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Originally Posted by PoKo
Damn Americans... We're one of the bigger supplyers of oil (Norway) and we still pay almost $ 2 pr. liter!!!
Time you Yankees start buying some smaller cars don't you think?
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Thank you Roger. I appreciate the sentiment.
You can't change a culture overnight. Which is what the oil companies attempted to do.
Sure, I think a lot of people will buy smaller cars, but that doesn't solve the situation for many people who've recently bought larger cars and have had a budget for fuel at a certain price.
The net effect of the recent cost increases will be that Americans pay more attention to their dollars and cents by stretching a gallon further than they had.
However, don't needlessly penalize me the consumer because you the oil company can't manage your own production properly. If thigns get screwed up that should be on you, not on us.
If you fall on hard times, do you think your boss is going to say, "Look, we feel bad, here's a raise, now you make twice as much." No they wont. It's your problem.
I say that if the oil companies can't manage production and supply chain issues it's their fault not ours they should bite the bullet.