On May 7, 3:59�pm, Wayne.B wrote:
On 7 May 2007 15:06:51 -0700, Chuck Gould
wrote:

You certainly succeeded in demonstrating the absurdity that either
political party controls gas prices.

Oil companies control gas prices.

So buy an oil company, or at least a few shares in one. *Prices are
reasonable and most pay a decent dividend.

The truth is that oil companies buy their feedstock and sell their
product in open auction markets. *Find out who is bidding up prices
and ask them to stop. *This all involves a radical new economic theory
called supply and demand.

As an alternative you can move to Venezuela. *They are subsidizing the
price of petro products to their citizens at dirt cheap prices. * Some
day they will still have low prices but nothing left to sell.

I don't begrudge the oil companies' right to be greedy as hell.
In fact, unless we want to become a socialist society and economy this
porice gouging just comes with the territory.

Theoretically, their rape and pillage pricing creates more opportunity
for alternative energy technologies to become viable. We've had
alternative energy in boating for centuries....it's called sailing. I
wouldn't be excited about making the switch to sail, but if were just
getting into boating today I'd be more likely than before to take up
sailing and fuel prices would be a major factor in that equation.