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Where's the outrage?

Discussion in 'Anything goes' started by slappy4428, May 23, 2007.

  1. Inky_Wretch

    Inky_Wretch Well-Known Member

    aka Big Oil buying up all the refineries and shutting them down, which is why we've gone from 20+ refineries a few years ago to just seven now.
     
  2. John

    John Well-Known Member

    Where do you buy shit milk? And why?
     
  3. slappy4428

    slappy4428 Active Member

    Goes down smoother than piss milk or puke milk... and already has natural coloring!
     
  4. dog428

    dog428 Active Member

    I love it when someone comes along and defends the oil companies, who are, honest to God, just trying to make a few honest dollars for a honest day's work, surely we can't deny them that in this free market where we're all just trying to get ahead day by day, making ends meet.

    It's such bullshit. There are laws in this country that prevent thousands upon thousands of other businesses and corporations from doing all the shit the oil companies have gotten away with over the past six years. Ask Microsoft about laws preventing monopolies. The shit Gates and Co. were doing didn't come CLOSE to the merging of two of the world's largest oil companies, who, between the two of them, just happened to own more than half of this country's refineries. That merger got the green light, but Microsoft giving away its products for free drew the attention of the DOJ.

    I wonder why?

    Oil is as close to water and electricity as any product can be. At this point, the government has a responsibility to monitor the oil industry very, very closely. They took on that responsibility when they refused to devote enough money to viable alternatives and refused to force car companies to meet decent environmental standards.

    And nobody said the demand hasn't increased. It has. But not three times what it was six years ago.

    The reason why gas stations are always within a nickel of each other is because they're all paying the same damn price for their gas. Sure, there might be one or two stations that got it for a dime cheaper than the rest, but there's never that much difference. Unless there are some strange circumstances, 99 percent of all stations are making about a penny per gallon. Sometimes a little less, sometimes a little more. That's why the shit never goes on sale -- what are you gonna slash off the price, a half-cent?

    Here's the simple facts: The oil production has increased at just about the same rate as demand. Demand has increased at roughly the same rate forever. We have fewer refineries pumping out less and less product and the oil companies in this country have unheard of stockpiles of unrefined oil. They're raking in billions upon billions in pure profits and haven't built a new refinery in 20-plus years.

    Yeah, the Chinese, they're the problem.
     
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