I've watched the big energy and oil continually creep up what the majority of sheeple will accept as ah, acceptable top price they will pay to the gas monopoly before squealing. I remember being pissed that gas passed 1.25, then it stayed above 1.40. Then screaming when, (I was driving when gas was under 75 cents a gal..) gas settled at 1.75 after hitting 2 bucks...and we sheeple again accepted 1.75 as the bar... it was 2.25 next, then just recently (although we haven't seen it) we thought 2.50 will be the lowest we'll see in years....and now? 3 f'n 20 is OKAY?
And oh, if anyone hadn't noticed, the big oil industry is more than happy to announce almost every year breaking profit records.... conversely, oil barons actually appear to stay a little more quiet about profits in the past 5 years, but they can't hide it all when they are public companies. All this while it is a known fact that these companies have shuttered refineries all over the place... and it's not because people don't want to work... what we do refine, mostly gets sold overseas, where obviously they get more for the product plus their money stays safe in overseas and offshore accounts, and they don't pay taxes on that profit...
Also, watched a internal corporate meeting of natural gas groups that my producer friend was editing and the fat ass exec stated he wants natural gas priced the same as oil and they are going to do it. When someone in the meeting asked how could they do that when nat gas is plentiful, distributed differently and a whole different model of product that we have almost no dependency on any other country to supply what we need...? His answer? "I don't know, but we're going to raise the prices because we want to..."
Am I the only one that has a problem with something like that...? I'm all for making profits, paying people good wage. But this greed is all at the top and there's NO trickle down...
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