Alternative Power sources - Re: Gasoline price gouging

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Re: Gasoline price gouging

SFTVratings

2007-05-23, 5:25 pm

On May 23, 1:42 pm, Alex Terrell <alexterr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 23 May, 06:00, Dan Bloomquist <publi...@lakeweb.com> wrote:
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If you think gas prices are bad, take a look at your tax bill (ALL
taxes, including electric tax, gas tax, sales tax, phone tax, propety
tax, school tax, cellphone tax, et cetera). The average person pays
between $15,000 and $20,000 taxes. Enough to buy a brand-new car
every year.

Gases are only $1000-$2000..... only one-tenth as large as the tax
bill.

Nomen Nescio

2007-05-24, 9:25 am

On 23 May 2007, SFTVratings <SFTVratings_troy@yahoo.com> wrote:
>On May 23, 1:42 pm, Alex Terrell <alexterr...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>If you think gas prices are bad, take a look at your tax bill (ALL
>taxes, including electric tax, gas tax, sales tax, phone tax, propety
>tax, school tax, cellphone tax, et cetera). The average person pays
>between $15,000 and $20,000 taxes. Enough to buy a brand-new car
>every year.
>
>Gases are only $1000-$2000..... only one-tenth as large as the tax
>bill.

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If fossil fuel prices were to double or triple between now and
the 2008 election, the price of everything else shall assuredly
double, triple, or quadruple, too, since the cost of everything
is always passed along to the consumer--until the law of supply
and demand kicks in, putting the kibosh on all the profiteering
and price-gouging going on.

But until customers stop paying the premium price for gasoline,
etc., the oil cartels are not motivated to cut prices, but are
instead motivated to keep raising prices further, until all of
the suckers -- those who'd pay $100 a gallon -- are weeded out.

Furthermore, because most of the world's economy is oil-driven,
some nuclear-driven, with smatterings of wind-power, solar etc.,
if the U.S. Government loses control over the price of gasoline
and other fuels, the whole economy of the USA, and assuredly of
the entire inhabited earth, is in deadly-serious jeopardy...

And that's the monkey on the oil companies' collective back, is
the fact that they don't (entirely) control the U.S. Military's
nuclear arsenal, and the fact that other major corporations are
not as profitable when the cost of energy goes through the roof.

Like the song says Lawyers, Guns and Money--and not necessarily
in that order. Until these are collectively brought to bear on
those who greatly profit at everyone else's great expense, then
rest assured, the balance of the powers that be could influence
the profiteers, but only where the value of money has fallen to
the point where the cost of inaction exceeds the cost of action.

Your mileage may vary,
Daniel Joseph Min
http://www.2hot2cool.com/11/danieljosephmin/

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2007-05-29, 9:25 am

>>> > >>As of yesterday, gas prices are the highest in U.S. history-we just
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> If fossil fuel prices were to double or triple between now and
> the 2008 election, the price of everything else shall assuredly
> double, triple, or quadruple, too, since the cost of everything
> is always passed along to the consumer--until the law of supply
> and demand kicks in, putting the kibosh on all the profiteering
> and price-gouging going on.
>
> But until customers stop paying the premium price for gasoline,
> etc., the oil cartels are not motivated to cut prices, but are
> instead motivated to keep raising prices further, until all of
> the suckers -- those who'd pay $100 a gallon -- are weeded out.
>
> Furthermore, because most of the world's economy is oil-driven,
> some nuclear-driven, with smatterings of wind-power, solar etc.,
> if the U.S. Government loses control over the price of gasoline
> and other fuels, the whole economy of the USA, and assuredly of
> the entire inhabited earth, is in deadly-serious jeopardy...
>
> And that's the monkey on the oil companies' collective back, is
> the fact that they don't (entirely) control the U.S. Military's
> nuclear arsenal, and the fact that other major corporations are
> not as profitable when the cost of energy goes through the roof.
>
> Like the song says Lawyers, Guns and Money--and not necessarily
> in that order. Until these are collectively brought to bear on
> those who greatly profit at everyone else's great expense, then
> rest assured, the balance of the powers that be could influence
> the profiteers, but only where the value of money has fallen to
> the point where the cost of inaction exceeds the cost of action.

I find your msg a little funny. First off you clearly point out that the
price of gas has a lot to do with people buying it (you leave out the world
supply and demand, think China and India). Then later own you blame the
companies who are doing nothing more than making money supplying a product
at a price people are willing to buy.

Let me guess you think Wal Mart is a bad company because it is supplying so
many people with products they want at a price they are willing to pay.

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