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About Those "Skyrocketing" Gas Prices
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| Thursday, May 31, 2007
| Larry Elder
Posted on 05/31/2007 3:41:52 AM PDT by IrishMike
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To: IrishMike
One day a few weeks back, milk jumped 50 cents a gallon. Just what we needed ... an udder problem.
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posted on
05/31/2007 8:30:09 AM PDT
by
TheRightGuy
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To: mysterio
I mentioned the milk in passing, just to gage what would be the outcry if gasoline went up 50 cent over night.
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posted on
05/31/2007 8:32:06 AM PDT
by
IrishMike
( What happens when aliens breed with sheep ? - Democrats)
To: Alberta's Child
Unleaded $3.02.....Diesel $2.48 here....
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posted on
05/31/2007 8:36:33 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Anyone can call themselves a Christian....................)
To: TheRightGuy
One day a few weeks back, milk jumped 50 cents a gallon.
Just what we needed ... an udder problem.
I get (t)it
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posted on
05/31/2007 8:38:44 AM PDT
by
IrishMike
( What happens when aliens breed with sheep ? - Democrats)
To: DaGman
Oil industry apologists have their hands full justifying the gouging these days.Tell me the profit margin of XOM, COP, BP, etc...etc.
Then after you look that up...tell me the profit margin of MSFT, GOOG, PLL..etc.
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posted on
05/31/2007 8:39:36 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Anyone can call themselves a Christian....................)
To: Dan Evans
126
posted on
05/31/2007 8:43:12 AM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rodgers)
To: Dan Evans
Read the post again.....I was referring to gouging (extreme profiting). If only a few companies made aspirin and they took the price to $2 a pill, I can only hope you would have a problem with that.
Gas and oil is necessary.....Google is not. And gas and oil is run by an OLIGOPOLY, not a true free market where anyone can come and sell their wares, contrary to what you will hear from the apologists on these threads.
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posted on
05/31/2007 8:45:58 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
To: Clam Digger
Actually, it is a balance between economics, housing availability, housing affordability and desire.
Desire is a distant fourth right now.
BTW, Quite a few of the Amish (like the guy that just made my kitchen cabinets) use gas. His son is not Amish, but drives his dad around.
Also, they use diesel. They have a diesel powered copier (no joke, I’ve seen it).
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posted on
05/31/2007 8:45:59 AM PDT
by
sauropod
("An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." Ernest Hemingway)
To: mysterio
How so, when prefaced as a lifestyle option. Nobdy 100 years ago really needed it. We’ve just changed our lifestyle because it was so cheap and easy to get all these years.
To: kellynla
Are they posted prominently at the pump? Betcha they are not. Why do you suppose that is?
To: ClaireSolt
Who’s asking for a “gas fairy?”
I merely stated what my economic realities are.
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posted on
05/31/2007 8:52:57 AM PDT
by
sauropod
("An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." Ernest Hemingway)
To: eccentric
I feel your pain LOL!
Amazing how many people on this thread are criticizing your and my choices/circumstances w/o offering any solutions, or in one case, suggesting that I want a “gas fairy”
ROFL!
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posted on
05/31/2007 8:54:31 AM PDT
by
sauropod
("An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." Ernest Hemingway)
To: PEACE ENFORCER
You forgot part of the equation.
Government’s rapacious desire for tax revenue is also a “demand” that raises the price of gas.
As does eco-fascist DemocRat regulations.
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posted on
05/31/2007 8:56:00 AM PDT
by
sauropod
("An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." Ernest Hemingway)
To: Clam Digger
Because the cheap gas led to most work centralizing in the largest urban areas. Many of us don't live in those urban areas and have to drive to them to work. We couldn't all move there, since there's not enough room, and many of us couldn't afford to live across the street from our jobs anyway. And it would take decades of high gas prices to move the jobs back to the small towns. So we have to buy gas to get to work.
I'm not sure why this is a difficult concept to understand.
To: mysterio
b/c some people are economically ignorant.
Most of the American populace is.
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posted on
05/31/2007 8:58:58 AM PDT
by
sauropod
("An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools." Ernest Hemingway)
To: Clam Digger
Re: Very few people truly NEED to buy gas. Most of us have made our lifestyles such that we THINK we NEED to buy gas. You have got to be joking!
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:05:58 AM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
To: IrishMike
well, that $.59 actually goes to providing and maintaining all of the roads and bridges in that state, which is very costly in such a seismically active state
if you don’t have gasoline taxes, you don’t have roads, and then the need for gasoline dries up
To: DaGman
Why don’t you invest in oil companies and get a cut of those “obscene profits” that result from all that “gouging”?
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:13:54 AM PDT
by
itsamelman
(Announcing your plans is a good way to hear God laugh. - - Al Swearengen)
To: sauropod
Very True.......But then you would have to call it “Tax Gouging” we can’t have that now can we?????? /sarc off/
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:25:20 AM PDT
by
PEACE ENFORCER
(Liberals; Some People That Are ONLY Alive Because It's Illegal To SHOOT THEM !!)
To: Freedom4US
I understand it is unlawful to break down the various costs and taxes associated with gasoline, at least at the pump, in at least some states. Think about that. Some states require it.
http://www.azleg.state.az.us/legtext/42leg/1r/bills/sb1171s.htm
I know I have seen it on some pumps. Not in Alaska where I currently live however.
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posted on
05/31/2007 9:26:54 AM PDT
by
thackney
(life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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