why complain about gas prices when we all know that its COFFEE thats the moneymaker?
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Toothpaste is 75.48 a gallon.\n\n100 bucks a day? What style of Bus do you drive?
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You know the cost of gas/petrol isn't really made as high as it is by the cost per barrell. The oil companies like Exxon, Esso, Chevron, etc. charge a lot more for their gas then the price per barrell.  If you do some research into it you'll see that the oil companies are making a huge profit on their product. Oil/petrol doesn't have to be as expensive as it is and they can still make a profit.\n\nTo answer your question though, I would say yes:\n\n"To date there has not been an obvious negative impact on the economy because of the price of oil. It is partly for that reason that the Federal Reserve is continuing to raise interest rates to help tame inflation."\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_of_Oil_and_The_Economy\n\nIt's very strange. The cost of oil is raised to huge prices by Exxon, Chevron, etc. which raises interest rates, which hurts the economy. Why?
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Lets see, the oil company's own and operate the wells, then the some people that work for them bid on the oil and it is sold to the refinery's which by the way is owned by the oil company's which in turn ship it to the gas stations guess who owns them. Sweet deal huh. I really wonder why the prices are so high.
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The gas prices can be helped if the pricks at exxon and all the other fuel manufacture's would lower the price.  They only reported a 50% increase in profit last year.  Yea I say they could do something about it!!!1
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The 2 topics aren't related.  Take a class on Economics sometime to understand why gas prices are the way they are.
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I have! Oil prices go down and gas goes up. Supplies increase the price at the pump goes up. The 2nd biggest oil deposit in the world comes under U.S. control.... You get the idea. Enough is enough. His friends have all made a buck on this insanity, let's go back to $1.00 a gallon.
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gas prices are terrorism
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people are so ignorant.  \n\nCould you send me some coffee and coke.  lol.  j/k
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I believe the Bush administration Is the cause for the increase in gas prices. Do you remember when the Vice President had a secret meeting with the oil big wigs? This meeting was so hush-hush the president went to the supreme court to have the minutes sealed. soon after gas prices went through the roof. The Bush started the war in Iran. We had Gulf coast storms. There were a lot of factors but mainly it is greed by the oil companies. Oil companies will site market conditions as the reason for gas prices increasing. What they wont tell you is that they caused those conditions. ask them why did they close oil refineries down in Calif. and not build new ones?
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Because they can!!!  There are certain thing in our economy that we all have to have and will pay just about anything for.  Think about it....would you pay for overpriced gas or overpriced ice cream, overpriced baby diapers and toilet paper or overpriced magazines and movies.  If you have ever noticed those are the types of things that I think have the biggest price fluctuations because companies know we will just complain but buy anyway.
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we were lied to.\n\nWhat is the price of gasoline today?  Who is making record profits from these prices?(not me)\n\nSeems pretty silly to have investigated Clinton's Whitewater losses when you look at Haliburton's gains.....
466699
My point exactly...stop going to starbucks everyday or buy your lunch less often....Gas prices are not all that bad .....
792139
Because our government is greedy, by rights it should be cheaper because diesel from most pumps is made up with at least 5% cooking oil, bet you didn't know that!
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yeah.. good point... but I'm in S.C. and we have one of the lowest gas taxes in the nation and we're still paying near $3 for it... I don't know how that works exactly... oh yeah, greedy oil bastards jack up the price no matter what
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I pretty much agree with what you say.  I'm not stoning Walmart and as for Starbucks, the idiots paying 3 to 5 dollars for coffee are the ones needing to be stoned.\nWith Walmart, the driving issue is people who don't have much excess money and are looking for a good price on mostly essential items.  I relate to them big time.\n\nAs for what drives the Starbucks phenomenon,  in large part, it's people who have plenty of disposable resources, like to "drop names" (Oh, guess who I saw in STARBUCKS yesterday!!! <gush, gush, gag, gag>) have no concept of value and want to be "trendy" by spend a ridiculous amount on a cup of so-so coffee.  Call me cheap but aint NO freeking cup of coffee worth the going price there so.... the attraction ISNT "value".  BTW, value isnt a dirty word when your resources are finite..
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Because all of the gas stations are buying from the same supplier.  They all mark it up a couple of cents and sell at the same price.  I suppose it's collusion in a small way because they've agreed to the same price, but that's more of a running tradition.  Like if Burger King and McDonald's charge about the same price for burgers, are they colluding or is it just because they have the same costs and charge about the same?\n\nThe Sherman Act deals more with malicious fixing where they're doing things to drive out competition.  There are been tons of inquiries made into the price manipulation for the oil industry over the past few years, and none of them have found anything.  Most of the inquiries have concluded that the prices are from supply and demand, not price gouging.  You could argue it's from "bribes" or whatever, but there are no indications or concrete, credible sources to support this claim.\n\nThere's a bit more to read here: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5365439
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As of yesterday it jumped 13 cents in 24 hours making it 2.69 in Florida, it makes me sick because they are just playing with us, there is no legitimate reason for these prices. The worst part of it is they say it will reach 3.50 per gallon by this summer and when that happens I will have to quit my job because it will cost me 35.00 a week just to drive to and from work, no place else just to and from work.I work part time just for extra spending cash ,my husbands job supports the household , so what's the point in my keeping the job, can't afford the gas to go any where and spend it.