[citation][nom]touchdowntexas13[/nom].However, the oil company analogy is just plain wrong. Oil companies don't determine the price of oil, especially American oil companies seeing as how we are no longer the dominant producer. Oil price is a very complicated calculation based on supply (reported reserves) and demand. Oil companies don't put a price on oil based on the cost. It's actually the other way around. They decide whether to drill/produce oil based on if the market determined price of oil is high enough to make drilling/producing cost effective. So to say that oil companies change gasoline prices is definitely a false statement, because they don't even control the price of oil.It's funny to see people complain about high gas/oil prices. How many liquids can you purchase as cheaply as oil/gasoline. A $100 barrell of oil equates to $2.38 per gallon of oil while gasoline is about $3.50. Milk is one of the cheapest liquids you can buy, and it is like $3.70/gallon. Everyone and their grandmother love to criticize the evil oil companies because they make good money. But they really don't take the time to think about it first.[/citation] Well if I could drive around on 20 gallons of milk, maybe your argument might have a bit of weight... But it doesn't. I might use a gallon of milk a week. Or three gallons of drinking water... Etc. But I use a LEAST 20 gallons of fuel... If they made vehicles which got 200MPG so I could go a week on one-two gallons of fuel, your argument might carry more weight, even though it's still wrong... Milk is far from the cheapest liquids you can purchase...
The cheapest would be tap water; at well under 1 cent per gallon. Then things that use tap water like kool aid, coffee and such.. Then bleach which is ~ $2/gal...
The difference is the proportions of which the liquid is necessary... 1 gallon of fuel doesn't do the family car a whole lot of good by itself. Heck, it takes at least three minimum for me to get to work and back just once... And I do get almost 30MPG... Now if to get to work, everyone had to buy three gallons of milk, you can bet that would be what they would be complaining about...
Anyhow; I'm leaving AT&T too. I can't stand what they're doing to the internet service capping and what not. Even though it doesn't directly affect me, this is all I can do (change my cell service) to show my dis-satisfaction. And I'm not under contract anymore so...