Posted by Jim on August 10, 2006, 10:48 pm
Really.
About the only thing that will get the oil companies' attention is American
consumers shutting off the flow of money.
Growing up in Houston, and working as a young adult in corporate sales,
where I mingled with plenty of oil people, I know that every time the price
of oil jumps up, lots of the "big guys" in offices and divisions all around
the country get bonuses and wage increases. I’m all for any business making
a decent profit in order to succeed and survive, but the big oil companies
have gone way beyond all that.
What makes me angry is that they do this at the expense of the hard working
men and women of America. We pay all the bills for the oil companies. We
put up the money for every expense account, pay for all the pensions, foot
the bill for every vacation, every huge office building, every new gas pump.
We, the consumer, pay it all. And yet the big guys just keep jacking
everything up, sky high. You should see how they live. You should see the
cars they drive, the money they blow on offices, the money just wasted for
the sake of wasting it. Instead of jacking prices up and out of all
proportion, let them lay off some of the hundreds of big guys that do little
more than sit around or golf all afternoon. Why make the little guys pay,
pay, and pay some more, when too many average households can hardly buy gas
just to keep working? Let the big guys go out and find a real job.
If American consumers would agree to boycott the oil companies for three
days at a time -- no purchase of oil products nationwide -- that would send
a message that would be heard. Start by doing it once a month. And then,
if need be, do it twice a month, until they understand that we're not going
to just keep paying and paying outrageous prices.
Exxon, Conoco, Shell, and all the rest have plenty of oil reserves to work
with. They are just playing the game, and the news media jumps right in.
I've seen enough of the maps to know that we don't need to stand around
hoping for better pricing from other countries. We have plenty of oil to
carry us well beyond the day when we no longer need it.
And that's part of the whole picture. Oil companies know the days are
numbered, as more and more people turn to alternative sources of energy.
And they want to get all the money out of us that they can -- even if it
means breaking the little guys.
Boycott oil products. Do it as a nation. Do it in numbers big enough to
remind big corporations that we pay the bills, and we know it.
Remember: We hold the purse strings. It's high time we use them. We either
boycott now or wait until we can't afford to drive to work anymore.
Jim
Posted by Don K on August 10, 2006, 10:53 pm
> Boycott oil products. Do it as a nation. Do it in numbers big enough to
remind big corporations
> that we pay the bills, and we know it.
OK, but are there really that many whales around to take up the slack?
Don
Posted by Jim on August 10, 2006, 11:18 pm
>> Boycott oil products. Do it as a nation. Do it in numbers big enough to
>> remind big corporations that we pay the bills, and we know it.
> OK, but are there really that many whales around to take up the slack?
> Don
I suppose it all depends on just how much you want to be paying for fuel.
Already the millions who live on fixed incomes of less than a $1,000 a month
are having to choose between food or gasoline. Not all of them want to live
in a family shelter, a retirement building, or some other kind of government
housing just so they can drive their car to the store or to a movie. And
millions of young families are also struggling to cope with prices right
where they are. They were having a hard time of it last year, before gas
went up and up again.
Recent decades should make it clear that corporate greed has no internal
governor. Every time the news reports 10% of the truth (info issued to them
by the guys who stand to lose or gain billions of dollars) the oil companies
jump up the price of oil products.
Granted, the best and only real solution is to find and use alternative
energy. But I'm not willing to pay upwards of $5 and then $10 a gallon in
the mean time.
Looking back, the world now agrees that Adolph Hitler was a monster. But
many just joked about it when he was still grabbing more and more power.
Many also joked about the innocent people he had marked, and then arrested,
and finally slaughtered.
Why do we always have to wait until it's too late before we're willing to
face facts? Act now why you still can.
Jim
Posted by Rod Speed on August 10, 2006, 11:32 pm
>>> Boycott oil products. Do it as a nation. Do it in numbers big enough to
remind big
>>> corporations that we pay the bills, and we know it.
>> OK, but are there really that many whales around to take up the slack?
> I suppose it all depends on just how much you want to be paying for fuel.
Nope, you get no say what so ever on that.
> Already the millions who live on fixed incomes of less than a $1,000 a month
are having
> to choose between food or gasoline.
Bullshit.
> Not all of them want to live in a family shelter, a retirement building, or
some other
> kind of government housing just so they can drive their car to the store or to
a movie.
They dont have to do that.
> And millions of young families are also struggling to cope with prices right
where they
> are.
Bullshit. You dont see very many operate their cars
more efficiently by minimising the use of them, let alone
swapping their gas guzzlers for fuel efficient cars.
> They were having a hard time of it last year,
Pig ignorant lie.
> before gas went up and up again.
Like it or lump it.
> Recent decades should make it clear that corporate greed has no internal
governor.
Corse it does, eventually the comsumer cant pay.
> Every time the news reports 10% of the truth (info issued to them by the guys
who stand
> to lose or gain billions of dollars) the oil companies jump up the price of
oil
> products.
Yeah, yeah, they all conspire in smoke filled rooms to shaft us all.
> Granted, the best and only real solution is to find and use alternative energy.
Wrong again.
> But I'm not willing to pay upwards of $5 and then $10 a gallon in the mean
time.
Your problem. You get to like it or lump it or use less of it.
> Looking back, the world now agrees that Adolph Hitler was a monster.
Whoops, its just played the Hitler card.
> But many just joked about it when he was still grabbing more and more power.
Many also
> joked about the innocent people he had marked, and then arrested, and finally
> slaughtered.
> Why do we always have to wait until it's too late before we're willing to face
facts?
You wouldnt know what a fact was if it bit you on your lard arse.
> Act now why you still can.
Yep, top yourself while you can still afford the fuel to find some rope.
Posted by Rod Speed on August 10, 2006, 11:13 pm
> Really.
Trooly, really ?
> About the only thing that will get the oil companies' attention is American
consumers
> shutting off the flow of money.
Taint gunna happen.
> Growing up in Houston, and working as a young adult in corporate
> sales, where I mingled with plenty of oil people, I know that every
> time the price of oil jumps up, lots of the "big guys" in offices and
> divisions all around the country get bonuses and wage increases.
Like it or lump it.
> I’m all for any business making a decent profit in order to succeed and
survive, but the
> big oil companies have gone way beyond all that.
Like it or lump it.
> What makes me angry is that they do this at the expense of the hard working
men and
> women of America.
Yeah, yeah, they all conspire in smoke filled rooms to shaft everyone.
> We pay all the bills for the oil companies.
You do for any operation that runs profitably, stupid.
> We put up the money for every expense account, pay for all the pensions, foot
the bill
> for every vacation, every huge office building, every new gas pump.
You do for any operation that runs profitably, stupid.
> We, the consumer, pay it all.
You do for any operation that runs profitably, stupid.
> And yet the big guys just keep jacking everything up, sky high.
Yeah, yeah, they all conspire in smoke filled rooms to shaft everyone.
> You should see how they live. You should see the cars they drive, the money
they blow
> on offices, the money just wasted for the sake of wasting it.
Like it or lump it.
> Instead of jacking prices up and out of all proportion, let them lay off some
of the
> hundreds of big guys that do little more than sit around or golf all afternoon.
Taint gunna happen, child.
> Why make the little guys pay, pay, and pay some more, when too many average
households
> can hardly buy gas just to keep working?
Just another of your pathetic little drug crazed fantasy, child.
If that was actually happening, the volume of
product sold would be dropping, and it aint.
> Let the big guys go out and find a real job.
Let you let go of your dick before you end up completely blind.
On second thoughts...
> If American consumers would agree to boycott the oil companies for three days
at a
> time -- no purchase of oil products nationwide
Taint gunna happen, child.
> -- that would send a message that would be heard.
Nope, even the stupidest realises that all that would do
is shift the purchases to the days on either side, stupid.
> Start by doing it once a month.
Get stuffed.
> And then, if need be, do it twice a month, until they understand that we're
not going to
> just keep paying and paying outrageous prices.
Taint gunna happen, child.
> Exxon, Conoco, Shell, and all the rest have plenty of oil reserves to
> work with. They are just playing the game, and the news media jumps
> right in. I've seen enough of the maps to know that we don't need to
> stand around hoping for better pricing from other countries. We have
> plenty of oil to carry us well beyond the day when we no longer need it.
Have fun explaining the imports, child.
> And that's part of the whole picture. Oil companies know the days are
numbered, as more
> and more people turn to alternative sources of energy. And they want to get
all the
> money out of us that they can -- even if it means breaking the little guys.
You've already snapped your dick off, child.
> Boycott oil products. Do it as a nation. Do it in numbers big enough to
remind big
> corporations that we pay the bills, and we know it.
Taint gunna happen, child.
> Remember: We hold the purse strings.
They hold the gasoline, child.
> It's high time we use them.
Yeah, tie them around your neck, quick.
> We either boycott now or wait until we can't afford to drive to work anymore.
Do the decent thing and set fire to yourself in 'protest' or sumfin.
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