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As a child I was always very interested in Buddhism. My best friend was Chinese and her family was Buddhist. But because of my lack of understanding of the language, and my total understanding of the culture. I thought that a lot of westerners calling themselves "Buddhist" were inauthentic, and were actually running away from what they were embracing. So I found the same mystical part of my own religion (Roman Catholicism) and have been very happy.

Is being authentic important? How can everyone *really* be buddhist?>

posted 4 years, 7 months ago
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Again, we hear the same mumbled economic explanation for high gas profits from the mouths of Republicans, and this time from a Stanford Professor.
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But this is NOT the complete answer--it is not simply an issue of supply and demand. The oil companies keep feeding us this, and it is time to call them on it. Because it is not just an issue of increased demand.

Increased demand, partnered with an artificial limit of supply (closing down of oil refineries, putting all the money into profits and not development) leads to higher gas prices. But the oil companies could increase refining capacity and put more money into developing new technologies.

But they won't as long as we have gov't officials handing them land and resources that belong to US, THE PEOPLE.

So, please, the next time someone tries to pull the supply and demand wool over your eyes, you must ask harder questions and really press them in it.

If a business shifts all of its earnings into profits, it is running a very short-sighted business. That is their problem, not our nations, not we the people who are not shareholders.

Drilling the oil now will not benefit us for at least 10 years--and it will take more energy to get the oil out of the ground then you will actually get. This is just a hand off to big oil, it has nothing to do with helping out average Americans (unless of course they own some stock in an oil company).

Plus, the oil will only become more valuable as time goes on.

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