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Posted by Blackbeard on June 26, 2007 at 3:30:24 pm EDT
In reply to E-85 posted by Blackbeard on June 13, 2007 at 6:21:32 am EDT

My problem with all of this boils down to two situations.

Firstly, the profits thing is out of hand. I have heard the supply-and-demand cause and effect so much, I could vomit. Crude oil prices go up, and so do pump prices. Crude oil prices go down, and slowly do the pump prices drop. But still I imagine there are other industries that run low on raw materials and as the price of that raw material goes up, the particular industry makes less because they can't pass on the cost in such an immediate, monopolistic way. Here in my state, there is an association for gas station owners, and imagine this - they all raise their prices the same amount at the same time, regardless of major company affiliation. Independent owners are nearly non-existent, and most of the stations are company owned. Smacks of the old company stores the coal owners used to have. Gasoline is a necessity in the USA, so demand will always be there, and I imagine it is pretty constants seasonally.

The second, and most important, problem I see with all this still seems to be that we are allowing this to happen. Not that the oil company is making any profit, that resources are getting scarce, that the sun only shines in the daytime, that corn give us gas, whatever. It's that we, as Americans, or wherever you live, are not developing a replacement to cure all of this. I stated once before how amazed I was all through the 60s when we put a man on the moon. We didn't have the technology originally to do that, but we found a way. And as I researched what we used, the primitive computers, the basic knowledge all tied together to make this happen, and the huge amount of luck, I still am amazed even more. Where is this drive today? Why are we letting all of this happen to our pocketbooks, our environment, our conscience, and whatever else it affects?

Blackbeard

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