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   From: abelard2@abelard.org   
      
   On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 21:38:19 -0500, mimus    
      
     typed:   
   >On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 03:08:38 +0100, abelard wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Tue, 21 Mar 2006 20:34:40 -0000, "oO"    
      
   >>>Not so, gentle souls. Three bucks a gallon in the States (and a quid a litre   
   >>>in Britain) means colossal profits for Big Oil, and that makes Dick's ticker   
   >>>go pitty-pat with joy. The top oily-gopolists, the five largest oil   
   >>>companies, pulled in $113 billion in profit in 2005 -- compared to a piddly   
   >>>$34 billion in 2002 before Operation Iraqi Liberation. In other words, it's   
   >>>been a good war for Big Oil.   
   >>   
   >> and what is your preferred price at the pump....   
   >> and why...   
   >   
   >I think anything above about one percent above cost is price- gouging,   
   >don't you?   
      
   i know you'll run out of oil the more rapidly the less it costs....   
   i know that the more oil you burn the more troublesome will   
       become global pollution...   
      
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