like everyone I am feed up with these high gas prices and the effects they are having on the economy

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Do what I do.

Of course, this is voluntary. I have never complained about high gas, grocery prices and never will. I am too smart for this pity me economy mindset. It all begins with you. Stop reading news guys. Do something. Make your parents proud!

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The amount of oil in the marketplace can’t meet the needs of the US and the rest of the world’s oil consumers. There are more consumers of oil than ever before partially due to the industrialization of China and India. When you have a fixed amount of product (oil in the ground) and growing demand, prices will naturally increase.

Politicians are more than happy to create some sort of litigation that will allegedly and miraculously lower the price of gasoline for everyone. These politicians know they will be seen as the hero if they can do this for even a short peroid of time (IE - getting through campaign season). The real problem though, is not price fixing the market. Someone will need to foot the bill for any price fixing legislation that’s enacted, that later collapses in the future. This bill will rest heavily on the shoulders of future American tax payers.

PS - Nice Linkbait by the way!

As an internet marketing newbie, but also less of an investor, please try & make me understand this. Last month, my shares in my Exxon-Mobil DRiP were at about $94/share. SO, I decided to let them ride. Now, they are at about $81/share? There are RECORD profits made in this sector, but I, as the investor, am not realiozing the profit- not being passed down to me.

The economy IS worse than we (John Q. Public) expect. Housing starts are WAY down; forclosures at an all-time high (thanks to the banking industry and their lax lending guidlines- DUH. Anything for a quick buck, huh?).

Food costs are rising like a rocket taking off to the stratosphere! Why? Well, less corn is now grown for consumption (by livestock and humans alike), which now makes the supply LOWER than the demand. Thanks, again, to the ethanol/gas debacle. It’ss all trickle down.

But, if you really, truely believe that the economy is not as bad as you believe, I invite you to my neck of the woods to chat & tour the halted housing projects.

Again, I am an average Joe, so my economic views are not collegiate, much like yours must be in order for you to have the career that you are in. Thanks for your time!

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Thanks for your response.

You just gave your more informed readers unequivocal proof that you can lead a horse to water; but you can’t TEACH him how to drink.

I laughingly rest my case.

Big Mac

Come on now… every single post on this blog is for one purpose… to achieve our goal… no different then any other blog. We have been preaching about content with purpose and this is an interesting story and your reaction is in our opinon ridiculous and narrow minded.

1. This is a news story that we care about

2. It is a story that affects us all

3. It is current

4. It makes good conversation

We share loads of strategies and stuff that people pay us top dollar for and we dont ask for a dime in return, we do not stuff affiliate offers down your throat like others do and you say get over yourself! Give me a friggen break Big Mac and get off your soap box.

There is nothing immoral of sharing a story that we truly feel is an issue, is something our readers care about (which has been proven) and yes we posted it on our blog to get exposure to the story. Sorry if we missed how we were misleading anyone, or taking advantage of anyone… we are not hiding anything and if we did not care about the issue we would not have posted about it.

Do yourself a favor and maybe dont be so bull headed and not follow the links we provided and you would see that perhaps this is not misinformed. Hard to believe you actually admitted your responding without even educating yourself on the points we link to. Prove to me we are misinformed and we will listen but dont get on a soap box and just say you know everything.

Now you’re using such a painful topic to generate personal awareness through controversy?

Those of us who have been in marketing for more than three years know that there is a thing called ‘marketing morality’.

You just crossed and obliterated the line.

Unlike the big media and other political/economic oligarchies, a minority of us (unfortunately not enough, it seems) STILL believe that it is untruthful, immoral and downright nasty to use such an all-pervasive problem as our economy and gas prices to bring even more (Internet Marketing) ‘attention’ to YOURSELF.

That’s like the media slogan: ‘if it bleeds, it leads’ (and sells newspapers and more broadcast and/or Internet ads).

I read your post, (not the links, since I realized up front the naieveté and fallacy of the economically/financially misinformed stance you were taking); then I continued with the comments up to this point, where you responded that your (true) motivation for writing and disseminating such (controversial) stuff was…and I quote: “Get attention.. cause controversy and all that good marketing stuff. If you have not caught on to that yet… well not sure what to do about that.”

I caught onto it immediately. As an honest marketer, it makes me sick to see you do that. If folks continue to use the problems of others only to further your own ends, all (Internet) marketers will be tarnished with the same brush as those you criticize…..we’ll all be seen as hucksters and used car salesmen, like President Nixon and that Texas family we all know and respect so much.

C’mon John. Get over yourself. There are things much bigger out there and one helluva lot more important than whether or not you sell more software or ebooks!!

Use other (more informed and above board) methods to market yourself.

Just try. I know you can do it.

Big Mac

I do not know what the Pump Act does or says, but I do know that there are oil deposits in Alaska Gull Island and Prudow? Bay to rival Saudi Arabia. And there are the oil deposits off-shore in the Gulf of Mexico and off of the east coast. If American companies were to be allowed to pump this crude oil for sale to the people of the United State there would be no import tax on such and there would be no additioinal tax imposed by the United Nations and the price at the pump could be half as much.

One of Our problems is the US Dollar falling against international currencies. In the 1970 Henry Kissinger negotiated a treaty with Saudi Arabia to allow American companies to develop Saudi Oil whereby the US would buy this Saudi Oil under the condition that Saudi Arabia would us a portion of the proceed from these oil sales to buy the securities backing up the US Dollar - US Notes and Bonds. So the concern is that when we stop buying Saudi Oil Saudi will have no incentive to support the US Dollar and the USD would fall. This is also accompanied by the fact that the USD is no longer the world reserve currency in Oil. Iran and Venesuela no longer require USD to settle their trades. The US has made enemies of most all oil producing nations.

Well, with the USD already fallen substantially I see no ill affect that would prevent us from opening up the oil reserves on Alaska and and in International Waters. China is already drilling in international waters off the coast of the US so the threat of an oil spill that would endanger the US already exists and should no longer be a reason for NOT allowing oil production in international waters off the coast of the US.

Now about the closing of automobile factories and other manufaturing plants and their ultimate move to other countries both south and accross the globe to Asia is a great concern. Why would our Congress open up American markets to free trade when such would destroy good, high paying American jobs, jobs which support the American economy without which service industry jobs in Construction and other industries would suffer. Ultimately, if their are no jobs in America the American economy will collapse. And that is what I see happening now unless we get our manufacturing base back. The falling USD could very well influence that. Maybe soon the huge international corporations who are benefiting from free trade will establish new plants in the US from the profits thay have been making at our expense.

Sry for the Rant.

Blessings in truth,

Dave

Cheers,

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