Gas prices, are we getting the shaft?

Question

Why are the gas prices still this high and getting higher? This is rediculous. I know several people have posted about this before.

Lets think, gas prices are broken down so that each part gets it's cut. So the chamical guys get paid, the refiners get paid, gas stations add a few cents to get their cut too.

What could possibly cause gas prices to go up? W/ all these countries supplying crude oil so others can turn it into fuel for our vehicles. Is it because of the fighting over seas? Sure the prices went up after it all started in 2003 but Iraq and Afghanistan don't supply that much oil(do they)?

Kuwait, Syria, and others make the majority of it. Are oil companies seeing this as a time to get some extra bank? Seize the day right? Can you imagine these fat oil pigs rolling in sloppy money. Most of our oil comes from other places then the Gulf of Mexico.

Look at this about Exxon getting paid.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060727/ap_on_bi_ge/earns_exxon_mobil

Furthermore, I am a full time student. I have to drive to school (since I live 30 minutes away). Then I use a bike and take the bus around campus. In order for me to pay for books I have a job that I go back and forth 2 in between classes. I have a 3.5 GPA. Work doesn't affect me. Gas prices are killing me though.

I can't imagine how full time students in part time jobs are doing it.

What the hell is the point of mid-grade gas. Cars either take premium, deisel or, regular.

Have you seen the movie V for Vendetta?

In it it makes a good statement about the govornment.

The Govornment should be afraid of it's people. People should not be afraid of their govornment.

This mainly implies to a tyranical and oppressive gov, which we do not have.

Citizens can only go sar far in funding research. What about the this.

The govornment has stopped buying oil for our reserves. Great didn't change gas prices. How about they start using some of the surplus and then buy it back when oil prices go back down.

this was suggested, I don't know how far it got though.

Answer 1

Gas prices don't go up so people will stop driving and reduce pollution. In face where I live more people are driving longer. It isn't going to stop people from getting to work.

People still need to drive to certian points in order to be picked up by the bus and taken to the train or light rail Driving is never going to come to a halt. Gas prices need to be contained this is indeed insane.

Make oil companies lower prices 10-25%. Then they would have to use only a tiny fraction of their new found wealth to pay the excess.

Bush doesn't have that much to do with it. Think about it, oh sure he was an oil guy so what. Our American oil is far less then what we import and get from other countries. Why would American oil become just as expensive when the fighting is overseas?

Doesn't make sense but the companies themselves are teeming with money and they are all greedy.

Answer 2

I go to school full time and year round. I have a full time job and a part time job as well, and I live 30 miles away from school/work. I feel your pain.. and I agree. What really has brought them up so high? Everyone keeps talking about how high they are but never WHY they are so high. It has got to be that the oil companies are sucking up our money while they're trying to divert our attention to the war. I can't see any other reason why. If someone else can come up with another reason why they're so high, please enlighten all of us because this is crap.

I went to buy gasoline yesterday and the Silver that I normally get at BP is usually 2.89 and it was 2.95. Jeez.. That is such crap. I had to get regular, which my car doesn't run all that well in the first place. My car makes good milage, it's a sedan, but that doesn't make it okay!! It's really hitting me hard and I hate it. I can't keep this up forever, having no free time is driving me crazy.

Someone needs to do something about this, and FAST. Citizens should begin an organization website to fund alternative ways of gasoline. Bush is giving tax breaks to people with hybrid cars, but only for the first two years that they own them or something like that.

BP is going to start putting ethanol into their gasoline and I think that's great too. But there has to be more that we can do, somehow. There are many more of us citizens than there are of those politicians and if we needed to, we could fight them.

Answer 3

Gas stations themselves make very little money on fuel itself however, oil compines made 15 billion dollars in profit the first quarter of this year. Bush is an oil man and he will not help. Talk is cheap GAS is not. A simple fix to help lower gas prices is to get rid of mid grade gas. It would lower refinery prices and it is a useless product meant to dupe the people. if people nation wide would take one day and not buy gas (one day) the oil compaines would get the message.

Answer 4

Yes and no. Prices are being driven by speculation, but eventually, our production decreases as oil fields deplete, demand increases and the world economy slows down to a crawl. Even drilling Anwar and the coasts won't help much.

Who's fault it this? All of us, for not demanding more research into energy alternatives, and for not being energy efficient, and for being politically naive. The solutions that work tend to get people voted out of office (Remember Carter?). Getting Faux news off the air would probably go a long way towards getting people to pay attention to the unpleasant, but inescapable realities of energy limits that Carter warned us about in the 70s.

Answer 5

I know where I live we are. Our problem is that we have no competition. Only 2 major owners of every gas station around. We had someone try a number of years ago to go against them and wound out getting their windows shot out at the station. They now play the same game as the rest.

All I do is only buy gas from them. I no longer buy extra things there. It's my own little way of protesting, by not buying their over priced gas and over priced milk, snacks etc.

Answer 6

My personal opinion on this is that they increase gas price to indirectly force cars to get out of the way in order to reduce pollution.

Apart from that, I cannot see why why the prices go up.

Answer 7

We are getting the shaft, just like Paris Hilton in a green, night-vision video. Bush's oil buddies have pulled off the biggest heist in world history,

Answer 8

I believe that it is the corporations that sell the gas fault. ExxonMobil has almost a monopoly on the market and can charge whatever they want causes the smaller firms to follow suit.

Answer 9

I went into the gas station. Asked for dollar of gas to top off my car. The clerk then farted and gave me a receipt.