Just a reminder: "Big Oil" does NOT set oil or gasoline prices. Wall Street does.

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And if the Walls Street Futures parasites bid up the price to $90 per barrel, are the oil companies supposed to say "Nah, that's too much; we'll sell it to you for $70 per barrel?"

I'm not a fan of Big Oil companies, but people, you gotta put the blame where it belongs:

1) Wall Street parasites, and

2) You and me, and EVERYONE else who drives when they don't HAVE to. Mrs R and I use VERY little gasoline, because we live and work in town. But on a nice day like today, we'll jump in my car with the roof down, and drive a couple of towns upriver for a picnic with our kid. We're driving for pleasure, so we don't have a right to bitch about gasoline prices, any more than other people in town who drive a 450-horsepower Porsche Cayenne (this is true) containing ONE 120-pound woman to a store near the top of Main Street, then DRIVE ONE-QUARTER MILE and re-park to go to another store near the middle of Main Street.

Anyone here who HASN'T driven 1/4 mile on a nice day to get something that isn't heavy to carry, like a video or a sandwich? I know there are plenty, and you folks are excused. As are disabled people, of course.

Anyone who HAS, well, YOU are a big part of the problem, and you can stop complaining right now.

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