uses petroleum as an input and your method is unusually stupid, it's at least in principle possible to increase the price of oil because you need it to make fertilizer for your ethanol corn or something. If America honestly embarks on a policy of developing expensive energy alternatives, the world price of oil is more likely to rise rather than fall, all else equal.

No. If the substitute is offered at a higher effective price (than the market-clearing price for oil), it will not sell at all. So it’s not possible to drive the price of oil up this way(*). What happens is that the real costs of the substitutes are shifted to the taxpayer (see: ethanol), so that the alternative can be offered cheaply enough to sell. The price of oil does get reduced (probably rather slightly, it’s a huge market), but the cost to the taxpayer is far more than the net savings to the oil consumer; it’s robbing Peter to pay Paul, as is usual with the government.

lead us into a disastrous economy just like Jimmy Carter’s economy

You need the assistance of the Fed to achieve Carter’s special blend of inflation and unemployment. I don’t know exactly what catastrophe Clinton would inflict on us, but it would probably be something new and different.

(*) With the caveat that if your ‘alternative energy’ uses petroleum as an input and your method is unusually stupid, it’s at least in principle possible to increase the price of oil because you need it to make fertilizer for your ethanol corn or something.

]]> By: Peggy McGilligan http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9886 Peggy McGilligan Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:31:00 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9886 Hillary Clinton promises veterans who participated in the Cold War, a medal for their service. That conflict began to dissipate 1989. In the 1960s, Bill Clinton, participated in "teach-ins," in the Soviet Union. So, what will the medal look like? A zinc medallion picturing the Kremlin, preferably worn with a leisure suit, sporting a bearded Bill waving a (pristine) doobie and a North Vietnamese flag: <a href="http://theseedsof9-11.com" rel="nofollow">http://theseedsof9-11.com</a> Hillary Clinton promises veterans who participated in the Cold War, a medal for their service. That conflict began to dissipate 1989. In the 1960s, Bill Clinton, participated in “teach-ins,” in the Soviet Union. So, what will the medal look like? A zinc medallion picturing the Kremlin, preferably worn with a leisure suit, sporting a bearded Bill waving a (pristine) doobie and a North Vietnamese flag: http://theseedsof9-11.com

]]> By: John Ryan http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9885 John Ryan Tue, 25 Dec 2007 04:21:55 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9885 basic economics also says that it times of shortages profits go UP Are oil companies making more now or less ? In which year of the Bush presidency did ExonMobile NOT set a new record for profits ? basic economics also says that it times of shortages profits go UP
Are oil companies making more now or less ?
In which year of the Bush presidency did ExonMobile NOT set a new record for profits ?

]]> By: Michael in MI http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9884 Michael in MI Tue, 25 Dec 2007 03:47:27 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9884 It is not just the Democrats doing this nonsense. John McCain exposed himself as a Goracle disciple and, on top of that, bragged about his family buying Toyotas. And he did this in Detroit, of all places. Yeah, if I was even considering taking a 2nd look at him, in case Fred Thompson did not make it out of the Primaries for some reason, he just lost my vote with this nonsense. <b><a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YTFiNDkxZjgzNTJjNmMzMGI3MmE4M2ZiMmU2ZTA2ZTQ=" rel="nofollow">Mandate McCain - Detroit's in the red; McCain mandates green.</a></b> Anyone who buys into the religion of Global Warming is not getting my vote. Period. Because all that means is that they are in favor of taxing us to death. It is not just the Democrats doing this nonsense. John McCain exposed himself as a Goracle disciple and, on top of that, bragged about his family buying Toyotas. And he did this in Detroit, of all places.

Yeah, if I was even considering taking a 2nd look at him, in case Fred Thompson did not make it out of the Primaries for some reason, he just lost my vote with this nonsense.

Mandate McCain - Detroit’s in the red; McCain mandates green.

Anyone who buys into the religion of Global Warming is not getting my vote. Period. Because all that means is that they are in favor of taxing us to death.

]]> By: Igor R. http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9883 Igor R. Mon, 24 Dec 2007 18:48:58 +0000 http://www.floppingaces.net/2007/12/24/the-arrogance-of-hillary/#comment-9883 Nobody has ever accused the membership of the Democratic party of economic sophistication. They also don't have a habit of methodically following up on what their leadership has delivered for them. If this wasn't the case, just the sorry results of the "War on Poverty" would be enough to throw the Dems on the trash heap of history. Nobody has ever accused the membership of the Democratic party of economic sophistication. They also don’t have a habit of methodically following up on what their leadership has delivered for them. If this wasn’t the case, just the sorry results of the “War on Poverty” would be enough to throw the Dems on the trash heap of history.

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