Originally Posted By: mikemc
People do have to buy gas, but they choose what type of vehicle they buy. As long as I see the highways crowded with large trucks and SUV's, that tells me gas is not priced too high. Nomex firesuit on.
I agree, to an extent. It is to high for some. Obviously, the ones you see driving them can afford it. I get 15.5 mpg winter and 18.5 summer. Wife gets 18mpg winter, dont know summer but I am assuming 20-21. I am not new to low mpg, always have had it.
Not that I can not afford it, but it is not justified for an oil company, or any company, to make that much money. It is getting to the point that I find it annoying to pay such a high price for something that was so cheap a few years ago.
Most comapanies take some money and update/research/improve process, etc, etc, and the product becomes cheaper. Not the oil companies. We doont have the capacity, factories are down, supply is down, blah blah, lies. They state it costs too much money to build new refineries due to regulations, wai wai. LOok at all that money, tough. Both the government and oil companies are to blame because at times they are one and the same if you ask me.