Gasoline May 19

by Schizm 34 Replies latest jw friends

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  donkey

  Get a clue. The oil companies (as in gasoline) are not the issue. One way to prove this is to look at the price increases of the physical commodity (crude oil) vs the stock prices of the oil companies. Sure the oil companies have increased in price but normally when a commodity increases the companies who refactor or deliver the commodity rise exponentially in comparison. Then look at issues like those reported by RD/Shell and the understatement of reserves and you start to understand the gas companies have issues with the price too.

  I have posted quite a few posts on Peak Oil in the past and was dutifully scorned. Guess the last laugh is with the person who recognized the issue and has ridden it to the bank
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  little witch

  Donkey,

  I would have paid more attention to your comment had it not started with "get a clue".

  Why is it necessary to insinuate someone is stupid over such a thing? That is very insulting and unwarrented IMO.
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  donkey

  Witch,
  

  Sorry - it's not personal.

  But why are corporations automatically blamed for every probelm that ever befalls anyone? That too is offensive and unwarranted - but they are always easy targets aren't they? There was plenty of warning about this posted by me a while back. My comments in this thread are not directed at you - just all the whiners in general. If they had paid attention they could have made enough money to pay for gas for years already - oil has moved 7 dollars higher than when I posed the first thread on this in early March (each futures contract costs $3,375 per contract and each penny oil has moved up is 10 dollars in your pocket or against you...the rest of the math is up to you). When I posted regarding the issue most (with 2 exceptions who were interested) chose to tell me to "get a clue" and called me a conspiracy theorist etc.

  Sometimes a donkey can be right.
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  Kenneson

  For this to work, I think we would have to be consistent and each driver use less gas for a long period of time. And that would mean using the vehicle only when essentially necessary--no extra curricular activities. I don't know if we're ready for that type of sacrifice yet.
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  donkey

  Make money not war.
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  wasasister

  I'll do my part, but not by participating in some bogus e-mail chain letter. Not buying gas on a particular day will do nothing to lower consumption.

  I relocated my work 13 miles closer to my home. This time of year, I can walk to and from in favorable weather, and I do. We consolidate trips to the store and pick movies near the house instead of the theater we prefer farther away. I keep my fuel efficient car tuned up and the tires properly inflated. I pay a guy to cut my lawn with an electric mower.

  I have to laugh at Americans who will listen to a chain e-mail to "defeat the oil companies" and yet buy a new SUV. Just doesn't add up.*

  Wasa

  *Disclaimer: this last comment was not directed at anyone on this board or on this thread, but at the USA population in general.
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  donkey

  Please keep complaining about the price of gasoline and oil....it drives the price up more.
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  DIM

  To be honest, the price of gas doesn't really bother me.....its nice when its cheap, but its not that much more when its not.....5 bucks here, 10 bucks there....milk is more expensive.
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  Tatiana

  I listened to you, donkey.

  Has anyone noticed the pattern? Every few years, gas goes up. But each time, it goes up a little more. We are being conditioned. Gas prices rise to $1.30 per gallon, and people pay it for a while until they get angry, protest, write their congressmen and women, or refuse to buy gas. Gas prices go down to something reasonable. Say, $1.20 per gallon. Just under what made everyone say..."ENOUGH!"

  The masses are happy. Life goes on.

  Two years later, OMG...there's an oil shortage. Gas goes up to $1.50 per gallon. We accept that. Buy gas. Drive, drive, drive. Gas supposedly "peaks" at $1.70 per gallon. People protest. Stop buying so much gas. Buy smaller cars. Oh...someone listens. Gas drops to an astounding low price of $1.60 per gallon.

  The masses are happy. Cars drive on.

  What an outrage!!! Gas is $2.05.9 per gallon!!!!!!!!!!!

  We are furious!!!! How could they????? What do they take us for???? Idiots?????

  We won't take this sh**!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We demand an explanation!!!!! We will write the papers.

  Two weeks from now, gas DROPS to an unbelievably low price of $1.80 per gallon.

  The masses are happy. The conditioning goes on and on................................................
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  Princess

  *Disclaimer: this last comment was not directed at anyone on this board or on this thread, but at the USA population in general.

  LMAO