Comments on: Despite Gas Costs, Millions Leave Town

This Memorial Weekend Americans Are Flying And Taking Smaller Cars, But They're Still Going

[uhf62]

dipracer

Canada has the same problem as the US,there is no political will to change the energy policy &
promote conservation & finding alternative fuels to replace our addiction to oil,the same addiction Americans have and until that political will does come,both our nations citizens will still pay high gas prices.
Please don't think drivers in Canada don't grip here too about prices,they do,but nobody here has sympathy for their southern neighbor who thinks they should only have to pay $2.00 while the rest of the world pays more.

Canadians would kill their grandmother for $2 gas prices.

[dlpracer]

they are the ones that started this and we will finnish it now..we the people will take our country back and everyone in washington can sit there and thinks we the people are ok with what they are doing..go ahead and let them think that we are comming to take them out

Posted by forthepeopl1 at 09:49 AM : May 26, 2007

....just one question.

How do we know that the NEW people put in in office after the REVOLUTION will be any better than the lawmakers removed via a coup?

After all, what makes you angry doesn't bother a lot of other people, and then there is a large segment of the population that just doesn't give a schit.

So is your proposal going to make us a better country for ALL, or just a few and we are back in the same boat as before the REVOLUTION?

Be careful before you think you speak for the majority....you may be surprised.

Good luck

[markster6]

irishmail42

"some" Americans believe it is their God given right. Many of us feel gas taxes should be much higher to force consumers to fuel efficiency. The higher tax revenues can be used to promote development of alternative energy. However, there is no political will in our Congress to dramatically change our transportation habits.

[dlpracer]

Just face it people the days of cheap oil are gone forever in this world.You will never again see gasoline at $2.00 or less in your nation.
It is now time to join the rest of the world & pay what we do for you are no better than us.

Buy the way some of you may think that your largest supplier of oil is an Arab country when in fact Canada is the your largest supplier.

Posted by uhf62 at 09:34 AM : May 26, 2007
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Hear, hear my Northern friend. I am nauseated by the whining of the US public about the price of gas...and the media isn't happy unless they are whipping it into a frenzy. I always find it amusing to watch people complain about gas prices while filling up a 10 mpg SUV, and at the same time they pay hundreds of dollar a month on cigarettes, booze and fast food.

And of course WE want the government to do something about it. What a joke.

What is a shame is that gas prices will go back down and this will give the gas guzzling public another pass to consume, consume, consume and never plan for the inevitable time when gas prices will NOT go back down.

Good luck

[irishmail42]

Only in America do you go shopping in mini bus sized vehicles with only the driver. Americans believe that it is their God given right to use as much fuel as then wish. Why do they complain when prices are up?

[wiredwilly]

Gas Price in Venezuala = $ 0.12 per gallon
Gas Price in Dubai = $ 0.19 per gallon

[uhf62]

Why do some Americans always gripe and complain about high gas prices so much.Here in Canada gasoline prices in some parts of the country is now over $5.00 a gallon & even much higher in Europe and yet some of you assume that it is still your God given right as fellow citizens of this earth,that you should only have to pay $2.00 for gasoline while the rest of the world pays more.This is just sheer arrongance!!!!
Just face it people the days of cheap oil are gone forever in this world.You will never again see gasoline at $2.00 or less in your nation.
It is now time to join the rest of the world & pay what we do for you are no better than us.

Buy the way some of you may think that your largest supplier of oil is an Arab country when in fact Canada is the your largest supplier.

[drummer94]

I certainly hope, especially in thes trying days, that while people are traveling, going boating, drinking a cold 1 on a beach, and beefin' about the cost of fillin' up there suv's, a moment is taken to remember what Memorial day is about. Reflect on our fallen troops. They and they alone, deserve your respect. Remember the ones about to fall for your freedom. Freedom is not free. Remember with reverance. I will.

[luckygirl042]

Hey "noplace2poop",
you complain about the "woman" and the "blackman" and the mess we're in--did it not occur to you that it's the WHITE MAN in the White house that got us INTO this "mess"??
Sheese, I think you found your place to ****, where your brains should be.

[timkay166]

Ok, I think this story really should be of no surprise that people are still traveling despite higher fuel costs. It is a holiday weekend. It is a one time thing compared to the everyday commute that people have to make for their living. This 'holiday' can be budgeted or put on 'credit' by people so that their families can get together for this special occasion. Is it really a shocker that with high gas prices the average American is not curtailing their holiday travel plans and staying home? Change in energy use won't be overnight; rather it will be gradual as it starts to affect the different economic tiers of American households. What really hurts is the daily commutes to work and soccer practices that people make everyday verses the one time holiday weekend trip. Like compound interest, these small trips that we make can really start taking a toll on the American wallet. Perhaps the next story should really be written towards the perspective that the high energy prices have on American savings and leisure activities instead of what occurs on the over a holiday weekend where one can squeeze by on credit.