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Originally Posted by UT-Engineer
Yes this is mentioned as well in the film. We are also being poked in the eyes here (according to the film  ). When the market flucuates and foreign oil (imported) is increases, the oil companies are using this as an excuse why we pay higher prices at the pumps... however, the spike in prices is not proportional to what they are paying for the imported oil. For example, the gas companies end up paying $0.05 more per gallon, they'll bump it up at the pump to $0.15 per gallon, and their excuse is it's the market.. well they just made a hefty profit IMO. |
By that reasoning........ More fuel efficient cars equates to un-proportionately higher priced fuel. So creating more fuel efficient cars is a backwards proposition.