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Originally Posted by shortynickel
what do you mean that is hardly a crisis!?!?!
when the cost of gas in a few months goes up 50 or so cents(even before katrina/rita), when the oil companys said even tho they could pump more oil they decided not to cause they are greedy bastards.
sorry that my reply maybe a bit hostile, but i wasnt having a HUGE problem paying my bills until the gas was jacked up early in the summer!
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Yeah, early in the summer I was paying $4.00 a gallon for premium. That sucked. Obviously there are a few people (including you, apparently) that are significantly affected by the increase in gas prices from, say, $1.80 to $2.40. But, it makes no sense to cite the oil companies' "greed" as the reason for the increase: blame it on market forces.
If consumers will pay an additional $X for a product, it doesn't make any sense for an oligopolistic industry to maintain their lower price if they have a good excuse to increase it (Katrina, et all)...
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