Gas Price BS!!!

[BigFish]

Article in the paper today suggesting that the surge in fuel prices is a result of high demand!!!! Pa-leeeez!! Do they think people are really that friggin' dumb??? There is always demand for fuel!!! They also suggest it means the economy is getting better!!!! Getting better???? Getting better for who???? The gas company maybe!!! Nobody I know is swallowing that load of crap about the economy getting better!!!

[striperman36]

I'm gettin my annual, make my on diesel itch again, once we get to March the itch goes away again.

[Raven]

they analysts said we as a nation have reduced the demand or our usage of oil by 20%

which is a lot less than anyone thought possible

as for gas we have a surplus

[UserRemoved1]

I think the economy is loads better now than it was even two months ago.

You get out of the economy what you put into it.

[Nebe]

Take a look at the biggest growing market for new cars- CHINA.
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[striperman36]

Originally Posted by Nebe

Take a look at the biggest growing market for new cars- CHINA.
Posted from my iPhone/Mobile device

and India. they are all trading in their mopeds for cars.

[Raven]

Originally Posted by striperman36

and India. they are all trading in their mopeds for cars.

one guy in India has 39 wives..........can you imagine?
forget about the number of Kids...

he needs to own a BUS service.....

and the Libya effect
quote: In a further sign of Gadhafi's faltering hold, two air force pilots — one from the leader's own tribe — parachuted out of their warplane and let it crash into the eastern Libyan desert rather than follow orders to bomb an opposition-held city.

[Piscator]

Originally Posted by BigFish

Article in the paper today suggesting that the surge in fuel prices is a result of high demand!!!! Pa-leeeez!! Do they think people are really that friggin' dumb??? There is always demand for fuel!!! They also suggest it means the economy is getting better!!!! Getting better???? Getting better for who???? The gas company maybe!!! Nobody I know is swallowing that load of crap about the economy getting better!!!

The price of oil is not specifically related to actual demand, it's value is related to the price it trades at on the stock market (more speculation based now than it used to be).

[Duke41]

All oil speculation should be banned. Those greedy bastards are choking off the recovery. Sadly the US has been overwhelmed by the dark side of capitalism. Greed. Unless we deal with this issue, i believe we are screwed. The monster is eating itself.

[justplugit]

Remember when gas was $2 and we thought it might even go to $3 !!!!!!!!!!
Well now that it's $3, and talk of going to $5, few seem concerned.

With the Mid East imploding we are going to take it on the chin.
We should have started drilling in Anwar, built new refineries and nuclear
plants 2 years ago.If we drilling today it would take 3-5 years before we
had results.

We are lacking a pro- active administration and now we are going
to pay the price big time.

[Piscator]

gonna be an expensive summer

[JohnnyD]

Originally Posted by justplugit

We are lacking a pro- active administration and now we are going to pay the price big time.

No level of government - state, local or federal - nor either side of the aisle is pro-active. Our whole damn society only thinks about today, without considering tomorrow.

[FishermanTim]

The ONLY pro-active thinking by ANY politician in this country is thinking about how they can screw everyone else and line their own pockets without getting caught.
The only good politician is........Oh wait, they don't exist.

[spence]

Originally Posted by justplugit

We should have started drilling in Anwar, built new refineries and nuclear
plants 2 years ago.If we drilling today it would take 3-5 years before we had results.

We are lacking a pro- active administration and now we are going
to pay the price big time.

Drilling in ANWR isn't going to do squat about prices.

This country has been beholden to the oil industry and our thirst for cheap gas.

-spence

[striperman36]

Originally Posted by spence

Drilling in ANWR isn't going to do squat about prices.

This country has been beholden to the oil industry and our thirst for cheap gas.

-spence

Since 1910 or whenever Ford built the mass consumer car. It's not ever been easy to get away from cheap fuel.

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by spence

Drilling in ANWR isn't going to do squat about prices.



-spence

Spence i'm just as concerned about supply as price.

[Mike P]

Originally Posted by justplugit

Remember when gas was $2 and we thought it might even go to $3 !!!!!!!!!!
Well now that it's $3, and talk of going to $5, few seem concerned.

With the Mid East imploding we are going to take it on the chin.
We should have started drilling in Anwar, built new refineries and nuclear
plants 2 years ago.If we drilling today it would take 3-5 years before we
had results.

We are lacking a pro- active administration and now we are going
to pay the price big time.

We've never had a pro-active administration, when it came to reducing our dependence on imported oil. We've been giving lip-service to it since the first OPEC embargo in 1973, but none of them have actually done anything about it, unless you count Carter extending daylight savings time all year once, and turning down the thermostats in the White House.

[justplugit]

Originally Posted by Mike P

We've never had a pro-active administration, when it came to reducing our dependence on imported oil. We've been giving lip-service to it since the first OPEC embargo in 1973, but none of them have actually done anything about it, unless you count Carter extending daylight savings time all year once, and turning down the thermostats in the White House.

Ya Mike, I remember when we were asked to use less
Chritmas lights for decorations too.
The extension of daylight savings time was short lived because
the kids were walking to school in the morning in the dark.

[PRBuzz]

Heck with gas prices:

Ivory Coast is putting the squeeze on the cocoa beans driving up chocolate prices to their highest in 30 yrs,

Columbia has had the lowest coffee bean crops on record the last 3 yrs,

what is BigFish going to be like when DD raises their prices on a cup of Joe (again) with or without the chocolate infusion????

[spence]

Originally Posted by PRBuzz

Heck with gas prices:

Ivory Coast is putting the squeeze on the cocoa beans driving up chocolate prices to their highest in 30 yrs,

Columbia has had the lowest coffee bean crops on record the last 3 yrs,

what is BigFish going to be like when DD raises their prices on a cup of Joe (again) with or without the chocolate infusion????

Soon Glenn Beck will be talking up futures on chocolate covered espresso beans

-spence

[Piscator]

I filled up last night at a place in Marshfield $3.03 a gallon. I drove by that same place today (12 hours later) $3.13 a gallon. It's not demand driven, it SPECULATION driven.

[UserRemoved]

diesel went up yesterday at my price indicator station by .20 a gallon. One Day.

3.65 a gallon now, I saw 3.90 somewhere last week.

[PRBuzz]

Here's the real situation soon!

[justplugit]

LOL, i feel that same way already when buying food.

[Raven]

i'm glad i can walk to the water now.... Dave

of course the fish are contaminated with mercury

and this is our water supply. The abstracts says eat

fish only twice a month to be on the safe side.

[JohnnyD]