Yet again, Gas prices fluctuated 35 cents per gallon today. Thats an amazing 10% in less than 12 hours. I haven't got that figured out yet. Most of the gas that went up in price today is the same gas that was in the underground tanks at the station ...yesterday. Just what exactly caused a 10% price increase?
Some reasoning that sticks in my mind.....A Californian refinery was shut down today.....A pipeline developed a leak today.....the price of crude oil went up today...etc.. Events that happen today should have an effect on fuel made tomorrow. So why the immediate change at the end of the chain?
I would like to know more. I would also like to know why we, the consumer, continue to willingly participate in this absurdity. Yea yea yea, we all need to get to work, the beauty parlor, tavern, so on and so forth. And what the heck, we get to continuously gripe about it also. Constitution allows us to do that.
Well guess what buckaroos, we also are allowed to protest by simply choosing to NOT purchase products from companies that are so poorly run that they need to constantly change prices. Hey, if you or I raised our prices 10% in a month or year, let alone a day, our customers would leave us. So why don't we send a message to the oil companies that we will not use their products. I don't begrudge any one making a profit. We need for oil companies to be profitable, because we still need their products. What we don't need is to be held hostage. So, lets all get together and pick a point to start a boycott of oil products until there is an accounting of some sorts. Pick a price and find a way to controll costs, then we will be customers again!!
WOW! What fun we could have.
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