Posted on 05/23/2007 4:55:34 PM PDT by Daffynition
Siskiyou County, CA is the victim of “zone pricing” which gives us among the highest gas prices in the nation. As explained to us, in other areas where there is an ARCO station, Chevron and Shell cut their prices to be competitive. They raise prices in our area to pay for the cut as we do not have an ARCO. According to our Senator, this is legal. I wonder if this practice will qualify under the proposed legislation. We are a very rural area with very little alternative transit, so we are captive to the oil companies and it has impacted growth and business for years.
I see alot of house members not coming back after the 08 election.
Look at who is leading this, rather funny they have the audacity.
You can't possibly be serious.
They’re just gearing up so that when they increase the gas tax, they won’t look so bad.
I’m not being flippant, but why don’t you and some of your neighbors pool your money and invest in starting an independent gas station to compete?
Heck, form a gasoline co-op store like those food co-ops that are all over the place these days.
there should be a parallel
euro
oil for food
proviso also.
It’s just ridiculous - in the same manner as very few consumers understand where steaks, brats and burger comes from, (it just shows up on the grocers shelf already to go.) they don’t know that power to heat and cool our homes, and provide electric power for all that stuff has to come from somewhere. It takes a LOT of work, and even more capital expenditure for the infrastructure.
Why the citizenry allows people who have little in the way of any real knowledge or experience to weigh in and dominate these issues is just beyond crazy. Why don’t we ever hear from a power plant operator? Americans used to be PROUD of their hard-won accomplishments - running water, and electricity to even remote rural areas. Instead I’m subjected to Ed Begley. It gets real annoying to hear some ass-hat tell me how I should be living, when they piss away more money in a year than I’ll ever spend in my life.
I’m glad they put the ‘oline’ in the title. This stinks enough as it is.
They pass a lot of gas in Washington DC they have a lot of hot air.
They pass a lot of gas in Washington DC they have a lot of hot air.
Again, legislatures play as though they have no control of this...
Of course they have something to do with it but when up to half the sticker price is tax adds and a substantial portion of the cost of manufacturing is all the separate state mandated special blends then lets start dealing with some functional aspect of reality.
If you want to reduce the cost of gasoline then attack the problem and not simply regurgitate the mindless crap that leftard anti business morons keep spewing onto the issue.
You might also want to consider the fact that any attempts to increase manufacturing capacity is tied up in courts and leads to huge legal costs due to the constant misinformation campaigns waged by envirotards and their useful idiot supporters.
Do you mean government?
“HAHAHA! Mr.Daddy Warbux! These are lean times!”
Is that a wind driven Yugo?
Sorry, but trying to explain away 20%-30% fluctuation as a result of taxes and regulations is rather retarded.
Do they?????
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