Comments on: Big Gas Price Hike Likely Come Springtime

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

[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!!!

[croft777]

We''ll all be like the Flintstones, running our cars around. Well, we don''t need the oil, we need someone with anough brains out there who can come up with a perfect cheap car that runs on hardly nothing, we got plenty of garbage in this country, why not use that for fuel.

[ontheleft]

Gas is now about $3 a gallon. What this story is telling me is that gas will go up by over a dollar a gallon because of a newly required gasoline additive? I''m not buying it.

[jeff-fla]

We all can prepare ourselves by dropping our pants and slathering up with Vaseline.

It would make the humping far less painful.

The bad part is Vaseline comes from Oil. They will charge us for it before we bend over.

[nothappyatall]

"Is there any way to hold the gas price hike? More and more people can not afford it."

The planet doesnt revolve around whether you can afford something or not- DRIVE LESS! think twice about having more kids!


"Good grief, the country is in recession now. When is someone going to see where the real problem has been?"

The real problem? gas prices? no, the REAL problem is the population in this country has gone from 150 million in 1950 to over 300 million in 2005- THATS the problem!
The same limited finite supply eaten up by TWICE as many people, till there are none ADOPT one, till then spay-neuter your children.

[nothappyatall]

"it''s linked to a shortage of alkylate, a little-known and expensive gasoline additive"

And it comes from oil, what a COINIDENCE it happens to be in short supply- raising the costs of fuel.

"a problem that was solved by adding MTBE and, more recently, ethanol. "

MTBE; cancer causing toxic krap, done away with
Bring in; ~Ethanol~,
you lose 10% of your MPG so you have to burn 10% MORE to drive the same distance before they added this overpriced filler. Your corn, grain and land prices have jumped up big as a result of the new demand on these for ethanol production.

Bring in; ~Alkylate~ another toxic cancer causing chemical that given a few years we''ll read about ITS ban like MTBE.

[barbjc1]

Good grief, the country is in recession now. When is someone going to see where the real problem has been?

[rudy654-2009]

I personally think they should take these big oil executives and make them eat their oil. And if this continues to get out of hand, they just might find themselves in an awful spot.