Don't buy gas on September 1st
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kswissondubs wrote:
i was just watching cnn and the reason for the high gas prices is for this big hurricane and that makes no sense. you would think that if all these cities are flooded that there would be no need for gas there so it would be cheaper else were. but thats not how it works.Oil wells in the gulf shut down and the refinerys in those area's shut down they arn't quite like texas and oklahoma but they have quite a few in that area they are all shut down I.E. NOT AS MUCH BEING PRODUCED.... SUPPLY AND DEMAND sucks for us great for the refinerys that are still going
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All the bitching and moaning about gas prices doesn't change shit. As Americans we are crying about gas prices but do the math and convert liters to gallons and their currency to American currency and see what everyone else is paying. Eg. the UK is at about $9 American per gallon, the Netherlands is at about $6 American per gallon.
Oh, and even if everyone in the WORLD didn't buy gas for a day, it wouldn't change the fact that you don't live in this house and the guy that supplies gas to us does.
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uk has free health care, that takes away from the hit
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lol Canada pays almost PER litre as much as we do PER gallon. And what the Gov't has to do with Hurricane Katrina totally demolishing our main rigs, i have no idea.
Liberal idiots, let me guess, Bush started Katrina cause his brother Jeb(florida gov) didnt build enough buildings/add ontot he state to actually slow down katrina when it blew through it last week.
America has it so much easier then the rest of the world in terms of gas. Just dont kick it down everytime...and you wont need to fill up as much.
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where the hell did you get your numbers??? canada pays about $1.00 CAN per liter. and the UK pays about $5.60 per gallon in US dollars. where the hell did you come up with $9 a gallon!?>? HERE is where I got my information. and something rotten is afoot regarding gas prices in the US, becaue while ours have doubled, actually trippled almost in the last decade, UK';s has onlt gone from about $4.50/gal to $5.60/gal.
I will blame most of the gas prices on shrub. OPEC says its not a supply problem, the gas prices are high because of POLITICAL reasons. just wait 10 yrs, the truth will come out, lol
McAdam
EDIT: summer 2001, I remember gas being under 1.00/gallon. I KNOW this because my English roommate made a point of taking a photo of it and mailing it back to his parents in London, who were then paying the equivelant of $4.50/gal.
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McAdam wrote:
where the hell did you get your numbers??? canada pays about $1.00 CAN per liter. and the UK pays about $5.60 per gallon in US dollars. where the hell did you come up with $9 a gallon!?>? HERE is where I got my information. and something rotten is afoot regarding gas prices in the US, becaue while ours have doubled, actually trippled almost in the last decade, UK';s has onlt gone from about $4.50/gal to $5.60/gal.I will blame most of the gas prices on shrub. OPEC says its not a supply problem, the gas prices are high because of POLITICAL reasons. just wait 10 yrs, the truth will come out, lol
McAdam
I got my prices from someone who LIVES in the UK.
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yea but their poor.
anyways, fuck i dunno, all i know last year at SCN(2004) Kevin filled up the STi...over 50 bucks canadian, figured thatd be about 45 american give or take. Now what would you say itd be.
anyways, if its 1.00 canadian per litre, i dunno what the currency exchange rate is now, but itd be over 3.50 american per gallon if you lived in canada.
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i think we need to open up our national oil reserves...yeah i know blah blah blah thats only for states of emergencies but wtf is this? just a test?! this is what the reserves are for dont ya think? I mean not to drop the prices to 1.50 or anythin but just cushion the blow a little bit and maybe keep em at around 2.40 or so and maybe itll even cut down on our demand and lower the prices since we wont be buying so much middle eastern oil...anyone else think that it might help to do this?
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STiSchucky wrote:
lol Canada pays almost PER litre as much as we do PER gallon. And what the Gov't has to do with Hurricane Katrina totally demolishing our main rigs, i have no idea.Liberal idiots, let me guess, Bush started Katrina cause his brother Jeb(florida gov) didnt build enough buildings/add ontot he state to actually slow down katrina when it blew through it last week.
America has it so much easier then the rest of the world in terms of gas. Just dont kick it down everytime...and you wont need to fill up as much.
I don't blame Bush for the Hurricane, but I do think he could be doing more to control gas prices. Perhaps tap into the reserve....it was put there for a reason.
The above sounds like the typical right wing agenda of putting words into the mouths of those that they don't agree with. I don't think you're going to find anyone (liberal/conservative/other) that will blame Bush for the Hurricane, but you have to admit, when oil companies are seeing record profits year after year that they could maybe keep the prices lower than what they are. You also realize that oil companies don't pay the $70/barrel that is being sold in the futures market, right? The futures is for Texas Sweet Crude Oil which is about the best you can get, the oil companies often use Carolina Sweet Crude and other "lesser" oils for gasoline and its cost is significantly less than what the futures market shows. Ever notice that race gas isn't going up, or at least not as fast as pump gas?
Ok, enough of me ripping on the Neo-Cons, now its time for me to bitch about the Liberals. In reality the Democratic Party is as responsible for high gas prices as is the Republicans. How? Well, by limiting when/where/how the oil may be extracted they are putting a limit on the available supply. That and the California Air Regulatory Board (CARB) has set a precedent for states to be able to decide what blend of gasoline is sold there. As a result of the numerous regulations placed on the sale of gasoline, there are a great variety of blends of gasoline sold across the country. These blends of gasoline, known as "boutique" fuels, place a great strain on the production and distribution of gasoline because these different blends often cannot be used in more than one region. If we want fuel prices to go down, perhaps the states/regions should adopt a uniform fuel blend for the entire country. Whats wrong with an 87 Octane, 89 Octane, 92 Octane and then the ethanol blends (E-10 and E-85). Just come up with a formula that is universally accepted and go with it I say.
BTW, the skipping one day idea will never work...well, it COULD work, but you'd need EVERY person (semi drivers, taxi drivers, airplanes, etc....) to not fuel their vehicles on that day. In other words, impossible.
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PSiedTSi wrote:
i think we need to open up our national oil reserves...yeah i know blah blah blah thats only for states of emergencies but wtf is this? just a test?! this is what the reserves are for dont ya think? I mean not to drop the prices to 1.50 or anythin but just cushion the blow a little bit and maybe keep em at around 2.40 or so and maybe itll even cut down on our demand and lower the prices since we wont be buying so much middle eastern oil...anyone else think that it might help to do this?I agree.
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Pipe dream it up boys while I fill on up just like the other 95% of the census here in North America on Sept 1st!
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Which Bush has already proposed to do. atleast thats what i remember hearing.
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Its NOT a supply problem. OPEC has been ramping up supply and its not lowering our gas prices. Its caused by POLITICAL factors, mainly war and scares of terrorism. well, thats the official word anyway. Its mainly the fat oil tycoons making a killing out of our pockets. Im a firm beleiver that when bush leaves office, it will go down.
call me a liberal, call me a nutcase, call me what you will, I really could care less. Im fed up with this administration and all of its lies and BS.
Gas will be $3.00 a gallon by monday, mark my words. those fucks jack up the price of gas EVERY year during the labor day weekend because they KNOW the american public will be traveling and using a lot of gas. It always drops after. And the gov't is wasting time for with microsoft on anti-trust lawsuites.
McAdam
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Taken from northernanimation forums.
"$4.12/gal up in Winnipeg"
Will their gas also go down when Bush is out of office?
I'm not a conservative by any means, I'm actually a far left liberal with some conservative views, but the arguement that gas will drop when Bush leaves is pretty dumb.
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