Out of Pod Experience

Why are we still getting raped at the pumps while the companies providing us with the fuel continue to make absurd profits? I understand capitalism but they are literally sucking this **** out of the earth and then selling it to you at profit making prices. I swear if dirt was as valuable they would kick us off the land take that too and then sell it back to us.


If CCP gave the goons exlusive rights to moon goo and allowed them to be the only ones who can mine it and sell it....would that be cool with everyone? I assume it would for the Americans since they are naturally ignorant it seems.

I am so upset by this situation now that you brought it up! I've been paying too much for gas, for too long! I'm especially upset because you associated goonswarm with oil companies, and now they are both synergistically MORE evil in my mind! I'm outraged... OUTRAGED!

*irl staring emotionlessly at the screen and taking sips of coca cola

Some of us aren't ignorant, but 99% of us are powerless to do anything about it. It's a plutocracy.

This thread is horrible and you should feel bad for creating it.

Yep. Meanwhile farmers in the U.S. are getting big subsidies to grow crops for alternative fuels. ("Farmers" here mostly means crop-production corporations, not individual farming families). The result of the subsidies is that grain that would go to producing flour, meat, eggs, dairy products, etc. is going into ethanol. So food prices are going up-- and gas prices are still going up as well.

(Worst of all, the subsidies caused a lot of farmers to switch from growing hops to growing ethanol crops. You know what that does to the price of a nice hoppy beer like an IPA or a Sierra Nevada?)

They don't really have much of a choice since their credit rating was axed.


Every Icelander could gather and collectively think oil into existence until the fabric of reality tears open and Oil wells spring up all over Iceland and even that would be more likely to happen than anyone lending them money for a modern energy project.

The Western Oil companies such as BP, Shell Texaco ect, are only the refiners and sellers at the pumps in many cases. The actual Crude they sell is extracted and sold to them for the cost of a Barrell of Oil in long term contracts (futures) for the large part, though they do get contracted by some nations national governments to part extract their reserves so they can copy their technology and do it themselves in the other fields.

OPEC is to blame, if you want cheap oil tell all those impoverished third world nations to stop demanding above extraction costs for the commodity that's pulling their nations out of the doldrums of the global economy. Sorry to say but this is poor countries realizing that for once they have leverage over the West and milking it for all its worth. If they push to hard, they find the west develops Hydrogen Cars or Electric, France went full Nuclear as a result of this market distortion. They need the West to have cheap enough energy that it has a market, but not so cheap they can't squeeze every penny. Basically a classic Laugher Curve.

but I want to be angry at stuff!