Posted on 07/03/2022 2:04:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
If economics worked that way it would be great. It doesn’t.
CC
Most gasoline today is sold by convenience stores and mass retailers like Costco. They have no refineries or oil fields-they buy on the open market at the lowest cost and often sell at the lowest price. Any attempt by the Feds to control or freeze means Costco shuts the pumps down.
Matt calls Joe a “visionary largely ignored by his peers”…. Now I’ve heard everything!
When Biden attacked gas station owners, I was thinking, “don’t they only make 3-5 cents per gallon?”
Bezos has a case of the red-ass because the Dutch won’t dismantle a steel girder bridge that is blocking his new mega-yatch from leaving the shipyard!
Fuel cost are affecting Amazon...huge. I’m sure its cutting into profits.
Matt?
Matt “The Homo Traitor” Drudge?
Either that or he could just tell employers to pay people more so they can afford the higher prices. You know, as long as we’re living in Fantasy Land where the laws of economics don’t apply and ‘Rat policies never have disastrous unintended consequences.
Rozas the author of the Salon article above.
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