Gas prices suck!!!!

gR3yWolf said:

It's always been about the profit; otherwise, what's the use? No one wants to admit it, but if YOU were sitting on all that oil, and you stood to make a handsome, even outlandish or obscene profit, would you sell it for less? It's about supply and demand plain and simple. Now, if you're doing illegal things to corner the market or engage in other unfair practices, then that's a different story.

Invent or discover some other fuel that contains the same amount of energy in as small a package, that is easy to transport and distribute and relatively safe to store at a similar price and you can give it away for free or at a really low price.

I am not defending the energy business, or am I attacking it. It's done a pretty good job of providing cheap oil. In fact, adjusted for inflation, gasoline is still a cheap bargain.

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scot in exile said:

At Maggie Valley I will be the keeper of everyones bike keys at night time just to make sure that no one syphons any petrol from the tanks.
Please have them filled up before you park them for the night.

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dracul said:

Big Oil has more than its share of horrific skeletons in its collective closet to hide from public view. The Gulf of Mexico debacle is but one of several examples of oil industry malfeasance over many decades.

It's also a limited and inexorably dwindling resource that will eventually be expended. End of story. Other means of energy production must be explored and exploited in the predictable future. We cannot continue to exhaust this FINITE resource in so profligate a manner without thought of consequences long term. There WILL come a day when the shortages will become actual, not manufactured by some jaded marketing firm hyper-promoting product.

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scot in exile said:

I have to laugh my ass off when people will spend $5 on a cup of java and $3 on a bottle of water and then complain about petrol being 3-4dollars a gal.
Look at what it takes to make petrol it is no easy job I think we getting it for far less than what we should be.

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