HELP STOP PRICE GOUGING!!! Use this ...
Remember annie b.? You remember her, right? Well, she's on a bit of a blogging hiatus, however she emailed this to me this morning ...
Now, we can all STOP our whinning and utilize this tool of empowerment to doour very, very best to move our Congress.
Please use this. Please pass it aloong as well, alright?
Thank you to all!
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Now, we can all STOP our whinning and utilize this tool of empowerment to doour very, very best to move our Congress.
Please use this. Please pass it aloong as well, alright?
Thank you to all!
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No prob.
Unless we can define what it is, how can there be a law to address it?
This looks like just another go-nowhere online petition designed to convince the signers they've actually taken action.
It would be better for people to buy less. Reducing the demand will do more for the price than signing another petition.
And, we SHOULD not allow them to once again place us in a jaded state of passivity and PISSTIVITY (a Carlo-word; a word that I LOVE!), either.
Americans AREN'T going to buy less. Not right now, anyway.
Sorry, but sadly, reality hasn't sunk in for most. Not yet. But, if things keep going the way that they are ... If they keep GOUGING and jacking the prices up time after time, at some point ...
I guess our very jaded, spoiled American fannies will wake up.
It's only my hope.
Since I am not the voice of the nation you could do this... Ask EVERYONE that you know that will tell you that they feel "gouged".
And, then take a "load off" and have a seat, as they say.
I'm pretty sure that they'll have PLENTY to tell you.
Trust me, my ears are still ringing, and burning (fromallof the pontification) as well!
Legislation based on feelings is rarely successfully defended in court. There must be some definitive way to measure gouging (I didn't see that in the petition language) for it to be even the tiniest bit useful.
A subjective term like "gouging" is meaningless. Oil companies probably have a different gouging threshold than does a Prius driver. Who's definition do we use?
This petition is nonsense.
Hell Paul, don't sign the petition if YOU don't choose to do so.
But, maybe before you reach a decision about this petition (or any others out there like it); just as you question me, question someone from an oil company regarding your question of gouging, also.
I'm sure that "they" will have a real good, rock solid answer for all of us out here.
Do want you want to do.
Don't do want you don't want to do.
Common sense told me a long time ago that the fatcats pockets are being lined every time the prices at the pumps go up.
Now, if YOU don't choose to believe that, then your truth lies elsewhere.
Don't sign it.
Hurts me (and the fatcats) none.
The people sponsoring the petition know that. So what good is the petition to them? My guess is that it produces revenue for them, as some percentage of signers will also donate cash to the cause. It will also capture email addresses which can be sold for more revenue.
All for a petition that will not do one iota of realistic good.
I'm not challenging your position on this issue. You have mistakenly read far more into my comment than I put there. My point is that we cannot effect meaningful change by using such a wildly subjective term as "gouging".
COMMON SENSE tells EVERYONE whether they are being "taken" or not.
Fatcats pockets? Lined or not?
COMMON SENSE ... Gouging? No gouging?
One person: an opinion.
Two people: 2 opinions.
Three people and/or more: CONFIRMATION.
I'm not concerned with the petition writer or pollster.
My focus is on those getting over on the little guy. Otherwise known as the fatcats.
When there are fewer fatcats getting over, I'll re-think this gouging issue.
Until then ...
Nope. Won't do it.
I'm stealing it.
But the oil prices, on the market, have been relatively stable or even on the decline a bit. Combine those two facts and I smell a rat.
I can't prove it but it does seem like the oil industry is able to manipulate price in some pretty creative ways.
BY THE WAY, I'M A DEMOCRAT AND I THINK GAS PRICES ARE WAY TO CHEAP! UP! UP! UP! MORE , MORE , MORE! I WANT 6 BUCKS A GALLON, AND YOU WANT TO KNOW WHY? BECAUSE I KNOW HOW TO FIX THE PROBLEM, THAT'S WHY. WHAT DO YOU DUMBASSES THINK WILL HAPPEN IF GAS PRICES GO BACK DOWN AGAIN?
NOTHING!!!
WAKE UP, END THE WAR, BUY A PRIUS, AND LET MARKET FORCES WORK THEIR MAGIC
It's a joke. PLEASE don't go gettin' your bloomers twisted, thank you!
Tell me how you REALLY feel?
No one is ignoring that lives are being lost, here.
But, I tell you what ...
It will be a doggone shame the day that the war ends when I can't go pick a soldier up at the airport (that is more than 50 miles from my home) because I don't have the $$$$ to buy the fuel to get me there.
Oh, and know this ...
That goll darned war most certainly BETTER NOT end today because the entire Detroit bus system is not in operation as the bus drivers have decided to begin a city-wide strike today.
Basically, I feel your wrath and your passion as well.
We all have to choose our battles.
Thank goodness there is a "you", and that there is a "me".
Both issues are issues that SUCK.
Everyone knows that in a perfect world there should be no issues at all.
Too bad this isn't a perfect world.
Really. Truly. For real.
And, BECAUSE THIS WORLD IS NOT PERFECT, today we will all have our focus'; we all can find and focus on some very real and distressing issues. We all know that the list is endless.
But, right now you'll have to excuse me.
I have to go make some $$$$ to set aside for the day that the war ends.
I don't want to leave not one soldier standing, waiting for me to get there; waiting for a ride.
Without a definition it's the same as signing a petition against "being mean." I'd sign a petition against being mean, but without a measurable concrete definition and standard, it just can't be enforced.... That's what it sounded like Paul was saying, and I too am curious about it.
WHY are WE dependent on THEM to define what gouged means? We are the ones that pay for the use of it. WE are DEPENDENT on them enough (as it is) for THEIR stupid petro!
If milk goes up to $15.00 a gallon, I think that we will be smart enough to know that yes ... there are still cows (so okay, no shortage there), and plenty of workers to extract the milk, truckers are still moving milk from dairy farm to stores, but it's $15.00 a gallon and THEY haven't, don't, and won't seem to explain it.
I'd consider myself quite GOUGED.
Some stuff just does not compute.
To philosiphize (discuss the nature of reality) is a good thing, I think.
I don't need "them" to engage me in "their" rhetoric regarding exactly why "they" continue to raise the prices of fuel.
Sans a whole new way to extract it from soil, and new ways to get it to us, there is absolutely nothing that they could ever tell me that would make sense of the truth and the complete fact of the matter that EVERY TIME we face a holiday, "they" raise the prices on "their" fuel.
Exclusive. Not inclusive. And, not seeming very fair to me. And better still, for no good reason.
"They" didn't give me one. Did "they" give you one?
I think that you are missing the ENTIRE point, here.
The point is that wasting your energy on worthless efforts gets you no closer to the goal. You have to find practical outlets for your protest. Signing an online petition that nobody will read is folly.
The reason we need a definition of "gouging" is precisely so we eliminate the many interpretations of the word. As long as Big Oil is allowed to interpret the word, they will do so in their favor and profits will continue to rise unabated.
And there you will be, signing online petitions that go nowhere.
I'm sure MSNBC and CNN will announce the tally on this petition since it's MOVE ON.org.
Stay BLUE, ACT blue.
Moving on from this topic, please remember to NOT accuse someone who does not know you of claiming to, in fact, know you. There was NEVER any presumption here. Honestly, I hadn't given any of this the "thought" that you may have thought.
You may have pegged me wrong. I don't take the opinions of others THAT seriously.
Stay blessed, Paul Thompson. Because you are!
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It was written: May 23, 2007, 5:26PM
House OKs gas price gouging penalties
By H. JOSEF HEBERT Associated Press Writer
2007 The Associated Press
WASHINGTON Responding to high costs at the pump, the House approved legislation Wednesday that would outlaw gasoline price gouging. Many lawmakers said that may be easier to say than to detect or enforce.
The legislation would penalize individuals or companies for taking "unfair advantage" or charging "unconscionably excessive" prices for gasoline and other fuels.
....sounds like "Unfair advantage" to meeeeee...but I could be wrong (I'm blue faced).
COMMON SENSE told us a long time ago that when "they" raise the price of fuel, annually, and for EVERY holiday (as if, y'know ... as if that's the norm), and with absolutely NO explanation for doing so, that they THEN gouge us!
Thanks, Michelle!
Good lookin' out.
Ha! I just got back from Fairbanks Alaska. I rented a car, was given the option to fill the tank @ $2.40 gal or let them do it for $2.95 per gal. Who wants to save 50 cents per gallon? ME do! NO gasoline in Fairbanks was under $3.00/gal. Maybe car rental suppliers have their own supply of gas at lower rates, cause I sure didn't see it and I should have let them pump it, my mistake. I was gone only 4 days, upon returning and to my surprise, Juneau's gas went up 35+ cents a gallon. What happened, I spent 3 days at a track meet, did 'W' try to scare us again, or did another refinery go up in flames? This is becoming the 'norm' too and no one questions it! Dang nabbit these noobs are getting by with gouging whenever and wherever possible.
You're welcome Carlo!...I gotchur back!