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 >
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