Gas Prices - Are You Made As Hell?

Whatever the reason, I'm not bothered too much by all of the gas price fruhaha. You think it's bad now, give us another bad hurricane season and / or a US shut out by Venezuela and you ain't seen nothing, yet. And there's damned little the Feds can do about it, short of socialism, of course.

But some people are mad as hell!

Comments

[tester]

Some good will come from the high prices....I mean do you think you would ever see Bushie and Rethugs talk conservation???

Only real drawback is the efforts are being nailed with a whole buttload of pork.

[tester]

Pork and some slight of hand.

[sigmund, carl and alfred]

In Amsterdam, gas is $7.13 a gallon, in the UK, gas is over $6.00 a gallon.

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0826/p01s03-woeu.html

[splashtc]

blah blah blah, someone is always against something and "we must ban together to fight it"
as they blow $200 bucks every weekend at the casino.

[Marvin]

When I went to the link provided by you, I noticed to the right and down, there is a link for the gas company in question

[rwilymz]

"I mean do you think you would ever see Bushie and Rethugs talk conservation???"

CAFE standards were raised under Bush, but not during Clinton.

Criticism is fine; it just needs to be plausible.

[48_mpg_TDI]

$1.30 a gallon? Sounds like some brainless hick took the "Boycott Exxon" viral email too seriously...

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp

[rwilymz]

I heard a report on the radio this A.M. about a company in TN [figures] which will sell you a home "ethanol additive" kit. I.e., a still.

You can make your own ethanol [from virtually any vegetation] for $.75/gal.

Haven't looked it up yet, but thought it was interesting.

[tester]

"CAFE standards were raised under Bush, but not during Clinton.

Criticism is fine; it just needs to be plausible."

Actually they were initiated under Clinton. But to be to the point, Bushies CAFE effort is simply inadequate, almost a joke...

...fits well with "every little bit helps"

[rwilymz]

"Actually they were initiated under Clinton."

All kinds of things were "initiated" under Clinton -- as pertains to legitimate governmental affairs, not the kind the wags prefer discussing -- and little came of much of it. That's the way it goes with our government in action, or our government inaction, 3 words or 2 as you prefer.

Clinton initiated "reinventing the government" yet the effort yeilded the Grace Commission report from Reagan's term, partisanly molded to come out pumping sunshine up the ass of the other party, and no net results.

"Initiated"? wuptifrigginding. Results are what counts.

Ford "initiated" the Unified Command structure, but it idled going nowhere; Carter implemented it. Results.

Bush got CAFE standards upped for the first time in over a decade. Results.

Not as much of a result as you'd prefer?

Different subject.

[justobserving]

Yes, much cheaper than Europe, but the crime is in the ridiculous profit the bigdigs are making. Did I hear today on the radio we're all getting $100, that is Bush's solution?

[truthbetold]

I'm mad! 3.05 a gallon at the military gas station which is supposed to be cheaper than the rest!

[rwilymz]

The profit being generated is not from the gasoline, but from the oil. Oil's world market price is ~$75/bb today.

It's the same oil that a year ago was, what? $50/bb?

It's the same oil that four years ago was $30/bb.

Same oil. It doesn't cost any more to pump it out of the ground today than it did four years ago... In some nations it actually costs less. Venezuela, for one. In 2000 or 2001 Chavez came in, fired everyone who worked for Venezuela's oil company, installed his peasant friends -- labor costs immediately went down.

In Iran, the cost of pumping a barrel of oil out of the ground is $5. They sell it for $75. US companies are not the world-beaters that every yahoo claiming "US economic imperial hegemony" thinks they are. US companies have to go along with the world pricing or else they get killed.

It still costs them every bit as much to drill and refine as it ever did, and Americans aren't buying *more* gas than before, and probably a bit less, so the profit is not on the demand side; the profit is on the supply side -- the oil.

[DoorMart]

You wanna cut gas prices? Here is how....

Lock up all the environmentalists! Then, sue them all class-action for restraint of trade, preventing the drilling of oil and the building of refineries.

Cut out free trade w Communist China. I rather have cheaper gas than cheaper electronics. Their consumption and lack of any poluution control is hurting us. Those who advocate free trade w Commie China are costing us .50 to $1.00 more in gas prices

Drill off of Florida. Drill in ANWR.

Make more ethanol. Encourage family farms to grow corn and other crops convertible to ethanol. Keep the big oil and agri companies out of it.

[Rick]

"Lock up all the environmentalists! Then, sue them all class-action for restraint of trade, preventing the drilling of oil and the building of refineries"

Dont forget the liberal congress and courts who have given into them for over 40 years.