Sometimes I think that government fits that old-fashioned definition of a baby: An alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
gas prices are all fixed I think . Summer is comeing and so will the 3 plus dollar a gallon gas
Alot of this is pure greed . Our goverment at work !
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One way we can hurt these oil company jerks, is by purchasing only gas from them. Of course they'd probably just raise gas prices. If I wasn't a motorhead, I'd probably drive a prius, just so all those SOBs wouldn't be getting as much of my money.
It's a shame that Stangbangin' puts money in oil's pocket..
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1992 Deep Emerald Green Mustang GT Hatch, 5 speed, 2.73s, Mac fenderwell cold air intake, '93 Cobra MAF, Mac 70mm throttle body & spacer, Explorer intakes, Mac unequal headers & offroad pipe, Magnaflow catback, Walbro 110lph fuel pump, Jet adjustable FPR, MSD Blaster coil, Accel 8mm wires, FRPP aluminum quadrant, UPR firewall adjuster, stock cable, Granatelli upper control arms.
Waiting to go on: Granatelli lower control arms, and GT40 Iron heads!
gas prices are all fixed I think . Summer is comeing and so will the 3 plus dollar a gallon gas
Alot of this is pure greed . Our goverment at work !
It is kind of funny how gas prices seem to drop around, say, Christmas when spending our money at retail stores and travelling (thereby spending more money along the way and, in the end, buying more gas and putting more money in oil companies' pockets) are being encouraged and we have a choice in whether or not to travel, spend that money, and so on. Mysteriously, prices seem to quickly go back up after the holidays when our travel - back and forth to work, etc. - is once again a necessity in which we have little choice.
Being originally from Houston, I know a lot of people who work for ExxonMobil and have numerous family members who work for them too. I wouldn't support a boycott of their products even if it would do anything, which it won't. ExxonMobil has over $65 bil in cash reserves that have not been allocated for ANYTHING. They make more money from their retail sales than they do from oil, natural gas, etc. It is probably the most diversely traded stock on the market. That means that when the company makes money, so do the stockholders. ExxonMobil employs 115,000 employees just in the Houston area, and the headquarters isn't even there; it is in Fairfax, VA.
Go ahead and be mad at the big bad corporations. But they are only doing what the stockholders want them to do: MAKE MORE MONEY. Your $100 bucks a week in gas means absolutely nothing to a company this size. Actually, if 10000 people quit giving Exxon their 100 bucks per week, that is $1mil per week, $52 mil per year. That is chump change to a company making $35 bil per year.
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1970 F100 - 10 bolt posi Rear end, Fuel Injected 302, Traction Bars, EQ shorties, Bed Cover, Custom Interior with power leather seats- custom dash/console, AOD w/ B&M shifter, Tubbed w/ 15x10s rear and 15x7s up front, no emissions junk and it's LEGAL!!!
"Only two defining forces have ever offerred to die for you: Je$us Christ and the American G.I." - Author Unknown
Go ahead and be mad at the big bad corporations. But they are only doing what the stockholders want them to do: MAKE MORE MONEY. Your $100 bucks a week in gas means absolutely nothing to a company this size. Actually, if 10000 people quit giving Exxon their 100 bucks per week, that is $1mil per week, $52 mil per year. That is chump change to a company making $35 bil per year.
Point taken, but... Let's just hypotheticly say that you, WITELITENIN, own the only apartment building in a town, and you collect rent from your tenants. Now if your costs go up $2000 in a year, you have to raise the rents. If you raised the rents $4000 that year, (distributed throughout all the units) and the tenants found out, don't you think they'd be pissed off?
Some sort of alternate fuel will have to be what it takes, to cause oil to have to compete, but of course, oil has the resources (and the propensity) to either quash, or get away with ripping off, any kind of competitive technology.
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1992 Deep Emerald Green Mustang GT Hatch, 5 speed, 2.73s, Mac fenderwell cold air intake, '93 Cobra MAF, Mac 70mm throttle body & spacer, Explorer intakes, Mac unequal headers & offroad pipe, Magnaflow catback, Walbro 110lph fuel pump, Jet adjustable FPR, MSD Blaster coil, Accel 8mm wires, FRPP aluminum quadrant, UPR firewall adjuster, stock cable, Granatelli upper control arms.
Waiting to go on: Granatelli lower control arms, and GT40 Iron heads!
Lazy or not...all we really have to do is stay away from Exxon and Mobile....here's some alternate gas stations I'm sure most of you have or heave heard of around your area...BP, Sunoco, Shell, Citco, and I'm sure everyone has a Sheetz. All we have to do is go to these ones only and stick to them...nothing lazy about it if you think about it. And from what I have seen in my area, most prices have frozen since they went up on Friday. Let's all just make an effort and we the consumers will come out on top.
Ignorance can make you stupid. Hell I can boycott Exxon and Mobile here by going to a Exxon or Mobile station, seeing as they get their stock from the Marathon/Ashland terminal. After all, Marathon/Ashland is the only bulk light oil terminal within a hundred miles of here. Now if you ask us, the forth largest city in Indiana to boycott Exxon and Mobile, we are already doing it, have been for decades. If you want us to boycott Marathon/Ashland, I guess we are just $hit out of luck, and we could just ride a flipping cow or something around.
These targeted boycotts cannot work because entire cities would have to not buy a single gallon of gas to hit select suppliers. And due to bulk oil trades between oil companies to cut transportation costs, the rest of the companies (not being boycotted) oil stocks would buoy the selected company's prices. It's kind of like trying to hurt Bridgestone by only buying Firestone tires.
