[wmosner]

Originally Posted by mikeb1958

....and GREED. Just ask any oil company employee.

"In fact, in recent decades governments have collected far more revenue from gasoline taxes than the largest U.S. oil companies have collectively earned in domestic profits....
[F]ederal and state taxes on gasoline production and imports have been climbing steadily since the late 1970s and now total roughly $58.4 billion. Due in part to substantial hikes in the federal gasoline excise tax in 1983, 1990, and 1993, annual tax revenues have continued to grow. Since 1977, governments collected more than $1.34 trillion, after adjusting for inflation, in gasoline tax revenues—more than twice the amount of domestic profits earned by major U.S. oil companies during the same period"

This was from an article by the TaxFoundation. Seems like our government is more greedy than any oil company.

I do not work for or in any way affiliated with any oil company, just found this info interesting.

[SKUNKY]

Originally Posted by mikeb1958

....and GREED. Just ask any oil company employee.

Covered under the "Sin" heading...... Remember, it's the love of money which is the root of all evil, not money itself.

[jim]

Originally Posted by SKUNKY

Covered under the "Sin" heading...... Remember, it's the love of money which is the root of all evil, not money itself.

I would like to love money but it always spurns my advances.

[SKUNKY]

Good one, Jim.....

[Louie]

I am very experienced in all matters pertaining to money......

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

[wp_913]

All right Guys, I'm pretty new around these parts, but have to jump in on this one..

Money talks, but the only thing it ever says to me is Good Bye...

And at times my father was noted for stating, "It's much better to love rich than to die rich", this of course long before every motor home in America proudly displayed a bumper sticker announcing - "I'm spending my kid's inheritance"

[wp_913]

Oops...

should have said "It's much better to live rich than to die rich" ... must have been a long day at the office...