Reply #14: Yep, [View All]

[Alacrat]

They can always pull an excuse out of their ass whenever they want, to raise prices. Almost all the excuses they have used are still in play. I can't imagine, or believe for one second that oil speculators suddenly decided to sell, for some reason. I believe less than a month ago, we were told oil would be $100bbl and gas $5 a gal, when the BP pipe line went out, it's still out, we are still at war, and India and China didn't go completely hybrid. The peak of the hurricane season is this Friday, ( another of their excuses) we haven't abbra cadabbra'd a refinery in the last month either. I haven't heard one reason why, that would explain the decrease, and don't say summer driving is over, summer driving never accounted for 16-18% of consumption. I sell more gas when school starts back than I do in the summer, and if you think about it, there is an increase in travel and consumption when parents and buses start rolling everyday taking kids to school, IMO far more than what summer drive vacations would be. It's all political pandering from big oil, hoping to keep their favorite puppet and his other cast of characters at the helm of their massive, money making, public stealing/ wallet raping ship. One more thing, when gas was closer to $3 a gal, if I took a credit card, I would lose a half cent per gal, at the same time, I was the one taking all the heat for the rise in prices, people don't understand what a slim margin the end retailer has, and they think I set the price. I wish bush could have gotten some of the ass chewings and cursing I've had to take over the last few years, just so he would experience the headaches I've had. I was losing money on gas, and had to fight like hell to keep my employees through times when I really couldn't afford to do so, I managed to keep them all, they depend on me, and they all have families, I have gone months ay a time without paying myself, just to avoid laying them off. Do you think any ceo of any oil company would do the same for their employees?. I'm not trying to blow my own horn, I'm just pissed off. I'm glad to see the drop, but I may lose it, when it goes back up after the mid terms, because of the "holiday driving demand", and the "switch to heating oil crisis" mark my word, that will be their excuse in mid November.