I Just Exploded At My Local Gas Station

[rsmith6621]

.....NOT REALLY BUT!!!!!!

I noticed as I pulled the nozzle back from the pump and looked at the price and blew up....the price has rose over .30 cents in the past ten days in my home city south of Seattle.

After I was through pumping and got my receipt I just could not restrain myself anymore and went inside and talked to the manager and ironically was asked if I would like to fill out a customer comment card on my service for the day, I said I'd be happy to.

The jist of my comments was to state that I am tired of being played with as far as gas prices go...there up .30 cents one week there down 20 cents the next while oil company executives and companies are making gross profits and bonuses. I stated why don't they just raise them 50 cents and get it over with.......then I handed it to the manager and said thanks and asked her to read it.

Her expression went from calm to baffled....she said WOW what a statement do you really mean this I said yes. I said if OPEC would just stop using supply and demand which they control as an excuse it wouldn't so bad..I'm tired of being bullshitted...I then continued by telling her I work in the Aviation industry in a very complex job where peoples lives and aircraft safety are directly are directly in my hands. I said I am directly the one who controls the fuel cost at my company and have had my salary devalued as a direct result of fuel prices and my industry's stubbornest to ask the consumer to pony up as well more $$$ for their fare.

She asked me if there was anything else she could help me with, I said yes be sure the customer comment card get to the person who has the most ability to respond to this issue and pass on my further comments as well.

[idovoodoo]

1. Do you direct the directly direct programming of the computers that directly run the airplanes

so that nothing can go wrong go wrong go wrong go wrong? Their must be some connection. :-)

[Systematic Chaos]

2. Okay, that was funny. Cruel, but funny.

I just hope you're not a freakin' troll.

[idovoodoo]

16. I just thought that was a funny sounding post. I program computers and mess them up a lot!

I can break an anvil with a rubber mallet!

[rsmith6621]

5. welcome

....to answer you question....no but I am trained to work the autopilot system. basically a flight doesn't leave the ground unless I say it does and no I am not an Air Traffic Controller....I have more authority then they do.

[BigDaddy44]

3. I'm not sure what your point is

Gasoline is made from oil. Oil is at an all time high at over $100 a barrel. Therefore, the price of gas is at an all time record high. You know, the price of milk and eggs has gone through the roof too. Have you been complaining to the guy who owns the corner store?

[rsmith6621]

6. No.....

....cause I know the root cause.......FUEL PRICES

[BigDaddy44]

8. So who raises the price of oil?

N/T

[rsmith6621]

10. Certianly not Farmers

......please go back and reread the OP.....you'll find out my point.

[BigDaddy44]

Sounds like your beef is with OPEC to me

N/T

[Jackpine Radical]

15. So complain to EPEC

the Egg Producing and Exporting Chickens.

[gateley]

4. SELF DELETE nt

[Warpy]

7. OPEC has nothing to do with that price

The current jump, $.20 here in central NM so far, is due to a huge refinery explosion and fire in west Texas earlier in the week. With all refineries operating at 100% of capacity, taking one offline reduces the supply and increases the price.

However, dozens of refineries were mothballed in the 90s just to create this scenario. The last thing the oil giants wanted was an oversupply of gasoline keeping prices down. Enough mergers have happened that the few "competing" companies are now acting like a classical monopoly, controlling price by controlling supply.

The per barrel cost of oil is going through the roof mostly because of this administration. The dollar is worth a little less than half of what it was when they took office, doubling the cost of a barrel of offshore oil. At the same time, every time one of them opens his piehole about expanding the war in the Middle East, nervous commodity traders push the price up even higher. In other words, don't expect oil to go below about $65/bbl at its lowest now. Do expect it to climb when the sabres start to rattle.

The only defense we have against this is to drive the most efficient vehicle we can manage. The days of driving a monster king cab truck back and forth to work are over. Better trade the mother in for an econobox because things are not going to get better for a very long time.

[Mythsaje]

9. Sounds like you're in my neck of the woods...

The gas price jump has ME really irritated too. Thankfully I don't tend to drive all that much--I am lucky enough to work rather close to home, as does my wife. But we have to consider carefully how much extra driving we do.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

11. Don't blame the manager, it's the oil corporations, and I remind

you that these corporations don't care about us or our country. They care only about profits.

[llm]

13. the almighty profit

isn't that the sad truth..

[katty]

12. it changes everyday...

[tanyev]

14. Careful, don't stand too close to the pumps when you do that.