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LunarEclipse
Enlil's Official Story


Registered: 10/31/04
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I've written to Sam Walton on your behalf that a certain employee otherwise known as "Fireworks God" should be in marketing.
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fireworks_god
Sexy.Butt.McDanger


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LunarEclipse said: I've written to Sam Walton on your behalf that a certain employee otherwise known as "Fireworks God" should be in marketing.
Let me know when he responds...
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zorbman
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Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: GabbaDj]
#6024712 - 09/03/06 11:39 AM (17 years, 8 months ago) |
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GabbaDj said: Now your just being a pest..
Google it yourself because theirs just tooooo many links to post them all here..
The ENTIRE Enron scandle was all about the execuitives manipulating the trade of their energy commodities and their falce accounting.
You seem to be confusing a couple of things. You began by claiming that oil companies were setting prices. When I pointed out that oil companies do not set oil prices, but they are instead determined by the trading of commodity futures in open pits (think 'Trading Places' with Eddie Murphy) you brought up Enron. But Enron was not trading commodity futures- you are talking about an entirely different, smaller market there which is subject to manipulation in certain circumstances.
So once again, please put up proof that anything improper is going on in regards to oil commodity futures trading.
I would be very interested and I am sure the SEC would as well.
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lonestar2004
Live to party,work to affordit.


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Paid $1.99 a gallon today in Texas. I wonder how low it will go?
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Turn
Hey Its Free!

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Yeah 2.02 in SC this is great!
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zorbman
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LunarEclipse said: I've written to Sam Walton on your behalf that a certain employee otherwise known as "Fireworks God" should be in marketing.
Any response can be considered highly unlikely especially since Sam Walton has been dead for well over a decade.
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robbyberto
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Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: zorbman]
#6090048 - 09/22/06 12:06 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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2.19 in GA
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Liquid_Dimension
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The lowest ive seen here in NJ is $1.95 but thats real far from me...around here it's 2.29
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spacemonster
i've evaporated

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About 30 miles west of Chicago it's $2.47 now. It usually gets a bit cheaper in the fall and winter because they use fewer additives. I talked to a chemist from BP last year who told me they use a special summer blend to prevent evaporation in the high temperatures.
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Disco Cat
iS A PoiNdexteR

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Poster: Redstorm Subject: Re: $2.99 Gal
Gas prices don't affect the individual stations that much. Most stations make most of their money off of convenience items inside the store, not from the gas itself. The gas is just a means of getting people inside the store.
I've heard that story that gas stations don't make much money on gas before. If I still believed in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy I would probably believe it.
Granted, they make a higher percentage profit on cigarettes coffee and soda, but they sell a hell of a lot more gas than coffee.
My friend owned a Shell station for about 5 years, and he told me that they make hardly anything on gas, maybe a few cents per gallon, it's mainly cigarettes and other things that brings their cash in.
Gas is 94 cents here, near Vancouver, but you aren't going to hear me getting all excited about it because even tho we're all being suckered less, at this moment as gas prices fall, we're still being suckered. If seeing a lessening in gas prices like this gets the nation all excited then those who control the flux are being sent the impression that these "less than before but still high" prices are acceptable, even appreciated, and will continue to sucker people for their money.
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Economist
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Disco Cat said: Gas is 94 cents here, near Vancouver, but you aren't going to hear me getting all excited about it because even tho we're all being suckered less, at this moment as gas prices fall, we're still being suckered. If seeing a lessening in gas prices like this gets the nation all excited then those who control the flux are being sent the impression that these "less than before but still high" prices are acceptable, even appreciated, and will continue to sucker people for their money.
Can you be more specific about who is "suckering" us?
Oil prices are higher because of massive increases in demand worldwide, notably in India and China. Big increases in demand = big increases in price, it's that easy.
Now, in responding to increases in demand, OPEC worked to increase production more in the past 12 months than they ever had before, and we're now seeing the fruits of this in falling oil prices.
So again, where is the suckering coming from?
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Disco Cat
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I'm not suggesting I know the process, but when gas prices rise and fall on whims of what might happen elsewhere in the world it's obvious that the merit of the system is flimsy.
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Phred
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Petroleum is a commodity just like any other. Coffee prices, sugar prices, orange juice prices, silver and gold prices and more also rise and fall on predictions (and yes... even rumors) of what might happen somewhere in the world. It has always been that way, and always will be that way.
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Trepiodos
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Previous higher prices were a stimulus to increase production of less profitable crudes. Higher prices also had an effect upon consumption, compelling it to be held down, the rate of increases in consumption are less than before. Prices are not driven only by supply and demand, but also by psychology. Fears of disruption of oil supplies will drive up prices, as war and foreign interventions affect supplies, allocation and distribution. The perception that the U.S. is holding off on an attack upon Iran does affect crude prices towards declining just as the opposite perception drove them up earlier.
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Prisoner#1
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Disco Cat said: If seeing a lessening in gas prices like this gets the nation all excited then those who control the flux are being sent the impression that these "less than before but still high" prices are acceptable, even appreciated, and will continue to sucker people for their money.
well stated
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zorbman
blarrr


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Can you be more specific about who is "suckering" us?
Oil prices are higher because of massive increases in demand worldwide..
Do not leave supply out of the equation. If there were sufficient supply, demand would not be an issue.
I am glad that some people understand that there is no conspiracy to increase gas prices.
There is no man in a darkened room smoking a cigar and pulling a lever marked "price UP" "price DOWN".
If you want to see that go watch a David Lynch film.
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Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: zorbman]
#6094797 - 09/23/06 11:57 PM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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2.03 in AR
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AlteredAgain
Visual Alchemist


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Re: $2.99 Gal [Re: GabbaDj]
#6094978 - 09/24/06 03:54 AM (17 years, 7 months ago) |
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A gallon of gas costs twenty pennies less than a gallon of milk where i live.
The Mericans and gasoline.. what a wonderful relationship.
Keeps their mouths shut too. Good for business.
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