25 days till we run out of diesel fuel

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K-town Vol Fan said:
https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/02/investing/shell-earnings-profits-intl-hnk/index.html

While we were busy complaining about gas prices and putting Biden "I did that" stickers on pumps...oil companies were doubling profits. This has to stop.
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Oil companies aren’t allowed to be profitable? We’re capitalists, not communists or socialists. Profitable companies pay income taxes and pay salaries which are also taxed. Plus shareholders are paid dividends (which are usually taxed) and traders have capital gains which are also usually taxed.
 
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So next time I see one of y'all complaining about gas prices "well oil companies have to make money too."
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
So next time I see one of y'all complaining about gas prices "well oil companies have to make money too."
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When we have inflation, profits rise as do salaries. If you want the price of gas to fall, have your party stop threatening to end the use of fossil fuels. But let’s be honest, you don’t want that. You want the companies to fall
 
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Vol8188 said:
When we have inflation, profits rise as do salaries. If you want the price of gas to fall, have your party stop threatening to end the use of fossil fuels. But let’s be honest, you don’t want that. You want the companies to fall
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This "inflation" is kinda starting to look manufactured by huge companies posting record profits. Who woulda thought
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
This "inflation" is kinda starting to look manufactured by huge companies posting record profits. Who woulda thought
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Lmfao we told the entire world they couldn’t work and we continued to print money. But you’re right. We just have inflation because the companies are real mean.

I’m curious when gas prices fall do you praise their benevolence?
 
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Vol8188 said:
Lmfao we told the entire world they couldn’t work and we continued to print money. But you’re right. We just have inflation because the companies are real mean.

I’m curious when gas prices fall do you praise their benevolence?
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NO. They play this game often. Wait for some trumped-up excuse to raise prices. Drop them a bit before the public goes really ballistic. Wash, rinse, repeat. Been going on for decades because they know Americans in particular have short memories, and shorter attention spans. Benevolence doesn't exist among oil company parasites. They're just a disease that goes into relapse, then comes back more vicious than before. Is there a vaccine for that? Yes, but the public is too dimwitted to administer it.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
NO. They play this game often. Wait for some trumped-up excuse to raise prices. Drop them a bit before the public goes really ballistic. Wash, rinse, repeat. Been going on for decades because they know Americans in particular have short memories, and shorter attention spans. Benevolence doesn't exist among oil company parasites. They're just a disease that goes into relapse, then com back more vicious than before. Is there a vaccine for that? Yes, but the public is too dimwitted to administer it.
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The more you post, the more impressively misinformed you show yourself to be.
 
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Vol8188 said:
The more you post, the more impressively misinformed you show yourself to be.
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Another one of you folks who shouldn't eat snow without four drops of vanilla extract and a teaspoon of sugar. Trying to hide that you have neither an original or truthful thought in or out of your head.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
Another one of you folks who shouldn't eat snow without four drops of vanilla extract and a teaspoon of sugar. Trying to hide that you have neither an original or truthful thought in or out of your head.
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I have no clue what any of that has to do with your ignorance of supply and demand.

“The companies just randomly increase the price until people notice and get mad at them!” Lmfao
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
NO. They play this game often. Wait for some trumped-up excuse to raise prices. Drop them a bit before the public goes really ballistic. Wash, rinse, repeat. Been going on for decades because they know Americans in particular have short memories, and shorter attention spans. Benevolence doesn't exist among oil company parasites. They're just a disease that goes into relapse, then comes back more vicious than before. Is there a vaccine for that? Yes, but the public is too dimwitted to administer it.
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So........... just to recap they are no different than politicians, other publicly traded companies, local sellers and just about everyone else in the world ............... Got it!
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
Oil companies aren’t allowed to be profitable? We’re capitalists, not communists or socialists. Profitable companies pay income taxes and pay salaries which are also taxed. Plus shareholders are paid dividends (which are usually taxed) and traders have capital gains which are also usually taxed.
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Yes but don’t complain that it’s the president’s fault
 
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KB5252 said:
So........... just to recap they are no different than politicians, other publicly traded companies, local sellers and just about everyone else in the world ............... Got it!
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Guess so, see, cheaters gonna cheat, liars gonna lie, the greedy gonna greed.
 
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Vol8188 said:
The greedy are the reason you live the amazing life you do.
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Nope, they're the reason I had to scratch and claw my way out of poverty, and now fight like hell to hang on to what I got.
As they are on a never-ending quest to find ways to use their rigged system designed to suckle at my wallet in myriad ways.
 
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WoodsmanVol said:
Nope, they're the reason I had to scratch and claw my way out of poverty, and now fight like hell to hang on to what I got.
As they are on a never-ending quest to find ways to use their rigged system designed to suckle at my wallet in myriad ways.
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Who is they? The world?
 
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