tomkanpa wrote:
I'm donating all my disposable income to the local Sunoco station!


I'm assuming that the refiners will be donating their extra profits to the
relief effort.

Here in the Pacific Northwest, our gas prices traditionally have been higher
than in the East. And the reason they've always given us is that we can't
take advantage of the plentiful supplies in the East because there's no
economical way to get any excess over to us except via the Panama Canal.

Yet our gas prices have jumped 40-cents a gallon in the last couple of days,
and the answer is that it's a shortage because of Katrina. Hmmm. Something
isn't adding up here. We don't get the benefit of plentiful supplies in the
East, but we suffer the same problems when there's a shortage?

So I'm guessing that the refiners on the West Coast are taking advantage of
our willingness to accept the higher prices because the extra profit will be
donated to the relief effort. It certainly can't be price gouging. Nor could
it be that they lied about how the supplies are separate. So it must be that
the extra cost at the pumps will be donated to the relief effort. Right?

--
Warren H.

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