Comments on: Environmental Regulations, Oil Refineries & the Price of Oil http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/environmental_regulations_and_oil_refineries/ Online Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs Wed, 25 Nov 2009 22:16:38 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: herb http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/environmental_regulations_and_oil_refineries/comment-page-1/#comment-44351 herb Sat, 30 Apr 2005 12:03:30 +0000 /?p=10299#comment-44351 Wow: I have just heard another excuse to justify the high price of gas. Wow: I have just heard another excuse to justify the high price of gas.

]]> By: McGehee http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/environmental_regulations_and_oil_refineries/comment-page-1/#comment-44344 McGehee Sat, 30 Apr 2005 03:25:32 +0000 /?p=10299#comment-44344 <i>Doesen’t it seem strange that every gas station on the corner has the same price.</i> Where do you live? Gasoline prices in my neck of the woods vary considerably. However, it is true that two gas stations across from one another will keep their prices very close together, but there's a word for that, Herb, which your econ instructor must have forgotten to tell you about: <b>Competition.</b> Neither gas station owner wants to lose customers because his price is significantly higher than the other guy's. But no, I guess it's easier to believe in a conspiracy where the price charged by two stations owned by completely different people and supplied by oil companies headquartered oceans apart, are determined in the boardroom instead of right there on-site by an owner <b>who can freakin' see what the other guy across the street is charging.</b> Jeez. Hey Herb -- <a href="http://www.mistupid.com/people/page013.htm">here's your sign.</a> Doesen’t it seem strange that every gas station on the corner has the same price.

Where do you live? Gasoline prices in my neck of the woods vary considerably. However, it is true that two gas stations across from one another will keep their prices very close together, but there's a word for that, Herb, which your econ instructor must have forgotten to tell you about:

Competition.

Neither gas station owner wants to lose customers because his price is significantly higher than the other guy's.

But no, I guess it's easier to believe in a conspiracy where the price charged by two stations owned by completely different people and supplied by oil companies headquartered oceans apart, are determined in the boardroom instead of right there on-site by an owner who can freakin' see what the other guy across the street is charging.

Jeez. Hey Herb -- here's your sign.

]]> By: herb http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/environmental_regulations_and_oil_refineries/comment-page-1/#comment-44342 herb Sat, 30 Apr 2005 03:05:50 +0000 /?p=10299#comment-44342 I have heard over the past 1 1/2 years every excuse in the books to justify the rising price of gas, One week it was because of a refinery fire, the next week, it is high demand, next week, it is high crude prices, next week, it is the refinerys are peaked to capacity, Who knows what the excuse will be next month, 2 months from now and 6 months from now. All this time I see the majors quarterly reports of larger than ever profit increases. Doesen't it seem strange that every gas station on the corner has the same price. That is either the oil companies all have the same refining costs or there is one hell of a lot of price fixing going on. And what does our glorious government officials say about it, Lip Service" and a bunch of empty promiseses. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure it out. Exxon Mobile just posted a 47 percent increase in profits the last quarter. I think it is about time that Bush and his oil cronnies and the Dems. get their act together and quit screwing the people. But, what will we get??? More of the same lame excuses. I have heard over the past 1 1/2 years every excuse in the books to justify the rising price of gas, One week it was because of a refinery fire, the next week, it is high demand, next week, it is high crude prices, next week, it is the refinerys are peaked to capacity, Who knows what the excuse will be next month, 2 months from now and 6 months from now. All this time I see the majors quarterly reports of larger than ever profit increases. Doesen't it seem strange that every gas station on the corner has the same price. That is either the oil companies all have the same refining costs or there is one hell of a lot of price fixing going on. And what does our glorious government officials say about it, Lip Service" and a bunch of empty promiseses. It doesn't take a brain surgeon to figure it out. Exxon Mobile just posted a 47 percent increase in profits the last quarter. I think it is about time that Bush and his oil cronnies and the Dems. get their act together and quit screwing the people. But, what will we get??? More of the same lame excuses.

]]> By: Donald Sensing http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/environmental_regulations_and_oil_refineries/comment-page-1/#comment-44329 Donald Sensing Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:51:18 +0000 /?p=10299#comment-44329 <strong>New refineries for old military bases?</strong> New refineries for old military bases?

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