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-----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 09, 2008 9:57 AM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Oil On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Remember that's the price of oil at the well head, from what I remember it > takes a couple of months or more for the oil to go from the wellhead to the > terminals then to the refinery. Finally after all that its sent to the > pumps. >>Then why does the price at the pump jump IMMEDIATELY? Because not everyone understands how it works, and the oil companies know it, the prices rise because they can. > The price of gasoline is pissing you off, change your behavior. Stop > driving that gas guzzler of an SUV or car. Get something like a Geo Metro. > Walk more. Get some solar-electric panels installed on your roof. Reinsulate > your house etc. In other words significantly reduce your energy footprint. >>I've done all those things...but why should I then sit back and feel better >>about the scam? The fact remains that no matter how much I change my >>lifestyle, I'm STILL going to have to purchase oil-based products. Since my >>lowered demand has little or no affect on their prices, I'm still paying >>ridiculous prices for what little of the commodity I still need to purchase. >>Your saying I should just accept that and let the monopolies continue??? No, but until everyone does what you (and I) have done it won't have a huge effect. We have to hit the oil companies in the profit margin, it's the only thing they understand. Congress won't do anything real about it. A scam only works when both parties agree to it. Stop thinking you'll get > something for nothing. >>As a country, we've already lowered our consumption...and it had ZERO >>affect. I don't think we are willing participants in this scam any longer. We haven't been in a long, long time... -- He tells me believe in Jesus Steals the money from my hands ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:263609 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
