Sparky-Watts
Banned
"Sandwhich" or "Sammich"
In "recent" I meant in the last week or so when the prices busted the $2.20 mark, as that is what is supposed to have caused it. The Texaco fire was last month, and was already blamed for a $.30 hike in prices.
Oilman for President.....yeah.....that's where I'll lay my bet. Too much stock in oil companies to have congress do anything about the cost of fuel...and the rich get richer......
90xjay, you were definitely right when you said it wasn't the fault of the local gas station. All too many times, people think that's who sets the price of gasoline, and the poor towel-head inside takes the brunt of the anger. In fact, convenience stores make less than a penny per gallon of gas. Their profit comes from the soda, candy, and breakfast bagel you buy when you stop for gas. Now the convenience stores are hurting, because people are doing more carpooling, doing less driving, using less gas, so they are buying fewer day-old hotdogs from the back counter.
Back to the answer: Nobody can tell me that we're being opressed by OPEC. We've got more than enough of our own, and if our pres wasn't an oilman (along with half the senate and congress holding shares in it), the government would damn sure do something to bring the prices back down; it's been done before by another president (and I won't even mention who or what party because I don't want the same old tired debate). Suffice it to say, we are being bent over a barrel and pummelled in the puckerhole.
In "recent" I meant in the last week or so when the prices busted the $2.20 mark, as that is what is supposed to have caused it. The Texaco fire was last month, and was already blamed for a $.30 hike in prices.
Oilman for President.....yeah.....that's where I'll lay my bet. Too much stock in oil companies to have congress do anything about the cost of fuel...and the rich get richer......
90xjay, you were definitely right when you said it wasn't the fault of the local gas station. All too many times, people think that's who sets the price of gasoline, and the poor towel-head inside takes the brunt of the anger. In fact, convenience stores make less than a penny per gallon of gas. Their profit comes from the soda, candy, and breakfast bagel you buy when you stop for gas. Now the convenience stores are hurting, because people are doing more carpooling, doing less driving, using less gas, so they are buying fewer day-old hotdogs from the back counter.
Back to the answer: Nobody can tell me that we're being opressed by OPEC. We've got more than enough of our own, and if our pres wasn't an oilman (along with half the senate and congress holding shares in it), the government would damn sure do something to bring the prices back down; it's been done before by another president (and I won't even mention who or what party because I don't want the same old tired debate). Suffice it to say, we are being bent over a barrel and pummelled in the puckerhole.
