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Did you ever notice that local news stations interview black people at gas stations 99.9999% of the time?

Are you new to watching TV news?

Do black people not drive?

Do White people not drive, and they have something to say.

BillT wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 7:30 pm Did you ever notice that local news stations interview black people at gas stations 99.9999% of the time?

Isn't there some kind of unwritten, informal rule that every TV news story about a general issue has to have at least one black person interviewed? Not trying to be cynical or "hateful." For example, I've seen news stories in shopping malls where it seemed like the only black person in the mall was being interviewed.

Or at a school in Troy where almost every student is white, the reporter rushes to the one black student to get the story. Happens constantly, but I don't think they have a rule, I just think the media panders to them unconsciously, or sees them as a novelty, so they place more emphasis on them.

BillT wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 8:24 am Do White people not drive, and they have something to say.

What possible brilliant insight and context could being white bring into that interview? Are they back to selling "white gas"?

Maybe it is just luck of the draw, maybe black people buy more gasoline. Maybe white people have been told for the last six years that journalists are enemies of the state and they stay away. Wouldn't that be some delicious irony for the week.

BillT wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 7:30 pmDid you ever notice that local news stations interview black people at gas stations 99.9999% of the time?

I have not noticed that and at the rate prices are climbing the issue is irrelevant. What is going to be important is how long US citizens will tolerate a policy where the United States has the capacity to drill enough oil on its own to supply the needs of the entire nation and at the same time sell oil to countries that need it without being attached to a threat such as Russia.

If you can actually believe it the current administration knowing full well that we are fully capable of producing our own oil is buying oil from enemy countries and is now considering adding Venezuela as an additional supplier.

Getting MOS is like fishing, you take the fish that will bite and you take the first 3 you get and move on to make deadline.

Cars get 40+ mpg, and electric will be readily available. Oil companies don't want to invest in greater capacity to keep prices down. They want to keep prices at $4 and make greater profit.

You do understand that price is a measure of the market rate not supply?

I make more money in the market when you pay more for the fuel. This is called profit taking.

The Middle East won't allow retail prices to go higher than what the market is willing to pay before shifting to fuel efficient vehicles.

Quit watching programs that are driving a political agenda, try reading.

Editorcj wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 1:42 pm Getting MOS is like fishing, you take the fish that will bite and you take the first 3 you get and move on to make deadline.

Kind of my thoughts when the thread started. Many pay at the pump. Many really don't want to talk.
You get a sense of which will babble, and which will be tight lipped.

TC Talks wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 4:10 pm Cars get 40+ mpg, and electric will be readily available. Oil companies don't want to invest in greater capacity to keep prices down. They want to keep prices at $4 and make greater profit.

You do understand that price is a measure of the market rate not supply?

I make more money in the market when you pay more for the fuel. This is called profit taking.

The Middle East won't allow retail prices to go higher than what the market is willing to pay before shifting to fuel efficient vehicles.

Quit watching programs that are driving a political agenda, try reading.

You have no clue what’s really going on. Instead of pushing your political agenda, try reading.

SixPlusOne wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 1:13 pm

BillT wrote: ↑Sun Mar 06, 2022 7:30 pmDid you ever notice that local news stations interview black people at gas stations 99.9999% of the time?

I have not noticed that and at the rate prices are climbing the issue is irrelevant. What is going to be important is how long US citizens will tolerate a policy where the United States has the capacity to drill enough oil on its own to supply the needs of the entire nation and at the same time sell oil to countries that need it without being attached to a threat such as Russia.

If you can actually believe it the current administration knowing full well that we are fully capable of producing our own oil is buying oil from enemy countries and is now considering adding Venezuela as an additional supplier.

Or maybe the oil barons aren’t willing to use the millions of acres they have been given? But that doesn’t fit your right wing agenda.

edj wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 9:18 pm

TC Talks wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 4:10 pm Cars get 40+ mpg, and electric will be readily available. Oil companies don't want to invest in greater capacity to keep prices down. They want to keep prices at $4 and make greater profit.

You do understand that price is a measure of the market rate not supply?

I make more money in the market when you pay more for the fuel. This is called profit taking.

The Middle East won't allow retail prices to go higher than what the market is willing to pay before shifting to fuel efficient vehicles.

Quit watching programs that are driving a political agenda, try reading.

You have no clue what’s really going on. Instead of pushing your political agenda, try reading.

Educate me to what's really going on...

Do you also consult in this space? I told you were a mid level editor at a TV station in Detroit, so you must be a master of the global petroleum economy.

edj wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 9:18 pm

TC Talks wrote: ↑Mon Mar 07, 2022 4:10 pm Cars get 40+ mpg, and electric will be readily available. Oil companies don't want to invest in greater capacity to keep prices down. They want to keep prices at $4 and make greater profit.

You do understand that price is a measure of the market rate not supply?

I make more money in the market when you pay more for the fuel. This is called profit taking.

The Middle East won't allow retail prices to go higher than what the market is willing to pay before shifting to fuel efficient vehicles.

Quit watching programs that are driving a political agenda, try reading.

You have no clue what’s really going on. Instead of pushing your political agenda, try reading.

What’s really going on is a drop in prices caused the folks in the Dakotas to go bust, we had a pandemic which caused the saudis to curb production big time and then demand came back, they never increased supply and now we have a war and the possibility of Russian oil being cutoff from Europe and the U.S.

Just because we are “energy independent” doesn’t mean all that energy is going to your gas station. There’s a thousand other uses for that oil plus the term only means we export more than we import. It doesn’t mean your gas is from 100% American oil or something. We could be exporting most of our oil and importing somebody else’s to make gas for example. Now you know how it works.