Check the profits for the next quarter for the oil companies it's not the
law of supply and demand. It's the law of gouge and squeeze then put
consumer (pardon the pun) over the barrel and have at it. If it was supply
and demand the there would be varing prices at the pump. But instead all the
stations increase to the same price within 20 minutes. We here in Canada are
paying taxes on taxes on gas and every time the price of gass goes up so
does the amount to the government in taxes. When was the last time you or I
received a tax break, when was the last time the big oil companies received
one?

Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay Maynard" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: The big oil companies - shame on you!


> On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 05:06:50PM -0300, Gary Nolan wrote:
>> On my way to work this morning  gas was 1.10/liter on the way home its
>> was
>> 1.19/liter and they are talking 20 cents per liter jump by the end of the
>> week on the radio. The Canadian and US govenments don't have the guts to
>> stand up to the oil companies. Why vote we don't run the country the big
>> companies do.
>
> What are the governments supposed to do, repeal the law of supply and
> demand? The price is going up because a big chunk of the supply has
> suddenly
> gone offline, and won't be back for some months. If you try to artifically
> hold prices down, you'll simply run the oil companies out of business -
> for
> they're facing the same squeeze: their supplies have suddenly shrank as
> well, and they can't tell the governments of Venezuela and Saudi Arabia
> "no,
> we won't pay that".
>
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