Hey grocery stores

[BirdBrain]

Some like our friend UKMustang don't mind lining big oils pockets. The price is the price is what he's told me, don't bother looking at logic behind it, you pay it or you don't. If only we all were as wealthy as that dude!

 

What is your option, hook up Bessie and drive your mule team to town ? Maybe UK's point is the individual cannot control the price of the product, the market does…that is the "we".

[Jumper_Dad]

[h=2][/h] Kroger, Walmart, giant Eagle and the rest of you.

 

Remember when the local news said grocery stores were raising their prices to off set record high oil prices?

Well as of this week oil is at a 52 week low.

Why hasn't the grocery stores had the local news report prices are going down, because the oil prices have gone down.

The next time the local news reports prices going down on groceries will be the first time.

 

Drought in the west hasn't helped grocery prices either.

[John Anthony]

You can cry about it until you're blue in the face' date=' but if at the end of the day you're still pulling up to the pump, you're part of the issue, and not even trying to be a part of the solution.[/quote']

 

Im not a used car salesman dream. I spend 50 dollars a month on gas, can anyone else top that on here? I was ahead of the curve.

[plantmanky]

Im not a used car salesman dream. I spend 50 dollars a month on gas, can anyone else top that on here? I was ahead of the curve.

 

With current prices I spend about 350 to 400 a month. I was spending close to 700 at the $4 plus peak.

[Big Slick]

I'm guessing about 160 per month for both of our vehicles.

[John Anthony]

With current prices I spend about 350 to 400 a month. I was spending close to 700 at the $4 plus peak.

 

Yet people call me and others out when we question gas prices. You are getting screwed and paying a mortgage payment for some in gas. I've already shown an article where a company is being sued. There is nothing wrong with making a profit, at $100 oil gas is going be very high. But with oil down 60, sixty dollars, were still close to $3.00 in some areas. Why can't I question that? I know people like UKmus and others are used to paying sticker prices, no questions asked. But when you condition Americans for a decade that high oil prices explains high gas, well why does low oil prices equal high gas?

[UKMustangFan]

Then don't buy gas. Simple as that. I'd love gas to be $1 a gallon, but I'm smart enough to realize that isn't going to happen. If gas got to a point that it impacted the quality of my everyday life, I would find other options and stop purchasing it. I sure as hell wouldn't complain about it on a message board nonstop. That accomplishes nothing.

 

A question you've never answered: Why shouldn't the gas and oil companies do everything they can to maximize their profits?

 

If you owned a business selling pens and you could sell 5M packs for $2.50 a piece or you could sell 4.5M packs at $4 a piece, would you really use the $2.50 price point?

 

Government regulation over businesses is never a good thing. Do you want to allow the government to regulate the price of milk? How about the cost of toilet paper? Where does it end?

[plantmanky]

Yet people call me and others out when we question gas prices. You are getting screwed and paying a mortgage payment for some in gas. I've already shown an article where a company is being sued. There is nothing wrong with making a profit, at $100 oil gas is going be very high. But with oil down 60, sixty dollars, were still close to $3.00 in some areas. Why can't I question that? I know people like UKmus and others are used to paying sticker prices, no questions asked. But when you condition Americans for a decade that high oil prices explains high gas, well why does low oil prices equal high gas?

 

How am I getting screwed?

[Clyde]

Yet people call me and others out when we question gas prices. You are getting screwed and paying a mortgage payment for some in gas. I've already shown an article where a company is being sued. There is nothing wrong with making a profit, at $100 oil gas is going be very high. But with oil down 60, sixty dollars, were still close to $3.00 in some areas. Why can't I question that? I know people like UKmus and others are used to paying sticker prices, no questions asked. But when you condition Americans for a decade that high oil prices explains high gas, well why does low oil prices equal high gas?

 

JA, your challenge is that not enough people feel like it's a problem like you do. You've gone to a fuel efficient vehicle. Most people have not.

 

If Plantman was "getting screwed" he would either move closer to his job, get a new job, or buy a more fuel efficient vehicle. Being that none of those seem to have happened then that tells us it's not enough of a problem for him to make a change.

 

True of the vast majority of Americans. Ignoring the fact you want to tell certain businesses they have to agree to have their profits capped, this issue just isn't that big of a deal to most Americas.

 

Americans have the power to change this IF it becomes a big issue to them.

[BIG BLACK JACK]

Then don't buy gas. Simple as that. I'd love gas to be $1 a gallon, but I'm smart enough to realize that isn't going to happen. If gas got to a point that it impacted the quality of my everyday life, I would find other options and stop purchasing it. I sure as hell wouldn't complain about it on a message board nonstop. That accomplishes nothing.

 

A question you've never answered: Why shouldn't the gas and oil companies do everything they can to maximize their profits?

 

If you owned a business selling pens and you could sell 5M packs for $2.50 a piece or you could sell 4.5M packs at $4 a piece, would you really use the $2.50 price point?

 

Government regulation over businesses is never a good thing. Do you want to allow the government to regulate the price of milk? How about the cost of toilet paper? Where does it end?

 

Mortgage crisis says otherwise.

 

There's a happy medium with govt' regulation and business operations. Fair Labor Standards Act is a good start.

[Bert]

About $20, absolutely love motorcycle weather.

[Jumper_Dad]

Mortgage crisis says otherwise.

 

There's a happy medium with govt' regulation and business operations. Fair Labor Standards Act is a good start.

Mortgage crisis was in part caused by Government incentivizing mortgages for people that shouldn't qualify for the amount of loan they were getting. From low income to high income people over extended on loans they never should have got to begin with.

 

Government Interference had as much to do with the mortgage bubble bursting as did predatory lending.

[Bert]

About 20 a month. Love motorcycle weather

[woodsrider]

Somebody that's already rich beyond belief is getting richer while we continue to barely survive. Welcome to America.

 

The working class.

Makes a nice sound bite but just isn't true. The "working class" just needs to look in the mirror if they are barely surviving. I'm working class and do just fine.

 

Just about everyone I know is working class and the ones that are barely surviving have no one but their selves to blame. They spend more then that make in 100% of the cases.

[John Anthony]

JA' date=' your challenge is that not enough people feel like it's a problem like you do. You've gone to a fuel efficient vehicle. Most people have not. If Plantman was "getting screwed" he would either move closer to his job, get a new job, or buy a more fuel efficient vehicle. Being that none of those seem to have happened then that tells us it's not enough of a problem for him to make a change. True of the vast majority of Americans. Ignoring the fact you want to tell certain businesses they have to agree to have their profits capped, this issue just isn't that big of a deal to most Americas. Americans have the power to change this IF it becomes a big issue to them.[/quote']

 

How come supply and demand no longer matters or basic economics in general? Pull up CNN today, you will find that oil prices have "plunged to $43." You will also find that the U.S. is producing the highest level of oil production in 4 decades.

 

I like you Clyde, I'll save you from wasting your time and answer it for you. Supply and demand never mattered. We have way too much oil on the market and it isn't changing. Yet gas prices are still near $3 when we had an oil crisis a few years ago...