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Originally Posted by Army_of_One  the price of a lot of things has quadrupled over any given time. Have you checked the price of corn lately? What's your point? |
And most of the increases are directly attributtable to the price of oil.
When oil goes up four and five fold, the cost to deliver all goods in the country go up accordingly. Food, clothing, chemicals, fertilizers....I think you get the picture. You should, it's been brought to your attention many times. Corn is up as a result of these high oil prices. Not only has the cost to produce it gone up, but we have started another government sponsored boondoggle to try and offset the high price of oil and we all know how much you dislike government boondoggles. It called ethanol production. So the increase in the cost of a bushel of corn is DIRECTLY linked to the increase in the cost of a barrell of oil. In more ways than one.
Now what's my point you ask? My point is simply the point I made earlier in the thread. I think maybe big oil should be compelled to give up some of their grotesque profits to finance your hero's messy little war. They are the one's who seem to be profitting the most from it. What you fail to see Mr Army man is this, they wouldn't be giving up any of THEIR money in the first place. It's your and my money. We gave it to them in exchange for goods delivered. Goods in the form of exhorbitant energy prices. Whenever ANYTHING goes up in price for WHATEVER reason, the consumer (that's you and I) foot the bill. Always been that way, always will.
Now to address your earlier comments about big oil profits contributing to your 401k plan. I hope you have a hell of a lot of oil stock in your plan to offset the direct increases to your cost of living. And remember stock boy, you can't touch these "profits" until you retire. Hell, by then you'll need a SHARE of oil stock to buy a gallon of gas. You just keep right on defending big oils felonious methods Mr. AOO. They appreciate it. They really do.