I Can't Afford My Gasoline

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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by desertfox:
[quote]Originally posted by mbdougl:
We are being screwed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MB,
If you feel you are being screwed, and that we are all being screwed, there IS a solution. Just launch a few multi-billion dollar satellites into space to scour the surface of the earth for some possible oil reserves. Then set up a multi-billion dollar program to soil test, core-drill, etc. to determine which ones merit an actual drilling. Then move multi-billion dollar equipment to that location and pay the local governments multiple billions of dollars for permission to drill. Then set about drilling until you find a good well or two. Suck the stuff up, barrel it, buy a couple of multi-million dollar tankers, and bring it home. Spend just a few million more for a refinery and make your own gasoline! Now hire tankers and send some over to my place...I'll pay just 89 cents a gallon and we'll all be happy!

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Don't be a boob. The many times over paid for infra-structure is there. And you know full well that there's absolutely NO reason for this blatant gouging. Does Enron energy price fixing scandal ring any bells? Why is it that no one ever questions the oil companies on this crap?