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[wbondarmunw]

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How do you deliberate on how sober the tough nut to crack of toll increases, and whether it is practical far-reaching shock,
the reality that already taking place, namely: Rising subsistence guerdons has transformed stuffs into an ecumenical gclosednmental issue.
Riots make erupted in Egypt, Haiti and Bangladesh in excess of soaring subsistence tolls.
People fought one another remaining bags of rice in West Africa.
The causes and the solutions to the stuffs calamity are complex.
Iif not tough and you prepare your conception on this, cheer rejoin, I am least interested to pick up your conception.
See you later!
P.S. Sorry for my english.

[DragonRider]

Hi there wbondarmunw,

Welcome to the forum. Your English is just fine, actually much better than that used by Brits ... ...at least I can understand you. The causes are not all that complex, it is the product of multiple factors including drought, poor farming techniques and diversion of grains to ethynol production instead of using them as a food supply. The farmer who is growing corn to produce alcohol to use as an energy source is not growing corn to feed the starving population. If governments and religious factions would spend more time feeding the starving and less time trying to take over the world there wouldn't be nearly so many people going to bed hungry on this old earth.

[Mick832]

If governments and religious factions would spend more time feeding the starving and less time trying to take over the world there wouldn't be nearly so many people going to bed hungry on this old earth.

If they fed their people, then there people would be happier, and happy people are not interested in civil uprisings, or becoming a martyr for a religion. Happy, contented people don't want to risk what they have. Only people with nothing will uprise to get things.

Imagine Mrs Clinton starting an uprising on TV. C'mon all you Middle Class Americans, rise and overthrow the government if I lose the next election. Risk dying and loosing your house and jobs. Middle Class America would turn the TV to a different channel

[April]

All Americans are paying a lot more for food these days. This is because the price of fuel is increasing the price of transporting it to the supermarket shelf.

Don't tell me that I am the only one that has noticed that the price of spaghetti and bread has tripled in the past year, along with the price of just about everything else.

You might want to stock up on non-perishables, at least enough to last you from Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day, as the cost of fuel will be going up again, very soon.

And that cost will be passed along to your wallet, at the supermarket, if you don't.

[..Ñøßߥ..]

The food price rises have been pretty bad here too, the fuel is out of all control, the government are playing at heads in the sand.

[..Ñøßߥ..]

Just as we speak the government are taking a battering in the local council elections, the message from the public has been sent, lets see if they choose to act or not.

[DragonRider]

Nobby, any nation that would eat a meal called "Bubbles and Squeak" or "Bangers and Mash" deserves for their food prices to go up...

Give me a good old Irish Stew any day...LMFAO

[..Ñøßߥ..]

lol DR

I was listening on the radio this morning, whilst the government are busy telling us imflation is around 2.5%, the ACTUAL figure, for real, normal working folks, is nearer 28%

I really wish for just once, a politician would get his head out his ass and react to the REAL issues. I heard a government minister the other day, telling the nation the reason petrol (gas for you yanks) prices are so high here, is because China and India have forced up the price of oil. What a total f**k lieing wanker, whislt i accept oil prices are currently high (i blame DR for profiteering) the REAL reason fuel prices are so high in the UK is because the government add on some 80%.

These are the 2007 TAX figures on fuel:

# 50.35 pence per litre for ultra-low sulphur unleaded petrol/diesel
# 53.65 pence per litre for conventional unleaded petrol
# 56.94 pence per litre for conventional diesel

(i note again, this is JUST the tax element of what we are paying at the pumps)

[DragonRider]

See, there is the problem, Nobby...you guys have "government ministers"...here in the good old US of fookin' A we believe in the seperation of church and state...and if you don't like the high gas prices just do what I do...get you a 6 foot length of garden hose and visit your neighbors in the middle of the night...it's called a "Texas Credit Card"...LMFAO

[April]

"Bubbles & Squeak" sounds like a bath with a rubber duckie rather than some kind of food.


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I know how to bring down the price of gas, but nobody is willing to listen to me, and what is worse is that if they do, they won't do it right...

The last time someone decided to organize an effort to send the oil companies a message, they did it in a rather stupid way. They all decided that some Tuesday would be a great day to just not buy gas. But the consumer wasn't going to do without, so they topped off their tanks on Monday, didn't buy on Tuesday, and filled up again on Wednesday. The oil companies didn't lose a dime, and they laughed at us, because they know we won't do without and suffer, just to send a message.

So instead of the price coming down, it went up even more and the oil companies had record breaking profits.

There is a better way to do this, and the consumer doesn't have to live without...

Your target: the largest oil company in your country (in the US that would be Exxon Mobile).
What to do: Don't buy their gas for ONE FULL YEAR. No matter what happens, don't buy their gas!

Buy your gas anywhere else except there. You won't live without, and you will be hitting the richest oil company hard, very hard.


Now, this is what would happen if enough people could be convinced to do this:

Exxon would lower their prices. If you still don't buy their gas, they will lower them some more. Eventually this price lowering will cause a price war, with all oil companies lowering their prices. If you don't cave in and buy Exxon for the full year, the prices will lower to a reasonable level for everyone at all gas stations, not just Exxon.

And what is more important, it will send a clear message to all oil companies that the consumer has the power and the control, and not them. They will all be afraid to raise the prices again, out of fear that us, the comsumer, would do it again and they would be the next target.

There is great power in your wallet. But it takes a collective effort of every consumer to effect change.

The problem is those that agree and are willing to do their part will cave before the year is up and buy the Exxon Mobile gas when it's a little cheaper, instead of waiting the full year for the prices to come down across the board.

[DragonRider]

Good plan April, except...a major oil company wouldn't lower it's prices it would pass it's losses along to it's contractors. In turn the contractors would lower the wages of their workers (or lay off workers) in order to compensate for the loss. When oil prices go up drilling contractors experience a cycle of growth and they buy new equipment. As the demand for new drilling equipment increases the price of the equipment rises and the contractors pass that increased cost along to the oil companies by raising day rates on the rigs. For every oil well drilled there are probably a couple hundred companies involved on the supply side. When the oil company experiences losses then they pass the loss onto their suppliers which in turn effects hundreds or thousands of workers.