josholess
Posts:7

 | | 03/28/2008 1:54 PM |
Alert | We are getting hammered by the gas CO. making record profits and there is no relief in sight. It is driving me crazy I want to get a small car but it is so impractical for my lifestyle damn what to do???? | | | |
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RichTig
Posts:1148


 | | 03/28/2008 2:02 PM |
Alert | Buy Exxon stock. | | | |
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geewiz
Posts:266


 | | 03/29/2008 11:14 AM |
Alert | | Grin and bare it or change your lifestyle. | | | |
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Granny5X
Posts:359


 | | 03/29/2008 2:06 PM |
Alert | Move to Mexico Diesel there was $2.15 2 weeks ago, compared to $3.79 here! Go figure | | "Your future is a rainbow of beautiful memories when you hold a dream in your heart" | |
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OldTownCopa
Posts:38


 | | 03/31/2008 11:47 AM |
Alert | | The price of gas in Iraq is only 5 cents a gallon. | | | |
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chevyguy
Posts:82

 | | 03/31/2008 3:45 PM |
Alert | That's it....I'm movin to Iraq
RichTig is spot on. The gasoline companies are making billions off you, might as well make something off them. INVEST. That and buy a smart car for local commutes. I'm thinking about getting one and then just driving my truck every now and then. Who knows. lol. | | | |
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STUDGLOVE
Posts:148


 | | 03/31/2008 6:28 PM |
Alert | | thats why I drive a vespa scooter. It costs about 5 or 6 bucks to fill it up with premium and it gets 60+ mpg. | | | |
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luceee
Posts:172


 | | 03/31/2008 7:03 PM |
Alert | Or move to Venezuela, gas there is about .15 per gal!!! | | I want my tombstone to read "I told you I was sick". | |
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movinonup
Posts:117

 | | 04/07/2008 11:33 AM |
Alert | Posted By STUDGLOVE on 03/31/2008 6:28 PM
thats why I drive a vespa scooter. It costs about 5 or 6 bucks to fill it up with premium and it gets 60+ mpg.
your name is STUDGLOVE and you drive a vespa?! something doesn't add up heheh. jk.
I bought 2 Hondas. 35 and 40 mpg. it costs me less than 800 bucks a month for both cars, insurance and gas combined! I don't get why people commute in Expeditions and trucks like that. Gas prices suck, i would imagine it would put a massive dent in your wallet. But to each his own i guess. | | | |
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sysadmin
Posts:115

 | | 04/07/2008 2:48 PM |
Alert | | Hey joshoeless the gas companies are making record profits but do you know what their profit magin is? Any clue what profit margin is? | | | |
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drummer72
Posts:2911


 | | 04/07/2008 3:40 PM |
Alert | | For example, a company produces a barrel of oil and sells it for 10 units of currency. It cost the company 6 units of currency to produce the oil and it also had to pay an additional 2 units of currency in tax. | | OBAMA NATION! | |
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Cate
Posts:16

 | | 04/07/2008 5:02 PM |
Alert | | Perhaps we could urge employers to start a 10 or12 hr work day and have 3 days off one week and 4 0ff the next. That would keep emissions down and work times would be staggered easing traffic Support services would have to cooperate. I look at this as I would if we awere at war. | | | |
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Cate
Posts:16

 | | 04/07/2008 5:10 PM |
Alert | Perhaps we could urge employers to start a 10 or12 hr work day and have 3 days off one week and 4 off the next. That would keep emissions down and work times would be staggered easing traffic Support services would have to cooperate. I look at this as if we were at war. The holding companies like Navajo and 2 others, do not own the gas they store, they create shortages etc. and decide what gas goes to refineries. Thus adding to the problem. I bought a Chevy Malibu that gets 36 mpg and stock in Conoco. Watch out for detergents in cheap gas. There are no guide lines as to what the cleaner in the gas should, it could legally be Tide or Dawn . Better gas gives better milage. Convient store gas may be cheaper but you will get poorer performance there fore costing more in the long run. | | | |
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vinny
Posts:593


 | | 04/07/2008 5:34 PM |
Alert | Posted By Cate on 04/07/2008 5:02 PM
Perhaps we could urge employers to start a 10 or12 hr work day and have 3 days off one week and 4 0ff the next. That would keep emissions down and work times would be staggered easing traffic Support services would have to cooperate. I look at this as I would if we awere at war. a company i worked for tried that, their production numbers went down, even though there were still 40+ man-hours a week. lower production meant less income, so back to the standard work week we went.... | | Follow your bliss. Happiness is a conscious decision | |
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LeonPotter
Posts:382

 | | 04/07/2008 7:03 PM |
Alert | Posted By vinny on 04/07/2008 5:34 PM Posted By Cate on 04/07/2008 5:02 PM
Perhaps we could urge employers to start a 10 or12 hr work day and have 3 days off one week and 4 0ff the next. That would keep emissions down and work times would be staggered easing traffic Support services would have to cooperate. I look at this as I would if we awere at war. a company i worked for tried that, their production numbers went down, even though there were still 40+ man-hours a week. lower production meant less income, so back to the standard work week we went....
I could understand how production would go down. In those days one is a work, the days are longer. People will hit a point of not being as productive as the hour before and so on. This is the law of diminishing returns. | | You may remember this from the original 85239: Proverbs 22:7 The rich ruleth over the poor and the borrower is servant to the lender. | |
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sysadmin
Posts:115

 | | 04/07/2008 9:39 PM |
Alert | | No clue drummer72 is saying. Profit margin is a simple calculation. Net Profits divided by total gross recites times 100 gives you a percentage. If you look at what the oil companies are making today percentage wise and compare that to what they made say 20 years ago you will find the profit margin is about the same. Now if you really want to complain about companies making vary large profit margins look no further then the makeup industry. Most of those companies make 40% to 50% profit margin but I hear no one complaining about that. | | | |
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drummer72
Posts:2911


 | | 04/07/2008 10:12 PM |
Alert | Posted By sysadmin on 04/07/2008 9:39 PM
No clue drummer72 is saying. Profit margin is a simple calculation. Net Profits divided by total gross recites times 100 gives you a percentage. If you look at what the oil companies are making today percentage wise and compare that to what they made say 20 years ago you will find the profit margin is about the same. Now if you really want to complain about companies making vary large profit margins look no further then the makeup industry. Most of those companies make 40% to 50% profit margin but I hear no one complaining about that. Nice job,syssieadmin. Why would we complain about the make up industry? We need it to make you look tolerable to look at ,with the naked eye. | | OBAMA NATION! | |
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missPolitick
Posts:614


 | | 04/09/2008 9:44 AM |
Alert | | I've never understood how someone could spend $18 on MAC eyeshadow...It's a mystery. | | Despite All My Rage I Am Still Just A Rat In A Cage | |
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sysadmin
Posts:115

 | | 04/10/2008 9:27 AM |
Alert | | Missing the point of what I am trying to point out. There are many companies that are making profit margins that are far greater then the 10% the oil compaies are making and no one is complaining about. | | | |
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Stinkerbell
Posts:59

 | | 04/10/2008 9:58 AM |
Alert | Because not everyone NEEDS MAC Makeup but everyone NEEDS GASOLINE!!
I really think we need to look into alternative fuel so that there is a competition forcing them to compete for our business...BUT what do I know I am in the biz of selling makeup so I LOVE MY profit!!! :0) | | | |
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