My problem is the same as a trucker who is trying to make a living.
No one should have the right to reach into my wallet and yank out my money just because he CAN. I feel like such a fool for needing to work and gasoline has taken a 300% rise on only two years or so.
The cost of production hasn't risen that much.
And to boot, the domestic companies own the drilling, production, refining and probably the distribution facilities!
Of course they can bitch about having to pay themselves more for the price of running their trucks.
All of it is BS!
Wish I knew where so many of you all are getting this incorrect factoid that the "cost of production hasn't risen much". Where is that coming from?
There are many small domestic companies that don't own the refineries...But the larger one are now International companies...And the Arabs who sell the crude own a pretty large share of what we perceive as American Companies...
And you, I or anyone else will probably never again see an independently owned gas station...