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Ziggysmom

(3,406 posts)
3. I pointed out this fact a short while ago while gassing up my car. A magat was complaining
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 08:46 PM
Mar 2022

loudly how it was Biden's fault gas was expensive. I set him straight! He didn't even try to argue. Maybe he thought I was a crazy? I had my cat Stanley in the car, we were coming home from the pet store buying his noms.

BigmanPigman

(51,589 posts)
4. I hope he keeps saying this until the cows come home.
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 08:46 PM
Mar 2022

It may take a while for it to filter down to the Fux Ruse viewer.

SergeStorms

(19,199 posts)
5. Gas prices at the pump....
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 08:56 PM
Mar 2022

rise instantaneously with the price per barrel, yet it can take months to see a decrease in prices at the pump.

Now they have all sorts of excuses as to why it's this way, but the only truthful answer is GREED!

dchill

(38,476 posts)
11. Noticed that too. Many years ago.
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 09:48 PM
Mar 2022

The public is getting reamed by many corporate interests. There would seem to be no effective remedies.

Escurumbele

(3,389 posts)
6. OK, time to do something to the SOBs, how about regulation of gas prices?
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 08:57 PM
Mar 2022

How about if they send someone to study the books and find out what the profit margin is, then make sure the prices are brought down accordingly.

Lets not just talk about it, lets do something about it.

It would be nice if THE PEOPLE, we all said, enough is enough, I am riding my bicycle to work and everywhere else, lets stop buying gas, lets hit them where it hurts.

keithbvadu2

(36,786 posts)
8. When oil is high, they ship it by plane.
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 09:21 PM
Mar 2022

When oil is high, they ship it by plane.

When oil is low, by slow boat.

bucolic_frolic

(43,146 posts)
9. I wouldn't think it's an industry impacted by $15 an hour very much at all
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 09:36 PM
Mar 2022

because they are already high-paying jobs, and while the cost of refining may have changed or gone up, it hasn't gone up that much.

Aussie105

(5,383 posts)
10. Same here in Australia.
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 09:42 PM
Mar 2022

Prices shot up when a barrel of crude cost more, sill high despite dropping crude prices.

To state the obvious . . . it's a plot!

IronLionZion

(45,433 posts)
14. Gotta pay out those sweet dividends and buy back some shares
Wed Mar 16, 2022, 10:41 PM
Mar 2022

I don't want to sound as if I am defending these companies because I'm not. They lost revenue in 2020 and are trying to recoup those profits now for shareholders who stuck it out this long. They don't care if idiots blame Biden for it.

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