ENRON and Kalifornia power market games springs to mind.
On Sunday, October 16, 2005, at 01:40 PM, Rich Thomas wrote:
Prices for oil and distillates are not set by oil companies.
Prices are set by traders and such in New York City, London, Hong Kong,
etc. based on who knows what factors. They are the ones you can blame.
They are making huge amounts of money off all of us.
Oil companies do make a lot more profits when the prices go up, you
might want to play the energy stock markets, but they do not set the
prices. Intermediaries control a lot of wholesale pricing too, and in
Boston I recall some years ago that the downstream tank farmers were
screwing with prices to the retail guys, pissing them off to no end as
they had to catch the flack from customers, and they were not making
any
more profit than they ever did (a few cents a gallon). There was never
any local investigations of this behavior or politicians crying out,
though it was well known who the screwers were.
I saw in the paper (the Houston paper, covers the "all bidness" more
than most, given we are the center of it) that heating oil stocks were
quite adequate at this time in the NE, no less than last year, but
quite
a bit more expensive (about a dollar a gallon I think).
So the question is why the price is high for heating oil and diesel,
and
the traders are the ones who could answer that. Or perhaps politicians
but I doubt that (some/many like higher prices to promote business or
social or political agendas or whatever, would never admit it, and that
right there just about covers the whole spectrum of political types).
Let us know what they say, if any of it makes any sense that is
understandable, even to them.
--R
Hendrik Riessen wrote:
Just an honest bunch of people trying to make a living. I heard
things are
so tough in the oil business that some are having to go into politics
just
to feed their families.
Ahh well, you will just have to increase your prices for parts.
Either that or get one of the 240D's up and running and put the big
V8's out
to pasture.
Hendrik
working towards getting the lawn mower self-propelled(the steering
will be
the hard part)
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Gas went from 2.39 to 2.29 today, diesel went from 2.94 to 2.99, WTF?
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