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[bacon]

I got a little pot leftover from the last time I smoked. I don't know when I'm going to smoke it. Maybe next week.

There's something you'll never hear a crackhead say.

"I got a little left over crack."

[hunto]

Originally Posted by ratman201

What point? That they can't supply a demand when the supply is limited? There isn't anything they can do except lower their profit margin from the scant 8% a to maybe 5% which will make a total savings of about $.12 a gallon if we are being generous.

Rat.
Look at pre-hurricane oil prices. Then the prices shot up during the 'canes because several refineries here shut down. Afterwards, they cranked back up. Oil was ~75/bbl. Did the gas return to pre-'cane levels? No. Why not? Greed. So now its at 130/bbl, and you can expect to pay 4 or 5 dollars/gallon of gas. Your electricity is going up, foodstuffs, anything trucked or moved. And this, while the oil companies post record earnings. So the argument of 'they're barely making it and can't cut much' doesn't hold water.

[hunto]

Originally Posted by bacon

There's something you'll never hear a crackhead say.

"I got a little left over crack."

And, you'll never see a pothead on his hands and knees looking in the carpet, certain he dropped a piece.

[bacon]

The military is the number one oil consumer in the US.

They've recently started their own initiative to "develope oil alternatives".

[Saith]

Originally Posted by hunto

Well of course- but the point will get across. They don't make any money either. And an Idle refinery has to be shutdown at great expense, its a huge headache. Theres no good reason why gas prices didn't drop between the hurricanes and now, when oil is up to 130/barrel.
No fires, no explosions, just blockade them fuckers.

You mean besides the refineries that were closed down and the rising cost of oil?

[bacon]

Originally Posted by hunto

And, you'll never see a pothead on his hands and knees looking in the carpet, certain he dropped a piece.

...or ripping the upholstery out of his own car.

[ratman201]

Originally Posted by hunto

Rat.
Look at pre-hurricane oil prices. Then the prices shot up during the 'canes because several refineries here shut down. Afterwards, they cranked back up. Oil was ~75/bbl. Did the gas return to pre-'cane levels? No. Why not? Greed. So now its at 130/bbl, and you can expect to pay 4 or 5 dollars/gallon of gas. Your electricity is going up, foodstuffs, anything trucked or moved. And this, while the oil companies post recoed earnings. So the argument of 'they're barely making it and can't cut much' doesn't hold water.

Actually food costs have almost nothing to do with gas prices. Shipping a truck load of grain across country, the deisel prices come to baout 1% the cost of the load. The price of oil woul have to quadruple overnight for it to it to cause any kind of spike in food prices.

The bottom line is that oil cost twice as much as it did before katrina. Demand continues to go up, and we continue to produce and refine less and less of it. I't quite literally the simplest example supply and demand I can find a real world example of it. On top of that a large portion of the supply is controlled by a cartel, which makes the price of a barrel oil somewhat arbitray to a point.

[bacon]

The food price spike is one of those "death by a thousand needles" type things. Or so I've heard/read.

[Lorenz]

Originally Posted by bacon

The military is the number one oil consumer in the US.

They've recently started their own initiative to "develope oil alternatives".

For each of you're GI's in Iraq - 40 Litres of oil are used everyday. You do the math, but thats a fucking lot.