That makes sense. If I were Congress, I would fix the price of gas at twice what it is now. Guess how fast people would switch to other means of travel. We could eliminate 50,000 deaths and 200,000 injuries per year from fewer auto accidents. The air would be cleaner too. Road rage would decline. Lots of advantages.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Copeland" <[email protected]> To: "ProFox Email List" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 3:52 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Obama's America > Ya'll do realize that the Federal Guv'ment makes more than the Oil Bad > Companies Evil do? > > It is actually in Barry's best interest to have prices go up, because > with the Fed getting 18.40% on gas and 24.40 on Diesel, every dollar the > price goes up means another ~20 cents per gallon....$15 to the Fed for a > $75 tank of gas. Sweet racket! > > Mike > >> On 4/26/2011 11:17 AM, Nicholas Geti wrote: >>> I sure do get tired of hearing about fat cats. Without the incentive to >>> get >>> rich who would bother to make the effort. Greed is what drives profits. >>> Greed is what drives initiative to invent new products. Greed pays the >>> bills. I don't see skinny cats paying any income taxes. >>> >>> Who is to decide whether profits are obscene? I own stocks and want to >>> see >>> double obscene profits. Do you want the government to decide what is >>> obscene? Don't make me laugh. Are you one of the liberals who want to >>> take >>> everything from the haves and give it to the have nots? >> >> Making a profit is one thing, but gouging us with $4+/gal gas prices and >> announcing RECORD PROFITS is obscene. Robin Hood, no, but sick of this >> kind of gouging, yes. However, that's what Capitalism is all >> about--profits--and I'm ok with that, but I want choice. Right now, we >> really have no choice other than to not drive (not realistic) or take >> public transportation (which isn't a huge savings either). >> [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/3B55BB2E2BEB42B49078D004B84702E7@dual ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
