[Az-Geocaching] Prices

[Brian Casteel]

My sentiments exactly.  When the ‘holidays’ come, fuel consumption does
indeed increase, but the cost of producing the same fuel doesn’t.  It does,
however, cost more to produce gasoline when you consider that they have to
produce more, but the product being produced doesn’t cost any more than it
would if it weren’t a season of increased use.  The oil companies take full
advantage of this, because they know that a collective lobby of ¼ billion
people will not band together and fight it. 

 

Brian

Team A.I.

 

 

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A better comparison would be if the soda and beer companies jacked their
prices when the spring warm weather arrives, or if the coffee companies
ripped us off each fall when it gets cold - but you don't really see that
pattern from any industry but the oil industry.  

 

Costco doesn't charge MORE for a pair of shorts starting in March.  In fact,
they become more readily available and cheaper at just the right time.  

 

I'd prefer the oil the companies similarly compete for my loyalty by trying
to hold down the lowest price!  That'd be a hell of a concept - imagine
Shell or Exxon or any of the others advertising "we'll beat the competitor's
posted price, every time, guaranteed!"

 

Now, the water bottle comment is funny - but in this case the consumer has a
million alternatives and as it turns out, WILL choose to pay $2 for a bottle
of water!  Go figure.  However, we do NOT have an alternative to gasoline,
it's a MUCH higher budget item for each of us, and again, water pricing
stays perfectly even throughout the year.  If they suddenly charged $10 per
bottle in August in Gila Bend, it would be a ghost town before Labor Day!

 

- Sk.

Besides, just try to buy a gallon of anything else for what gas costs you.
Milk comes from a local dairy and requires very little processing compared
to gas, which is pumped up from a mile in the ground halfway around the
world, transported 10 or 12 thousand miles, and has to be expensively
processed before it is sold, but the milk still costs more.  Why isn’t
anyone yelling about the dairy industry price gouging.  Heck, a gallon of
water costs quite a lot, and they don’t do much of anything to that.

 

Bill in Willcox


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