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Old Apr 1, 2008 | 11:14 PM
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From: Kelowna, British Columbia
Talking Re: Big Oil and the Truth

Someone noted that grocery stores profit margin is 2%, because people have to eat, and questioned why doesn't big oil look at it that way. Grocery stores are distributors, not manufacturers. Your local gas station is the distributor and is making only about 2% profit. Big oil is the manufacturer, just like Pepsi or Frito-Lay, and they make much more than 2% just like big oil does. Do you want to take their profit too? Let’s just take everyone’s profits? Remember we are governed by the free enterprise system. Profits are good! Live it, love it, or leave it.
I Hate to break it to you however the oil companies here in Canada own many of the gas stations. I'm sure it's happening in the Us as well. In kelowna there isnt an independent owned gas station to be found. As a result we pay rediculous prices. The US equivalent is 4.84 for a gallon of gas. The gas companies control (fix) the price. There is no basis to increase gas prices by 40 cents a gallon (10 cents/liter) because a barrel of oil happen to increase by a dollar. Gas prices can fluctuate 40 cents a gallon within miles as you approach the Vancouver greater area. The bottom line is that the gas companies are making record profits by selling less gas for more and more money.
Soon, multinational companies will own all the farms, and control world food production as well. It's happening, and it will have a profound affect on us all.
Think about the number of baby boomers who are nearing retirement. When that work force leaves it will create a huge void. So thinking like a huge corporation, and the governments they influence how can we stop this? Indebt the population!
Issue credit cards (not real money) and charge huge interests rates, while reducing the minimum payments by half (real money) Result - the average credit card holder with carry twice the debt. Put people in homes for zero down, and with 40 year mortgages - insures they will work until they drop and never own their home. Crash the housing market! Crash the stock market. It's much easier to control the working class if they are worried where their next buck is going to come from....
The American Dream is a Lie.
 
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