Farging gas prices

[Diomedes]

The chairman of Exxon just got a 400million dollar retirement package.  On top of the obscene salary he had been drawing year after year.

No one has ever in the history of man earned that kind of money.  That's theft, plain and simple.  It's not the natural, proper order of things, and it's not healthy capitalism. 

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

The chairman's retirement package isn't that big a deal.  It was all negotiated in his contract when he joined, based on the company's performance.  So, the company making ridiculous profits directly led to that.

It's a symptom, not a root cause.

[Diomedes]

Agreed.  It's the pus, not the wound.

[qwert246]

Okay, simpleton.  Let's try to get your facts straight. 

Hit rate for drugs...
TORT suits are killing Pharma...
You pay to play.  Period....

You're the one that brought up drug companies in a gas thread.
Now you bring up liability suits as a defense of high drug costs.   Which I didn't bring up at all.
You want to complain about the hit rate of drugs or the cost of litigation?  Bark up another tree.  It wasn't part of the point I made.

You lose sight of the simplicity of the matter.  When you buy anything in bulk, you get to negotiate price.

The only reason Medicare does not negotiate price is because of the strength of the Pharmaceutical lobbies.  No one benefits from this except the drug companies, no matter what kool-aid you've been drinking.   Trying to complicate the issue by discussing the trials and tribulations of getting a drug to market.  Implying that somehow if a major consumer of your product negotiates price that you would just fold up shop and leave.  The business model would change, but there would be another company to take over right after you left.  Trillions of dollars to be made.  Someone would take your place.

[Wingspan]

i'd like to point out that while gas and drugs may have gone up...the cost of internet porn has come down over the past year or so...

so really, it's not a total loss

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

If you've ever paid for internet pr0n, you're stupid.

I love it, but plenty to be had for free.

[MDS]

2.99-3.05 as i driving up north broad today. this is bull, im not paying for these ridiculous prices. time to cyphon.

[Phanatic]

You could just make your own ethanol...

http://running_on_alcohol.tripod.com/id36.html

Just don't blow yourself up!

[BigEd76]

$38 to refill my car today ($3.02)

[PhillyPhreak54]

I spent $78 two weeks ago.

Time to fill up tomorrow. I'm lookin at about $90 now.

[Wingspan]

i was just watering the garden, and i farted...cost me $4

[Geowhizzer]

I spent $78 two weeks ago.

Time to fill up tomorrow. I'm lookin at about $90 now.

What do you drive, a tank? 

[PhillyPhreak54]

Close. An Expedition.

[Diomedes]

Sucker.  You got no right to complain.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Who is complaining? I am just saying what I pay and will have to pay. If I didn't expect to shell out big money on gas I wouldn't have bought it.

At least this gets better than 10-12mpg that my Mustangs got.