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Author Re: Gasoline price gouging
bill

2007-05-24, 1:25 pm

On May 24, 10:58 am, copperhead <copperhead...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> On May 23, 5:25 pm, Broderick Crawford >
>
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> Oh please. It has nothing to do with environmentalists. Nobody has
> built a new refinery for 30 years. They've been closing them. In
> fact, Exxon is currently shutting down parts of its refinery
> operations in Baton Rouge (where, by the way gas prices are HIGHER
> than further out from the refinery).
>
> They know it's over. They're just trying to squeeze all they can out
> of us while they can. The media credits the rise in prices to supply
> and demand, and that's just crap. They raise and lower prices
> arbitrarily and continue to make record profits because they know
> there's not much left, and they haven't had time to find anlternate
> ways to make a buck. But don't worry, they will. And then we'll pay
> for that.
>
> Probably Helium Three mined from the moon to run fusion reactors.



OTOH, they could be planning ahead for peak oil. if it is
imminent, then investing more capital in new refineries would be
beyond stupid.

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