Yes, companies are supposed to make reasonable profits.... but there's this little thing called price gouging.
If you really believe that the good ol boys at the oil companies are honest businessmen, then I've got this bridge in Brooklyn, NY that I'll sell ya....cheap, comes with a small canyon in Arizona, also. -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC 27616 (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 -----Original Message----- From: Robert Munn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 4:08 PM To: CF-Community Subject: Re: Gas... Oh give it up already. Every company wants to make money. That's what companies do. It's called capitalism. If you envy their profits, buy some of their stock. On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 1:04 PM, G wrote: > Your decrease in gasoline price was no way proportional to the increase you > saw several months ago. > > Put another way, the price increases relative to the "market factors" were > greater than the price decreases due to those same factors. Price of oil > went up a dollar, your gas went up 5 cents. Price of oil went down a dollar, > your gas went down 1 cent. > > There's the scam. > > As if we needed anymore evidence of this...Exxon just posted another record > profit today. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:265066 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
