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In article <iLOdnQUPjNBl1ZbYnZ2dnUVZ_oCdnZ2d@comcast.com>,
 Anthony Matonak <anthonym40@nothing.like.comcast.net> wrote:

> Larry Bud wrote:
> > bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote:
> >> Bert Hyman <bert@iphouse.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>>Sounds like you don't agree with your own decisions about how you
> >>>spend your money.
> >>
> >>What an interesting notion. Care to share how you arrived at it?
> > 
> > You can't figure it out?  You admit to spending money and giving it to
> > oil companies, then bitch that they make a profit.
> 
> Perhaps the thinking goes along these lines...
> 
> They must commute to work and there is no viable public transit.
> (Viable public transit dismantled by oil & auto companies.)
> 
> They must buy from the oil companies because there are no alternatives
> available to fuel their personal vehicle.
> (Electric vehicles taken out of hands of leaseholders and then crushed.)
> 
> They observe that the oil companies manipulate prices and reap
> staggeringly huge profits in the process.
> 
> They observe that the oil companies use these staggering profits
> to pay staggering amounts of money to a small handful of people
> who run the companies.
> 
> They then complain about getting screwed while the CEO's laugh
> themselves into a coma on a yacht trip to an off-shore bank.
> 
> It's like admitting to paying 'protection' money and then complaining
> when they burn down your place of business and break your legs anyhow.
> 
> Anthony

Wow, that whole Larry Bud response never showed up on Supernews servers.

I thought maybe I had killfiled him (he's definitely in contention with 
Rod Speed for killworthy articles), but no, there is  no such filter 
here. Maybe he cancelled his article, but not before you caught it.

Anyway if I *had* seen the response, I would have noted that I certainly 
never complained or bitched or whined in my original article. I never 
even complained about spending money for gas. It just looked like 
"connect-the-dots" to me. Record oil company profits followed a few 
months later by a massive boom in luxury yacht sales. Nah, it couldn't 
be.

I just posted about the boom in giant luxury yachts and postulated maybe 
*that* might be where the record profits collected by oil companies over 
the last year might have gone. What's so bad about that?

Seems to me that ol' Bert and Larry are just a mite bit sensitive to the 
whole subject. OTOH, It's always highly entertaining watching parasites 
fight to defend their host. 

Now, me, see, I LOVE the oil companies. I have the privilege of having 
my nose so far up oil company executives' rectums that I could be a 
Republican assemblyman. Any further with the nose, and they might choke. 
I love the smell of crude in the morning. Hell, I hope they buy a yacht 
the size of the Exxon Valdez and hire a drunk to pilot it around New 
York Harbor.

I say, MORE public money for roads, industry and infrastructure that 
promotes oil use! It's the free market, I say! Whisper the word, 
"subsidy" and prove you are a pinko fag commie.

What's good for BP is good for Alaska!

God Bless America.