It's scary that people would elect individuals who hold these ideals.

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http://www.exxonmobil.co.uk/UK-English/files/UK_DOC.pdf

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Aint but three things in this world thats worth a solitary dime,
But old dogs and children and watermelon wine.
Tom T. Hall
http://www.obamatruth.org/

Once again, I agree.

But you have to understand 2 things:

1) They have no influence at all as the Parliament consists of 179 elected people.

2) Still, they are represented in the law making institution. They can grill ministers and ask embarrasing questions in Parliament as well. This hopefully keeps their minions from otherwise causing trouble.

Please do not tell me that you believe Obama's rhetoric about price gouging. Look, let me explain something to you.

Crude oil is a little over $120 a barrel right now. A barrel contains 55 gallons of crude oil. So around $2.00 of the gas price is just for the oil company to purchase the raw materials. The other $1.50 pays for shipping it across the world, refining it in a highly complicated process, shipping the refined products around the country to their destination, trucking the oil to the gas stations, paying for the gas stations running costs, and then the small oil company profits.

Exxon pulled around 8% profit margins in 2007, I guess it is around 10% now. That is very reasonable, Microsoft pulls close to 30%. That means if you pay $3.50 a gallon for gas, they make $0.28 per gallon off us for every gallon they sell.

They raise their prices because the market price went up.

If they intentionally cut profits by 5% they would end up loosing so much money that their share holders could sue.

If you want to complain to someone about gas prices you need to do it to the countries that produce it. They set the market price because they know demand will never go down. So to drive up the price they slow production. Supply goes down, demand stays high, price goes up.

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Jones:- We're going to teach them climbing, abseiling, canoeing, archery, shooting...

Interviewer:- Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible isn't it?

Jones:- I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the range.

Interviewer:- Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?
You're equipping them to become violent killers.

Jones:- Well, you're equipped to be a prostitute but you're not one are you?

Nice post, C-D-P.

I would have something to add regarding the lack of taxes, but let that slide for the moment.

Yeah, I did it the simple way.

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Jones:- We're going to teach them climbing, abseiling, canoeing, archery, shooting...

Interviewer:- Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible isn't it?

Jones:- I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the range.

Interviewer:- Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?
You're equipping them to become violent killers.

Jones:- Well, you're equipped to be a prostitute but you're not one are you?

You explained it superbly!

My previous remark concerned why the $1.50 should be much higher due to environmental taxes.

Ok.

The one thing that I do not understand is why it is so much more expensive overseas. One of our LNOs just came back from Germany, and he said that it is about $8 a gallon over there right now.

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Jones:- We're going to teach them climbing, abseiling, canoeing, archery, shooting...

Interviewer:- Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible isn't it?

Jones:- I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the range.

Interviewer:- Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?
You're equipping them to become violent killers.

Jones:- Well, you're equipped to be a prostitute but you're not one are you?

Yes, the price in Denmark is currently about $9 per gallon. The reason, as I explained before, is that the State (Denmark) adds a whole lot of environmental taxes on to the price.

And they've been doing this for many years, so while the price increase here in this country is being felt by people, it isn't all that bad as the price of gas and oil here has always been high.

Over $5 worth of taxes? As the world market decides the price of oil, wouldn't crude cost you the same?

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Jones:- We're going to teach them climbing, abseiling, canoeing, archery, shooting...

Interviewer:- Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible isn't it?

Jones:- I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the range.

Interviewer:- Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?
You're equipping them to become violent killers.

Jones:- Well, you're equipped to be a prostitute but you're not one are you?