On Jul 29, 2006, at 11:00 PM, Automatic digest processor wrote:

> oil company profits obscenely
> high.  Where is the outrage?  Where is the organized resistance?
        I'm not a big fan of oil companies, but how much money would you
charge to turn something that is deep underground into a readily
available liquid that we just put in our cars? I know for a fact that I
would have to spend millions of dollars just to produce one barrel of
crude oil, let alone a gallon of gasoline. I'm not a scientist, but I
bet that the companies that sell soft drinks and bottled water, just as
an example, don't make any less profit than oil companies. But of
course it would be helpful to look at the big picture over time, who
took the bigger risk, who benefits the most people with their products,
etc, in order to reach a logical conclusion about how much is too much
profit. Most people will probably say too much equals more than I have.
Sad.

Neal Barrentine
Bloomington, Indiana
1986 GL
1960 Baja Bug