Grr, oil and gas prices

**JenBKR** · 11-01-2007, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by lizbud

Why aren't we rich, huh.

How much do you pay per gallon of gas
where you live? Mine was $2.50 about 3 weeks ago & now it's back up
to $3.00 & sure to go higher. Oil was 100.00 per barrel last week.

About the same happened here. Shocking to see how fast the price can go up. I think it's about $2.95 here most places now.

**Queen of Poop** · 11-01-2007, 10:08 AM

I too decry the high prices. Especially when I live in the oil rich province of Canada. Our Canadian government adds a whack of taxes to the price that are just outrageous. However, I work at an oil/gas company and I know the costs to get the darn stuff out of the ground. It certainly isn't cheap. So it's a no win for me.

**moosmom** · 11-01-2007, 11:08 AM

I just got gas this morning and almost fell over how much it is again. $2.91 a gallon!!!!

Makes me soooo mad!

**Grace** · 11-01-2007, 11:34 AM

Here, in SE Michigan, it is currently $3.09. I was in Rhode Island 3 weeks ago, and nearly fell over. Gas prices there are 20¢ cheaper than here!!

Michigan is first or second in the country as far as taxes on gas.

**smokey the elder** · 11-01-2007, 01:54 PM

We haven't seen 2.91 a gallon in 2007. New York collects a mint in taxes. They were supposed to cap the tax, but I guess they didn't.

I don't think oil went to $100. It maxed out over 96, but nowhere have I seen that it actually has reached $100.

I know the oil companies were burned by the low cost for a long time. I also know, if we can keep from going bankrupt in the meantime, that very high oil coupled with climate change is a very strong driving force for alternative energy research. But I don't have an H2 car yet!

**lizbud** · 11-01-2007, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by smokey the elder

I don't think oil went to $100. It maxed out over 96, but nowhere have I seen that it actually has reached $100.

You are right, I should have said "near 100.00" because that's where it
was headed last time I heard.

**Marigold2** · 11-03-2007, 11:03 AM

Well Dick Cheny and his group have got us by the b%lls. They can charge whatever they want for gas and we have to pay. There are things we can do to fight back however. Buy smaller, greener cars. Vote and get these crooks out of office and buy lots of sweaters, and warm socks because we are going to need it, seal our windows, wrap insulation on our water heaters, etc... Every bit will count. I dread the headlines when eldery and the poor will die in their homes from the cold. This is America dammit, this should not be happening.

**CathyBogart** · 11-03-2007, 06:57 PM

Originally Posted by moosmom

I just got gas this morning and almost fell over how much it is again. $2.91 a gallon!!!!

Makes me soooo mad!

$3.23 is the best I could find.

Solution: RIDE! 60+ MPG

**Hellow** · 11-03-2007, 07:07 PM

Ok everyone, before you start blaming the prices on our government, i just want to tell you all this: Our teacher told us this: We do not control the price of gas. Saudi Arabia does. OPEC does. We only charge as much as is necessary for the government to keep buying it. Saudi Arabia is loaded from oil.

**Lady's Human** · 11-03-2007, 07:48 PM

Actually, between taxes, restrictions on drilling, weak (nonexistent) fuel economy standards, restrictions on exploration, and not providing a regulatory environment friendly to alternative energy sources and research, (when was the last nuke power plant built in the US), the US Government does a great deal to give OPEC power they would not otherwise have.

NIMBY (not in my backyard) also plays a giant factor. Alternative energy is a nice thought, but when people try to get windfarms going, they are fought tooth and nail by the same people who are, on the surface, pushing for an end to dependence on oil. Senator Kennedy has killed a very promising windfarm in Massachusetts because it would spoil his view. There has been a wind farm proposed for central NY, but it too has been killed by people who don't like the asthetics of the proposal.

We only charge as much as is necessary for the government to keep buying it.

The government doesn't buy petroleum products other than those the government needs, which are purchased at market prices minus federal and state taxes. All other petro products in the US are controlled by private enterprise.

**ilovemypup** · 11-04-2007, 01:27 AM

Originally Posted by Reggie

Ok everyone, before you start blaming the prices on our government, i just want to tell you all this: Our teacher told us this: We do not control the price of gas. Saudi Arabia does. OPEC does. We only charge as much as is necessary for the government to keep buying it. Saudi Arabia is loaded from oil.

Yeah ..maybe we should stop stealing their oil!!

Oil and Gas prices are getting crazy!
I am not even old enough to drive and I already dread it!

I agree with you ONE HUNDRED PERCENT Marigold2!
If only other people would understand.
I know that when I drive I would LOVE a hybrid.. or one of those Smart Cars (if the USA allows..greener cars)

-ali

**Lady's Human** · 11-04-2007, 01:33 AM

Hybrid? Hybrids cost more energy and pollution to produce than they save over their projected lifetimes.

**RICHARD** · 11-03-2007, 09:16 PM

Originally Posted by moosmom

I just got gas this morning and almost fell over

I got gas this morning too!...

I took some Pepto.....I geel better now.

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So you all do not feel badly....At work we rented a 12 foot stake bed.....to fill it up when we turn it in it's six dollars a gallon at the rental yard!

The company pays for it!

**Scooter's Mom** · 11-03-2007, 10:09 PM

Because my husbands office has moved TWICE in the last three years, further away from us each time, we drive 135 miles round trip each day. We put gas in the car every 2 1/2 or 3 days, if we drive the Impala; if we drive the Mustang it's every 2 days. I also do not let it get to the "red line" because I do not want to push either car with my health conditions, lol.

Because of the housing market the way it is where I live (an area outside of Phoenix) I couldn't sell my house and move closer to where we work, and make any money. I wouldn't even make back the money we owe on the house & pool, I'm sure. So we're stuck driving 135 miles a day because the owner of hubbies company doesn't want to do any driving - so he keeps moving the office closer to HIS house. Fair? No.

Nothing we can do though.

I just wish gas prices would go back down. In the last week they've gone up from about 2.51 to 2.74 at the little gas station closest to our house. I hate paying so much of my paycheck to fuel. *sigh*

**RICHARD** · 11-03-2007, 10:26 PM

Originally Posted by Scooter's Mom

I just wish gas prices would go back down. In the last week they've gone up from about 2.51 to 2.74 at the little gas station closest to our house. I hate paying so much of my paycheck to fuel. *sigh*

You know, it wouldn't be so bad if they used a gun to get three bucks a gallon...