Derek Lyons wrote:



Ah, yes...record gas prices at the same time as record oil company
profits, and coincidentally an oil man as president.
A connection to the war in Iraq?:



Probably not.

If your markup is 5% over costs, you'll have record profits everytime
your costs increase when your market is essentially guaranteed.



In short then, the higher the oil prices, the more profit you make. In
regard to that, read this:
http://www.maconareaonline.com/news.asp?id=10198
Which might be summarized as "How the neocons got taken to the cleaners
by Big Oil, and how OPEC is Big Oil's best friend."

But that takes thinking - something you are markedly incapable of
doing of the topic is Bush.



The last part of that sentence's phrasing would do credit to the
President himself. :-D


Pat