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thats pretty good your car is good on gas some people have to pay 50 dallars every 40 miles
$50.00 every 40 miles?..... What do you drive an Abrahms M-1? I drive a Chevy Silverado 2500 HD 4X4 and $50 gets me 150 miles. Of course thats down here in FLAT as a pancake Florida. But when I went to Mountainous Kentucky last week I still got about 140 miles per $50 and on the Interstate on the way up there I got about 200 miles per (gas was a lil cheaper)
I am. I have to travel about 60 miles tomorrow round trip to work. At $3.56 a gal & 15 mpg thats going to cost me $14.24 & burn up 4 gallons of gas. I know gas will continue to climb with no end in sight & food & utilities will as well. I bet we see the $5.00 mark by summer. I believe this is all about filthy greed & nothing more.
Nope.
Just filled up yesterday...$96. But that will last me a month. I just don't drive much, and when I do drive for pleasure, it's on my Harley... which gets over 50MPG.
I noticed on TV news that the 4 big gas companies made collectively 74 BILLION $$ in profit last year and it seems they are hurting and need tax breaks and gvmnt subsidies and also need to raise gas prices up to $4+gal. Some ones getting hosed big time and it aint the gas companies.
What I love about this is the oil companies are calling the congressmen who are talking about doing away with the subsidies... UNPATRIOTIC... the only unpatriotic ones I see are the oil companies. They used to prosecute companies for price gouging back in the days American politicians had a real set! Now that the politicians all sit side saddle companies will do whatever they can to screw the average consumer.
What I love about this is the oil companies are calling the congressmen who are talking about doing away with the subsidies... UNPATRIOTIC... the only unpatriotic ones I see are the oil companies. They used to prosecute companies for price gouging back in the days American politicians had a real set! Now that the politicians all sit side saddle companies will do whatever they can to screw the average consumer.
Seemed like the 5 guys at the table representing the oil companies were threatening withdrawal from the US market if the subsidies and tax breaks didnt continue..May be an unpatriotic attitude but unAmerican is not what i'd call the ultimate heartlessness of capitalism gone mad..
That old quote of "Live by the sword,Die by the sword" comes to mind when thinking of todays capitalism in America today...
What I love about this is the oil companies are calling the congressmen who are talking about doing away with the subsidies... UNPATRIOTIC... the only unpatriotic ones I see are the oil companies. They used to prosecute companies for price gouging back in the days American politicians had a real set! Now that the politicians all sit side saddle companies will do whatever they can to screw the average consumer.
you do know that oil companies actually pay taxes?
you do know that the government takes more of your money in taxes from gasoline than the oil companies- which do all the work of extracting the oil and employing americans in good-paying jobs?
you do know that our own government is using your money to subsidize oil exploration and development in countries like colombia and brazil?
you do know that cuba is drilling for oil 60 miles off our coast in florida, but we are not?
you do know that companies in our country had to actually sue the US government to get a drilling ban lifted?
Seemed like the 5 guys at the table representing the oil companies were threatening withdrawal from the US market if the subsidies and tax breaks didnt continue..May be an unpatriotic attitude but unAmerican is not what i'd call the ultimate heartlessness of capitalism gone mad..
That old quote of "Live by the sword,Die by the sword" comes to mind when thinking of todays capitalism in America today...
If they withdraw from the US market wouldn't that then guarantee the tax breaks and subsidies would stop. As for the unpatriotic comment that is what was reported on CBS news as having been said the oil companies called the congressmen who raised the issue of stopping the subsidies. I never said unAmerican
Yes I do know that they pay taxes on their 70 Billion dollar profit. but no doubt not as much as they should pay. (they have good tax atty's)
Cubas drilling for oil...GREAT now we just have to run a pipeline 90 miles and we in Florida are good to go...send a note to Pres Castro...Dear Fidel: We will let you send us 1 refugee for every 10,000 gallons of oil you sell us. Sounds like a win win he gets rid of some dissidents we get oil and Marimba bands.
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