Why are people complaining about the gas price? It has not gone up as much as housing or health-care?

Answer 1

Because the media dictates what the masses will consider to be the important.

Answer 2

Because gas prices have gone up relatively unexpectedly for no real good reason given so far! OK, Katrina did hit us hard, and many of us can understand the immediate price increases due to shutdowns in the gulf, but most of the oil infrastructure that was damaged is back online, why haven't gas prices adjusted accordingly?

Because along with gas, everything else goes up in price due to fuel needed for farm equipment, packaging, and shipping (take close notice of your grocery bills, it wasn't that long ago that butter was less than 99 cents), manufacturing (where do you think plastics come from), and travel (personal as well as business related).

And Because while prices are high, oil companies are also claiming exceptionally high profits! Whether or not they are indeed raping us, or it's just a coincidence. Still, I could probably live happily for the rest of my life on just one day's (heck even an hours worth) salary of a top oil executive.

Because NOTHING is being done to bring prices back down! We do need to increase supply (ANWAR, ocean drilling, alternative fuels AND more efficient vehicles NOW). Oil is only part of the concern, no new refineries have been build in this country for over 20 years (It's time for NIMBY to alllow some concessions).

Unfortunatley all the government seems eager to talk about is a profit windfall tax, which will only serve to increase prices even more! We've learned that opening up the federal reserve does nothing. What happened to temporaily suspending gasoline taxes or loosening blend requirements? While congress debates, the known problems get worse.

It's time for the government to threaten federalization of the industry - it worked once before to settle a dispute between coal companies and mining unions. If the oil companies don't want to create new refineries (hey W even offered former military base land up for refinery construction, at no charge to the industry) then perhaps this action is required.

Answer 3

Unprepared for the increased price for gas. The move to the suburbs often has meant driving further to work Propertity taxes have risen and that house in the suburb is no longer so affordable Auto insurance premiums have risen as well as homeowners insurance so one feels an anxiety"waiting for the other shoe to fall" Gasoline is a twice/three times a week bill and makes it a convienent annoyance to complain about.

Answer 4

The cost of labor to build homes or give health care has gone up as has materials. Oil production cost have been constant and the transporting of oil is controlled by the large oil companies the high cost is fabricated without merit. Demand drives the price and with China becoming alive with automobile production and experiencing rapid growth in demand the supply is dwindling. India is also demanding more resources to serve its economy/

Answer 5

Most people complain about the price of gas because the believe (mistakenly) that it's something bad that they can pin on President Bush and rich people (who, for some reason, are thought of as automatically evil because they're rich).

Answer 6

Indeed. These same people will buy a $5 cup of Starbucks coffee. But $3 a gallon for gas is highway robbery! lol People are strange aren't they?

Answer 7

Why ? Maybe because 2 years ago I only paid 1.29 per gallon now Im paying close to 3 buck . The reason its more noticible then the other price jumps is because we continually have to fill up our cars. It all adds up !

Answer 8

Very true and isn't it convenient that these are excluded from the cost of living factors.