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kane · 05-21-2008, 01:24 PM

They say that oil companies only make about 10cents profit for every dollar they invest, but that they make so much money because they sell so much gas that it adds up fast.

I think people get pissed about a couple of different things. First is that they keep saying it is a refinery problem and we are refining as fast as we can but can't keep up with the demand and that causes prices to rise, yet they don't seem to work on building new refineries. Second is that prices seem to go up randomly. Here where I live prices went up 15 cents a gallon just for mother's day weekend. On Friday morning the stations in my town were at around $3.68 that afternoon the price was up to $3.83. It stayed that way until Monday morning then went down to $3.70. It seems like every day the price goes up a few cents, yet they will tell us that the oil they buy today will not actually be gas in our takes for a few months. It is frustrating to people when they are at the mercy of the gas company and they seem to raise the price whenever they feel like it and you don't have any choice but to pay it.

Anyway, I think these are a couple of reasons people get pissed off.

05-21-2008, 01:24 PM
kane Too lazy to set a custom title Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: portland, OR Posts: 20,684	They say that oil companies only make about 10cents profit for every dollar they invest, but that they make so much money because they sell so much gas that it adds up fast. I think people get pissed about a couple of different things. First is that they keep saying it is a refinery problem and we are refining as fast as we can but can't keep up with the demand and that causes prices to rise, yet they don't seem to work on building new refineries. Second is that prices seem to go up randomly. Here where I live prices went up 15 cents a gallon just for mother's day weekend. On Friday morning the stations in my town were at around $3.68 that afternoon the price was up to $3.83. It stayed that way until Monday morning then went down to $3.70. It seems like every day the price goes up a few cents, yet they will tell us that the oil they buy today will not actually be gas in our takes for a few months. It is frustrating to people when they are at the mercy of the gas company and they seem to raise the price whenever they feel like it and you don't have any choice but to pay it. Anyway, I think these are a couple of reasons people get pissed off.