And when the price of gasoline (including state and federal taxes)
approaches that of bottled water, I might start to get upset.
Elliott DeGraff
2 71Bs and a 72B
ATWEDITOR@aol.com wrote:
>
>
>David,
>
>The Internet is a vast sea of misinformation and poorly remembered facts,
>but this statement below, unless tongue-in-cheek, really is a topper. It was
>first the oil shortage, THEN the windfall profits tax. In a curious
>arrangement that exists to today, when the source price of this commodity goes
> up, the
>oil companies use the opportunity to increase their profit margin, and their
>profits soar while the users--that would be us--get shafted twice.
>
>Jay Donoghue
>72 B-GT
>66 Mustang
>
>
>In a message dated 4/21/2005 11:35:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
>david_breneman@yahoo.com writes:
>
>--- Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>Oh, you mean like the US credit card, oil and health insurance
>>companies?
>>
>> <g>
>>
>>
>
>I'm with you on usury and insurance (of any type) but oil
>companies are, in my opinion, great benefactors of mankind.
>And they usually get nothing but grief from the government
>(remember the "windfall profits tax" that caused the oil
>shortages of the 1970s?).
>
>
>David Breneman
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