Date:         Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:14:10 -0600
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Subject:      Re: NVC:  Gas Prices
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Kenneth Lewis wrote:
> It could be a whole lot worse:
>
> http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lists/global_gasprices/
>


Propaganda, at its best... The media, supporting the oil companies.

The prices in those european countries, include two to three dollars in
taxes, that they pay right at the pump, but they are not taxed through
the back door. US taxpayers subsidize the oil industry here in the US,
so we pay more than that two or three dollars per gallon in all kinds of
hidden taxes, when its all added up.

I don't wish to incite a gas price war on the list, but we  must not
fall for the notion that just because some other country pays a lot for
gas, that its acceptable, and that we should not stand against gouging,
and disgusting profit margins. If all the media can do is tell us to
stop whining, because people elsewhere have it worse, then they are of
little value to us, and ought to be ignored....

I remember when the media, stood for something good and noble....