Fed up Massachusetts gas station owner stops selling fuel/ Oil Companies Claim Massive Profits

If you are struggling to gas up your car or truck, there's only one outlet to blame: Oil Companies. Record gasoline prices are occurring ALL Around the World! Why? The oil companies say they haven't ramped up production since the pandemic, or that there's a war in Ukraine, or perhaps they ate bad tacos yesterday - It doesn't matter- Oil Companies  the prices. As such, Last QUARTER profits - Exxon/Mobil $6.1 BILLION, Shell $9.1 BILLION, BP $6.2 BILLION, Chevron $6.3 BILLION. That's profits for only 3 months....... AND who's fault is it ? (If I read about 1 more Moron who blames politicians, I'll heave).  This month, one gas station owner had enough of their fleecing America and stopped selling gasoline (which means his business will go under- but he has principles). Here's the story:

Fed up Massachusetts gas station owner stops selling fuel 

“This is the biggest ripoff that ever has happened to people in my lifetime.”

Suzanne Kreiter/Boston Globe Staff

By AMHERST, Associated Press June 9, 2022

A Massachusetts gas station owner fed up with what he considers attempts by oil companies to fleece customers with outrageously high prices at the pump has stopped selling gas as a protest.

Average gas prices in Mass. hits $5 per gallon Reynold Gladu, who has run Ren’s Mobil Service in downtown Amherst for nearly 50 years, drained his tanks earlier this month and has no current plans to refill them.

“I don’t want to be part of it anymore,” Gladu told The Daily Hampshire Gazette for a story published Tuesday. “This is the biggest ripoff that ever has happened to people in my lifetime.”

Gasoline in Massachusetts is averaging more than $5 per gallon, according to AAA New England.

The business will continue to do oil changes and other repairs, but Gladu acknowledges it is unlikely he will be able to remain open for long without selling gas.

“Dealing with Mobil, they don’t think through their pricing policies anymore,” Gladu said. “I’ve served their product, but I refuse to do it anymore, because they’re only getting richer.”

Julie King, a spokesperson for ExxonMobil Corp., wrote in an email to the newspaper that the price at the pump is out of her company’s control and is based on several factors, including the price of crude.