There is an old saying that is used by business people that want themselves
and their vendors to stay in business,there are different versions of the
exact word but it essentialy says, 'Everyone get to eat'. Message being for
business to work everyone has to make a fair profit to stay in business.
Rather than complain about the any company making a reasonable profit, why
not be glad they did. otherwise it will be something else that gets shipped
offshore. American workers refined the fuel and delivered to the pumps and
sold it to you, be happy..
If you change vehicles or modify driving to eliminate useless trips by 25%
you are back to effect cost of fuel to under 2 bucks a gallon. If you drive
by the local school around here there is a herd of SUVs with a single driver
waiting to pick up 1 kid and the bus is there as well ready to drop them off
at home. You might argue it is safer that way except around here the
crimerate is zero for all pratical purposes. Sure seems like a lot of axels
turning over to get a few hundred kids home. I wonder if they ever talk
about car pooling anymore. Even shuting off the engine and rolling the
window down instead of running tha AC might be a start. Somehow I would
suspect that the price of gas was considered scandelous when it went from
0.25 to 0.30 per gallon..LOL Fuel oil and natural gas for heating is a
whole different thing in my book. I rather see the price of gas double if
necessary so people that walk ride the bus car pool etc. can still afford to
heat their house.
Dave
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-land-speed@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-land-speed@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of Thomas E. Bryant
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 7:13 PM
> To: Elon
> Cc: land-speed submit
> Subject: Re: There's something wrong here
>
>
> > Tom's remark above kind of infers that we are the bad
> > guys compared to the more "frugal" nations. US Gas prices are lower than
> > any other nation simply because of our taxing structure.
>
> Elon,
>
> Take a look at this...I realize this is Exxon's defense, but it is an
> interesting graph none the less.
> http://www.exxonmobil.com/Corporate/Files/Corporate/OpEdoilapples.pdf
>
> Being in business myself, I know that doubling of profits from the year
> before, can still be sub-standard. It could mean that you broke even this
> year. I know my net the last few years have been well below the nation
> average of 7.9%.
>
> Tom, Redding CA - #216 D/FCC
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