I have a huge problem with the holiday spikes, if it was just a case of demand goes up and prices go up accordingly, I'd be ok with it. But the oil companies are using the holiday spikes to see exactly what the consumer will bear price wise, then when the oil cartels artificially raise prices based on the spikes we get screwed.
We told them we'd tolerate four dollars a gallon, next year we'll tolerate 4.50 to $5.00 a gallon. Because we're an oil driven economy, we continue to use oil without real regard for prices, the oil companies take advantage of it and artificially raise prices. Until we, the consumers demand lower prices, by not using the record amounts of oil that we use, and demanding alternatives, the oil companies will continue to make trillions, and continue to screw us. -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC 27616 (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 -----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:19 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Oil I don't have a problem with the holiday spikes. Makes sense. Demand will undoubtedly go up, so raise a price a bit. When the holiday is over, price usually goes back down. But overall demand for gasoline has actually decreased in this country for the first time in 20 years. The price of oil has dropped significantly in the last several days. But prices have either held steady, or RISEN. How can that be? Because 5 oil companies hold a monopoly that fixes prices on a commodity that is required by just about every person in this country. Their margins are so ridiculously high, and their competition is pretty much non-existent...that supply and demand ceases to be a major affecter of their business. And it's crippling this country right now. On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: G Money [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:55 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Oil > > > > So oil is down $8 in the last 2 days....what's the price of gas done in > > that > > time? Yep....RISEN. > > Ours (Northeastern PA) has gone down slightly (about 8-10 cents). > > I assumed that's because it was artificially raised for the holiday weekend > and now coming down to the "actual" levels. > > I expect to see another spike in price around Thanksgiving. > > Jim Davis > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:263608 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
