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mickeycrimm
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accountinquestion
I agree with some of this. 2 party fucks up everything as does the electoral college where these largely irrelevant hick states are seriously over-represented. This dilutes *my* vote because i live in a populous state.
We need multiple parties and let them work together.
Owned property != skin in the game. I have to disagree with that. You don't even truly OWN property where I live. You basically lease it out from the government via property taxes which you purchase the right to do.
There are many ways we all have skin in the game. Paying taxes is far more of having skin in the game than owning some piece of land somewhere.
LOL! You live in a populous hick state. The real effect of Biden oil policy is there is about 3 million barrels a day less production in the U.S. The Canadian oil thru Keystone is not coming down. The Alaska Pipeline, with the shut down ANWR, right next to it is moving just a trickle of oil these days.
Supply and demand. But here's another little secret. Union Pacific Railroad has cut diesel shipments to Pilot/Flying J by 25% causing their price of diesel to skyrocket. What gives? One of the main and influential shareholders of UP, Blackrock, is heavily invested in electric car production. Another conspiracy theory. Right, Red?
My comments had nothing to do with oil. It has to do with our system of representation which is just flawed all around. It has lots of things going for it but a lot of issues.
I have been meaning to read about all the pipeline stuff you mentioned in another post, but that was a different thread of conversation.
From what i can tell the #1 and pretty much sole purpose of corporations is to make as much money as possible. If corporate behavior can be explained by that you rarely need a conspiracy involving electric cars.
The state I live in is definitely one of the larger ones so it is the one who takes the hit on the power per citizen in the Senate. We also do tons of relevant things. There are some midwest states that barely do anything but farm and far far fewer people, but somehow they get the same number of Senators. Those are the irrelevant hick states. They have no centers of innovation. NY, CA, TX all have plenty of innovation outside of corn growin'.