Apr 18, 2008
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1 And this was the supposedly "cheapie" station (AM/PM). The one that charges you $0.45 to use your ATM, which really doesn't make it any less expensive. Let's say you can only afford to buy about five gallons of gas (at $3.699). That $0.45 surcharge, divided by five gallons, equals nine cents per gallon. You just spent $4.149 per gallon. Think about it folks. |
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1 "I look at it as a gift, a blessing," he said. "The profiteers are giving us the opportunity to make a decision to do something better for our planet, for our community." IF this gentleman is so concerned about the environment, why does it take $4.00 gas to get him to do something about it? It is easy to hate the oil companies; but the reality is that we have the choice to continue driving our cars or making other arrangemnets to get around. All the environmentalists in the SF area should be estatic that people are driving less. Now the problem is, with people buying less fuel, the governments are taking in less taxes, which means that governments will have to find new revenue sources. |
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That was a "cheapie" station. |
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Joined: Sep 25, 2007 Comments: 1673 |
No, they shouldn't, because the things that they are 'cutting down on' are the pleasure trips that most of those environmentalists remember fondly from their childhoods. They are not cutting down on the TRUE source of 99% of the wasted gas in the United States: commercial traffic, going back and forth to work and delivering items. |
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“I Love Hair Pie” Joined: Jan 4, 2008 Comments: 627 Hartville, Ohio ISP: Diamond, OH |
How long are the people going to keep putting up with this?
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Prices will continue to go up as long as the US Congress keeps it's head in a dark place and does not permit oil companies to use our capped resources.
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Joined: Mar 18, 2008 Comments: 1625 |
Forever. You could drive gas up to $7 or $8 and they would acclimate and all because they know they have no voice or power in government or in the economy or in anything. They vote, they go home, that's the beginning and end of it. |
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“It's about the American People” Joined: Jun 17, 2007 Comments: 4455 ISP: Glen Head, NY |
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1 It is time for the corrupt S.F. liberal politicians to stop holding the American people as hostages of their friends the Islamic terrorists Jihadist regimes and allow drilling for oil, oil shale, coal, gas and sand tar in US land and waters. Let US companies start drilling for US Domestic oil and oil shale for half the price and stop US financing Iranian regime WMDs and al Qaida Islamic terrorists’ attacks on our brave US troops. Enough is enough for S.F. liberal politicians shooting the American people in the foot. |
Oil is abundant. The price of oil is influenced mostly by weakness in the dollar enhance by expectation that the dollar will weaken further in the near future. As the dollar goes down, prices go up; it's that simple. |
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They need to hurry up and get there. Then they really would suck.
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Actually, even the liberal economist Paul Krugman says that oil prices are high due to increased worldwide demand, especially in China and India. Regulation on drilling and taxes are also working to keep prices high, according to the good Professor. Uncertainties in the marketplace are also affecting crude prices, as is speculation in the commodities markets, including oil and gas futures. If oil prices were only affected by the weak dollar, then prices should be coming down since the dollar is showing signs of increasing against other currencies. |
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The price of oil is indeed influences by demand, regulation on drilling, taxes, marketplace uncertainties, speculation, corporate policies, consumer choices and many other factors. But, most of all, the decline in value of the dollar is a factor. As the dollar is worth less, it buys less...it's that simple. |
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Joined: Mar 11, 2008 Comments: 93 Deposit,NY ISP: Madison, WI |
Went to work this morning gas was $3.36 a gallon. Lunch time it went up to $3.56. It won't be long for New York to be up to $4.00 a gallon either. I think it's time to bring the horse and buggy back. Unless they start charging taxes for the grass the horse eats.
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"High oil prices, by the way, also have a lot to do with the growth of China and other emerging economies. Directly and indirectly, these rising economic powers are competing with the rest of us for scarce resources, including oil and farmland, driving up prices for raw materials of all sorts.
The rise of China and other emerging economies is the main force driving oil prices, but the invasion of Iraq — has also reduced oil supplies below what they would have been otherwise." Straight from the mouth of Paul Krugman, Professor of Economics at Princeton and a writer for the New York Times. Notice he does no say anything about the declining dollar as a factor. It is not as simple as you would like to make it, which you must hate because that makes it difficult to pin on President Bush. |
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1 Here in Sweden one US-gallon cost 8 US-dollar... And you are scared over HALF OF IT?? If Bush would take +4 dollar a gallon (=8 dollar)and use every dime to fix your economical and environproblems -then the US would become a healthy leading nation again. Dont you think? Just copy Sweden -the greatest land on this planet to live in, you can ask anyone who has been here, especially the pro-hockey players... High taxes = high standards and social wealth... Roger |
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Say "Thank you" from Pelosi and the environmentalists....
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Joined: Feb 23, 2008 Comments: 2390 |
Right, and on who's watch did the price get to $4.00 a gallon? |
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Joined: Mar 11, 2008 Comments: 93 Deposit,NY ISP: Madison, WI |
I agree with some of what you are saying but we pay high taxes for very little in return. We have poor mass transit systems. If you live in the city it is okay but in the rural areas they have nothing and most of the jobs are near the cities. The rural areas do have buses but they don't have enough of them to get you to work on time. The year 2000 we were paying about $1.40 a gallon and now $3.56 a gallon. Back in 2000 i was $42 a week and now a little over $115 a week. That's not counting heating fuel. My fuel cost is more than my car payment! The worst thing is i haven't had a pay raise in along time, because of the so called free trade in this country is one sided. We have alot of imports in to this country but not alot of exports. Our government sends tax payer money to other countries called aid and some of those countries don't even like us. Which doesn't make any sense. |
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Joined: Dec 4, 2007 Comments: 2011 |
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1 Iraq has a lot of oil, right? Why don't we tell the world that Iraq was involved with 9/11....say they have WMDs and threaten it's neighbors and the US....pretend that the gassing of their citizens didn't actually happen when Reagan was Pres., but is going on right now ...let's insist that we can get rid of Saddam and turn the country over to US loving Iraq's in oh let's say 6 weeks...and though we might lose 10 or so Americans, they are all volunteers right? After Iraqis use oil revenues to pay for any windows we might break they will then surely turn over the rest of their oil supplies to us, right? Bingo! Plenty of oil, low gas prices !! Let's do it |
Well -like i said: If you took all the extra taxmoney up to our prices = 4 dollar/gallon. Then you would have EXTREMELY much to spend on mass transit systems, schools, infrastructure, free healthcare to everyone, higher pensions and above all: Your driving could then be reduced and people would have to get cars that didn't had so poor mileagecosts = good for the environment... We in Sweden have free healthcare, really cheap mass transits in ALL of the country, and we takes on thousands of refugees from the mess in Iraq... I can guarantee you that we give more in aid then the US per capita... USA is going down now very rapidly, and now an attack against Iran is imminent in all that can be found here in europe/mideast info -but you in the states maybe not have all that objective infochannels? Roger |
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