I think that even if you do away with everything that the CEO makes it still makes no difference in the price of anything. For example if you took every Oil companies CEO's pay and put it in a fund to reduce the price of gas, gas would not fall 1 cent.
I thought it was just school choice. I went to private school my entire life, I really do not know much about public schools.
It was because oil shale mining is not the most environmentally friendly and the drillers lost that battle.
Also, has been estimated that with the technology we had previously oil would have to go as high as $400 a barrel to make it competitive. Shell has new tech that they estimate can make it competitive at $130 dollars. Still not a good return.
I do not think that there is much risk of this given what people are seeing now. People will openly support alternative development, they just want and need short term relief.
The surge has already ended. All combat soldiers who were sent in for the surge have left Iraq.
I still interpret his actions as playing politics in Iraq. He wants us to leave, but behind the scenes still wants us to stay to ensure safety.
