Quote Originally Posted by MrSplitshot View Post
Uhm...

Oil discovery, drilling, oil rig expenses, salary of oil rig employees, cost to transport crude to refineries, oil refinery expenses, salaries, power, fuel additives, administrative costs (gotta pay all of the employees, from clerks to receptionists to the CEO), markup to regional/local fuel distributor, cost to get fuel tankers from distributors to the local gas station, and at least 1000 other things I haven't even thought of...
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I'm sure these same costs were included in the price of fuel a year ago before the blame was put on strife in the middle east for the increase in oil prices ...Not sure what the price of fuel was a year or so ago before all that but if a barrel of oil was under a hundred dollars at that time then it looks like if the profit margin doesn't increase then fuel should follow the decrease in oil prices,it doesn't quite seem to keep up with the decrease in oil prices the same as it does the increase ...would be interesting to see a fuel price comparison ......fuel prices vs. oil prices over the last couple years...Its tough to believe corporate greed isn't playing a role.