In a message dated 3/13/04 9:25:51 AM, dubesor@NETZERO.NET writes:

<< .... Well, let's face it, you just aren't a mathematician.

But I am .. so trust me on this one.)  >>

For this scheme we don't need a mathematician, we need a Sicilian bookie.
The crucial fact that the proposer of this lame tactic is forgetting is that the
oil companies ALSO own the refineries.  Whatever shortfall they suffer on the
retail end, they will make up on the wholesale end and we STILL will be
paying them whatever profit they find satiating.

George