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Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one’s massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats’ photo op — Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast — is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year’s presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call’s crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week’s event, a relative bargain
compared with last year’s price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats’ message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up. A Democratic leadership aide,
though, sniffed that while “HOH might find” the incongruity funny, he
was certain the average American wouldn’t. (Oh, if we had a dime for
every time someone told us that.) “It doesn’t matter whether the price
is $3.05 or $3.09 — that’s still a lot to pay for working-class
Americans,” the aide said.
Still, maybe the “do-nothing” Congress is on to something: Do nothing,
and prices will drop.
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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10 May 2007 05:16:44 PM |
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"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
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Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
This is an OPINION piece. Or maybe a FOOD story.
From
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/the_revolving_door/heil_to_the_hill_41038.asp
Emily Heil will leave CongressDaily in September and join The Hill Newspaper
as their Under the Dome columnist and food editor.
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up. A Democratic leadership aide,
though, sniffed that while "HOH might find" the incongruity funny, he
was certain the average American wouldn't. (Oh, if we had a dime for
every time someone told us that.) "It doesn't matter whether the price
is $3.05 or $3.09 - that's still a lot to pay for working-class
Americans," the aide said.
Still, maybe the "do-nothing" Congress is on to something: Do nothing,
and prices will drop.
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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10 May 2007 09:39:51 PM |
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On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:16:44 -0700, "Roger" <rogerfx@hotmail.com>
wrote:
"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
news:v8f6431fgfiqt5ni59eo63dosn3e30s5fp@4ax.com...
Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
This is an OPINION piece. Or maybe a FOOD story.
From
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/the_revolving_door/heil_to_the_hill_41038.asp
Emily Heil will leave CongressDaily in September and join The Hill Newspaper
as their Under the Dome columnist and food editor.
So you agree or disagree? Do you even understand the story?
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up. A Democratic leadership aide,
though, sniffed that while "HOH might find" the incongruity funny, he
was certain the average American wouldn't. (Oh, if we had a dime for
every time someone told us that.) "It doesn't matter whether the price
is $3.05 or $3.09 - that's still a lot to pay for working-class
Americans," the aide said.
Still, maybe the "do-nothing" Congress is on to something: Do nothing,
and prices will drop.
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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11 May 2007 06:18:46 AM |
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"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
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On Thu, 10 May 2007 15:16:44 -0700, "Roger" <rogerfx@hotmail.com>
wrote:
"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
news:v8f6431fgfiqt5ni59eo63dosn3e30s5fp@4ax.com...
Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
This is an OPINION piece. Or maybe a FOOD story.
From
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlDC/the_revolving_door/heil_to_the_hill_41038.asp
Emily Heil will leave CongressDaily in September and join The Hill
Newspaper
as their Under the Dome columnist and food editor.
So you agree or disagree? Do you even understand the story?
Is it opinion or food?
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up. A Democratic leadership aide,
though, sniffed that while "HOH might find" the incongruity funny, he
was certain the average American wouldn't. (Oh, if we had a dime for
every time someone told us that.) "It doesn't matter whether the price
is $3.05 or $3.09 - that's still a lot to pay for working-class
Americans," the aide said.
Still, maybe the "do-nothing" Congress is on to something: Do nothing,
and prices will drop.
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
news:v8f6431fgfiqt5ni59eo63dosn3e30s5fp@4ax.com...
Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins, according to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in refining
margins.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today's earnings
reports show that industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the
run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very
likely hoping to influence the mid-term election. The nonpartisan group is
calling for Congressional investigations to determine whether Exxon and
others manipulated the market to affect the election...."
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"Server 13" <its@casual.com> wrote in message
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Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins, according
to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in refining
margins.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today's
earnings
reports show that industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the
run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very
likely hoping to influence the mid-term election. The nonpartisan group is
calling for Congressional investigations to determine whether Exxon and
others manipulated the market to affect the election...."
Also:
Chevron's first-quarter net income this year was $4.7 billion, up 18 percent
from 2006.
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10 May 2007 09:35:22 PM |
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On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:16:11 GMT, "TwoBrains" <Condi
republican-AlQueda@FoxNews.net> wrote:
"Server 13" <its@casual.com> wrote in message
news:f1vfes$kc3$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
news:v8f6431fgfiqt5ni59eo63dosn3e30s5fp@4ax.com...
Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins, according
to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in refining
margins.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today's
earnings
reports show that industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the
run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very
likely hoping to influence the mid-term election. The nonpartisan group is
calling for Congressional investigations to determine whether Exxon and
others manipulated the market to affect the election...."
Also:
Chevron's first-quarter net income this year was $4.7 billion, up 18 percent
from 2006.
Got oil stock?
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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10 May 2007 09:39:31 PM |
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In article <iil74351qn0a54mti62mr74g0msh6ptrr1@4ax.com>,
Captain Compassion <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:16:11 GMT, "TwoBrains" <Condi
republican-AlQueda@FoxNews.net> wrote:
"Server 13" <its@casual.com> wrote in message
news:f1vfes$kc3$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
news:v8f6431fgfiqt5ni59eo63dosn3e30s5fp@4ax.com...
Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins, according
to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in refining
margins.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today's
earnings
reports show that industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the
run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very
likely hoping to influence the mid-term election. The nonpartisan group is
calling for Congressional investigations to determine whether Exxon and
others manipulated the market to affect the election...."
Also:
Chevron's first-quarter net income this year was $4.7 billion, up 18 percent
from 2006.
Got oil stock?
I do. Life is good.
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10 May 2007 10:58:49 PM |
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On Thu, 10 May 2007 22:39:31 -0400, Harold Burton
<hal.i.burton@hotmail.com> wrote:
In article <iil74351qn0a54mti62mr74g0msh6ptrr1@4ax.com>,
Captain Compassion <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote:
On Thu, 10 May 2007 16:16:11 GMT, "TwoBrains" <Condi
republican-AlQueda@FoxNews.net> wrote:
"Server 13" <its@casual.com> wrote in message
news:f1vfes$kc3$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
news:v8f6431fgfiqt5ni59eo63dosn3e30s5fp@4ax.com...
Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins, according
to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in refining
margins.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today's
earnings
reports show that industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the
run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very
likely hoping to influence the mid-term election. The nonpartisan group is
calling for Congressional investigations to determine whether Exxon and
others manipulated the market to affect the election...."
Also:
Chevron's first-quarter net income this year was $4.7 billion, up 18 percent
from 2006.
Got oil stock?
I do. Life is good.\
If you knew that an oil man was elected president and he had an oil
vice president and you didn't invest in oil stock then you are most
likely insane.
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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11 May 2007 10:04:45 AM |
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Crappin' Compaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
If you knew that an oil man was elected president and he had an oil
vice president and you didn't invest in oil stock then you are most
likely insane.
If you knew that a failed businessman, with a family history of
bilking the public, ignoring sound financial advice as well as
ethical and legal considerations, was running for a political
office, would you buy stock in anything that appeared to be in
'conflict of interest' to the well-being of this democracy?
--It is you that is most likely insane, if not stupid..
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11 May 2007 10:18:45 AM |
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In article <4644860D.A6F64B4E@hotmail.com>,
" Kurt Lochner" <kurt_lochner@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
If you knew that a failed businessman ... was running for a political
office...
I'd think of Harry Truman.
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11 May 2007 11:53:39 PM |
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On Fri, 11 May 2007 10:04:45 -0500, " Kurt Lochner"
<kurt_lochner@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
Crappin' Compaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
If you knew that an oil man was elected president and he had an oil
vice president and you didn't invest in oil stock then you are most
likely insane.
If you knew that a failed businessman, with a family history of
bilking the public, ignoring sound financial advice as well as
ethical and legal considerations, was running for a political
office, would you buy stock in anything that appeared to be in
'conflict of interest' to the well-being of this democracy?
--It is you that is most likely insane, if not stupid..
Well I have oil stock and you don't so who's the fool?
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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12 May 2007 10:35:56 AM |
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Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
Kurt Lochner was again exploiting the pathology of:
Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
If you knew that an oil man was elected president and he had an oil
vice president and you didn't invest in oil stock then you are most
likely insane.
If you knew that a failed businessman, with a family history of
bilking the public, ignoring sound financial advice as well as
ethical and legal considerations, was running for a political
office, would you buy stock in anything that appeared to be in
'conflict of interest' to the well-being of this democracy?
--It is you that is most likely insane, if not stupid..
Well I have oil stock and you don't[..]
You again presume much, falsely, to suit your upmanship..
--Which is typical behavior from an insecure right-wing zealot..
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12 May 2007 11:41:18 AM |
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On Sat, 12 May 2007 10:35:56 -0500, Kurt Lochner
<kurt_lochner@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
Kurt Lochner was again exploiting the pathology of:
Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
If you knew that an oil man was elected president and he had an oil
vice president and you didn't invest in oil stock then you are most
likely insane.
If you knew that a failed businessman, with a family history of
bilking the public, ignoring sound financial advice as well as
ethical and legal considerations, was running for a political
office, would you buy stock in anything that appeared to be in
'conflict of interest' to the well-being of this democracy?
--It is you that is most likely insane, if not stupid..
Well I have oil stock and you don't[..]
You again presume much, falsely, to suit your upmanship..
--Which is typical behavior from an insecure right-wing zealot..
So you have oil stock and a degree in physics. Life must indeed be
sweet.
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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| Title: Re: Low on Gas |
12 May 2007 03:33:26 PM |
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Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
Kurt Lochner pointed out the fallacy arguments from:
Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
Kurt Lochner was again exploiting the pathology of:
Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
If you knew that an oil man was elected president and he had an oil
vice president and you didn't invest in oil stock then you are most
likely insane.
If you knew that a failed businessman, with a family history of
bilking the public, ignoring sound financial advice as well as
ethical and legal considerations, was running for a political
office, would you buy stock in anything that appeared to be in
'conflict of interest' to the well-being of this democracy?
--It is you that is most likely insane, if not stupid..
Well I have oil stock and you don't[..]
You again presume much, falsely, to suit your upmanship..
--Which is typical behavior from an insecure right-wing zealot..
So you have oil stock
Dunno, haven't checked the portfolio recently, most likely not..
and a degree in physics. Life must indeed be sweet.
*>LOL!<* You have no idea how my life is, and yet you again
have resorted to inferring that which suits your pseudologic
which completely avoids the fact mentioned above..
--Which is typical behavior from an insecure right-wing zealot..
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| User: "Captain Compassion" |
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12 May 2007 07:28:48 PM |
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On Sat, 12 May 2007 15:33:26 -0500, Kurt Lochner
<kurt_lochner@NOSPAMhotmail.com> wrote:
Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
Kurt Lochner pointed out the fallacy arguments from:
Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
Kurt Lochner was again exploiting the pathology of:
Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
If you knew that an oil man was elected president and he had an oil
vice president and you didn't invest in oil stock then you are most
likely insane.
If you knew that a failed businessman, with a family history of
bilking the public, ignoring sound financial advice as well as
ethical and legal considerations, was running for a political
office, would you buy stock in anything that appeared to be in
'conflict of interest' to the well-being of this democracy?
--It is you that is most likely insane, if not stupid..
Well I have oil stock and you don't[..]
You again presume much, falsely, to suit your upmanship..
--Which is typical behavior from an insecure right-wing zealot..
So you have oil stock
Dunno, haven't checked the portfolio recently, most likely not..
and a degree in physics. Life must indeed be sweet.
*>LOL!<* You have no idea how my life is, and yet you again
have resorted to inferring that which suits your pseudologic
which completely avoids the fact mentioned above..
--Which is typical behavior from an insecure right-wing zealot..
So you live a life of pestilence and semiliterate self hatred. Should
have expected as much. Lefties are usually a sorry lot.
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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| User: "Kurt Lochner" |
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12 May 2007 08:26:23 PM |
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Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> insinuated yet another lie about:
Kurt Lochner continued exploiting the right-wing pathology of:
Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> whined:
Kurt Lochner pointed out the fallacy arguments from:
Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
Kurt Lochner was again exploiting the pathology of:
Cranial Impaction <daranc@charter.net> wrote:
If you knew that an oil man was elected president and he had an oil
vice president and you didn't invest in oil stock then you are most
likely insane.
If you knew that a failed businessman, with a family history of
bilking the public, ignoring sound financial advice as well as
ethical and legal considerations, was running for a political
office, would you buy stock in anything that appeared to be in
'conflict of interest' to the well-being of this democracy?
--It is you that is most likely insane, if not stupid..
Well I have oil stock and you don't[..]
You again presume much, falsely, to suit your upmanship..
--Which is typical behavior from an insecure right-wing zealot..
So you have oil stock
Dunno, haven't checked the portfolio recently, most likely not..
and a degree in physics. Life must indeed be sweet.
*>LOL!<* You have no idea how my life is, and yet you again
have resorted to inferring that which suits your pseudologic
which completely avoids the fact mentioned above..
So you live a life of pestilence and semiliterate self hatred.
No, I don't choose to live my life like you and cause that
sort of displeasure to others, and that's why I'm not a
Republican either..
Should have expected [..]
You keep 'expecting' and insinuating that which you cannot
prove directly, or even indirectly. Wouldn't life be so
much easier for you if you didn't have to lie so often
about your beliefs and opinions?
--Which is the typical behavior of insecure right-wing zealots..
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10 May 2007 11:22:18 AM |
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"Server 13" <its@casual.com> wrote in message
news:f1vfes$kc3$1@news.ks.uiuc.edu...
"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
news:v8f6431fgfiqt5ni59eo63dosn3e30s5fp@4ax.com...
Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins, according
to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in refining
margins.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today's
earnings
reports show that industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the
run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very
likely hoping to influence the mid-term election. The nonpartisan group is
calling for Congressional investigations to determine whether Exxon and
others manipulated the market to affect the election...."
As usual, server has nothing.
Now, run fetch me a brewski, pronto.
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10 May 2007 11:30:39 AM |
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"Mike Flannigan" <mflan@jam.rr.com> wrote in message
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Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in
fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins, according
to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in refining
margins.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today's
earnings
reports show that industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the
run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very
likely hoping to influence the mid-term election. The nonpartisan group
is
calling for Congressional investigations to determine whether Exxon and
others manipulated the market to affect the election...."
As usual, server has nothing.
rofl Tell us more about that 4 cents per gallon difference.
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10 May 2007 11:59:48 AM |
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Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To
The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual
corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in
fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins, according
to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in
refining
margins.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today's
earnings
reports show that industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the
run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very
likely hoping to influence the mid-term election. The nonpartisan group
is
calling for Congressional investigations to determine whether Exxon and
others manipulated the market to affect the election...."
As usual, server has nothing.
rofl Tell us more about that 4 cents per gallon difference.
"More"?
Now where's that beer, server? Snap! Snap!
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10 May 2007 02:31:24 PM |
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Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To
The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To
Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual
corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in
fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins,
according to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest
oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in
refining
margins.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today's
earnings
reports show that industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the
run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very
likely hoping to influence the mid-term election. The nonpartisan group
is
calling for Congressional investigations to determine whether Exxon and
others manipulated the market to affect the election...."
As usual, server has nothing.
rofl Tell us more about that 4 cents per gallon difference.
"More"?
Yeah, let's hear more about that 4 cent difference. Or does your reading
problem extend to republiwacks too? I always assumed your routine lying
dipshittery was due to partisan politics.
http://tinyurl.com/2a6bjc
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| Title: Re: Low on Gas |
10 May 2007 03:03:32 PM |
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Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift
passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To
The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To
Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual
corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in
fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins,
according to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest
oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have
increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in
refining
margins.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today's
earnings
reports show that industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in
the
run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices,
very
likely hoping to influence the mid-term election. The nonpartisan
group is
calling for Congressional investigations to determine whether Exxon
and
others manipulated the market to affect the election...."
As usual, server has nothing.
rofl Tell us more about that 4 cents per gallon difference.
"More"?
Yeah, let's hear more about that 4 cent difference.
How can I tell you more about something I didn't say?
Or does your reading problem extend to republiwacks too?
I understand - can't keep up with who said what and so now seeks to cover
his *****.
I always assumed your routine lying dipshittery was due to partisan
politics.
Gasp! "Partisan politics"? Around here?! Banish the thought!
Now where's that goddamned beer!? I'm tired of waiting, server.
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Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To
The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual
corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in
fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins, according
to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in
refining
margins.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today's
earnings
reports show that industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the
run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very
likely hoping to influence the mid-term election. The nonpartisan group
is
calling for Congressional investigations to determine whether Exxon and
others manipulated the market to affect the election...."
As usual, server has nothing.
rofl Tell us more about that 4 cents per gallon difference.
Why don't you tell us about all the Northeast liberals who drive SUVs.
Seems only you leftist loons drive coffins. Mainstream Democrats just want
to have fun. But I digress, the truth is you DON'T drive a coffin do you?
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"Captain Compassion" <daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
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Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To
The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To
Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual
corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in
fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins,
according to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest
oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in
refining
margins.
The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR) said today's
earnings
reports show that industry leaders cut domestic refining profits in the
run-up to the November election in order to lower gasoline prices, very
likely hoping to influence the mid-term election. The nonpartisan group
is
calling for Congressional investigations to determine whether Exxon and
others manipulated the market to affect the election...."
As usual, server has nothing.
rofl Tell us more about that 4 cents per gallon difference.
Why don't you tell us about all the Northeast liberals who drive SUVs.
Changing the subject is for republican cowards.
Seems only you leftist loons drive coffins. Mainstream Democrats just
want to have fun. But I digress, the truth is you DON'T drive a coffin do
you?
Whatever you're smoking, I want some. lol
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10 May 2007 07:41:24 PM |
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On May 10, 10:58 am, "Server 13" <i...@casual.com> wrote:
"Captain Compassion" <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
news:v8f6431fgfiqt5ni59eo63dosn3e30s5fp@4ax.com...
Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins, according to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in refining
margins.
Yep. Republicans frequently talk about the "Free Market" "lassais
faire" capitalism and "Market Prices." Unfortunately, turning their
collective back while Shell, Exxon Mobil and the rest of their oil
industry friends get together and ***** America silly is what they're
talking about when they say stuff like that.
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| User: "Harold Burton" |
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10 May 2007 09:44:26 PM |
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In article <1178844084.641450.312170@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>,
Christopher Helms <Chrishelms132@yahoo.com> wrote:
Yep. Republicans frequently talk about the "Free Market" "lassais
faire" capitalism and "Market Prices." Unfortunately, turning their
collective back while Shell, Exxon Mobil and the rest of their oil
industry friends get together and ***** America silly is what they're
talking about when they say stuff like that.
You make that sound like it's a bad thing. Snicker. Gee, if you don't
like US oil policies maybe you should move to Canada or any number of
European countries. Care to tell us what gasoline prices are there?
Snicker. Gotta love how stupid the whining leftards are. OK, once
again, tell us how you're going to find cheaper gasoline by moving to a
socialist country. Heheheh. I know the answer - Cuba. Snicker.
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| User: "Captain Compassion" |
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10 May 2007 09:38:38 PM |
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On 10 May 2007 17:41:24 -0700, Christopher Helms
<Chrishelms132@yahoo.com> wrote:
On May 10, 10:58 am, "Server 13" <i...@casual.com> wrote:
"Captain Compassion" <dar...@NOSPAMcharter.net> wrote in message
news:v8f6431fgfiqt5ni59eo63dosn3e30s5fp@4ax.com...
Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one's massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
But the problem with the Democrats' photo op - Members standing in
front of the large sign advertising prices at the Exxon station on
Massachusetts Avenue Northeast - is that gas prices actually have
dipped a bit since the previous year's presser, which was held at the
same location. The price of a gallon of regular gas was $3.05 on
Wednesday, a full 4 cents less than it was at the April 26, 2006,
event, according to Roll Call's crack photo archives. A gallon of
plus-grade gas was $3.15 at this week's event, a relative bargain
compared with last year's price of $3.19.
The cheaper gas seemed to undercut the Democrats' message that gas
prices were going nowhere but up.
Maybe if you're six.
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company
Took Less Profit In Run Up to the Election
--Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4
Refining Margins to Temporarily Lower Pump Prices,
Group Says
(The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights)
01 Feb 2007
http://www.consumerwatchdog.org/energy/pr/?postId=7346
Exxon Record Profits Also Shows Company Took Less Profit In Run Up To The
Election;
Exxon, Shell and Marathon Oil Slashed Q4 Refining Margins To Temporarily
Lower Pump Prices, Group Says
Santa Monica, CA -- Exxon set the record for the largest annual corporate
profit of $39.5 billion last year even with a 4% decline in fourth-quarter
profit resulting in part from an 18% drop in refining margins, according to
the company's profit report today. Shell, the world's second largest oil
company, set a company record earning $25.4 billion in 2006 but also
announced a 23% decline in refining margins. Pump prices have increased
dramatically in recent years following industrywide increases in refining
margins.
Yep. Republicans frequently talk about the "Free Market" "lassais
faire" capitalism and "Market Prices." Unfortunately, turning their
collective back while Shell, Exxon Mobil and the rest of their oil
industry friends get together and ***** America silly is what they're
talking about when they say stuff like that.
But US free market gasoline has a lower pump price than in any other
developed country. You want to really get fucked silly go over to the
EU and fill up there.
--
There may come a time when the CO2 police will wander the earth telling
the poor and the dispossed how many dung chips they can put on their
cook fires. -- Captain Compassion.
Wherever I go it will be well with me, for it was well with me here, not
on account of the place, but of my judgments which I shall carry away
with me, for no one can deprive me of these; on the contrary, they alone
are my property, and cannot be taken away, and to possess them suffices
me wherever I am or whatever I do. -- EPICTETUS
"Civilization is the interval between Ice Ages." -- Will Durant.
"Progress is the increasing control of the environment by life.
--Will Durant
Joseph R. Darancette
daranc@NOSPAMcharter.net
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| User: "PagCal" |
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11 May 2007 12:38:58 AM |
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Captain Compassion wrote:
Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one’s massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
Gas is on its way to 4 bucks by summers end, and 5 bucks by the 08
elections.
Republicans, be scared, be very scared.
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| User: "Captain Compassion" |
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11 May 2007 10:16:05 AM |
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On Fri, 11 May 2007 01:38:58 -0400, PagCal <pagcal@runbox.com> wrote:
Captain Compassion wrote:
Low on Gas
By Emily Heil
Roll Call Staff
May 10, 2007
Ah, it must be almost summer, for the annual tradition of holding
press conferences at gas stations to call attention to the
gobsmackingly high price of filling up the gas tank of one’s massive
Suburban has begun. Democrats did just that on Wednesday, complaining
that gas prices are nearing all-time highs and that only swift passage
of Democratically-sponsored bills (natch) would set things straight.
Gas is on its way to 4 bucks by summers end, and 5 bucks by the 08
elections.
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