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wendybeth 04-25-2006 07:42 PM

Halliburton. Bechtel Group. The Shaw Group, etc. Not too damned hard to connect the dots- I'm not saying you're not smart enough to, you simply won't. Or, if you do, you make excuses and indicate that is just the way of the big, bad business wolrd- laissez faire, and all that. Gets very, very old, and my apologies for taking out my frustration on you as I know you have nothing to personally do with it, but as I indicated earlier- people are getting pissed and getting less shy about saying so.

scaeagles 04-25-2006 07:49 PM

Well, now it isn't that I can't see it, it's that I won't see it. I still disagree. It's that I see it differently. You see excuses. I see reasons.

You are obviously among the pissed. I am not (about this issue).

JWBear 04-25-2006 09:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scaeagles
...a junior high student would have no problem understanding market forces and supply and demand...

True, but beside the point. If you truly think the higher gas prices are simply the result of supply and demand, I’ve got a bridge in New York you might want to buy.

Greed. Greed and price gouging – ignored, if not actively supported by, the current administration.

scaeagles 04-25-2006 09:30 PM

Hmmm....evidence? Not to try to be insulting, because I really don't want to be, but you have no concept of the oil commodities market or how it works.

JWBear 04-25-2006 09:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by scaeagles
Hmmm....evidence? Not to try to be insulting, because I really don't want to be, but you have no concept of the oil commodities market or how it works.

How would you know?

scaeagles 04-25-2006 09:51 PM

Reading.

Edited to add: I do not claim to know all of the numerous complexities of a commodities market, particularly the most complex, being oil.

sleepyjeff 04-25-2006 09:58 PM

Price of gas in April of 1980---$1.19

Price of gas(adj. for inflation) now---.89 cents

http://www.randomuseless.info/gasprice/gasprice.html

Ghoulish Delight 04-25-2006 09:59 PM

I'm moving to Malaysia and never doing my homework again.

wendybeth 04-25-2006 10:02 PM

From the "How stuff works" site:

Historical Gas Prices
(Adjusted for inflation)
Year Price Per Gallon 1950$1.91 1955$1.85 1960$1.79 1965$1.68 1970$1.59 1975$1.80 1980$2.59 1985$1.90 1990$1.51 1995$1.28 2001$1.66 2002$1.31 2003$1.52 2004$1.79 2005$2.28 2006 (so far)$2.68 Source: U.S. DOE

wendybeth 04-25-2006 10:06 PM

Heh heh- total derail, but I just ran across this: No gas here!

Now, if they can just figure out how to de-gas Happy Meals.:rolleyes:


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