>--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>>shempmcgurk wrote:
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>>>--- In [email protected], Bhairitu <noozguru@> wrote:
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>>>>shempmcgurk wrote:
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>>>>>I love the way people are so angy with the oil companies.
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>>>>>I myself think that the oil companies should embark on a
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>campaign
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>>>of
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>>>>>purposely gouging consumers.
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>>>>>Let the price go up to $7.00 a gallon! Ha-ha!
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>>>>>It will only be then that people will start to use less and
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>dump
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>>>>>
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>>>their
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>>>>>gas-guzzling SUVs.
>>>>>
>>>>>And, most importantly, we can get around to developing
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>>>alternative
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>>>>>fuels.
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>>>>>Can't do it without the $7.00 a gallon price...
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>>>>I would like to see a windfall profits tax on the oil companies.
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>>>Personally, I think a 40% corporate tax rate is windfall
>>>enough...FOR THE GOVERNMENT!!!!!
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>>>Exxon made a profit of $36 billion last year on sales of $328
>>>billion. That's about 11 cents profit on each dollar of
>>>revenue...hardly a "windfall".
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>>>So under which circumstances, Bhairitu, would your windfall
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>profits
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>>>tax kick in???
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>>Another thing: in business an 11% return on your investment would
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>be
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>>considered good nowadays. There is a simple rule in business that
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>if
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>>you can't make any more money on your investment than just leaving
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>it in
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>>a bank it isn't worth doing.
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>...only the 11% we are talking about has nothing to do with Return
>On Investment. It has to do with margin, which is a percentage of
>revenue, and has nothing to do with Return On Investment.
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You're wrong.
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