| Author | Message | ||
     Paw |
Explain it to me i just do not understand why all gas stations are raising prices. BP is the company that is having the problem and will incur all the cost of the repair and clean up. But all companies are raising prices and it will not effect them seeing how they just have to sit back and watch BP do all the work for the leak stoppage and clean up. Wait now i know...It is another case of corporate greed!!! | ||
| Wolfridgerider |
Its driving season... they always go up in the summer.... plus corp. greed... What I don't understand is why didn't they drop when Obama said we could do more drilling? ... used to be.. if they just talked about drilling more the prices would drop. | ||
| B00stzx3 |
I blame George Bush/facebook/the google/rap music/sugar/liberal media | ||
| Hootowl |
Oil companies can't arbitrarily increase prices. The market sets the price. | ||
| Orman1649 |
"Oil companies can't arbitrarily increase prices. The market sets the price." HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH | ||
| Boogiman1981 |
hoot i wonder if you typed that with a straight face | ||
| No_rice |
i thought that was pretty good too! lmao | ||
| Hex |
At my last corporate sales job, my boss would tell me that we raise the price every year, and we know when we are close to maximum profits when the customer complains and still pays the bill. You bet gas consumers are going to pay for this spill. | ||
| Hootowl |
Oil is an internationally trade commodity. Chevron et al can't decide to raise the price by $3 simply by declaring it so. Gas prices go up in the summer. Every year. This year is no different. The title of this thread links the oil spill to the price hike, then posters go on to blame the greedy oil companies. BS. You want to blame someone, blame the people buying oil futures. | ||
| Strokizator |
What I don't understand is why didn't they drop when Obama said we could do more drilling? Could it be that nobody believed a word he said? He's already reneged on that promise. Didn't see it? It was on C-Span, wasn't it? | ||
| Paw |
Hey hootowl sounds like your in the oil/gas business...And not to mention uptight it was a joke about corporate. Shit dude take a chill pill and raise your gas prices some more...lol | ||
| Paw |
Time to file this post away it's already turn political and ruffled a couple feathers don't want anyone going postal. Ha Ha Ha | ||
| Pwnzor |
Our gas is cheap. I don't really see a problem. When it hits 8 or 9 bucks a gallon I'll start bitching.  | ||
| Hootowl |
I am not in the oil industry, I'm in the chemicals industry. In fact, my business hurts when feedstock prices are high. Natural gas is dirt cheap right now. We're sh*tting in high cotton. | ||
| Paw |
Pwnzor that is freaking hilarious. | ||
| Greg_e |
Hootowl has it right, it's the dipshits at the stock markets buying futures that dictate the price of raw crude. That would all stop if the gas refineries wouldn't pay the price for the futures and just let that tanker sit at port for a few weeks which costs mega bucks, that the problem with futures you are paying for something you don't have, and then hoping someone else will buy it. | ||
| Buellkowski |
You want to blame someone, blame the people buying oil futures. +1 | ||
| Cataract2 |
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| Just_ziptab |
Gas didn't always go up in "driving season". When I worked at a station,it was 32 to 35 cents a gallon for years. What changed? | ||
| Aesquire |
The oil futures market, Opec, The 1967 Arab Israeli war, transnational progressives, the 1973 Arab Israeli war, the Iranian Islamic revolution, the Global Warming scam, the concept that driving to work was a luxury that should be taxed, the Idea that taxing something will discourage it's use, ( while somehow ignoring that very concept when income from that tax drops as use goes down.... politicians as a species are frelled up ) The President of the United States's energy policy. ( don't care which one, pick on the ones you don't like, just don't bother telling us who, please. No, really, please. ) And, especially, the anti nuke hysteria that means we burn oil & natural gas to make electricity, instead of in cars & trucks. That will do for starters. | ||
| Stalker |
When was the last time a refinery was built in America? |
