biscuitboy87
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269.9 at unocal here in san mateo (suburb of san francisco) for 87.
BTW our gas IS NOT subsidised by the government...directly...the only "subsidy" happening is the giant loopholes the oil companies enjoy on tax day.
there is no shortage of crude oil, the price is being manipulated for profit. as long as we pay, the price we will pay is higher cost for everything (inflation) because we are an oil based economy...everything we buy has been trucked by a transport vehicle which uses gas or diesel and if their price goes up they pass the higher cost of business on to the reciever of goods who in turn passes the increase on to the consumer (all of us).
in my business i have started to pass on the fuel increase to customers already...even though fuel accounts for only a small portion of my operating costs the proportion grows as price grows...i.e. fuel represents 9% of budget at 1.00$ gal. raise the price to 3.00$ a gal and fuel becomes 27% of the overall budget and because anything that is shipped costs more to get the operating costs go up and since i need lots of steel (which is aready high)...
the problem i am seeing is either i eat the fuel hike and keep customers or i pass the hike on and lose customers (if the job is big enough an 18% increase becomes a major deal). so does this seem like an unending circle of expense? does to me.
lawn cher... right on man!
richp... as always, well said.
BTW our gas IS NOT subsidised by the government...directly...the only "subsidy" happening is the giant loopholes the oil companies enjoy on tax day.
there is no shortage of crude oil, the price is being manipulated for profit. as long as we pay, the price we will pay is higher cost for everything (inflation) because we are an oil based economy...everything we buy has been trucked by a transport vehicle which uses gas or diesel and if their price goes up they pass the higher cost of business on to the reciever of goods who in turn passes the increase on to the consumer (all of us).
in my business i have started to pass on the fuel increase to customers already...even though fuel accounts for only a small portion of my operating costs the proportion grows as price grows...i.e. fuel represents 9% of budget at 1.00$ gal. raise the price to 3.00$ a gal and fuel becomes 27% of the overall budget and because anything that is shipped costs more to get the operating costs go up and since i need lots of steel (which is aready high)...
the problem i am seeing is either i eat the fuel hike and keep customers or i pass the hike on and lose customers (if the job is big enough an 18% increase becomes a major deal). so does this seem like an unending circle of expense? does to me.
lawn cher... right on man!
richp... as always, well said.
