if general patton hadn't been killed at the end of world war 2, we would have done something against the russians before they were able to mount up as the ussr. Our efforts might not have been effective, but we still would have taken some. Instead we locked ourselves into a retarded ~50 year stalemate. Today we can do something about china, and we really need to.
**if canada has so much oil to export, why are their gas prices more heinous than metropolitan US areas?
canada was a cool country, from what little I have seen, but as a canadian said, they are America's Attic, so why are the people living upstairs selling goods to the enemy? Why are we letting them build a pipeline? Everyone knows that the Western Hemisphere is America's Playground. The world police need to halt this pipeline.
More seriously (that was sarcasm) why are we supporting china with massive consumer moneypots like Survivor? Cheap labor is understandable--though not agreeable--but doing as much as we can with china is retarded.
They claim that there aren't enough refineries, so that is why we have an oil "shortage". We can't build any more refineries, because of lame NIMBYs. Same goes for power plants. California will go back to the stone age with massive blackouts in due time if they don't get an infusion into our backassward power grid system, but the hippie environmentalists would rather have than than build a clean plant....likewise, they (and others) would rather have us become beggars due to the gas pump than to build a refinery. It's not as clean as a nuke plant, but who cares? It is a necessary evil. NIMBYs need to get a foot up the ass, get knocked off their high horse, and see that their petty nonsense is screwing everyone over. Controlled violence IS the answer.
We also need to start grabbing our own oil. We have alaska, and we have the ocean. Both are being protected by environmentalists, but it is time we made a choice. Alaska is pretty cool, but the ocean? Who cares about deep sea drilling? Let's get it on. It's a lot less costly to drill the seabed than to take over Mexico/Venezuela, the next closest oil bonanzas. We do have the right to pick a little fight, but why do that when you don't have to--controlled violence
On a tangent, why is it that everyone gets riled up against UPS when it comes to shipping? Why are you posting only UPS profits? The USPS is NOT a government agency anymore, so you can post profits and insight against them as well. No one ever delivers hatred to FedEx, though I personally have never gotten a package that didn't arrive on my doorstep utterly ravaged from them, and no one even remembers DHL...not that they are any better. Caymen makes a good point--companies obviously need to make profit to stay in business. The fact that UPS is making a profit, against rising fuel costs, is a good thing as it means that they aren't going anywhere. Yet everyone condemns them for it. It's not like the profit just sits in a bank where the chars of the board go swimming in it in a vault...it is applied back to the company for expansion and the like. (Sure, some gets syphoned off, but that happens everywhere)
UPS has minimal outsourcing--you should be giving them props for that.....but instead you condemn them for making a profit...and that profit is rather puny for a company so massive. To ups, the profit which I infer you are saying is glaring is actually chump change.
