Re: Blu-ray Numbers Too Low To Release

"JBDragon" <JBDragon at someplace dot com> wrote in message 
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>> On Sun, 11 May 2008 21:51:10 -0700, "JBDragon" <JBDragon at someplace
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>>>I agree with the Article.  I've been a long time HDTV owner, and own
over
>>>300 DVD Movies, not to mention TV Series Sets, and yet have ZERO
interest 
>>>is
>>>Blu-Ray.  I don't want SONY to have that control, you might as well
move
>>>into SONY LAND where they screw their customers over and over again,
and 
>>>yet
>>>keep doing it because Sony fanboy's have no Memory of past Sony screw 
>>>jobs.
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>>  Are you sure that you are not referring to American oil companies?
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> What does OIL have to do with SONY.  By the way, the US Government makes

> more money per Gallon of Oil in Taxes then the Oil Company!!!  Fact is
the 
> High costs of oil has to do with other Countries such as China that are 
> now require more and more  gas in Increasing numbers.

LOL, let's blame other countries for the US being the world's biggest 
consumer of energy. Sounds like you're one of the red state right wingers 
who think China should top letting people drive cars so we can still
afford 
to drive Hummers, etals. Thing is, many experts have warned of this going 
back to the 70s and we did nothing, except build more gas hogs and bow
down 
to the auto industries claim that redesigning vehicles to be more fuel 
efficient cars would cost to much (redesign the manufacturing process), 
except that Japan has been doing that for decades now. Well Toyota is now 
the largest auto maker in the US because of it fuel efficiency. How does 
that taste?

Oh by the way, the US has about 6% of the world's population, but consumes

25% of the energy the world uses in any given day. China has 4 times the 
population, you do the math.


> Then there's mainly the Democrats that don't want to drill for Oil in
the 
> US, because Our land is just so much more Valuable then Land is some
other 
> county.  We Im****t something like 80% of our Oil.  So we can't drill for

> Oil, we are burning Coal and Natural Gas in power plans, because we also

> can't have the Nuclear plans like France and other countries are also 
> almost exclusively using. 80% power over there and about 10% power over 
> hear.

LOL, even if we tap into those resources, you think that will drive down 
prices? It has been stated ad nauseam that there would only be about
enough 
resources to alleviate about 20% of the in****ts for about 3-5 years. Even
if 
they started building into those areas for drilling, it would be years
away.

You want nuclear (I bet you say nucular like Bush), go for it, because it 
has been estimated that the cost of storing the waste from those plants is

growing exponentially since the typical half-life of spent fuel rods is 
around 5000 years. There's only so much room to store those and it has
been 
estimated that within ten years, the cost of building
additional/maintaining 
those storage sites will be in the 10s of billions of dollars a year, at 
taxpayer expense, not the energy companies.


> We can't build Oil Refineries or expand them, even though we have more
and 
> more cars on the road, and one little thing and prices go up.   The Oil 
> companies WANT TO DRILL, THEY WANT TO BUILD REFINERIES, but the Eco 
> wacko's and the left wing want none of that.

Not true, they don't want to build them or upgrade because they say it
cost 
too much and they surely don't want to cut into those huge profits or even

slightly bother the shareholders. Note this, Exxon-Mobil posts record 
quarterly profit and last year they made over $40bil in net profits,
that's 
NET. Yet out of that they spent $100mil on alterantive resources of fuel
and 
technology; their execs got 3 times more than that in bonuses. Hell, at 
least Shell and BP have spent into the billions doing that. That is really

sad considering EM gave their last CEO a $450mil golden parachute, WTF!.

> Now it's kind of late!  If they started up for drilling at these new 
> locations, it'll be years before it has any effect.   Oh I'm sure it's 
> going to hit $5 for Regular this year the way prices keep going up. 
Next 
> year at the latest.

All this happened under the Bush economic era too. Lets' add this up:

- Bush reduces the environmental standards so we can be competitive in the

energy business, yet the prices has still skyrocketed at the expense of 
future generations to clean up.

- Tax reduction for the oil companies, without condition, and Exxon spent 
the fewest dollars on alternative fuel resources and none built more 
refineries to keep up with demand, while also the safety of existing
plants 
has falling drasticcally (note how many refineries blew up or cuaght fire 
over the past 4 years causing price increases). Why are we giving them tax

breaks in light of these profits?
Ever notice when prices star to drop, we have a refinery explosion, or
some 
strife in an oil producing country, which causes the price to shoot up 
again. It's to the point where a Saudi oil sheik could fart and the price
of 
a barrel of oil will go up a few bucks.

- The Congress bowing down to the auto industries over the years about the

expense of change, now they are falling apart because more and more people

are buying the cars they don't make.

- Of the top 20 industiralized nations, we have the smallest % of people
who 
use public trans****tation. 95% of the population drive to work instead of 
using other means. On top of this, the fact that we got ourselves into 
moving out of the cities made this inevitable (how economically pheasible
it 
is to build public trans****tation to outer areas of the suburbs?), urban 
sprawl has blossomed and gasoline usage skyrocketed because the we have 
essentially tripled our driving miles just going to work, which is what
97% 
of people use their vehicles for.

All you suggest is for the short term profits of the industry when they 
should be spending more of their earnings into alterantive resoruces of 
energy, and that's where they are going to have to make their money sooner

or later anyway.