Comments on: Hensarling: Don’t Let Airlines Play The Victim Card http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/07/31/hensarling-dont-let-airlines-play-the-victim-card/ FrontBurner® has been called the best blog in Dallas (repeatedly), a snarky celebration of ignorance, and a daily conversation about Dallas among the editors of D Magazine. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:22:31 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: amanda http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/07/31/hensarling-dont-let-airlines-play-the-victim-card/comment-page-1/#comment-38535 amanda Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:28:07 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=16053#comment-38535 Wick, did it? B/c of Iran alone? Or did the market top out? Or, or, or... Sure, tensions abound in the Mid East, but when in the last 500 years haven't they? The market gets the jitters over speculation (like Iran), but when since Ferdinand and Isabella did a reson NOT exist for similar turmoil, war and worry? I think we need both conservation and excavation, and let the market be. Wick, did it? B/c of Iran alone? Or did the market top out? Or, or, or…

Sure, tensions abound in the Mid East, but when in the last 500 years haven’t they? The market gets the jitters over speculation (like Iran), but when since Ferdinand and Isabella did a reson NOT exist for similar turmoil, war and worry?

I think we need both conservation and excavation, and let the market be.

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]]> By: amanda http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/07/31/hensarling-dont-let-airlines-play-the-victim-card/comment-page-1/#comment-38523 amanda Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:33:38 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=16053#comment-38523 I think we should plan to drill ANWR...just announcing it will drive prices down. Consumers will eventually adapt to other modes of transportation, but it will take 50 or so years. The president's speech was, when? Two weeks ago? And we've dropped 20 cents since. The perception we are become independent either through new technologies or natural reserves will help the consumer. Southwest Airlines = Brilliant. I think we should plan to drill ANWR…just announcing it will drive prices down. Consumers will eventually adapt to other modes of transportation, but it will take 50 or so years.

The president’s speech was, when? Two weeks ago? And we’ve dropped 20 cents since.

The perception we are become independent either through new technologies or natural reserves will help the consumer.

Southwest Airlines = Brilliant.

]]> By: Chris http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/07/31/hensarling-dont-let-airlines-play-the-victim-card/comment-page-1/#comment-38514 Chris Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:11:52 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=16053#comment-38514 Another look at the issue: http://www.reason.com/news/show/127738.html Apparently, when airlines buy oil futures on a bet that the prices will eventually go up, it's good business practice, but when people who don't happen to be the treasurers of airlines do the same thing, it's "rampant speculation" that "upsets the natural relationship between supply and demand." Another look at the issue:

http://www.reason.com/news/show/127738.html

Apparently, when airlines buy oil futures on a bet that the prices will eventually go up, it’s good business practice, but when people who don’t happen to be the treasurers of airlines do the same thing, it’s “rampant speculation” that “upsets the natural relationship between supply and demand.”

]]> By: j.d.w... http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/07/31/hensarling-dont-let-airlines-play-the-victim-card/comment-page-1/#comment-38509 j.d.w... Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:04:20 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=16053#comment-38509 "an actual increase in supply would cause prices to fall. " ...as would a decrease in demand... “an actual increase in supply would cause prices to fall. ”

…as would a decrease in demand…

]]> By: Doug http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/07/31/hensarling-dont-let-airlines-play-the-victim-card/comment-page-1/#comment-38508 Doug Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:03:06 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=16053#comment-38508 Your link is wrong, it goes to the Heritage Foundation, not National Review. Your link is wrong, it goes to the Heritage Foundation, not National Review.

]]> By: Ed http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/2008/07/31/hensarling-dont-let-airlines-play-the-victim-card/comment-page-1/#comment-38484 Ed Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:18:10 +0000 http://frontburner.dmagazine.com/?p=16053#comment-38484 You can't assume common sense will carry any weight to those predisposed to a contrary belief. You can’t assume common sense will carry any weight to those predisposed to a contrary belief.

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