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Who is price gouging?

I keep hearing about price gouging with the price of gas nearing (or topping) $3 a gallon.

The media is making big news of investigations and legislation regarding price gouging.

Of course, the definition is never discussed, so you know it's just more "bread and circuses". All of the legislation will be dependent upon some as yet terminology that sounds very subjective.

It all sounds good on the television. Look! The government is doing something about the high price of gas!

Well, not really. Supply and demand set the price. The price of oil is up, and the cost of gas is up. It's pretty simple.

They have high reserves, but thanks to the Eco-Radicals, there are no new refineries to turn that oil into gas.

And with 15,000,000 illegal aliens, there is much more demand. Apparently, Old-English lettering isn't aerodynamic.

But, with the price of gas up, people are all screaming. They don't care that Islamic radicals have sworn to kill us. They just are pissed that they can't get their 40 oz. because they had to spend more to fill their tank. And don't ask anyone to give up their big vehicle.

But let's look at gas, and figure out who is really gouging.

The "evil" oil companies, the favorite target of Leftists everywhere, make about $.08 - $.09 per gallon. The Federal Government taxes $.445 on the same gallon - they make about 5 times as much as those "evil" oil companies, and they don't even do any of the work!

So, the next time you pull into the gas station, just think that the people who are accusing the oil companies of "gouging" are really gouging you. It's called "projection".

How these people can stand there in Washington and accuse the oil companies of gouging shows their utter contempt for you as a person. They believe you're so stupid that they can keep fucking you, while pointing the finger at someone else.

And when you hear them complaining about a $400,000,000 retirement package for the CEO of ExxonMobil, just remember that the same assholes said NOTHING about Michael Eisner's $550,000,000 package. You see, when you're a Liberal making money "preying" on children, you're a saint. When you operate a company that provides a resource to power the economy of this Country and you're a Conservative, then you're evil.

And don't even get me started on how Patrick Kennedy gets away with DWI without so much as a breath test for crashing his car in the middle of the night (without his lights on), but any one of us would have been arrested for suspicion of DWI on the spot.

The sad part is that these morons keep getting elected. We should expect more - and demand much more.

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