Telling the companies what they can charge is like communism. There is a little fly in the ointment though. The price of gasoline or whatever is set by the marketplace. They will continue to raise the price because the marketplace needs the gasoline. Remember the gasoline price wars. That was ehn the companies were in competition with each other. Now they seem to have the prices somewhat fixed with each other. Hate to even make the suggestion that we put a cap on the profit that a private company can make but that is what it seems may be necessary. personally I feel the big oil companies are in collusion with each other rather than competition. I also remember the 70's with the gas rationing etc. There wer oil tankers sitting in the Chesapeake bay loaded with oil. Pretty easy to tell if you've ever been on the water. They sat there for weeks with their loads of oil because there was not enough storage capacity on shore. Oil shortage??? I know better..Price gouging?? False shortage?? Yep. But in and of themselves..not illegal. Immoral I am sure...but not illegal. And as far as any party in the presidency I can guarantee ya that the big oil companies are not going to be bothered in the least.
Now quoting Fabs post. "I had a client move over an hour away from work because he could get a house for 1/4 to 1/5 of what the same house cost by his work. At first, everything was fine. Then, he started complaining that the hour drive was getting longer and longer because the traffic was getting worse. Everybody had the same idea he had. So instead of spending 2 hours on the road, he was spending 4+ a day on the road. Because he was always late, he was always speeding. He got a ton of tickets, lost his license, got busted twice for driving with a suspended license, was sentenced to a month in jail, and lost his job."
Well Fabs it was no ones fault but his own. He had to have known he had to go to work. All he had to do was leave a little earlier. He could have gotten to his job in a fair amount of time and without the tickets. He like a lot of others just wanted his cake and to be able to eat it too. I lived an hour...no let me rephrase that..60 miles from work. Drove it for 29 yrs and got no tickets and was always on time for work...even driving in snow fog and hurricanes. Soem of the people that lived 10 minutes from work were quite often late. Matter of responsibility my friend!
