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VMS
Posted 4/1/2019 9:34 PM (#934371 - in reply to #934357)
Subject: Re: Gas





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Location: Elk River, Minnesota
undersized - 4/1/2019 7:42 PM


Where would you rather money go...to the hard working farmers of this country or the multi-billion dollar oil companies who already have us "over a barrel" so to speak...

This comment implies (wrongly) that oil industry jobs aren't also filled by hard-working Americans. Roughnecks are well paid in the six-figure class, but work #*^@ hard to earn it. And the majority of farm production is from farms with more than $1M in sales annually, with the move to large and very large farms accelerating quickly. The better businesses out-compete the less adept; that's the way of things, it's only nostalgia that holds up 30-cow-80-acre farms as some sort of ideal.

Let's say I put about 300 gallons through my boat each year. 91 octane "pure" gas costs less than $0.50/gallon more than e10 gas. This circular discussion (with some full-on SHOUTED posts) is simply not worth $150 per year.



Don't get me wrong...I completely understand there are hard working people around the world in the oil industry...those would be the ones who don't see the anything more than their paycheck. Price of oil goes up, their paycheck doesn't.... Demand pushes prices up even though there is enough to go around... it goes in the pockets at the top... That is not rocket science either...

I don't know about you...but I'd rather put that $150 toward something other than burning out my engine with no real benefit...

Edited by VMS 4/1/2019 9:36 PM

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