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.