07-31-2008, 06:19 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-31-2008, 06:20 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Quote:I am not known for my 'pro big business' points of view, but I don't see the problem.
There is no tendency in the west to buy cars that consume less and there is no tendency to don't drive when not necesarry. People can pay these prices without problems, they just whine a bit. If I would be an oil company I would charge even more.
Dont be so sure.
Reports show that when gas hit 3.50 a gallon last year, it had virtually no effect on the consumer, so prices kept going up. But once it hit over 4.00/gallon, people began taking a stand. In the last month or so, gas prices have come down at least .50 cents a gallon, cause less people are buying it do to finding other means of transportation (car pooling, walking, bus, etc).
The whole thing is one big scheme to rip us off and anyone who says otherwise is blind to the facts. You'd raise prices even more then they are now if you were an oil company? No you wouldnt, cause then no one would buy your sh!t. Speaking for myself and others I know, people will drive ON FUMES that extra mile to go to the cheapest gas station. I bet the prices drop even more once the Repubs are out of office.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)