A GIANT MIDDLE FINGER For Exxon-Mobil And The Rest Of Them!!

[mermaid]

Here's a big FUCK YOU from me to Exxon-Mobil and the other oil companies for your price-gouging ways that are pauperizing Americans.

Rmember a time, a couple years ago, when crude dropped below $40 a barrel, and we asked why the price wasn't going down at the pump...and we were told it took six weeks for the supply price to get reflected at the pumps?

NOW, in the wake of Katrina...it hasn't taken SIX FUCKING SECONDS for the supply price to get reflected at the pumps!! Naturally!! The price is going UP. These fucking oil companies always have an excuse, though, don't they?

I don't know about where YOU are...but where I am at (Northeastern Pennsylvania) gas prices shot up FORTY FUCKING CENTS, just like that! Just where is your average Joe/Jane Sixpack commuter to work supposed to come up with that extra money so that they can just get to and from work...and how much more of this can our economy sustain before we end up in a recession or depression?

Now, here's what I want to know....why does it take six weeks for a downward price to get reflected at the pumps, and yet, an upward price gets put on gas THAT WAS ALREADY AT THE DAMN GAS STATION!!

Shit, my mom told me yesterday about a woman in New Jersey who went starkers at a gas station yesterday, because gas there was $2.79, and she was in line...and, just as she pulled up to the pump, the price went up to $3.25!! Hell, I'd go starkers, too, if that were me!! Here I am, in line for $2.79, and just as I get to the pump, they raise the price damn near 50 cents?!?!

They'd be lucky if I didn't ram their pumps on my way out!

[SCDem]

1. I;m buying strickly from Citgo now adays.

[ladjf]

2. Are you aware the their 8.9 billion profit for the previous

quarter was the largest profit ever made by an American company for any quarter? Hmm, could there be a connection between their profits and our prices? America, you might be the dumbest Country on the planet. Wake the F..k up!

[UrbScotty]

3. Sometimes, I can't help but to nominate a thread.

This would be one of those times.

[Hav]

4. .

Here they raised the prices 8 cents/litre from one day to the other. They said that 4 cents weren't enough, they would have made a loss...
Now it's around, 1,38 Euros per litre.

To your other point about lowering prices...yeah, it's pretty obvious why they do it. Some time ago this was mentioned in a report and for every day that they didn't lower their prices, they made millions more...millions every fukking day.

[TheFarseer]

5. The explanation I heard

Most gas stations don't have alot of cash on hand. Gas stations have to charge more for gas right now or else they will not have enough money to buy the next shipment. Just telling you what I heard. Sounds pretty suspect to me though.

[Tinoire]

6. Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!

Buy Your Gas at Citgo: Join the BUY-cott!
by Jeff Cohen

Looking for an easy way to protest Bush foreign policy week after week? And an easy way to help alleviate global poverty? Buy your gasoline at Citgo stations.
And tell your friends.

Of the top oil producing countries in the world, only one is a democracy with a president who was elected on a platform of using his nation's oil revenue to benefit the poor. The country is Venezuela. The President is Hugo Chavez. Call him "the Anti-Bush."

Citgo is a U.S. refining and marketing firm that is a wholly owned subsidiary of Venezuela's state-owned oil company. Money you pay to Citgo goes primarily to Venezuela -- not Saudi Arabia or the Middle East. There are 14,000 Citgo gas stations in the US. (Click here http://www.citgo.com/CITGOLocator/StoreLocator.jsp to find one near you.) By buying your gasoline at Citgo, you are contributing to the billions of dollars that Venezuela's democratic government is using to provide health care, literacy and education, and subsidized food for the majority of Venezuelans.


Instead of using government to help the rich and the corporate, as Bush does, Chavez is using the resources and oil revenue of his government to help the poor in Venezuela. A country with so much oil wealth shouldn't have 60 percent of its people living in poverty, earning less than $2 per day. With a mass movement behind him, Chavez is confronting poverty in Venezuela. That's why large majorities have consistently backed him in democratic elections. And why the Bush administration supported an attempted military coup in 2002 that sought to overthrow Chavez.

So this is the opposite of a boycott. Call it a BUYcott. Spread the word.

(snip)

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0516-25.htm

[movie_girl99]

12. but Citgo has been increasing their prices as well

I would buy Citgo but in my area it's more expensive than some of the others.

[Mist]

18. Thanks for that Citgo locater--very helpful! n/t

[DistressedAmerican]

7. Nominated! Price Gouging MoFos!

[fasttense]

8. Yesterday at 4 pm the sign outside the gas station read $2.79.

When I got to the pump it was $2.95. When my son got gas at 7 pm it was $2.99. Yet Market Watch is saying the average price for a gallon of unleaded regular is $2.68. Here in the backwaters of East TN we are paying $2.99? Where can I get this $2.68 price???

[mermaid]

9. OK, I'm Going To Shamelessly Whore For This One

I'm up to four nominations, and never had a topic I started get on the Greatest Page. I'm trolling for a fifth nomination.

[converted_democrat]

10. Done..........n/t

[roguevalley]

11. Exxon is STILL fucking over the fishermen up here from the oil spill.

May they all rot forever in hell and burn to death every five minutes.

[Just Me]

13. The intentional exploitation is phenomenally grotesque.

The fact that they are perpetually allowed to get away with such exploitation is worse.

Record profits off human tragedy. SICK!!! :puke:

[bvar22]

14. At one time in the US, GOUGING was illegal.

A Windfall Profits Tax would have been applied and used to mitigate the worst of the Corporate gouging excesses.
This prevented MONOPOLIES from gouging.

FREE MARKET Capitalism SUCKS!!!
UNRESTRAINED CAPITALISM SUCKS!!!!
The OWNERSHIP Society SUCKS!!!

Record Prices + Record Profits= Market Rigging!!!!

Those two (Record Prices and Record Profits) should NEVER occur in a Healthy Economy!
Democratic Capitalism (Capitalism that is accountable to the public through their government),
and Level Field Competition Regulation would ABSOLUTELY prevent this.


Founder of the Republican Ownership Society




The Democratic Party is a BIG TENT, but there is NO ROOM for those who advance the agenda of THE RICH (Corporate Owners) at the EXPENSE of LABOR and the POOR.

[Pacifist Patriot]

15. I'd love to see a class action suit for gouging.

[sunnystarr]

16. Consider yourself lucky ...

They were paying SIX FUCKIN DOLLARS a gallon in Atlanta ... Here in Nashville gas stations are running out of gas and you can only by premium at many. If this continues there will be a revolt.

[RedCloud]

17. Starve Exxon monster, starve!

[bejammin075]

19. My gas up 50cents in one day, up 80cents over a few days

In just one day, I saw prices move up 50 cents within one day (between driving to work and from work). From $2.80 to $3.20. Then today at $3.40. The couple days before it was $2.80, it was like $2.60. I'm in suburbs near Philadelphia. That hike is like $0.80 in a few days. Wow. Never thought I'd see that. From what I've read here and there, this could just be the beginning. Soon we will say hello to $4.00 or more, probably.