Re: Gasoline and oil are prices, still rising,what can you do?


Bill Bonde ('The path is clear, though no eyes can see') wrote:
Bert Hyman wrote:

tnbracing@xxxxxxxxx () wrote in
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Not much of an incentive to lower their profit margin or consumer
prices, is there?

Incentive to lower their profit margin? Why on earth would any
corporation anywhere want to reduce their margin?

Doesn't make the slightest sense, but that's par for a Lib, I guess.

I may be slightly left of John Birch on the political scale, so your
liberal label does not intimidate me.

What does make sence is if you want fuel prices to return to their
prewar levels you need to shut up and do something.

I described the fastest way to lower fuel prices, it may not be fair to
ExxonMobile Corp., or their shareholders but you know I don't give a
damn, they are the largest retailer of fuel products in the U.S.and if
a large number of people start switching to a different retailer the
entire oil industry will take notice.

When you are being bullied you can give up your lunch money or if you
are like me you can walk up to the biggist kid on the block and kick
him in the balls.

I don't know if giving up your lunch money works, I can assure you
giving them a kick in the nuts usualy works very well.




Besides, do you really think that a 10% margin is particularly large?

Actualy it was a 9% margin on a 10% increase in U.S. consumption,
stupid is repeating the same actions expecting different results, you
have nothing to lose by changing who you purchase your fuel from and
the gains could be substantial.



At retail? Some stations were reportedly at negative margin, the
competition was so great. Maybe he'd be happy at that for Exxon.

Stations are not the problem and very few make more than a small profit
from the sale of gasoline,the fuel sales are to entice customers into
their retail stores, feel free to shop at the stations that sell
ExxonMobile Corp. products most are independent operators just fill up
somewhere else.


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It isn't folks on the right who are complaining that we aren't switching
to alternative energy sources while simultaneously insisting that the
sorts of prices for energy that are needed to motivate those changes
must not happen. There is simply a manifold disconnect on the left
between their reality and their rhetoric.

I do not believe the energy sector is doing anymore than charging what
the market will bear, it is up to us the consumer to decide what we
will bear.



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