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Re: It gets messy-er - MG/ROVER

To: ATWEDITOR@aol.com
Subject: Re: It gets messy-er - MG/ROVER
From: Elliott and Martha DeGraff <degraff@erols.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:23:12 -0400
And when the price of gasoline (including state and federal taxes) 
approaches that of bottled water, I might start to get upset.
Elliott DeGraff
2 71Bs and a 72B

ATWEDITOR@aol.com wrote:

>
>
>David,
> 
>The Internet is a vast sea of misinformation and poorly remembered facts,  
>but this statement below, unless tongue-in-cheek, really is a topper.  It  was 
>first the oil shortage, THEN the windfall profits tax.  In a curious  
>arrangement that exists to today, when the source price of this commodity goes 
> up, the 
>oil companies use the opportunity to increase their profit margin, and  their 
>profits soar while the users--that would be us--get shafted twice.
> 
>Jay Donoghue
>72 B-GT
>66 Mustang
> 
> 
>In a message dated 4/21/2005 11:35:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
>david_breneman@yahoo.com writes:
>
>--- Max  Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>Oh, you mean like the  US credit card, oil and health insurance
>>companies?
>>
>> <g>
>>    
>>
>
>I'm with you on usury and insurance (of any type) but  oil
>companies are, in my opinion, great benefactors of mankind.
>And they  usually get nothing but grief from the government
>(remember the "windfall  profits tax" that caused the oil
>shortages of the 1970s?).
>
>
>David  Breneman    




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