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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jdagreek" data-source="post: 2089257" data-attributes="member: 14916">I am always amazed that people will complain about gas prices while they drink 12 ounces of water out of a plastic bottle that they paid $1.25.  Or even worse drink a diet coke they paid $1.59 <img src="/images/smilies/image1257.gif"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":chop:" title="Image1257    :chop:" data-shortname=":chop:" />When you are driving from work in that 5:00 traffic creeping along at 5 - 10 mph and looking at that three lanes of traffic up in front of you, do you ever wonder how in the hell we can pump all of that oil out of the ground and transport it the gas stations and keep this system up and running?To me, this is a miracle.  Do you ever contemplate how many people and how much money is involved in the research, discovery, drilling [dry holes as well] transporting, refining and more transporting it takes to keep all the cars/trucks running in OKC alone?I paid $35 dollars for a fairly nice cotton shirt the other day.  The shirt had to have at least a pound of cotton in it.  That pound of cotton most likely cost less than 5% of the total cost of the shirt.  We know the labor was minimal as it was made in China.  US Farmers produced the cotton, it was sold via a broker to a middle man who sent it to China where it was turned into my shirt then sent back to the US where another middle man sold it to the store where I bought it.  I am positive I left out a few steps and a few more middle men, but you get the drift.  You want to ***** about something, ***** about the cost of the shirts you buy or the jeans you buy that are now made in China and sell for $59.95+ a pair.</blockquote>

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