Lies, Lies and Oil Articles / United States Date: Jul 16, 2008 - 03:40 PM |
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Have you noticed that as soon as the price of a barrel of crude oil goes up in price, there's a comensurate increase in the cost of gasoline at your local station, too? Even though the gas is already in the ground, even though it was already paid for by the station owner at a prior price, even though the gas station attendant had to dutifully change the prices on their signage to reflect the latest gouging they're gonna extract from your wallet or pocketbook, the price goes up immediately. Now, I understand that the price of crude's dropped about $10 per barrel over the past few days. Funny, I haven't seen a commensurate drop in the price of a gallon of gas at the pumps. What's going on? If the economy is in such a down-spiral, why the heck isn't the intelligencia of the country pouncing all over the oil companies to "pass the savings" on to the folks who are digging ever deeper into their pockets to afford gas for transporation? This could be a golden opportunity for some elected official to go to the head of the class and hold the feet of those damn oil company executives to the fire until they cry uncle? Are they all blind? |
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