Give consumers a break when gas prices decrease

Kostas Petris, Bordentown
It upsets me to see that companies are keeping prices up and fuel charges active due to the short period of time when the gas prices soared, you should be ashamed of yourselves. It was understandable you had to increase your prices or add fuel charges when the gas prices went soaring, but now that the prices came down, you keep your prices up? Didn’t your mothers teach you some dignity and respect?
    So let’s start off with the crooked scale of raising their prices when they did. For instance, my family owns a food service business and the cost of most products went up from one dollar up to as much as eight dollars a case. So when you think about how many cases are being sold? Their increases in prices did not only cover the cost for the extra money spent in gas but also increased their profit margin by a good amount at the same time. Nice one, killing two birds with one stone — not.
    Also for example, on top of that, some companies have added a fuel charge to each delivery around the time when the price of gas was around $3.60. Now that the gas prices have long dropped below that price, they’re still keeping a fuel charge on all their customers’ invoices and those other companies haven’t dropped their product prices as well. So now their profit margin has increased dramatically. Please don’t forget that even thought the gas prices soared and you added your fuel charges and increased cost of product, it was compensating more than your loss. Again, you should all be ashamed of yourselves — and hello, gas prices came down.
    Please stop letting greed come in your life, whether in your business or personal life. This article is for those company owners, CEO’s etc., who lost track somewhere down the road and for those that might understand the concept of this article and make a difference. May you step up, do what is right and you shall see your company prosper more for doing so, seeing more happiness around as well. And trust me you will feel so much better about yourself and radiate beyond and see many good things come back to you in return.
    We need to start helping one another out not taking what we can by not caring about consequences caused to others. Yeah, don’t get me wrong, when a crisis does arise we do come together and do what is right, but how quickly we forget about being nice to one another when things get better and get sucked back in the routine of not letting love exist, but only for that short period. World, that is not enough — we need to switch that recipe around and let love exist 99 percent more, in doing what is right and living a humble life. In doing so you will see more rewards to life than what is going on now. Amen.