Went to the store yesterday to get milk (really). A gallon cost $4.99!
Consider:
The milk came from cows browsing in a field in the next county. The cows come in late PM to the barn, smiling, get hooked up to the milking machine. Milk goes into cans. Cans picked up early next morning by truck that carries milk 20 miles to the dairy on Murfreesboro road. Milk gets filtered, Pasteurized, put in plastic bottles, is loaded on a truck which carries it an average of under ten miles to the grocery. Price per gallon: $4.99. Farmer has no control over price of raw milk, but wishes he did.
Consider:
An oil company sends a geophysical team to a wind-ravaged spot in the North Sea or a blazing hot desert in Saudi Arabia at cost of millions. They say "Drill here!" They drill a hole in 3,000 feet of water or up to 18,000 feet in the desert at a cost of a $50 million (or more), if lucky find oil, run it into a multimillion dollar pipeline for three hundred miles, load it onto tankers that travel 7,000 miles to the Houston port, down-load it at there to pipelines that carry it to various refineres where it undergoes a complex process of breakdown into numerous fuel and petrochemical products. Fuel goes into other pipelines to terminals hundreds of miles away, is downloaded again there to batteries of storage tanks, is then re-loaded onto trucks which travel up to 100 miles to various retailers. Cost per gallon: $2.99 Oil company has no control over price of crude oil, but wish they did.
Attitudes: God bless those farmers and dairymen! Aren't they great!
___ d___ those oil companies! They are a bunch of crooks!
