"gatt" wrote in message
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"Ken Finney" wrote in message
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Is that what Jesus would do? I wouldn't do it if I was making
billions while my neighbors and my nation suffered.

YOUR NATION ISN'T SUFFERING!

Ah. Okay, so everybody's hollering about the price of gasoline because
there's nothing better to do. Thanks for clearing that up.

My entire life, I've planned trips. I don't drive to the grocery store,
then go home, then go to the hardware store, then go home, then go someplace
else, then go home. I plan to visit all the places I need to, construct the
most efficient route (even factoring in as many right turns as possible),
then make the trip. MOST people don't do anything like this, I know more
than a few that drive down to their mailboxes and back. When I had inlaws
in Florida, they would run outside, start the car to run the air
conditioning, run back inside for 5 minutes while the car cooled down, run
back outside, drive less than 100 feet to the mailbox, then drive back to
the house and go inside to read the mail. And they weren't handicapped.
Since the real issue isn't how much gas costs per gallon, but how much money
a person spends for the gas they consume, people can make choices to keep
that number down. That is a much more efficient use of their time than
hollering. Plus, it keeps more money out of the hands of evil "big oil"!
;^)



Some people are suffering, other's aren't. If everyone had a "Mr.
Fusion" powering their cars and planes tomorrow, would that be a good
thing? Think of all the suffering of the gas station owner

You don't think gas station owners are suffering right now?

I think most gas stations make most of their money on non-gas purchases, so
they might be, at least a little.


FBO, etc.

You don't think FBOs are suffering right now?


I'm not very familiar with larger FBOs, but smaller FBOs have pretty much
been a disaster zone since 1947. What was that line from "The Grapes of
Wrath"? "People shouldn't have to live like that." "Them aren't people,
them's Okies." Just substitute "FBOs" for "Okies".



And the funny thing under such systems, is that even in an absence of
winners, there will still be losers.

The oil industry is making record profits in the history of the world.
All anybody is asking them to do is not make so much so that America isn't
the loser.
The oil industry is never the winner.

-c