Another Reason To Hike The Price Of Gas!

[spence]

Originally Posted by BigFish

On the news they said to expect the price of gas to spike at least .10 cents a gallon by July 4th due to the flooding in the midwest and its damage to corn crops thus affecting the production of ethynol!!! Man are they reaching now or what!!! Any friggin' excuse they can find to justify the price of gas going through the roof!!!!

I guess if supply and demand is an excuse?

-spence

[BigFish]

C'mon Spence! You buy all these "excuses" everytime there is a hike? Hurricane Katrina.....the rigs close for a couple days and "BANG" gas prices go up a buck a gallon and never came back down it just kept going from there!?!?! Floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes.......how come these acts of nature never affected the price of gas before??? And the price never comes back down????? It just keeps going higher??? Introduce ethynol to the fuel to supposedly "keep prices down" and not only did the prices not go down.....they went up.....and the price of anything with corn in it went up.....and the price of wheat went up because farmers shifted to growing corn for ethynol????? What a scam!!! What a great country!!! WHAT A JOKE!

[justplugit]

And it's not just oil either that's rising out of control.

Everybody is rasing their prices on everything, wether they need to or not ,shipping costs just an excuse.

Paid $9.99 for a container of silicone car wax that just a year ago was $5 and change.

[BigFish]

You don't see the government raising the minimum wage? Or businesses or companies giving "cost of living" increases commensurate with the way the cost of living is going up so rapidly right now....as they them selves can't afford it!! In my opinion you have not seen the worst of this......wait until the unemployment rate skyrockets due to layoffs and businesses going under???

[spence]

Larry, I don't think you really understand how bad the corn crop is going to be this year. It's not just the floods, but there's been so much rain farmers haven't been able to plant or cultivate, and when they have the crops are growing like crap.

About a third of the corn crop goes to ethanol, which is used as an additive just about everywhere.

-spence

[BigFish]

Spence....you are pretty quick!? THATS MY POINT!!! Take the ethynol out of the gas......it would solve alot of problems!!!! Not the least of which is the dependence on corn for fuel......never mind the dependence on fuel itself!!!!!!! It would also solve alot of mechanical/repair problems folks are having with their cars, boats, lawn mowers....anything powered by gasoline!!!!!

[Mike P]

Methyl alcohol, or methanol, can oxygenate gas as well as ethyl alcohol.

You can make methanol from rotting garbage

[BigFish]

MikeP for President!

[Swimmer]

Originally Posted by spence

Larry, I don't think you really understand how bad the corn crop is going to be this year. It's not just the floods, but there's been so much rain farmers haven't been able to plant or cultivate, and when they have the crops are growing like crap.

About a third of the corn crop goes to ethanol, which is used as an additive just about everywhere.

-spence

I've read one report where farmers planted about 25 % more corn this year than last year so the hit isn't going to be nearly as bad as what makes for good stories on the 6 p.m. news.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by Swimmer

I've read one report where farmers planted about 25 % more corn this year than last year so the hit isn't going to be nearly as bad as what makes for good stories on the 6 p.m. news.

utilizing corn for ethanol has already launched us into a world wide
food shortage...

the hit just won't be as large as originally predicted because the statistics didn't take into account the extra crops planted

[Grapenuts]

watched a show the other night about how they get twice the juice [gals]out of stitch grass then they do corn for a filler in gas....lets see if this ever comes to lite....corn 650....stitch grass 1263.