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But you also screw those you're trying to help like me Posted by Saabpilot [Email]  (#134) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Saabpilot) on Fri, 21 May 2004 19:05:03
In Reply to: Perhaps Mobil Exxon boycott should get traction, RayV, Fri, 21 May 2004 06:20:10 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
because I'm an outside sales person. Whether I like it or not I rely on gasoline for my car and diesel for my trucks (I sell ambulances and rescue trucks) to get me and my product in front of the potential customer. If I stop driving I don't make money. My job can't be done from a desk or via the internet. Same with everyone on the food chain who uses a vehicle as part of their job. Think about delivery people, landscapers, car parts delivery guys, ad infinitum. [Not to mention the ambulances I sell can't run without fuel!]
I agree these prices are outlandish but the oil companies are likely just keeping the same profit margin they've always had as the price of crude goes up and down. Not that I'm in their pocket, believe me. I find it unbelievable how every station on the same stretch of road magically raises prices within the same hour and just by sheer coincidence it happens on the same days of the week each week. Around here (Central Ohio) you wait till Monday to fill up if you can stretch it, and then refill by Thursday afternoon. Of course those of us who use vehicles for business like I said are screwed because we need fuel often and can't stretch a tank very often.
Maybe a real solution would entail using substantially more of our own natural resources instead of being blackmailed by the oil rich countries. We have so many resources available here but the left wing fringe won't allow us to tap them (sorry to anger some of you who I'm sure don't agree with me). And before you start screaming at me, the engines in the products I sell have now undergone three rounds of serious EPA emissions compliance in order to clean up their emissions. Guess what? The emissions compliance has led to less fuel economy so now it takes MORE FUEL to run these trucks! By the way, the other result was higher prices for the engines which means the entire product costs more and no, we didn't eat it, we passed it on to our customers, 95% of whom fund their purchases through your tax dollars! Unfortunately it's a vicious cycle. If we eat a price increase then we make less profit and we eventually go out of business. Until / unless someone in our government gets serious about this issue it will never change, and that includes the present and future administrations. Bush has put his foot down on terrorism, despite political opposition that doesn't care about security unless it's their own personal political security. If only the same could happen on this issue we'd all be better off. Sooner or later as prices escalate their will be a public, collective breaking point we'll all reach and we'll scream for real change.
As long as we're on the subject, the people screaming to release oil from our stragegic reserves should be immediately shipped to Afghanistan and Iraq. Regardless of how you feel on those two battlefronts the fact is that we're AT WAR. What kind of irresponsible idiot would draw down our strategic reserves in a time of war?
My $.02 worth....
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