Some quotes from the New York Times on the latest article written about the rising cost of gas prices and executives getting drilled on Capitol Hill. On hand were the executives from Exxon Mobile, Shell, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, and BP."Ah, the sweet, indelible signs of summer. Baseball. Backyard barbecues. And dramatic Congressional hearings over the rising price of gasoline."
“I’m a mom of three young children who filled up her minivan the other day for $68,” she said, seething. “Sixty-eight dollars — that’s real money. Maybe that’s not real money to the five people sitting here because $68 is like a nickel to you, based on the income you all earn.”
"Senator Patrick J. Leahy had made an impression on Wednesday when he ridiculed some of the executives for claiming they did not know how much they were actually paid."
"In one of the more pointed exchanges, Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, seized on the record $40.6 billion profit of Exxon Mobil in 2007. She pounded on the company’s senior vice president, J. Stephen Simon, demanding to know if gas prices would be lower if the company earned a few billion dollars less."
“Thank you for being here today,” Ms. Waters told the executives. “If you feel a little bit beaten up on, we all feel beaten up on, so just share the pain. We get our behinds kicked every day in our districts about what is going on.”
How can our response to the rising prices of gas be most glorifying to Christ? It seems so easy and almost the right thing to do to complain about the price jump in gas. Any ideas of how to respond correctly to driving by the gas station signs and seeing $3.81/gallon?
“I’m a mom of three young children who filled up her minivan the other day for $68,” she said, seething. “Sixty-eight dollars — that’s real money. Maybe that’s not real money to the five people sitting here because $68 is like a nickel to you, based on the income you all earn.”
"Senator Patrick J. Leahy had made an impression on Wednesday when he ridiculed some of the executives for claiming they did not know how much they were actually paid."
"In one of the more pointed exchanges, Representative Maxine Waters, Democrat of California, seized on the record $40.6 billion profit of Exxon Mobil in 2007. She pounded on the company’s senior vice president, J. Stephen Simon, demanding to know if gas prices would be lower if the company earned a few billion dollars less."
“Thank you for being here today,” Ms. Waters told the executives. “If you feel a little bit beaten up on, we all feel beaten up on, so just share the pain. We get our behinds kicked every day in our districts about what is going on.”
How can our response to the rising prices of gas be most glorifying to Christ? It seems so easy and almost the right thing to do to complain about the price jump in gas. Any ideas of how to respond correctly to driving by the gas station signs and seeing $3.81/gallon?
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It's VERY hard not to complain, but there's nothing we can do about it - it is what it is. A few less lattes,lunch dates, or dinners out on the town a month should even things out. Jeff said he heard the other day on the radio that a man saved $16 filling with 2/3 of that flexfuel and the rest regular unleaded. Not sure how wise that is on an engine, but $16 is pretty significant.
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