US Politics Mega-thread - Page 4813

On August 25 2016 04:39 Rebs wrote:


Their demand inelastic. ez moneez gg no re.

On August 25 2016 07:03 LegalLord wrote:
Maybe they're just not that interested in undercutting each others' profits.

On August 25 2016 06:03 Sermokala wrote:
The sick shit is that the actual medicine thats being injected is really cheap its that the company is shitty for charging $200 or more for the spring loaded injector. theres another company thats selling it for cheaper but not that much.

If a free market was truely free a company should come up to undercut the profits for something like this. the government isn't the only thing keeping the market from being free.

On August 25 2016 07:13 Plansix wrote:

Unclear if this is sarcasm, but that is illegal. No set of companies can intentionally not compete to keep their prices artificially high. Especially in a field like this.

Environmental groups have turned on the Obama administration over offshore oil and gas extraction, warning it puts whales and dolphins in peril and risks undermining the president’s commitment to putting the brakes on climate change.

Barack Obama, who recently called global warming an “genuine existential threat”, has enjoyed largely solid support from green groups that have praised his leadership on the issue. But Obama’s environmentalist allies are increasingly frustrated over federally approved fossil fuel drilling, just as the US president attempts to put the finishing touches on his climate legacy.

On Wednesday, leases for oil and gas exploration across 23.8m acres of the Gulf of Mexico will be auctioned off to fossil fuel companies. A total of 218.94m acres, about double the size of California, will have been offered up for leases in federal waters by the end of next year, with further leasing planned by the government in a new five-year program that will extend this process.

In response, protesters stormed the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management’s office in New Orleans on Tuesday, demanding the cancellation of the lease sales because of the link between climate change and the kind of flooding that has devastated large parts of Louisiana. Several protesters were arrested.

“While climate change affects everyone, communities of color and low-income communities continue to be hit hardest by the lasting impacts of climate disasters,” said Anne Rolfes, founding director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade.

“Thousands of oil spills, sinking lands and extreme weather creating turmoil for countless people. What more will convince the Obama administration to stop treating the Gulf like a sacrifice zone to fossil fuel interests?”

Another green group, the Center for Biological Diversity, is also ramping up its opposition to offshore drilling, releasing a report that found that burning all of the fossil fuels in federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico would release a staggering 32.8bn tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

The group claimed that expanding drilling in the gulf is contrary to America’s pledge to help keep global temperatures to 1.5C above pre-industrial times and risks unleashing more extreme weather, drought and sea level rise upon swathes of the US.

On August 25 2016 06:03 Sermokala wrote:
The sick shit is that the actual medicine thats being injected is really cheap its that the company is shitty for charging $200 or more for the spring loaded injector. theres another company thats selling it for cheaper but not that much.

If a free market was truely free a company should come up to undercut the profits for something like this. the government isn't the only thing keeping the market from being free.

North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory (R) polled nine points behind Democratic challenger Roy Cooper in a Monmouth poll of the state's gubernatorial election.

Cooper leads McCrory 52-43, with Libertarian candidate Lon Cecil polling at 3 percent.

McCrory has gained national attention for signing HB2, which prevents cities and counties from passing their own anti-discrimination rules and barred individuals from the right to sue their workplace for any kind of discrimination.

Among those polled, 55 percent disapproved of HB2 and another 70 percent thought the legislation gave North Carolina a bad reputation nationally.

Monmouth had not previously polled the North Carolina governor's election, but a NBC/WSJ/Marist poll from earlier this month showed Cooper ahead by seven percent, 51-44.

The Monmouth University poll was conducted Aug. 20-23 among 401 likely North Carolina voters, and has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.9 percent.

TPM's PollTracker Average for the North Carolina gubernatorial election shows Cooper leading McCrory, 51.7 to 43.3.

On August 25 2016 07:21 KwarK wrote:

That's not always how it works in practice. If company A already has an established production line and is gouging then company B should not run the numbers for whether it's worth investing in their own line at current profit levels but rather at post competition levels. Once B can compete with A the prices will drop below the floor needed to justify B's investment. Just because A is gouging doesn't mean B wants to undercut, the competition is not profitable for either party.

On August 25 2016 06:03 Sermokala wrote:
The sick shit is that the actual medicine thats being injected is really cheap its that the company is shitty for charging $200 or more for the spring loaded injector. theres another company thats selling it for cheaper but not that much.

If a free market was truely free a company should come up to undercut the profits for something like this. the government isn't the only thing keeping the market from being free.

On August 25 2016 09:28 Doodsmack wrote:
"The only enthusiastic supporters of her campaign are Hollywood celebrities, in many cases celebrities that aren’t very hot anymore"

- D. Trump, 8/24/16


What does a man with such a need to insult people, and such a history with lawsuits, do with presidential power?

He has admitted himself recently of being unable to let things go.

On August 25 2016 09:55 Nebuchad wrote:
"Among those polled, 55 percent disapproved of HB2 and another 70 percent thought the legislation gave North Carolina a bad reputation nationally."

15% of NC value fighting against anti-discrimination more than they value not being perceived to be assholes, that's nice :D