Oil comps are gouging us, Oil comps are Gouging us!

[TX-RAT]

This is being screamed all over the websites. Can someone please explain to me exactly how there doing it, when their doing it, and where their doing it.

[nickinSTL]

1. uh, I don't know specifics...

but, they're recording RECORD profits, while we're paying through the nose...and the price rises haven't always corresponded in any real way to the price of crude or, I don't think, to oil supplies.

[TX-RAT]

2. Lots of company's recording record profits.

What makes oil company's different? It's the specifics i'm looking for, if your going to accuse someone of gouging, ( which is a crime ) you have to have evidence.

[sandnsea]

4. That's why Democrats want an investigation

Record profits while production is down, how'd that happen.

[nickinSTL]

5. Maybe they aren't different...

who's to say that other companies aren't gouging as well?

I'm not accusing, though. Just stating my suspicions.

As sandnsea says, Democrats want an investigation to determine whether there is evidence of gouging or not.

[LiberalEsto]

3. They are charging us more for gas & we're paying it

Then, they rake in all the money.

[TX-RAT]

6. And thats gouging?

[Deja Q]

8. Yes. Because there are no VIABLE alternatives.

There aren't enough busses. Or bus routes.

We all can't walk to work. Or anywhere else.

Everything is distance-based.

Our slopartist elected officials are to blame for piss-poor zoning and structuring.

So, damn straight, it IS gouging. And it even started before Katrina.

"supply and demand"

[TX-RAT]

9. All though i agree with you, thats not evidence of price gouging

[400Years]

7. our tax dollars paying for a war on thier behalf

seems like gouging to me