A FEEL-GOOD ARTICLE

A FEEL-GOOD ARTICLE

(FRAZER CHRONICLE)

(All the News That Nobody Else Will Print)

I’ve really liked the past five or six weeks, “Allah Petro” isn’t making quite as much money as in years past. Of course now we read that just because gas is cheaper at the pumps doesn’t necessary equate into a better long term situation for us consumers…..we can’t win can we. I guess there’s places in Wisconsin where gasoline prices per gallon are under $2…..man I’d like some of that petro.

 

“Lower gas prices will hurt long term,” now there’s a group of words that simply won’t roll off the tongue no matter how many times you say it. Leave it some a fellow by the name of Gary Janosz, and a posting on Chicoer.com to burst my bubble.

 

Janosz says that “low gas prices have a short-term benefit to consumers, but in the long run hamper any efforts to become energy independent.” Well (holy magumbow) I wasn’t worried about the long term, I just wanted to enjoy my extra gas today, seems as if there’s always somebody dousing my “happy, happy.”

 

This Janosz guy talks about low prices today will “hasten the inevitable energy crisis when global supplies become depleted.” David Walton talks about “gas usage increases when prices drop, and I can only concur…..Cha-yea. He, Walton, talks about the laws of supply and demand, and the unquenchable thirst of gasoline in the U.S. So when the price per gallon at the pumps drop, more gas is consumed. U.S. automakers rejoice because the demand for SUV’s, luxury sedans and full-sized pick-ups returns.

 

However when the price for a gallon of gasoline increased (according to Janosz) “mass transit use jumps, airlines cut routes, consumers buy the most fuel efficient cars (usually imports), and recreation machines, snowmobiles, and jet skis are throttled back…..and car pooling becomes popular again”.

 

THESE GUYS GOT ALL SORTS OF DOOM AND GLOOM GOING ON

With low gasoline prices titillating consumers to use more, those same low prices stifle innovation. According to Janosz, “alternatives to gasoline powered vehicles stops completely, because nothing is ventured unless there’s an immediate profit creation.”

 

“No U.S. company is willing to bet on alternatives to gasoline-powered vehicles when proven profit available is from the same old product. There is simply no demand for alternatives and efficiency when gas prices are low.”

 

These poor petroleum companies, those poor oil drillers, and the poor oil field workers, I’m sure their Christmases weren’t quite as cheery as when the price for a gallon of gas was like $3.75.9 last Christmas season. Guess what “boys”, I don’t care, my Christmas was just fine, in fact I can’t recall a better holiday season.

 

Gasoline companies, the Shell’s and the BP’s are going to ride that petroleum pony for all it’s worth for as long as they can. The United States Federal Government resides in the back-pockets of the petroleum companies…..and pretty much the same can be said for the world’s governments. There is so much money, and so much power related to petroleum, could it be any other way.

 

THERE IS NO CONSPIRICY, IT’S HOW THEY DO THEIR BUSINESS

Ok I suppose the next thing you think I’m going to say is that there’s some sort of conspiracy that’s going on…..sorry to disappoint, I’m not, pretty much because there isn’t any conspiracy…..it’s how world authorities and the petroleum companies operate. Didn’t you ever wonder why government drags their collective feet whenever there’s an environmental impact study done, and the figures are either altered, or the story comes out on a week-end. Come on people…..wise the hell up.

 

If you want to keep driving that Suburban, or that lovely Cadillac, in the long run you’ll be paying, “on average” $3.75.9 for a gallon of gas. In many cases those SUV drivers can afford the higher gasoline prices. Oh sure there is a bit of validity connected with people cutting back a bit on when and where they drive to…..but not very much, unless these people aren’t like me.

 

The petroleum industry gets all sorts of kickbacks and subsidies, and although their taxation rates can be as much as 45%, well pal, if I make a cool $1 billion a year, and I gotta pay $450,000,000, I guess I’d be able to live on $550,000,000…..SOMEHOW.

 

Petroleum makers employ millions of people all over the globe; they pay gazillions of dollars for all sorts of stuff. They also pay decent wages, so in effect they got workers in their proverbial back pockets also…..I wonder if their pockets are getting full with all of those people in there?

 

WHETHER IT’S GAS OR DIESEL IT DOESN’T MATTER

When gasoline prices go down so do diesel prices, but never as much, that’s because when gas prices started their decline from say $3.80.9 per gallon, diesel fuel prices were at about $4.20.9 a gallon. So when gasoline is $2.99.9 a gallon, diesel fuel will have dropped to about $3.69.9.

 

Regular people (those with gas banger engines) don’t pay attention to what fuel prices are…..just the trucker and the trucking companies. When a gallon of diesel fuel is $3.50 a gallon, it will cost, to fill both saddle tanks (with an average of 90 gallons per tank) an average trucker $630.00…..a huge bite.

 

Petroleum companies have their profit margins penciled in; they can fall back on a different product when one seems to be out of demand. Gee, I’m just about done with this blog, and we didn’t even talk about the laws of supply and demand. I tried to look them up, “the laws,” but couldn’t find them in any law books.

HAVE A NICE DAY!