justinshattuck.com — While American citizens shell out everything one might enjoy just to drive to and from work, oil executives are loving the "fruits of labor." Its tough sitting back, watching joe blow fight to survive, while you fight to maintain the ten thousand dollar salaries.. a minute!
Jul 25, 2006 View in Crawl 4
shanednJul 26, 2006Submitter
Do you guys have the same greedy oil corporations in Canada like we do in the US?
phoenixdJul 26, 2006
Seems that way... lol.. Today's high is 116.9 cents CAN a litre or... 102.6 cents US a litrewhich is basically 410.4 cents US a gallon... How does that measure up?
justinshattuckJul 26, 2006
I can relate, here we have almost zero public transporation, unless you use the public bus system, which sucks all on its own. I wish we had a metra, metro, train, tram, subway, ANYTHING, more taxis,... affordable taxis.. hehe
shanednJul 26, 2006Submitter
I'm not sure, but I do know that the annual memorial day camping trip tends to cost more and more to get there and back :madface:
kyleraynerJul 27, 2006
"No one just talks about the price of oil and picks it eash day. Its not like the executives are all meeting and talking about $100/barrel. Its a traded commoditie..."On that note, isnt oil traded on a futures market? Meaning that the traders bet on the risk, or chance that the price may increase in the near future? Seems to me like a chance of sudden rise in price is built into every purchased barrel of oil. So, the price of oil goes up when things Might happen. However, when something Does happen, like Hurricane Katrina for example, the price goes up further? I dont get it.When something does happen, the price should stay the same, until its time to purchase oil extracted and refined After the bad event happened. BUT, when things go sour, you see the prices rise at the petrol pump immediately. Even though that oil was previously purchased at a lower price, and purchased with a future of risk in mind.I call bollocks.
equalizerAug 30, 2006
Sheesh, you libs really have your talking points down, don't you? Sorry, but Socialism has been tried and has failed; still, I welcome your departure to France where things are so much better. Please stay there, though, rather than come running back to the Capitalist-Pig U.S.