Sticker Shock-$3 a gallon gas? Click the picture:
Posted on 09/12/2005 2:38:19 AM PDT by Crackingham
The biggest shock is that Bubba gets it. He needs to have a talk with Maria Cantwell (she's introducing a bill that will allow the president to put caps on gasoline.)
The oil industry is operated by a few and supply and demand is just a fraudulent facade used by all politicians to hide the dire position this country is in regarding oil.
Gosh, Jeff, did you have to use Clinton to make your point?
"WTF" describes it pretty accurately. I had that graphic, but after a while the host pulled it. Ingrate!
I got it in an email
and hosted it myself
so feel free to use it.
Why, thanks-- let's give it a try:
Sticker Shock-$3 a gallon gas? Click the picture:
Works for me
I really have issue with all of this gasoline price gouging. I understand free market, I agree with supply and demand. I work in the blood industry.. So to put this into perspective. Let's say we have a decline in blood products... happens every day somewhere. Lets start charging triple for that blood for all those open hearters and infant transfusions.
Won't happen because we aren't allowed. I don't understand why we cant charge triple for O Neg. And those units which are free of specific common antibodies, man our entire organization could get raises and own beachfront Mcmansions.
I wouldn't want to be a part of something as horrid as that.
People, gasoline is critical for everything we do as a nation. It should be self regulated like we regulate blood.
You can rest assured that we won't ever tell you or your family "sorry we are short on that today, tanks are out, manufacturing capacity is short today because the lab had a major equipment failure."
Why is oil any different?
Remember that next time you meet someone who had a bypass.
And you can flame me till u think I am toast... I am tougher than that so its just a waste of your time.
"We don't have any blood for you today, but at least it's the same price as it was yesterday"
Having said that: here in Britain we give blood: it isn't governed by market forces. I'm not saying that's a good thing, that's just the way it is here.
But nobody's forcing them to buy that house. I realise that no one is "forcing" me to buy gas either but if you want to work and eat, there's no choice. It's when the prices stay up for so long that it's an issue. And it isn't like this is the first time it's happened. If there wasn't such a well established history of known price gouging, people would be a lot less likely to suspect and accuse when it's legitimate.
Jill's house took years to triple in value. And there are plenty of other houses for prospective buyers to look at. Unlike the gas gouger, whose prices tripled OVERNIGHT, and who is "competing" with the station across the street, whose prices also tripled.
He's also been out of office for five years. If he were currently serving as an elected official, you can be damn sure that he'd be singing a different tune.
The comments by the New Jersey governor are perhaps the most bizarre of all. It is impossible for "one in four gas stations in New Jersey" to be gouging their customers. The state is so small and densely populated that I'd estimate that 99% of the population lives within a ten-minute drive of at least three stations. The 25% that are allegedly gouging their customers would be out of business in a week.
It's amazing after all the speculator hype we haven't run out yet? The difference in housing and gas is competition. If someone doesn't want to pay $300,000 for a house then go to another neighborhood where prices are $150,000. With gas the most competitive difference is about 2%.
Why is beef any different, why is milk any different, why is lumber any different, why is a brand new Harley any different?
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