Reply #12: And you know what the real kicker is [View All]

[MadHound]

That's the fact that these gas prices are going to rise due to the price of futures in the oil market. All of those prices we're hearing about, barrel of oil rising etc. etc., those are all futures prices, the price for a barrel of oil thirty days from now. The gas that we're pumping in our tank today, and this weekend is all refined from oil that was bought before Hurricane Katrina even hit the Gulf, much less NO.

Record oil company profits indeed, the bastards are bending the American public right over that oil barrel.

The only silver lining in this is that the gas prices are finally forcing the American public to wake up and start conserving. SUVs are quickly becoming a vanishing breed, and people who would have never ever been caught dead without their Ford 350 Penile Compensator are now motoring around on motorcycles, hybrids, carpools and other such measures.

But sad to say, it is going to be the poorest among us who bear the brunt of this change. They can't afford the energy prices, and they can't afford to outlay the money it would take to start conserving. Crony capitalism at its finest:eyes: