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NOT the LAST WORD on GAS PRICES
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Posted by TomR Ont. on May 26, 2004 at 19:53:26 from (206.172.139.22):
Anything we do will affect the economy.
If we are going to boycott the Oil Companies why be so stuck on gas?
What about the .... cheep plastic toys, cars must be 30% plastic, tires not much real rubber if any, carpet & floor tile, all the high priced automotive gas & oil treatments $25.00 a gallon and up, a lot of them are the same only in a different bottle and lable, propane at one time was just burnt off.
I could go on but, we all know we can't live an hour or even sleep with out oil products.
As farmers (long ago) if you had too much cream you either made richer milk or thinned it out and made more milk. They will just cut back gas production or increase production on something else.
The oil corporations may be justified (hahahahoho) in what they say "we only make pennies on a gallon of gas" but first how many million gallons do they sell world wide each and every minute 24-7 and don't forget there are 0.99 pennies to play with.
How many Americans will be out of work if you boycott the gas stations and kiosks. If you just buy on certain days, they can go back to the 60s when all stations closed at 7pm. except for a few rotating stations. They have the power to do what ever they want and sooner or later they will get it no matter what we do or say now. In the late 70s oil shortage, all we ended up with was a few small cars and a lot of smaller parking spaces at the malls.
We might have a better chance to boycott the Government to cut the high taxes on gas, but they won't listen either. While we are distracted and bitching about one thing they'll slip in another.
Now do you want to be responsible for the next recession that's when we have small company closings, layoffs and interest rates go up and the corporate profit shifts, the banks make more.
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