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GAS PRISES!
Posted on 03/28/2004 6:55:23 PM PST by danamco
Help us and join the crowd to force the big oil companies to lower the gas prices!!
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To: danamco
(If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. (But I am .... so trust me on this one.) must not be a very good one if you can't keep track of your parentheses.
To: danamco
Those gas prises do stink, now that I think about it.
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posted on
03/28/2004 11:07:09 PM PST
by
HitmanLV
(I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.)
To: danamco
$3.00? We're the heck do you live?
I've heard this scenario since 1975. It's never happened.
Just adjust your spending. Let's say you use a full tank of gas a week (vast majority don't). At an average of about 15 gallons per tank, an increase of 50 cents a gallon from the $1.35 average last winter is $32.50 a month.
That's 8 movie rentals. One night out eating for two in a moderately priced restaurant. About 8 beers in a bar. One less BJ from a hooker, etc.
Sure, the price of other things go up but not at the same percentage. A 45% increase in gas prices doesn't make the price of delivered goods go up 45%.
And why hurt Exxon and Mobil and other gas companies? They are GOUGING you...it's supply and demand. They are just passing on their higher cost of crude. And in the summer you have more and more states that require re-formulation of gasoline for "environmental concerns" that raise the price. The margin of profit is low on a gallon of gas and your boycott only hurts your local sales outlet.
If you really want to whine about the price why don't you go after the real reason gas prices are so high - STATE AND FEDERAL GAS TAXES!
Check out your state's Transportation departments. You'll find they have surplus money invested in funds like in Tenn. The governments take in MORE than is required for the maintenance of roads. That's a fact.
So write your state legislatures, your Governor, your Congressional delegation and the President and ask them to stop taxing gas for a few months. At the national average of $1.80 a gallon today, almost 60% of that price is TAX!
Your solution is, sorry to say, ridiculous. You can't effect the price of gas going after Exxon and Mobil.
If you are paying $1.97 you need to ask how much of that is tax in your state and then ask how much of that is because of environmental bullcrap issues you states forces on the oil companies.
Why is everyone always quick to blame capitalism instead of the real cause - GOVERNMENT? Only liberals and idiots do that. Are you a liberal idiot? I bet you don't think so.
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posted on
03/28/2004 11:08:22 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(Ðíé F£éðérmáú§ ^;;^ says, "I give Dick Clarke's American Grandstand a 39...you can't dance to it.")
To: RBroadfoot
Great work!
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posted on
03/28/2004 11:09:59 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(Ðíé F£éðérmáú§ ^;;^ says, "I give Dick Clarke's American Grandstand a 39...you can't dance to it.")
To: Monty22
It's called volume sales. You should be fired. Glad you hate capitalism. Hope you like living under President Kerry after you vote for him.
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posted on
03/28/2004 11:11:10 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(Ðíé F£éðérmáú§ ^;;^ says, "I give Dick Clarke's American Grandstand a 39...you can't dance to it.")
To: danamco
I'll make it easy for you....
C-O-M-P-E-T-I-T-I-O-N
Here's something over you head...gasoline has a high elasticity of demand. A small change in the price will change the consumer's behavior. Thus, if the guy across the street is willing to lose 1 cent on a gallon sale in profit, you either follow suit or lose your entire 4-5 cents per gallon of profit.
This is why you can drive anywhere in a five mile radius of a community and not find the price of gas different by more than a penny here or there.
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posted on
03/28/2004 11:15:35 PM PST
by
Fledermaus
(Ðíé F£éðérmáú§ ^;;^ says, "I give Dick Clarke's American Grandstand a 39...you can't dance to it.")
To: danamco
Dude, that boycott won't do jack.
If you want to put a crimp in gas prices and demand just get everyone you know to make sure their tires are inflated properly, knock 5mph off their speed, bunch trips, etc......
To: Fledermaus
I don't hate it at all, but I am aware of what's going on. Get a grip.
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posted on
03/29/2004 4:15:57 AM PST
by
Monty22
To: RightWhale
OK--posted to my BB and sent to my address book!
Semper Fidelis
Dick Gaines
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posted on
03/29/2004 10:29:15 AM PST
by
gunnyg
To: gunnyg
Can't iomagine why someone would bookmark my dour prediction, but it isn't mine anyway. The source is a theory called Peak Oil, for which there are quite a number of links on the Internet. Search on Peak Oil. Is there anything to it, or are they just blowing smoke?
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posted on
03/29/2004 10:52:59 AM PST
by
RightWhale
(Theorems link concepts; proofs establish links)
To: cyborg
Does your friend sit up and beg?:)
To: Charles Henrickson
To "prise" is to exert force through leverage and purchase.
To: Old Professer
LOL!!!
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posted on
03/29/2004 11:23:38 AM PST
by
cyborg
(troll on a stick)
To: danamco
If you don't understand how we can reach 300 million and all you have to do is send this to 10 people.... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician. (But I am .... so trust me on this one.) Having double-checked your bill when you stayed at Holiday Inn Express doesn't make you a mathematician, let alone an economist.
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posted on
03/29/2004 11:25:46 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Howard, we hardly knew ye. Not that we're complaining, mind you...)
To: cyborg
I get piggyback rides to work.
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posted on
03/29/2004 11:27:37 AM PST
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: avg_freeper
:-)
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posted on
03/29/2004 11:29:46 AM PST
by
cyborg
(troll on a stick)
To: avg_freeper
Wasn't that phrase originally, "pick-a-back?"
To: Old Professer
Wasn't that phrase originally, "pick-a-back?" I don't know. I asked the pig but he's not talking.
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posted on
03/29/2004 11:38:35 AM PST
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: danamco
Buwahahahah
We don't have to refuse to buy gas! Just refuse to buy from the big gas companies (are there any small ones?)
I know that somebody here more resourceful than I can come up with the statistic that allowing for inflation, gas prices have actually dropped or stayed the same (one or the other, I don't know which) over the last 20 yrs. Milk on the other hand has not. So are we all going to boycott Marva Maid, or what ?
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posted on
03/29/2004 11:43:20 AM PST
by
BSunday
To: greenwolf
Park that van or suv unless you're doing something you actually need it for.You mean like driving it places ?
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posted on
03/29/2004 11:44:09 AM PST
by
BSunday
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