Comments on: Big Gas Price Hike Likely Come Springtime

An Expensive Seasonal Additive Could Spike Coastal Fuel Prices To Near $4 A Gallon

[jw218389]

I love how Bush Cheney Halliburton announce each time they intend to screw us with another intentional gas price gouging.

IMPEACH BUSH & CHENEY NOW!

Bush - the new Hoover...

[olebd]

It sure seems after 9/11/01, the excuses as to why gas prices had to rise kept multiplying. Why didn''t we hear these excuses before 9/11? And it''s strange how the prices have only gotten worse since a man with deep roots in big oil came into power to run the country.

And just where are these record profits going? Research? Retrofitting pumps for alternative fuels? More refineries? I doubt it.

[crystal0502]

Global warming.........do reading and research as we may be aiding to it a little, they discovered we are STILL coming out of the last ICE AGE!!! So why is the weather continuing to get warmer? Hello. Not only that, but the earth is in the process of the poles switching sides, and if I understood correctly, that takes like 20,000 years and is chaos on weather, land, water, EVERYTHING. And everyone keeps yelling Global warming because that is either all they ever heard, been taught, or bothered learning. So if a person is that worried about saving the planet, if they do research, they''d see this has happened before and will again. Look closer at the Ice Age and before it. Keep up with everything they are learning about it, not just a few things they have.

[pepperwood2]

I thank the World Global Warming Agenda. There is toooo much consuming going on out dere. Higher prices, no matter how pathetic the rationale, isn''t getting people & their economies to cut down usage. This contributes to a your larger Carbon Footprint.

You do want to save the planet?? right??. We''ll get Big Oil a major contributer to the Global Warming Agenda free room to help us overcome this sad scenario. Record profits you ain''t seen nothing yet. If we hit you consumers high & hard enough at the pumps, etc. we''ll get you to tone down your foot print.

We''ve got other tactics that we''ve been setting in place a little at a time to slowly choke you infidels out.

O give me a home where the buffalo roam and the deer & and the antelope play.

Love it! CACKLE CACKLE CACKLE

[mcvet]

Stay the course America!! ROFLMAO Down down we go and no bottom in sight but STAY THE COURSE. It''s almost as insane as Hoovers "Prosperity is right around the corner"... Okay the NEXT corner.. okay the NEXT corner!! ROFLMAO Sieg Heil Y''all

[aeasus]

YEEEAAAA!!!

It''s strange how this country can spend trillions of dolars protecting our interest in the middle east (oil). We can sacrifice thousands of our sons and daughters. No problem. But spend $5.00 a gallon at the pump,that''s the last straw.

Sadly it looks like this is what it will take to smarten people of this country up...$200.00 to fill my SUV,OMG we need to do something!!

We have had the ability to produce our own energy for decades,why congress allows this to go on is insane.

[jjp735i]

Looking back over the past several years the oil companies come up with a different excuse each spring. The price of oil is too high, not enough in supply, refineries are off line, refineries are off line due to needed repairs and so on.

Yet they continue to make not only profits, but RECORD profits and always claim they are not doing somthing to cause high prices and each time Congress looks into the matter and not once has Congress ever really found anything. Maybe the rest of us are really just stupid.

[mikekleber]

How can the oil companies complain about spending $100 million when they are making billions of profit every month??? The thieves are taking their last stab at the American consumer since their buddies Bush and Cheney will be leaving Washington at the end of the year!! Since Iraq was dumping oil on the market keeping it around $20 a barrel, they ousted him as planned and started counting their money. When all of the details finally come out after Bush leaves, we will find how badly their calculated plan screwed America.

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by rudy654

Yours is quite an acceptable view, but don''t forget that the taxes collected from gas in the US are "trickled down" and also "corrupted down" on the heads of the rich anyway, so one can still count that as profit.

However, I was referring only to the out of pocket costs for the average consumers. Sure Europe on the whole has a much more efficient transit system, as does Japan, and even tiny Singapore, but the "privatization of everything" advocates in the US would never allow that to happen in America, and the social fascists would never accept living in the same general area as the "working class".

Whatever the reason, any further sharp rise in gas prices could very well trigger social instability, as millions will no longer be able to afford to travel to work, as there won''t be enough left over to eat and maintain shelter.

The resulting displacement of the remainder of the middle class could trigger riots and general anarchy, and it is against this backdrop that Mr. "bomb Iran" McCain runs for president.

Any real threat perceived by Iran could compel them to sell to Russia, Japan and China exclusively, they will still get good prices for their oil while the US economy collapses.

[g-gfather]

AMISH

[rudy654-2009]

Posted by brianbwb at 02:25 AM

Here''s a different angle ont that: Gas prices have not been artificially low. Instead, in other countries they have been high because of taxes (from which they benefit). That being said, those countries have a much better system of public transportation than the US does. In Germany, I never needed a car to get around. And when I did need a car, I only rented it for a couple of weeks. Public transportation there is great. However, in the US, because of zoning laws, businesses and work are located far from housing developments and require extensive traveling. For example, one day I was staying at a hotel in San Francisco, but I just happened to ask worker if he lived nearby. Nope, he lived two hours away. He couldn''t afford to live where he works.

[crystal0502]

That is the point I was trying to make! Cost of gas going up low income people can''t afford it! Not that I am trying to put them down, believe me I''m not! I have been there, I grew up with my Mom trying to raise 4 of us basically on her own. I know people who would take minimum wage jobs an hour away because that is all there is hiring due to all the factories moving to 3rd world countries to make more $$. With gas so high, people can''t afford to drive an hour away for a minimum wage job, but when that is all there is and they have no $$ to move, they are up the creek. And THESE PEOPLE are the people who ARE HURTING the WORST from this situation. That is the point I was trying to make. And all of America doesn''t deserve it, it is the ones who put us in this situation that do, and they have enough money that they don''t give a d@!n about the people suffering. Seriously, do you think they would actually go through a workfare program, they would kill themselves first because they have to much pride! Until some gets in office that has lived on both sides of the tracks, and remembers both sides, someone has to speak up for those who can''t afford gas let alone internet!

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by crystal0502

Sorry crystal, but I have to agree on sparks on this one, but for exactly the reasons you posted, the neocons shouted "end welfare" until everyone believed their racist lies that only "minorities" took it, despite publicly available data to the contrary.

So they gutted public assistance, replacing it with sorry programs to train the unemployed for jobs that don''t exist, or the "workfare" programs, which are nothing more than slavery.

Put gas in their car? How about the millions who can''t afford a car to put gas into? They are not "lazy minorities", as the sociopaths label them, they live in areas where the economy has already collapsed, and they have no means to simply move to a better area, which wouldn''t welcome them anyway.

But the Reaganite trickle downers, and the Newt Gingrich "contract on Americans" crowd had everyone cheering as they put this sociopathic agenda into place, so Sparks is in a sense right, we do deserve this, because we let it happen.

[brianbwb-2009]

For decades American gas prices were artificially kept low, the Europeans were paying $3.50 per ten years ago.

Now the oil companies have made the price more uniform, as they lose potential profit by not having the largest consumer group paying less than everyone else in the world.

Too bad the federal and local governments still don''t believe in improving and expanding mass transit systems, and when they do get around to it, they give the contracts to corrupt friends in private businesses, so the system suffers from slipshod construction, and poor maintenance, and is of no real use to society.

[ms38654ob]

I want to see $7 and even $10 a gallon prices for gas. That''s the only way we''re ever going to get off our a$$''s and come up with a viable alternative.

Once we can ween ourselves of this *** poison, we can kiss the middle east and all their problems goodbye.

[crystal0502]

Now that ain''t right sparks! Nobody of no race, no religion, no country deserves this. Especially the people trying earn an honest living! Now I do have to agree the American government is wrong for letting this to continue for the simple fact it is hard on everyone, but the government keeps saying they want to get people off of welfare and food stamps, but not doing anything about gas prices so people can afford to drive back and forth to work. How can some of the people needing that type of assistance hold a job if they can''t put gas in their car? But it isn''t right for you to judge everyone by where they are from or the color of their skin!

[sparks224]

Americans deserve to get screwed. I think it''s funny.

[crystal0502]

Sorry everyone, I somehow posted my opinion twice! Didn''t mean to, not sure how, just wanted to say sorry since it is kind of long.

[sparks224]

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[crystal0502]

Alkylate prices have jumped from 77 cents a gallon in the summer of 2001 - when MTBE was still in use - to nearly $3 a gallon at points over the past two summers. IF THAT DOESN''T SOUND LIKE PRICE GOUGING, WHAT DOES?! Not to mention the price of EVERYTHING ELSE has to go up so stores can afford to have products shipped to them and still make a profit. The cost of gas for transportation is in store''s bill. Then we have to turn around and buy MORE GAS to get to the store to get the things we NEED! This is crazy and running the economy into the ground! Something needs to be done to put an end to this and bring prices back down. I live within 2 miles of everything, schools, stores, post office, everything. It costs at least $30 a week just to take my kids back and forth to school, go to store when needed (3x wk on average). Our hang up is it is so cold you have to let car warm or you end up with sick kids, so you go through more gas. SOMEBODY PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT!!!