Gas Prices

[DPQ5]

I hate the gas prices today. here where i live, its $3.57 a gallon and it never costed this much. I mean, the oil/gas companies are making like millions or billions of dollars each year, cant hurt to lower the prices, not like its going to be bankrupt. While on vacation in California, the gas was $4 a gallon!  But the upside is that the people of where i live might be using public transportation more. Tell about your opionions of the gas prices where u live. <We should strike to the gas companies, but they might place an embargo on the gas prices around the world>   Invent the new alternative fuel already!!!!!

ok you do know we are running out of oil, estimated 2 run out by in 40 years, so mayby the high prices isent a bad thing, but it causes stocks 2 go down and economy 2 crumble even farther then it is now

[Nashwan]

the price off fuel is still too high! i would like too know your solution?

Use less.

I know that's probably not what you want to hear. There are a lot of people offering easy answers like build new refineries, or tax the oil companies, or sue the Arabs, or stop the speculators, or fit this magic device that gives you 300 mpg. The only real answer is use less.

If you halve your oil consumption you will only have to pay half as much. If everybody in the US halved their consumption, and the US uses more than twice as much oil, per capita, as Britain, France or Germany, then not only would the US be buying a lot less foreign oil, it would drive the oil price down for everyone. You'd end up paying about a third as much for oil as you do now.

,say look at the pres. candidates two have a way to put in a short term fix so they are trying too help! how ever fleeting that help might be, the third is only saying how that wont work it is a stop gap measure and it wont do any good,, no solution from him tho just excuses!

Politicians are pretty good at telling people what they want to hear. Action that won't change the situation, or even make things worse, like corn ethanol, isn't a solution. It will end up costing you more. How does that help?

we need solutions to the problem today, and ten years from now, and 20 years from now! we are going too use more energy every year till the end of life as we know it! so yes lets develop hydrogen and other alterative fuels, lets use natural gas in our cars, and lets save our economy before it is wrecked beyond repair for the next 10 to 20 years by outrageous fuel prices controlled by foriegn powers!

By all means look for alternative fuels. I'm all in favour of funding research in to alternatives to oil. Just don't let anyone con you in to paying subsidies for alternatives that are worse than what we have now, such as hydrogen.

Long term I don't see a problem, we will find alternatives before oil runs out. Whether we find alternatives before oil becomes incredibly expensive is another matter.

[Getback]

Use less.

I know that's probably not what you want to hear. There are a lot of people offering easy answers like build new refineries, or tax the oil companies, or sue the Arabs, or stop the speculators, or fit this magic device that gives you 300 mpg. The only real answer is use less.

If you halve your oil consumption you will only have to pay half as much. If everybody in the US halved their consumption, and the US uses more than twice as much oil, per capita, as Britain, France or Germany, then not only would the US be buying a lot less foreign oil, it would drive the oil price down for everyone. You'd end up paying about a third as much for oil as you do now.

Politicians are pretty good at telling people what they want to hear. Action that won't change the situation, or even make things worse, like corn ethanol, isn't a solution. It will end up costing you more. How does that help?

By all means look for alternative fuels. I'm all in favour of funding research in to alternatives to oil. Just don't let anyone con you in to paying subsidies for alternatives that are worse than what we have now, such as hydrogen.

Long term I don't see a problem, we will find alternatives before oil runs out. Whether we find alternatives before oil becomes incredibly expensive is another matter.

That's my solution, I'm trying to use less. My Jeep is paid off and it's a 6 cylinder. So it does just okay. To buy a fuel effecient car doesn't make sense. The prices have gone up drastically and the payments would out strip any gas savings. So it is just a matter of driving less. You can't repossess a paid off car. What I hope to do is get a bike for short hops and walk more. I need the exercise anyway.

The politicians think the massess are stupid. It seems many are though. So like you said they feed the ignorance.

[CAP1]

ok you do know we are running out of oil, estimated 2 run out by in 40 years, so mayby the high prices isent a bad thing, but it causes stocks 2 go down and economy 2 crumble even farther then it is now

http://www.livescience.com/environment/051011_oil_origins.html



http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38645

check these out.

[vorticon]

gas is at 1.30 a liter here...it still only takes 3 hours of work to drive for a week.

[Hap]

The price per gallon is controlled by supply and demand. 

Just call it greed and be done with it.

[john9001]

it has just been announced that the govt has been investigating the oil futures market for the past six months. 

[CAP1]

it has just been announced that the govt has been investigating the oil futures market for the past six months. 

but how long will that go on? will they actually do anything? and finally, do you REALLY think gas will drop below $3.00 again even IF the price of crude goes back to that level?

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[Fulmar]

do you REALLY think gas will drop below $3.00 again even IF the price of crude goes back to that level?

I watch the price of crude oil pretty much every day on my Google Homepage Tabs.  It's funny to see the gas stations raise their prices a day or so later if the price of oil jumps a fail amount ($1+).  But when oil was $134 or so last week and see that its 128-$129 now and the price at the pump hasn't budged makes me wonder.

[CAP1]

I watch the price of crude oil pretty much every day on my Google Homepage Tabs.  It's funny to see the gas stations raise their prices a day or so later if the price of oil jumps a fail amount ($1+).  But when oil was $134 or so last week and see that its 128-$129 now and the price at the pump hasn't budged makes me wonder.

my point exactly

[Samiam]

maybe if the fed would raise the interest rate instead of lowering it, the dollar could begin to regain some value.  Also we need to bring some manufacturing jobs back to the US... an economy that is based 70%+ on consumer spending alone cannot stand. I  figure that if we have wage laws, OSHA Regulations, environmental laws, product safety laws, etc that our manufacturers MUST comply with, walmart and dollar general should not be able to stock their shelves with items that were not produced with the same restrictions... PLUS communist china is subsidizing their industries to kill the industrial target in our country. And dont even get me started about the 30,000,000 scumbag illegal invaders...  We are screwing ourselves

More myth.

Manufacturing output in the U.S. has never been higher and exceeds that of China (ref: http://www.freetrade.org/node/737)

And in particular, the phenomenal growth of the U.S. steel industry is a well kept secret (interesting article: http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/2006/10/16/does-big-steel-still-dominate-us-trade-policy/).

Talk about some inconvenient truths for politicians. No matter. If they keep telling us how terrible it is for U.S. manufacturing jobs and how shameful that we are so reliant on China, most will never bother to call BS on them.

Of course, if you keep voting the way you are, and let your representatives "help" you like they keep promising, then you certainly *will* see a decline of prosperity in U.S. manufacturing.

And the way we are all well and truly going to be screwed over soon is with health care "reform". They've already hosed us by mandating that health care be tied to employment, but that ain't nothin' compared to the what's in store. Once they control your health care, not only will the U.S. lose our competitive edge, but freedom will be just a distant memory (for those of us who care to remember it).

Sorry - back to gas prices...