If gas prices are at $56.00 a barrel then WHY is gas still around $2.09 a gallon? And some people say that the Goverment isn't involved!!! They are ripping us a new one....yet some people on here will back our Goverment to the end. Why is that?
2006-10-11 02:29:01 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Government
OK, let me rephrase this....why is the oil companies giving it too us hard and our goverment not preventing it?
2006-10-11 04:28:13 · update #1
Study up on economics. While free trade has it's downs, it still is better than regulated trade.
The price of gas is set by the international market, not just the US.
Read a book...learn a little.
2006-10-11 02:53:32 · answer #1 · answered by Q-burt 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The government does NOT control gas prices, other than the amount of tax that is placed on a gallon of gas.
Also price changes do not usually effect the price of gas immediately. The oil brought in still must go thru the refining and distribution processes before that cheaper product makes an impact on the price....
The price of gas is on the oil companies, the distribution companies, and the local dealers... NOT the government.... and the least of that is the big oil companies themselves, which make less than $0.10 per gallon profit on each gallon of gas.
2006-10-11 09:36:35 · answer #2 · answered by DiamondDave 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
now i know we would all love to be able to fart in the gas tank and make the car move . but my friend that would be un american. you we are in a war write now . our leaders are invading rapping and pillaging many oil controlling nation as we speak to stop them from low erring the price of gas. why ? so they can keep charging us. look at the first gulf war only when Saddam wanted to sell of oil for nothing did they make up some BS humanitarian excuse to invade his ***. so why pay so much 4 oil its dam well constitutional.
2006-10-11 09:38:19 · answer #3 · answered by bighcorleone 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Listen, if you don't like our government, move out of the country. Maybe you'll lilke it better in Cuba?? How about Iraq? Just leave!!
2006-10-11 09:38:49 · answer #4 · answered by momcat 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because people are too ignorant to fight for justice. The government and oil companies are gouging the public and most of us just take it. Try not paying your taxes en mass and see what happens.
2006-10-11 09:31:12 · answer #5 · answered by Mary Smith 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
2.09 is cheap compared to the 2.39 we still have here
2006-10-11 09:38:36 · answer #6 · answered by Renee 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Silly little kids.
Time to go to school.
Study harder. Concentrate on economics when you get to that grade.
2006-10-11 09:33:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your gas is cheap boyo
2006-10-11 09:32:14 · answer #8 · answered by Dick V 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
people who back the government are total nut jobs
2006-10-11 09:30:36 · answer #9 · answered by Henry_Tee 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋