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Originally Posted by Stompy
It bothers me how complacent people are about this.
People are stupid, and most people don't know WHY the prices are going up. They see $3, they might gripe, but they accept it - and that my friends, is scary.
Where's the civil disobedience? Mass theft? Lashing out?
It's just very disturbing. Then again, these are the same people that don't blink an eye at the patriot act, so it's not all surprising. How depressing.
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Um...there should be civil disobedience about this.....why? It's a commodity, its price goes up when the demand is up and/or the supply is down. We have no RIGHT to cheap gas, and in fact government subsidies (and lower gasoline taxes) have kept the price of gas pretty cheap in the U.S. compared to the rest of the world. If you really want to do something about it, reduce your consumption. Car pool. Walk. Bike. Take mass transit. This might be worthy of a protest or two, or a careful re-examination of U.S. energy policy and financial support of oil companies, but hardly worth rioting in the streets. The price is going up because refineries in the gulf are likely to have been damaged due to the hurricane, which means less production capacity, which means reduced supply = higher prices. I don't see anything sinister about this at all, and I'm a knee-jerk, left-wing conspiracy theorist
There was something a lot fishier about the California Enron energy cost fixing a few years ago, and that DID cause some civil disobedience and unrest (people refusing to pay their bills, etc.). But this is just good old fashioned market forces, looks like to me.