Don, you’re talking to the Marxist generation now, buddy. John Wayne has been dead for nigh on 40 years now. I’m sorry about it too.

You’re obviously sexist because you left out husband, boy friend or little boy.

Seriously, Do people not understand world economics?? Gas is a world wide commodity. That means it has a set value world wide just like gold and silver. This can be effected slightly by increasing or decreasing production, but the problem is the US Dollar isn’t worth what it was a year ago. The foriegn oil is still recieving the same value for the oil barrels, but because the Dollar is worth less, it requires more dollars to buy a barrel of oil.

This also applies across the spectrum to all oil products including plastics, food products, medical products, construction, and of course gasoline. You want to lower gas prices? then we need to stop printing money, reduce inflation, and reduce the taxes on oil. That would have an immediate effect on lowering gas prices. Long term we need to get back on the gold standard so there is a much more stable value of the dollar to base oil prices off of.

Don’t worry POTUS says free gas for everyone.

Its a sad situation in this country but your conclusions are correct and it is exactly what the ruling class want to happen. They are not the least bit interested in finding the thiefs. And don’t kid yourself, the suburbanites are busy with their own brand of fraud and thievery.

Bah! Another rascal has made off with my oil. Hm, but this Big John fellow, I’ve been following for years. Time to come up with a new bank fee or something to put him back in his place. Maybe I’ll steal his mail and delay his paycheck. Oh wait I took his job away last year. Mwuahaha!

And now the gas prices will go up to cover the losses.

You feel good about that too Big John?

Go back to school and slap your mom for me. All you idiots that think the gas station owners have anything to do with oil company profits are of ill breed. Think before you speak. These guys are no different than most welfare recipients that feel they deserve something for nothing. Get out of my country!!

stick it to the man? what if you were the ‘man’ getting stuck to?

Stick it to the man? Just who is this “man” you speak of. Would that be the stock holder who relies on dividends for his retirment. Would that be the employees who earn their living working for an evil oil company. Please enlighten those of us who wonder. What if you are the “man” and someone sticks it to you? Oh my, wouldn’t that be fun for you.

When our society starts breaking down you idots saying stuff , like stick it to the man will become a target.

Big John, you are a poor excuse for a man. It’s obvious you were not raised right. People like you as far as I’m concerned should be packed up a deported as you being in society adds no value. You are a user and users are abusers of any system that gives you something for nothing. The real question is what would people like you do without those of us that do value personal responsibility and personal success. Without us you would shrivel up and die.

– John Galt

Question: Who pays for the stolen merchandise?

Answer: Everyone else. Do you really think that any company (oil company or not) will simply shrug and absorb the cost? No; they pass on the cost to you.

Stop being a leech and start contributing. I’m tired of paying more for things my family needs because parasites think that “the man” somehow has an endless, self-regenerating supply of money. It’s the same people who leave a gallon of milk to spoil in the dry goods section of the grocery store. We all pay for it.

Hey Big John, You must be a resident of a trailer park and a 10th grade dropout. Anything stolen and if the small business owner has to pay in loses or higher premiums to the insurance companies then finally the consumer pays. Which is you and the other customers.

Hey braniac, they’re sticking it to YOU. The margins are literally PENNIES for the station owner who has to make up the cost in other items like food, drink, etc. So when your food prices and everything else goes up, be sure to give a big hillbilly rebel yell for thieves sticking it TO YOU! Team Amerika, F**K YEAH!

You silly child – “The Man” makes 1 to 2 cents per gallon – the big bucks come from volume. Sadly the station operators make very little. Do some simple research on station owners in your area – they are not in the “upper 400!” Most have modest incomes as other small business men. The station owner has already paid “The Man” for the gas so “The Man” has lost nothing. Of course, you probably ride a bicycle and cannot afford a car or a tank of gasoline and that is why you harbor such jealousy of “The Man.”

When you grow up and get a job working for “The Man” you might be more cautious about begrudging his the income that pays salaries for all of the employees.

You are a moron.

Very mature statement there John, “stick it to the man” . The “man” won’t be getting stuck at all, those that get stuck are the folks that don’t steal and pay for the gas through higher prices at the pump. Gasoline (and diesel) are commodities, the price you see at the pump is due to many things like demand, availability of the supply, transportation (delivery) cost, taxes, value of the dollar, and etc. So consider if the buying power of the dollar falls the cost of fuel goes up, if the demand is exceeding the available supply the cost goes up (there are refineries in the “Delta” that could likely get sut down due to the flooding which could reduce the amout of fuel available), Before you buy into the claims made by hack politicians and the media with regards to “big oil” do a little research, you might find somebody is pulling your chain.

Hey Big Richard, when you steal from a store, the customer always pays.

Here’s the man that really steals from you: governments, at all levels, add 30 to 60 cents to the price of each gallon of gas. What risk did the gov incur to bring that product to market? Did the gov explore for the oil at billions of dollars of risk? Did the gov build the pipeline or the refinery and labor to produce a usable fuel from the crude? Of course not. Yet a gov’t agent is standing beside every pump (figuratively speaking thee of little intellect) tallying up your purchase and adding more to the bill, then demanding you pay up.

By all accounts, the “Big Oil” is making only 9 cents profit per gallon. To find, drill and produce a single gallon takes Billions of dollars. They take ALL the risks, make the LEAST profit from THEIR labors, and endure the slings and arrows of uninformed idiots and the intentionally divisive government that rewards their risk taking with “investigations” of price gouging.

I wanna puke sometimes at the injustice of it all.

Give me give me give me! I deserve I deserve I deserve! I made poor life decisions and I want stuff from other people! Moochers for Obama! Stick it to the productive class! The unproductive will rule!

Big John, you do know that the gas prices will go up to cover the loss.

So now that you are already broke because of gas prices, you won’t be able to buy for a much longer time to come because the gas prices will not come down but remain high to cover the cost of the stolen gas.

Didn’t you take economics in college?

Cool. Give me your address so I can come over to your place and see if there is anything I want to steal.

your an idiot to praise thieves.

Let’s see. Profit from the oil company, responsible for discovery, distillation, transportation and delivering gas – about 1 cent per gallon. Profit by various federal, state, and local government for absolutely no part in providing the product – over 50 cents per gallon! Yet there are twits writing about the gas/oil companies ripping off the consumer! It’s clear were the outrage over gas prices should be and just as clear that the gas thieves need to be incarcerated along with every politician that has prevented oil from being safely extracted.

As a gas station worker who has repeatedly faced the threat of firing for antics like yours, I believe a little payback is fair. Please input credit card number, I will determine the amount of payback that I’m due on my own time.

Why don’t you go after Tiger Woods, Ophra and Bill Gates – they got plenty of money. Throw in Michael Jordan too.

Robin Hood was not about stealing from a gas station for personal gain. It was about taking back from a corrupt government that was over taxing its citizens. Stupid people like you just remember “steal from the rich and give to the poor” but it was really not about that at all. The “rich” in Robin Hood did not earn the money, but instead had tax collecters force people to pay unjustly. Try reading a book.

Sure. Saudi Arabia.

And then what? The gas companies are goingto keep giving everyone free gas they have to pay fo and refine or do you thinhk they’ll just stop producing it?

Hey JJ where do you live? You might have a few things that I want but don’t have.

If you want to begin a revolution, start with Washington, not your local gas station.

well, judging from your comment, that would evidently be true .

nope but, I’d like to find out and when I do I will share the wealth and “report my comment” right here. I hope everyone feels the same. I wouldn’t report it to the police either if I saw it.

well maybe but, I don’t think they would of been smart enough to pull this one off. after all, how many gallons of gas can you carry on your back while swimming?

Ahhhh, the hypocrisy!!! On the one hand, the actions of these petty thieves are condoned while the same crowd calls out the Oil Giants for ripping us off at the pump.

Do yourselves a favor and STFU! Btw, taxes on a gallon of petrol are most of the cost, however, people are okay with that.

Thanks! Were just like the us government…..

Settle down with your hate speech, sir.

Probably. The common thread among Obama fans is a complete inability to grasp the big picture in any meaningful ways, nor to analyze examine an emotional appeal in light of feasibility and past results of similar appeals.

I am the law

Or develop a practical mass-production alternate fuel car that runs on something with an equivalent energy release, similar or lesser volatility, and lower price. Don’t even bother with electric, the problem with that is that the dead dino is still being burned somewhere (just somewhere else).

it’s already happening friend, out in the Wastelands, Bubba Zanetti is going down