well said, Tom.
Henry
----- Original Message -----
From: <audiolaw@aol.com>
To: <diesel_mercedes@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 9:08 PM
Subject: Re: [diesel_mercedes] fuel
I don't mean to sound cynical here, and anyone who knows me knows that I
have nothing but skepticism for the conduct of corporate america. I think
the oil companies are the bottom of the barrel for corporate morals.
But I also see the real world out there. We have been eagerly sending
our manufacturing base overseas. Everyone talks about China, but there is
also Brazil and all those nations in the southeast Asian area (including
Vietnam).
All those place used to be farm based. Think of the pictures from the
Vietnam war, all the Hueys flying over rice paddies being plowed by water
buffalo.
Now those places are factory zones, with people making real wages (low
but real) instead of growing their own food. Mercedes says that China is
a bigger market now than the U.S. People aren't buying those cars without
having fuel to put in them. The factories aren't cranking out products
without trucks to take them to market.
Simple reality is that we are competing for fuel supplies with
emerging nations with huge and growing demand. Most places use diesel more
than
gasoline. And there is less diesel in a barrel of crude than there is
gasoline.
I'm sure that there is plenty of collusion and price fixing and any
other number of things that companies do to push up prices. But if the
system were entirely fair and openly competitive, the emerging nations
would be
soaking up huge amounts of fuel that used to be used just by us and Europe.
And the price would be rising and would continue to rise into the future.
Tom
In a message dated 4/29/2011 5:55:49 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
duckn8r@me.com writes:
Rock on bro you rule!!!
They have been over charging us for the last 12 or more years, can any one
tell me why diesel is more than gas. when they make gas the diesel is what
is left over they really don't have much to do to make it real some body
has to know why?
Sent from my iPad
On Apr 29, 2011, at 7:08 PM, max_stemple <_max_stemple@yahoo.com_
(mailto:max_stemple@yahoo.com) > wrote:
It's been $4.49 a gallon here for a lonmg time. Whats the problem with you
other folks? Gas people? I say wWhat the fuck you complainging about, we
diesel people are paying .50cents more so shut the fuck up please. Hey at
least I say "please" Max
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