Quote:
Originally Posted by woj
it was an unfortunate accident...
we all want cheap gas, so companies like BP deliver that to us at a lowest possible cost... in some cases this may lead to cutting corners, which increase chances of a disaster like we just experienced...
would you rather pay $5/gallon and ensure a disaster like that is less likely to happen?
or would you rather pay $4/gallon like you are paying now? Someone has to pay for the safety features/inspections/etc and that someone is the customer...
it's easy to point fingers at someone else when something goes wrong, but we are the ones that are demanding gas at the lowest possible cost...
|
I am paying more than $5 a gallon already as I am in Canada but regardless, the fact is they don't need to raise prices to justify spending a few hundred million more on better safeguards. while their profit margins are thin the sheer volume they sell makes them such a huge profit, its like spitting in the consumers face when they feel they have to pass fines or better safeguards or whatever on instead of losing .2% profit in a quarter.