Comments on: And I Thought OUR Governor Was an Idiot http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/09/i_thought_our_g.html Dispatches from a Small Business Sun, 12 Feb 2012 09:39:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ashish Hanwadikar http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/09/i_thought_our_g.html/comment-page-1#comment-1795 Ashish Hanwadikar Wed, 21 Sep 2005 19:45:37 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/09/i_thought_our_g.html#comment-1795 <p>I don't understand why there is so much obsession over profit margins. The actual returns to the investors depend upon ROI (return on investment). But I am pretty sure that oil industry won't have outsized ROI as compared to other industries.</p> I don’t understand why there is so much obsession over profit margins. The actual returns to the investors depend upon ROI (return on investment). But I am pretty sure that oil industry won’t have outsized ROI as compared to other industries.

]]> By: BridgetB http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/09/i_thought_our_g.html/comment-page-1#comment-1794 BridgetB Wed, 21 Sep 2005 17:34:31 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/09/i_thought_our_g.html#comment-1794 <p>Its true they are making smaller profit margin. Ive been saying this all along. Just because the price at the pump is increasing or higher than some other point in time does not necessarily translate into higher profits. Indeed it is usually quite the opposite.</p> <p>I mean you can price something at a million dollars profit margin but that doesnt mean you are going to sell it and make a million dollars in the process, no less.</p> <p>Thanks Coyote for making this even more obvious! Much needed facts of reality. Too bad the one person you would expect to capitalze on this political nonsense seems to be MIA (as Jack said).</p> <p>A bloggers work is never done :).</p> <p>$<br /> BB</p> Its true they are making smaller profit margin. Ive been saying this all along. Just because the price at the pump is increasing or higher than some other point in time does not necessarily translate into higher profits. Indeed it is usually quite the opposite.

I mean you can price something at a million dollars profit margin but that doesnt mean you are going to sell it and make a million dollars in the process, no less.

Thanks Coyote for making this even more obvious! Much needed facts of reality. Too bad the one person you would expect to capitalze on this political nonsense seems to be MIA (as Jack said).

A bloggers work is never done :) .

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]]> By: Jack Benway http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/09/i_thought_our_g.html/comment-page-1#comment-1793 Jack Benway Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:38:57 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/09/i_thought_our_g.html#comment-1793 <p>J.Nap learned her politics from the McCain guidelines for grandstanding. Whenever an item makes the news, call a press conference, call for an investigation, and above all, make sure the press picks up on this grand effort for the little people.</p> <p>The piece of this issue that causes me the worst distress is that GOP gubernatorial candidate Don Goldwater is missing in action when he has a perfect opportunity to demonstrate the free market ideals he's espoused and call J.Nap on her hollow rhetoric.</p> J.Nap learned her politics from the McCain guidelines for grandstanding. Whenever an item makes the news, call a press conference, call for an investigation, and above all, make sure the press picks up on this grand effort for the little people.

The piece of this issue that causes me the worst distress is that GOP gubernatorial candidate Don Goldwater is missing in action when he has a perfect opportunity to demonstrate the free market ideals he’s espoused and call J.Nap on her hollow rhetoric.

]]> By: Ken L. http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2005/09/i_thought_our_g.html/comment-page-1#comment-1792 Ken L. Wed, 21 Sep 2005 09:17:32 +0000 http://coyote-blog.com/wordpress/2005/09/i_thought_our_g.html#comment-1792 <p>What is fisking?</p> What is fisking?

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