Comments on: Return the favor http://tigerblade.net/journal/2008/07/14/return-the-favor/ mindless observations of the world around us Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:14:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Tigerblade http://tigerblade.net/journal/2008/07/14/return-the-favor/#comment-2531 Tigerblade Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:05:26 +0000 http://tigerblade.net/?p=442#comment-2531 Exactly. While I do think there's some price gouging in the system, I think a lot of it is still just driven purely by supply and demand - there's a lot of demand and a limited supply, and people don't always understand that. But my bigger problem is the blatant racism that's used to make these arguments. "I can't justify giving my money to people who are trying to kill me." The oil companies are not trying to kill you, people. Terrorists may be, somewhere, but oil execs are not the ones strapping bombs to their chests and walking into open-air markets. It's like not buying from the elderly German man running his fresh fruit stand on the side of the road because "those damn krauts killed all them jews!!" It's absurd. Exactly. While I do think there’s some price gouging in the system, I think a lot of it is still just driven purely by supply and demand - there’s a lot of demand and a limited supply, and people don’t always understand that.

But my bigger problem is the blatant racism that’s used to make these arguments. “I can’t justify giving my money to people who are trying to kill me.” The oil companies are not trying to kill you, people. Terrorists may be, somewhere, but oil execs are not the ones strapping bombs to their chests and walking into open-air markets.

It’s like not buying from the elderly German man running his fresh fruit stand on the side of the road because “those damn krauts killed all them jews!!” It’s absurd.

]]> By: Barbara (Xerraire) http://tigerblade.net/journal/2008/07/14/return-the-favor/#comment-2530 Barbara (Xerraire) Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:00:21 +0000 http://tigerblade.net/?p=442#comment-2530 I don't have a problem with people having a product and making money on it, be it Arab or whoever. They have that right. What bothers me is so do we, and we don't. Gee, that gives them all the more reason to charge as much as they wish, and I can't blame them. I don’t have a problem with people having a product and making money on it, be it Arab or whoever. They have that right.

What bothers me is so do we, and we don’t.

Gee, that gives them all the more reason to charge as much as they wish, and I can’t blame them.

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