Until "disposable income" industries complain gas will spiral to $6-7.

Gas prices depends on effected industries whining not consumers, they always whine. Spending on things as latte shops, broadband services, kid cell phones, iPod downloads, cable, full service restaurants, and any of number of non essential services.

So if you want to have an effect withhold your favorite non essential and let them know it because of gas prices.

If ANY company in the country was gonna complain, you know it'd be Walmart.

What we don't know is just how one corporate hand is washing the other.
Maybe Big Wallie DID complain and Big Oil said later, pal.

most industries don't care if they whine or not. I think Lowe's is a better start(disappointing earnings report), because it is a diy market.

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1980 - IBM licenses DOS from Microsoft. IBM was too inept to see that they could sell a used condom with a chip thrown inside and having their name stamped on it and it would become a de facto in the world of computing... The same PC was made from off the shelf, underpowered parts because they did not want their midrange monopoly to be affected. If only they used the Motorola 68000 instead of the puny 8088... but I digress. Microsoft did some slithering of their own to get a product they claimed they already had... but didn't. QDOS, as I recall, is what they bought and repackaged as MS-DOS. It's usually good to have a product ready rather than to make promises of vaporware, but they succeeded. Pity the rest of the industry couldn't do the same thing.

1985 - IBM & Microsoft team up to make the next generation operating system. OS/2. Microsoft, like any sleazy televangelist, ditched IBM once their bit of fluff on the side took off like a hotcake: Windows 3.0. (The divorce gave Microsoft what is known as Windows NT, and IBM got to use Windows 3.0 code in OS/2's Windows emulation... they also had to remove OS/2 32-bit TCP/IP and Device I/O code because that was part of what became windows NT.)

I'll get back to you with their 3rd partnership, it was a few years ago and during that time I was a Linux rebel and didn't give a damn about either company anymore. (No longer a Linux user, thankfully, as that patent spat is going to take a while and none of my most important apps worked under 3rd party Windows emulation anyway...)

after all -- those factories in China that make petroleum based products to sell at Walmart have to get their oil from somewhere. :shrug:

One hand washes the other.

Walmart does sell products made in the USA, though people often opt for the lower price imports even if they are lesser quality. Even compared to the higher priced ones of better quality, it's the lower price that gets to them, 6 times out of 10.

The name brand stuff (e.g. the $60 black and decker food chopper thingie) is always made in China and seems to be the same price at walmart, target, or anywhere else. :D

The majority of their crap is foreign made.

And I guess it's completely unheard of for walmart, target and everyone else to set prices on the name brand stuff coming from China? :eyes:

But it wasn't unfair to say they sell products made int he USA as if they don't or never do.

Whatever.

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I will definitely say as you suggest, but Walmart has clout. Of either of us, which one will more likely be listened to. :D

Well, if offshoring doesn't prove anything else, it proves we're disposable.

I sure as hell don't know anymore.

...It will begin to become regressive for some people to work at jobs that don't pay enough to cover the transportation costs plus living expenses. By the time we get to $7 per gallon, the economy will be well on the way to the breaking point.

Little do they seem to realize that once gas prices skyrocket, people won't be as eager to buy CDs and go to movies.

Didn't 60 Minutes say how one could go to any given street corner in China and buy Spider-Man III for $1?

The anti-piracy people have a point, but the worst of it is by far not occurring in America.

You can waste gas money to drive out to a theater to pay $10.00 to sit through a bunch of commercials then yet another god-awful TV remake or franchise sequel or popcorn fodder flick. or you can have Netflix or Blockbuster Online deliver you a nice quality DVD you can watch on a nice home theater system with a $0.99 popcorn bag where no obnoxious teens are talking and no cell phones ringing or babies crying.

I'll take the latter thanks.

and they want as many of those dollars they can get before it becomes a burden on other companies getting those dollars. So complaining to the gas companies won't do any good until we get other industries to complain also.

because when it does even the brain damaged 30 odd percent will be screaming for Bush's hide. If that's what it takes to get rid of the little bastard, it works for me.


Impeach the Bastid!

All in order to make your "point"

Gee, is your nose still attached, or is that gone too?

You don't make points by needlessly increasing the misery of a majority of the population. It is cruel and inhumane.

Thank you though, for your self-righteousness.

And find out what happens when those kind of prices hit our economy. Perhaps you are being a bit sarcastic there, I hope so, otherwise you're asking for an economic meltdown that would make the Great Depression look like the Roaring Twenties.

I'm not that well off either, no job and all. That's why I'm pissed at people who make those type of suggestion all for the "good of the country" or whatever bullshit reason.

People often are. I really don't give a good goddamn anymore. You're just one more among many.

the Sopranos anyhow, i've been a subscriber to HBO for 20 years, they'd miss me--oh well.

And free cable TV

:shrug: