Agree w/all the above and more. After 100 years building cars, our beloved automakers know how to make a gallon of gas last. So what's the holdback? Got to be the G-Man. It may sound far-fetched to some, but really think about how big oil affects the bottom line of soooo many corporations and industries. Simple truth is, when gas prices go up, everybody makes money in the corporate world. I mean look at what the grocers did w/food prices once the price of gas went up, all the while saying it was only the cost of the transport making the rise. Well I'll be da**ed! Has anyone seen the price of ANY goods go down since the price of gas is at an ALL-TIME LOW? Anybody?
Quick answer to that is no. Seems to me like the shareholders have all gotten used to the big profits, all b/c of BIG OIL. Transporters, shippers, plastic makers, metal industries, and even electric companies (of all people) all blame the oil/gas prices on their sudden upswing of prices. When really it's all "supposed to be reliant on the price of oil going up or down". Oil up, other product prices up. Oil down, WTF? Where's the break?
If gov't. wasn't in bed w/ big oil, then why does BIG OIL get to reap whirlwind billions of profit quarter after quarter even w/legislative inquiries and STILL no change whatsoever? Gov't. has a love/hate relationship with big oil. Kinda like this. Love it when their bottom line us up, hate it when we complain, love it when they can keep "stickin' it to the man", namely us.
Make no mistake about my rant here, I KNOW how it all works, but that doesn't mean I like it. I don't. It makes me even madder
when all those "higher than thou" legislators bitched about the BIG AUTO execs actually using some of that high-priced jet fuel to make their meetings, when you and I know that they do the same dam thing but using tax-payer money to do it.
And then gripe about wanting more MPG out of a car? Talk about biting the hand that feeds ya!
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