Argument against high gas prices

"gatt" wrote in message
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"Ken Finney" wrote in message
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Is that what Jesus would do? I wouldn't do it if I was making
billions while my neighbors and my nation suffered.

YOUR NATION ISN'T SUFFERING!

Ah. Okay, so everybody's hollering about the price of gasoline because
there's nothing better to do. Thanks for clearing that up.

My entire life, I've planned trips. I don't drive to the grocery store,
then go home, then go to the hardware store, then go home, then go someplace
else, then go home. I plan to visit all the places I need to, construct the
most efficient route (even factoring in as many right turns as possible),
then make the trip. MOST people don't do anything like this, I know more
than a few that drive down to their mailboxes and back. When I had inlaws
in Florida, they would run outside, start the car to run the air
conditioning, run back inside for 5 minutes while the car cooled down, run
back outside, drive less than 100 feet to the mailbox, then drive back to
the house and go inside to read the mail. And they weren't handicapped.
Since the real issue isn't how much gas costs per gallon, but how much money
a person spends for the gas they consume, people can make choices to keep
that number down. That is a much more efficient use of their time than
hollering. Plus, it keeps more money out of the hands of evil "big oil"!
;^)



Some people are suffering, other's aren't. If everyone had a "Mr.
Fusion" powering their cars and planes tomorrow, would that be a good
thing? Think of all the suffering of the gas station owner

You don't think gas station owners are suffering right now?

I think most gas stations make most of their money on non-gas purchases, so
they might be, at least a little.


FBO, etc.

You don't think FBOs are suffering right now?


I'm not very familiar with larger FBOs, but smaller FBOs have pretty much
been a disaster zone since 1947. What was that line from "The Grapes of
Wrath"? "People shouldn't have to live like that." "Them aren't people,
them's Okies." Just substitute "FBOs" for "Okies".



And the funny thing under such systems, is that even in an absence of
winners, there will still be losers.

The oil industry is making record profits in the history of the world.
All anybody is asking them to do is not make so much so that America isn't
the loser.
The oil industry is never the winner.

-c

"Ken Finney" wrote in message
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I'm not very familiar with larger FBOs, but smaller FBOs have pretty much
been a disaster zone since 1947. What was that line from "The Grapes of
Wrath"? "People shouldn't have to live like that." "Them aren't people,
them's Okies." Just substitute "FBOs" for "Okies".

Ah.

So basically you're suggesting that FBO owners aren't people. Interesting
forum to make such an observation.


-c
(But, I think everybody getting used to those sorts of comments when you
challenge big oil and their pricing schemes.)

"gatt" wrote in message
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"Ken Finney" wrote in message
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I'm not very familiar with larger FBOs, but smaller FBOs have pretty much
been a disaster zone since 1947. What was that line from "The Grapes of
Wrath"? "People shouldn't have to live like that." "Them aren't people,
them's Okies." Just substitute "FBOs" for "Okies".

Ah.

So basically you're suggesting that FBO owners aren't people.
Interesting forum to make such an observation.



Sorry, it wasn't intended that way. There does seem to be a genetic thing;
those that have the aviation gene don't seem to be very good at business.
There are exceptions, but most of the people that I've met that run small
FBOs do it for the love of aviation, not because they make a good living at
it. That was my connection to the Okies, not that the Okies were "bad", but
that the deck was stacked against them. From everything I've seen, the deck
is stacked against small FBOs as well. Pretty sad, really. I honesty think
if I won the lottery, I'd buy/start an FBO. But I'd only be able to keep it
until the money ran out. ;^)

"Ken Finney" wrote in message
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So basically you're suggesting that FBO owners aren't people. Interesting
forum to make such an observation.

Sorry, it wasn't intended that way.

*nod* Thanks for the clarification.

There are exceptions, but most of the people that I've met that run small
FBOs do it for the love of aviation, not because they make a good living
at it.

I'm not sure how that gene works. The really fancy FBO across the airport
with the newer, larger fleet -seems- to be getting its ass kicked by the FBO
I fly out of, which has an older fleet that doesn't bear the company name or
anything. The FBO I use has been there a long time, acquiring better
airport location, more aircraft, a new $250,000 TruFlight sim and...
hmmm... the fuel operation for the airport.

I honesty think if I won the lottery, I'd buy/start an FBO. But I'd only
be able to keep it until the money ran out. ;^)

A commuter airline just started down in Salem. Hasn't been commuter service
there for many years. Best of luck to 'em, but I don't see they're gonna
make it.

-c

On Jun 8, 3:27 pm, "gatt" wrote:
"Ken Finney" wrote in message

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I'm not very familiar with larger FBOs, but smaller FBOs have pretty much
been a disaster zone since 1947. What was that line from "The Grapes of
Wrath"? "People shouldn't have to live like that." "Them aren't people,
them's Okies." Just substitute "FBOs" for "Okies".

Ah.

So basically you're suggesting that FBO owners aren't people. Interesting
forum to make such an observation.

-c
(But, I think everybody getting used to those sorts of comments when you
challenge big oil and their pricing schemes.)

PHOOOM! I think his point went flying right over your head. Please
re-read.