Greasy Greed

The greasy wheel gets the grease except when it comes to oil prices. The latest lie has to do with the new, lower price of gas. Supposedly gas prices have come down because consumers stopped driving so much and used less? Since when do you lower your prices because people buy LESS of something?

I have observed the following actual scenario for the last few years. When it comes time to take vacation, and drive more, bang, gas prices go way up. When everyone settles in for Monday night football, (thus using LESS gas) prices decrease until around the holidays when the gas lords choose to spike it again.

Duh...It's all about the money people. Hell yes! The oil companies can certainly earn more and more if they raise prices and stick it to us when we're using maximum amounts of gas. Of course! They know we'll pay it, because most drivers have already made arrangements to travel in the summer and during the holidays. Then every time this happens and the American people begin to moan, groan, and SQUEAK under the pressure, they sooth us by saying, "We don't have any control over foreign oil prices, they keep going up, we just pass it on." And then they eventually wind up eeking the prices down to placate us. It's a bunch of bunk if you ask me. This is a consciously decided play, to price gouge sporadically at peak times. It's simply greasy greed!

Record breaking prices supposedly spiked because of hurricane Ike that hit the Texas coast; an area that produces gas! My My! How could that be if we're supposedly relying on foreign oil so heavily? Seriously, gas prices rose even before the Hurricane made landfall. We saw it go up locally more than .50 a gallon within 24 hours. Local gas stations had NOT sold out. They had plenty.

Wake Up! Now, suddenly, prices can decrease this drastically. My question... When did the Middle Eastern oil moguls begin to like us enough to reduce their oil prices this drastically? When did they ever reduce prices enough so that gas at the pump falls $1.00 a gallon in a couple of weeks? WELL? Never! And, we're supposed to believe prices go up because of foreign oil prices, and yet they go down because we CAN'T pay and stop driving? I DON'T THINK SO! They just think we're all idiots.

Could this be a social experiment to see how well the dumbing down of America has taken hold? To learn how complacent we've become in the face of personal disaster? An experiment to see how loudly Americans will howl when dishonesty prevails, or how quickly they will revolt?

Or... is it just a power and control game the big oil company moguls love to play with the little American people so they can hit record quarterly profits and line those greasy pockets?

Got some thoughts? Wake up and comment.