Since OPEC fixes floor prices for crude oils they sell us,why don't we fix prices for the goods we sell them?

We sell or provide them foods, cars, weapons, construction machinery, places to party without prudishness, booze%26amp; entertainment outside their strict islamic fiefdoms and traditions, all the luxuries of modern society, and a military defense that keeps the sheiks on top to boot --everything but the crude oils which they already have in abundance and love to export under short term contracts. And we do this all gladly even though we and our GOVERNMENT and our OIL COMPANIES know that they, the OPEC Cartel of state-owned National Oil Companies, are fixing the prices of our petroleum products which we refine their crude oils purchased at non-free market determined FIXED PRICES.





file TWH 08032006Since OPEC fixes floor prices for crude oils they sell us,why don't we fix prices for the goods we sell them?
Nice point. knowing they were chowing down on $50/pound chicken would make paying $3/gallon for gas more palatable.Since OPEC fixes floor prices for crude oils they sell us,why don't we fix prices for the goods we sell them?
Because the UN would cry foul. You just have to face facts that the rest of the world hates us because we are free.
we could, but the fact is they don't fix the price, so much as it is bid for.......ad China needs more oil now, so the price goes up....and with the wars, the fact that oil may turn up to be a precious commodity, the bidding goes higher.....plus, it takes all 8 countries....I think it is 8.....to settle on the minimum price.....anywa, it is not as easy as saying....okay, we will charge 78 dollars for it today.....there is much more involved.....