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Maybe I had better pay more attention to how I phrase things. I was not thinking "Dealer or FBO " but was thinking back to my many years in the oil business. The profits as declared these past several years have been sickening, even surprising to those familiar with the business as well as those in the business. Perhaps my comment of "Greed and Theft" was not directed properly, generally, but over the [RECENT ] years I feel shame deep inside. There are limits, or are there?
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> Call it GREED, Call it THEFT. It sure as hell isn't concern for your
> neighbor is it ? It is "life" today everywhere.
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> From: Sydney Cohen
> Date: 02/18/06 17:29:03
> To: ken carnahan
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [COUPERS-FLYIN] gas
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> Here in Wausau, WI it is $3.80 a gallon, but 18 miles north, in
> Merrill,
> WI it's 2.95. Go figure.
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> Sid
Get over it! It's microeconomics, not greed or theft. Then, Wausau,
being a relatively large city in the Wisconsin hinterlands, may have
one of those fancy FBOs. (I went into Albany, NY on a student cross
country years ago and was blown away by the Signature FBO -- talk about
gold plated!) Merrill is a little burg and, like the other fellow
said, perhaps he had somewhat older gas to sell at an older price, and
at a smaller field. In Southern New England, the price ranges from
hideous to insulting. I'd lay the "GREED" and "THEFT" terms on the oil
companies who, immediately after Katrina slapped about a buck onto
their price for gas that literally was already in the pipeline and/or
still in refinery tanks before the storm (obviously scheduled for the
old prices). [You DID hear of the profits the oily boys have been
making??] That was a demonic sin. Our tiny part of their output is
naturally going to reflect the "GREED" and "THEFT" of the oil companies
in aggregate and shouldn't be pinned on individual retailers. While
I'm not keen on $3- $4 100 Lotsa-Lead, I am grateful that the oily boys
still bother to service us, as we are hardly more than a nuisance in
their big picture (which I believe includes phasing out avgas anyway).
I think it is not fair to lay it on the small FBOs.
Beach
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