The Men Who Raised Gasoline Prices: CEOs Darren Woods, Michael Wirth and Bernard Looney. Causing Astonishing Profits for ExxonMobil, Chevron and BP. Biden to Meet With Them Next Week. Hey Joe: Tell 'em to STOP PRICE GOUGING!

https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/16/politics/biden-oil-ceos/index.html

Headline: Biden administration invites oil CEOs to meeting next week on gas prices... (6/16/2022)

The Energy Department sent an invitation to oil industry executives Wednesday night to meet next week to discuss high gas prices, an official familiar with the matter tells CNN.

The official said the invitation went out to the same seven oil companies to which President Joe Biden wrote a letter on Tuesday: Marathon Petroleum, Valero Energy, ExxonMobil, Phillips 66, Chevron, BP and Shell. 

Headline: House approves bill to combat gasoline ‘price gouging’  - May 19th, 2022But Republicans Killed the Bill so they Could Continue to Get Bribes from Oil Companies... 

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/house-approves-bill-to-combat-gasoline-price-gouging

A closely divided House approved legislation Thursday to crack down on alleged price gouging by oil companies and other energy producers as prices at the pump continue to soar.

A bill backed by House Democrats would give President Joe Biden authority to declare an energy emergency that would make it unlawful to increase gasoline and home energy fuel prices in an “excessive” or exploitative manner. The bill directs the Federal Trade Commission to punish companies that engage in price gouging.

“At a time when people across the country are feeling the pinch at the gas pump, Congress needs to be doing all it can to bring down costs for American families,″ said Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Wash., who co-sponsored the bill.

She called it “infuriating” that spikes in gas prices were “happening at the same time that gas and oil companies are making record profits and taking advantage of international crises to make a profit. This must stop.″

The measure was approved, 217-207. Republicans unanimously opposed the bill, along with four Democrats.

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The "Wonders" of Capitalism: Monsanto and RoundUP - "Somehow" tRUMP's EPA has Concluded that RoundUP is Safe and Should Remain Legal and Yet... The Courts are Awarding Huge Fines for CANCER...

A Discussion on Linkdin - a Guy was Promoting his Book. Rainbows & Unicorns: A Friend "Educates"​ Me on Socialism... https://www.linkedin.com/in/huntingconartists/

I Replied:
Sweden and Holland are Socialist Countries and They Are GREAT! 

Jim Rossi Said: I've spent a lot of time up in Humboldt and on the HSU campus, mountain biked through Community Forest at least 100 times, golf at Muni and Beau Pre, working. My buddy in the article lives in McKinleyville. Love it behind the Emerald Curtain - except for the delusional, cult-like fascination with socialism. No bueno. Have a great summer in the redwoods for me.

I Repiled: I never noticed any interest in Socialism in Humboldt County... I Went to College for four Years at HSU in Arcata in Computer Science... A Lot of People are Interested in Ecology - EARTH FIRST!, Playing the Drums (Samba Parade & Calypso) and... Growing Marijuana... a Pure Capitalist Business... No Taxes, No Government Regulations and Illegal...  Plenty of Interest in New Age Religion... Yoga, Hinduism, Zen, Wicca... 

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and then we digressed into a lot of words about

the Relative Advantages of Capitalism, 

Communism and Socialism... 

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I Said: To Further Document the Absurdity of Monsanto... I See Television advertisements Promoting the sale of RoundUP at the Same Time That Other TV Ads Advertise Lawyers that will Represent you when you SUE Monsanto for Giving you CANCER... Do They Have This Madness in SWEDEN? Norway? Holland? Israel? 

I Said: An Especially Evil Corporation is  MAXXAM... Capitalism Gives us the Wonders of Junk Bonds and Michael Milken Loaning Charles Hurwitz Millions of Dollars so he could do a Hostile Takeover of Pacific Lumber... and Then Charles Cut Down all the Really Big Trees, Made a Massive Profit on them... Then "Magically" Declared Bankruptcy, Stole the Pension Fund and Went Back To Texas... Wonderful System You Have Here... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/09/american-history-humboldt-county-timber.html

I Said: I like the Healthcare System in Canada. It Costs Less and Works Better. People LIVE LONGER with SOCIALIST MEDICINE. What is The Great Advantage of Paying for the Profits of the Stockholders of Pharmaceutical Corporations, Hospitals as Doctors... You Know Why We Pay More for Medicine...  Someone has to pay for profits... and that someone is You and Me... 

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Someone Else Said: Many countries get away with what looks like socialism, but is really an advanced societal responsibility. Sweden and Norway are essentially monocultures with a huge, pervasive, monsterous pressure to conform and take responsibility for each other (sameness). That doesn't translate to the US or many other western cultures.

This article, in a graph towards the end, maps Norsk culture as one of the global cultures furthest from the USA. 

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-cultural-distances-between-us?utm_source=pocket-newtab

I Said: I Understand. "Monoculture" is Secret Code for WHITE PEOPLE. The Reason Socialism Works Great in Scandinavia is White People Can Make It Work... But Here in the USA we Have Black, Brown and Yellow People So It Won't Work Here. I Agree... 

No one Really Promotes Socialism in the USA... Except Bernie Sanders and AOC... It's Just a BOGUS Trump Insult... We are Going to Remain Capitalist for the Foreseeable Future... and BIDEN is NOT Socialist... BUT... It's Fun for Trump to Point the Finger and LIE... Danger Danger They Are Socialists... Yu Know... Just Like Red China and The USSR! 

I Do Like Socialist ROADS, FIRE DEPARTMENTS, POLICE DEPARTMENTS, WATER SYSTEMS, SEWER SYSTEMS, PUBLIC EDUCATION AND THE MILITARY... all paid for by All of Us Paying Taxes and The Society At Large Buying those things... Remember: Most TrumpNiks GET CONFUSED When FACTS are Presented... They Think That Communism and Socialism is the Same thing... of Course, Most TrumpNiks are Uneducated...  Is Israel Socialist? Kibbutz? another Example of a Successful Cooperative Society... 

I Like the Socialist Programs Called Social Security Retirement, Medicare and Unemployment Insurance... They Are Great! and When The Entire Economy Failed... It was wonderful that the Congress and Trump signed a Trillion Dollar Bailout for Everyone... A Capitalist Society Would Have Let the People Starve... FUN FACT! Ayn Rand Received Social Security Checks... I Guess She SHRUGGED Her Shoulders and said: "What They Hey! FREE MONEY!

Was The Bailout of Wall Street in 2009 a Socialist Act? The Banks Gambled Away All Their Money and The The Federal Government Magically Invented a Trillion Dollars so the banks Could Keep on Gambling... 

I do think #FRANCE1789 is a Good Solution to Our Crazy Capitalist System... What's The Logic behind Trump's Tax Cut for the Rich?  Well... The Super Rich Buy Politicians that Pass Laws That Benefit the Super Rich... If Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates Paid the Same Tax Rate as I Do... We Could Have Free College For All... and What's The Logic of our MASSIVE Defense Budget? Since 1945, The US Military has Never Defended The Country. NOT EVEN ONCE! All the Wars During My Lifetime Have Been BOGUS MARKETING so Lockheed, Boeing, Hughes and Dow could Sell Stuff to the Pentagon... https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2018/05/open-letter-to-our-elected.html

#FRANCE1789

and then Jim Rossi Said: Here's looking at you, kid. Greg Vanderlaan and Included this Picture... 

Who is This?

Who is That Guy? I Do Not Recognize the Face... A Resident of Sweden? Holland? Norway? Denmark? Places that are EXCELLENT! I Have a Question: Was the Bailout of Wall Street in 2009 an Act of Free Market Capitalism? Ayn Rand Libertarianism? Or Was that "Magical" Creation of a Trillion Dollars Socialist? Welfare for the Rich? I Really Do NOT Know...  Is ENRON an Example of COMPULSIVE HOARDING OF MONEY SYNDROME?  #FRANCE1789 


Gee, I Would Appreciate it if You Put a Little More Effort into this Debate... Just Copying and Pasting a Pre-Fabricated Meme is Lame... Here is a Chart Comparing Socialist Healthcare Systems With For Profit Systems... Medicare For All COSTS LESS, WORKS BETTER. 

The Town House Motel in Chico has raised their price to $1000 a week. It Was HALF that BEFORE THE FIRE in Paradise. All the other Motels are SOLD OUT.

https://www.yelp.com/biz/town-house-motel-chico

YELP REVIEWS SAY:

Shame on you for charging 1000 a week!! People have lost their homes! And you have the nerve to gouge them! Not to mention the pictures on Yelp show the motel as a disgusting place. The bed bugs and filth is disgusting. I feel so bad for the people that have no place else to go. I hope you get fined!!

You should be ashamed of yourself!!

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Price gouging fire victims at $1000 a week????
That is unacceptable!! Time to boycott this place!
Shame on you, scumbags!!!!!!!!

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Don't even think about staying here. They have  violated the law by price gouging the Camp Fire victims, by raising the rates over 2 times as much!!! This is illegal, and if it were not, it is absolutely reprehensible!!!!

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So I see that they doubled the price of the hotel rooms during a emergency crisis with the campfire and are now charging $1000 a week 
That's out rages price during an emergency I hope the DA does something about it

and about a dozen more like these... 

The Haven Inn of Chico is Sold out... No availability... I wanted to find out what the weekly rental price was... After Reading that the Town House Motel Doubled their Rates... The Rodeway Inn (Used to be the Budget) is also sold out. The Regency has no website.

...and my Favorite The Club Chico Motel is Closed... at Esplanade and East Ave it was where I first lived in the Late 1990s... I almost died there after setting the mattress on fire with a cigarette... but the Manager woke me up in time... pulled the burning mattress out of the motel room, put out the fire, put a new mattress in the room and said to not worry about it... hey, a paying customer is valuable and mattresses are free from the dumpsters when the College Students leave every spring. I picked one up years later for the back of my Ford Windstar Van.