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Skriven 2007-03-16 12:44:54 av Roy Witt (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av ROSS SAUER (1:123/140)
Ärende: Business Logic 101
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"ROSS SAUER -> ROY WITT" <1:123/140> wrote in message
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 RS> ROY WITT said to DAN CEPPA...

 RW>> They got the idea from the 1973 oil shortage, but they didn't raise
 RW>> the price high enough then, so they took the next opportunity to do
 RW>> so later.

 DC>>> The public was happy when the proces settled about halfway
 DC>>> inbetween.  IIRC, it went from $0.50 to $1.50 and then ended
 DC>>> ut at about $1.00

 RW>> And it was there for a long time. Of course, the oil companies don't
 RW>> drive the price of fuel, consumers do.

 RS> Especially those who aren't bright enough to quit buying gas-hog
 RS> vehicles.

I'll bet you drive, if you can drive, one of those little scooters and get in
the way of everyone who drives a real car.

 RW>> Oil refineries in California can't be built because of the state
 RW>> pollution laws are worse than what the EPA mandates. So they're stuck
 RW>> with the old refineries and there hasn't been a new one built in
 RW>> decades there.

 RS> Roy, that is pure, unadulterated bullshit put out by Big Oil's
 RS> propaganda department.

What you claim is purely a large pile of bullshit. I lived in CA for 38 years
and know how the state works.
I moved out of that frickin' state because of whacko liberals like you.

 RS> Going to label this as "liberal whacko" also?

See above. When the shoe fits, well, you know.

 RS> Even though your previous labeling has *ZERO* to back it up?

Unlike you, I can speak from experience...


 RS> NEWS RELEASE
 RS> September 7, 2005

 RS> CONTACT: Jamie Court (310) 392-0522 ext 327 or Tim Hamilton (360) 495-
 RS> 4941

 RS> Internal Memos Show Oil Companies Intentionally Limited Refining
 RS> Capacity To Drive Up Gasoline Prices
 RS> Santa Monica, CA -- The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights
 RS> (FTCR) today exposed internal oil company memos that show how the
 RS> industry intentionally reduced domestic refining capacity to drive up
 RS> profits. The exposure comes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as the oil
 RS> industry blames environmental regulation for limiting number of U.S.
 RS> refineries.

 RS> The three internal memos from Mobil, Chevron, and Texaco (Click here to
 RS> read the memos.) show different ways the oil giants closed down refining
 RS> capacity and drove independent refiners out of business. The
 RS> confidential memos demonstrate a nationwide effort by American Petroleum
 RS> Institute, the lobbying and research arm of the oil industry, to
 RS> encourage the major refiners to close their refineries in the mid-1990s
 RS> in order to raise the price at the pump.

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