Gordon Gecko: "Greed is Good!" Greed built this country and continues to do so. Why does anyone go to work everyday.....start a company? To...
I can break it down for you. The top 50% of wage earners, which is largely the rich and middle class, pay almost 97% of the US taxes. The top...
Like I said to no avail to Red, the price of gas is dictated by supply and demand. Not passing the costs down. What factors influenced these...
An industry-wide study in the late 1990s showed that oil industry profits amounted to an estimated 7.3 [IMG] cents on each gallon sold.1 More...
I read where oil companies get on average $.09 per gallon profit. The government gets $.50 a gallon. Also, the article said, the government has...
For gas yeah it hurts at times. But it makes our economy a bunch of money too, say in metals....all commodities. It's a commodity that can hurt...
Where have you shown oil company profits driving up the price of oil?
Bottomline is this: There are about 1000 reasons why gas prices are higher than they were. For Red to mention corporate profits as one of those...
I said the government, by way of their policies, have been cutting off our ability to drill for new oil for the last 30 years. Not only drilling...
Somebody got called on their stupid statements. I'll bet you 90% of those 1988 rigs are over 20 years old. Most over 30. You act like new rigs...
OK, we have 1988 rigs in the US. How old are most of those? Over 20 years I'll bet. Oil companies have not been drilling new wells in the lower...
You mean artifically limiting the supply........no our own government has already limited supply for the last 30 years by not allowing drilling...
You know nothing of the governmental bureacracy to adding refining capacity. And even if they spent the trillions to add capacity, you and the...
I'm getting close........ We tax for roads........and have pay $.50 a gallon tax for gas in Louisiana. Under your tax = roads formula, when do...
Like what? Price controls? You guys are lost if you think no taxes on gas would equal bad roads. We already have bad roads. I knew you...
You really think they would just eat that tax. By your logic, wouldn't they just pass the windfall tax right onto us too? Of course they would....
They would do that if that was the real world. But there is no fairy god-mother who delivers Exxon oil for free you see. Like I said before and...
OK, no getting through to you. You haven't exhibited one iota of proof of collusion or gouging....nothing. 2 things and I'm done with you...
What you leaving out here Red is: The companies refining the oil, do not own all of the oil in the world. You can't leave OPEC out, see. They...
No one even knows what you posted so good for you.
