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Calif Bill

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Chuck Gould wrote:
On May 15, 8:01 am, HK wrote:
Chuck Gould wrote:
On May 15, 12:58 am, jps wrote:
In article
.com,
says...
On May 14, 5:33 pm, jps wrote:
Still have the Tolly, or are you "between" boats?
Between. Would invest but, unless it's a 8 kt. single screw with
oar
locks, couldn't bear the thought of the fuel costs. I've been a
twin-
screw guy my whole life. I like having a set of props. It scares
me to fill up the car these days.
I do miss floating around in a pretty big way. I need to haul the
whaler down to the lake and have run around. Perhaps my spirits
will be
"buoyed"?
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Charter.
It's too bad the Cheney-Bush National Energy Policy's sole goal was
to
enrich the oil companiies and refiners. Isn't it interesting that
once
again, at the beginning of summer, so many refineries are shut down
for
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Harry, don't buy the baloney.

If the price of crude oil dropped to $10 a bbl and if we had excess
refinery capacity
we would still see fuel prices about as high as they are.

Nobody sells a product for less than the market has demonstrated a
willingness to pay.

Like the oil company apologists keep repeating, it's a matter of
supply and demand.
They will reluctantly supply us with as much as we want as long as we
pay whatever they demand. Once again this summer we'll eclipse all
previous price records as BIGOIL continues to discover whether
there's
a price point beyond which we won't buy refined products. So far,
they
haven't found it.

And if we drilled ANWR until it looked like swiss cheese, we would
still be paying about the same for gas and diesel but BIGOIL would
have an additional supply of raw material.

jps' lament that he would buy a boat if he could tolerate the price
of
fuel is being repeated
about 100,000 times across the country this year. Those of us who
enjoy motorized recreation (boats, RV's, light planes, etc) will be
gob-smacked with some major paradigm shifts in the next 2-3 years.

As I have stated before, the oil companies need to have citizen
oversight on their financial operations, among other controls.
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Where was the tears when a few years ago, the oil companies were making
2% on their money? One of the causes for the mergers.
You actually believe that they were making 2%?

You actually believe unions pension funds are honest? If oil companies
were making more money they would not have been consolidations.

If union pension fund officers aren't honest, they go to prison. All union
pension fund officers are bonded. If money turns up missing or
misappropriated as a result of the actions of the officers, the bonding
company ensures that the offenders are prosecuted in criminal courts. The
conviction rate is very, very high.

Bwaaaaaaha. . . . .