# Gasoline to hit $4 this summer and probably will be here to stay **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [January 19, 2011, 8:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gasoline-to-hit-4-this-summer-and-probably-will-be-here-to-stay/256509 "2011-01-19T08:46:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 72
**Author:** ![imported\_hybrdthry91](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/imported_hybrdthry91/32/6315_2.png) [@imported\_hybrdthry91](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/imported_hybrdthry91)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2011, 11:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gasoline-to-hit-4-this-summer-and-probably-will-be-here-to-stay/256509/72 "2011-01-19T23:06:48Z")
> [@11/17/07 IMPORTFEST](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/11-17-07-importfest/38547/46): > > Fucking ridiculous. > > No other product’s price goes up and down nearly as much as gas does. > > Doesnt anybody in the government realize how badly high gas prices fuck shit up? > -Any kind of freight shipping prices increase > -people dont take vacations, tourism industry goes to shit, less tax revenue > -many small businesses/trucking companies forced to close > -increased unemployment > and a bunch more shit. > > Seems like nobody’s wages go up when gas prices and the price of everything else goes up either. > > And then the gas companies post record profits. Guess what happens when you sell hundreds of billions of gallons of gas? Yup you are going to make billions of dollars. The profit margins for an oil company are a joke compared to many other lucrative businesses, they just sell a whole ton more. Oil companies are posting profits, they are hiring more people, they are giving cost of living raises…it’s about time for the government to step in and punish them. It’s a private company what is the government supposed to do about it? --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/gasoline-to-hit-4-this-summer-and-probably-will-be-here-to-stay/256509)._