One things not mentioned in the news about the rising and allready huge cost of the price of gasoline is this:
THE ACTUAL COST OF SUPPLY, REFINING, DISTRIBUTION HAVE NOT GONE UP.
The news stories has consumers saying things like "Well, if the price goes up, somebody has to pay for it"
{ brainwashed acceptance...]
They cite short crude oil supply, and the bottleneck at the refineries making gasoline out of crude as being the reason for the increases and high price. Although crude production is maxed out, that doesn't actually raise the cost of production, or price price at the pumps, its just an opportunity to charge more... ITS A CHOICE.
They could cite exploration costs rising due to shortages, but nobody is actually doing substantially more exploration and development. We might wonder whats going on there too, but not here.
STRANGELY, THERE IS NO SHORTAGES at the pumps.
Does anyone see that that is wrong? That if the price is high due to shortages, why can anyone go out and get as much gasoline as they like [and can afford]?
The only reason remaining is that "since there is a supply and demand advantage, we can raise the price and they will have to pay for it, nobody will undercut us"
OPEC agrees to a certain crude price, and shortages themselves do not raise that price. Its just a choice they are making.
Other sides in the global economic picture, even our PM Martin, could demand that OPEC [etc.] bring the price down due to the economic chaos of fuel at this price, chaos that could bring the various economic engines to a halt, and then nobody could afford gasoline. This kind of trade agreement is common, and good for al sides. Yet, nobody is speaking up, and the silence is deafening, as they say.
THE ACTUAL COST OF SUPPLY, REFINING, DISTRIBUTION HAVE NOT GONE UP.
The news stories has consumers saying things like "Well, if the price goes up, somebody has to pay for it"
{ brainwashed acceptance...]
They cite short crude oil supply, and the bottleneck at the refineries making gasoline out of crude as being the reason for the increases and high price. Although crude production is maxed out, that doesn't actually raise the cost of production, or price price at the pumps, its just an opportunity to charge more... ITS A CHOICE.
They could cite exploration costs rising due to shortages, but nobody is actually doing substantially more exploration and development. We might wonder whats going on there too, but not here.
STRANGELY, THERE IS NO SHORTAGES at the pumps.
Does anyone see that that is wrong? That if the price is high due to shortages, why can anyone go out and get as much gasoline as they like [and can afford]?
The only reason remaining is that "since there is a supply and demand advantage, we can raise the price and they will have to pay for it, nobody will undercut us"
OPEC agrees to a certain crude price, and shortages themselves do not raise that price. Its just a choice they are making.
Other sides in the global economic picture, even our PM Martin, could demand that OPEC [etc.] bring the price down due to the economic chaos of fuel at this price, chaos that could bring the various economic engines to a halt, and then nobody could afford gasoline. This kind of trade agreement is common, and good for al sides. Yet, nobody is speaking up, and the silence is deafening, as they say.