Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:07:16 -0700
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Fuel Price Gouging - Again - It jumped nearly $1 locally here
withing in just a few hours.
In-Reply-To: <m18wtwivfq.fsf@cs.indiana.edu>
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Dear price gaugers and mutual fund users
right on allan -- well said
and anyone who is involved in a 401 K (American) or CPP (Canadian)
or any sort of work place funded oension is involved in mutual funds or
stocks of some sort
so is anyone who owns an insurance policy on any item they have -
_insurance companies take your $$ premium :$$ Insured replacement value and
then invest that in re-insurance and other companies who play the money
markets -
workers compensation is done that way too - so are all group health care
plans -
so --- as Allan says - it is what it is a commodity -
all the legislation in the world will not change that -
the 68 VW Van sold for about 3K-to 5K - $$$ -
when new ---
and the present owner demands 10K$ simply cause it is running --
you bet -
$$ for fuel is an easy equation -
stop driving -
Read Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
Read The Iron Heel (Jack London)
and be glad that we are living in the time we live in
cause in the mid 1700's to mid 1800's Women were working the street as
prostitutes and the going rate was low cause there were so many
the reason they were doing this was because they were widows or cast outs
with children and no steady man to support them -
ancient proverbs read that-- only a fool says those days were better than
these --
yours
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 8:19 PM, Allan Streib <streib@cs.indiana.edu> wrote:
> John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET> writes:
>
> > It's a rip, and ought to be stopped - at least until the next round of
> > fuel tanker deliveries. The fuel in the ground was purchased at prices
> > based on sales calculated around $3.50 to $3.60 per gallon. There is no
> > justification for this except greed, pure and simple.
>
> Do you feel the same when the mutual fund shares you bought for $X per
> share are now worth X + 10?
>
> Gasoline is a commodity. Prices change all the time. What someone paid
> for it
> last week has nothing to do with it.
>
> Allan
> --
> 1991 Vanagon GL
>
--
roger w
There are two kinds of jobs in the world:
Picking up garbage and telling people things.
Successful people do both, with the same good attitude. (riw)
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