Anyone notice how the gas prices (around here anyway) have risen to aobut 2.45 a gallon? And less than two weeks ago, I got gas here for 2.15 a gallon. SO why the 30 cent a gallon increase in two weeks? Has there been another hurricane? Perhaps an invasion of another oil producing country? No. What's happened is Iran has threatened to "re-evaluate" thier oil exports depending on how things shake out with the UN and the Iran nuclear progam issue.
My point has nothing to do with the UN or nuclear program. my point is, we're now paying 30 cents more a gallon for gas because someone threatened something. Because of something that might happen. But it just as likely may NOT happen. That's like someone raising the price of orange juice on the shelves TODAY because there is a forecast of a harsh winter for Florida next winter! It's crazy! SO if Iran does NOT re-evaluate it's oil exports, will the oil companies DROP the price of oil in two weeks by 30 cents? Pffft, don't hold your breath.
I am not opposed to paying a higher price for gas IF I know the extra money is going someone for the common good, perhaps to fund more ecologically friendly cars, to improve the roads in a given state, etc. What pisses me off, is my extra money is going directly into the pockets of oil company CEO's, who already that year had record breaking profits! You'd think they cold afford to absorb some of the extra cost for us now given how they gouged us last September! But no. They're greedy sons-of-bitches, and they knew, because the goverment is run currently by oil men, that they can get away with it, without any oversight or threat of reprisals.
Welcome to America in 2006: Land of the free (to steal money from your comsumers with impunity), home of the greedy billionaire CEO's. Hopefully, the AMerican people wake up and give us a Democratic Senate and possibly House in November. I don't think this country can survive two more years of Republican rule.
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