{"id":412,"date":"2005-11-21T20:51:13","date_gmt":"2005-11-21T20:51:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/those_greedy_oi.shtml"},"modified":"2021-05-29T02:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-29T02:46:48","slug":"those_greedy_oi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salguod.net\/blog\/2005\/11\/those_greedy_oi.shtml","title":{"rendered":"Those Greedy Oil Companies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.salguod.net\/images\/gas_20Nov05.jpg?w=1200\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\">This fuzzy picture was taken with my cell phone a mile and a half from my home Sunday evening.  That&#8217;s $1.89 for regular.  Another mile from there and it was $1.86.<br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a lot of talk these days about greedy oil companies and high gas prices.  Yeah, they took a spike during the Katrina crisis, but they&#8217;ve fallen right back down again.  Of course it put a scare into the mind of folks driving big vehicles.  I admit I thought briefly that maybe having a 7 passenger van wasn&#8217;t such a good idea.  Then I realized that renting one for the 10-15 days a year we actualy <em>needed<\/em> the space would cost much more than the gas we&#8217;d save driving something smaller for the rest of the year, even at $3 a gallon.<br \/>\nThe other folks hollering about &#8216;Big Oil&#8217; are the politicians.  Of course, they&#8217;re never one to miss an opportunity to make points with the people.  After all, those greedy oil companies made record profits.  Well, according to Jeff Jacoby in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/\">The Boston Globe<\/a> as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theweekmagazine.com\/article.aspx?id=1211\">reported<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theweekmagazine.com\">The Week<\/a> magazine this week, Big Oil&#8217;s profit margins are actually lower than average, 7.7% compared to 7.9%.  Pharmaceutical companies make 18.6% and banks make 19.6%.  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