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Originally Posted by Chogan2200
ok first off, if you personally know some of the reps for those oil companies...WHY DON'T YOU TELL THEM TO QUIT GOUGING THE PRICE! :P
2nd, I thought all models were supposed to have that Active Fuel Management technology???!???!!!
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Sigh, I hate it when people who haven't the slightest grasp of economics make mindless accusations like that. The price of oil right now reflects a number of things: the demand from consumers worldwide, which is ramping up steadily, the demand from investors, which is also ramping up, the value of the dollar, which is plummeting, and the supply of oil, which is pretty much maxed out (drilling new fields is insanely expensive and practically illegal now). Given all of those conditions, the price of oil is exactly what it should be. $130 accurately reflects the market rate for oil as the conditions exist right now. You may not like it, but that doesn't mean anyone is gouging you. Even the idiotic legislators that are holding these show trials of the oil execs for votes from people like you have openly admitted they have absolutely no evidence the oil companies are gouging. The fair price may not be the price we're used to, but fair is fair.