what do you think about gas prices?

Question

i think they are just too dman high and they "congress" know it but they also know that we need to get from place to place and that we will pay what we need to pay just to get where we need to get

Answer 1

its not government but big oil...they control the government, military, etc.

they want a few more bucks, they raise the prices....who can say anything about it. are you just gonna sit at home instead? they got us hook line and sinker.

But not all of us and not for long. I myself am starting to research electric cars and how some of these guys are making their own out of their old cars. I am looking to get a new car soon, a very good one and was thinking. Just drive it for 5 yrs or till gas gets too expensive. This gives me a few years to learn all I need to learn. Then in years, remove the engine and all gas items and install the electric motor and just keep driving the same car. Sure be cheaper than anything big car makers put out plus I'll know how to fix it, cause I built it. The most important fact about all this car change....who is gonna fix them? Can't train millions of mechanics over night.

Answer 2

Dosent matter to me.. I drive so little even $6 a gallon wouldnt effect me hardly at all to tell the truth... I only drive when necessary.. like for shopping etc.. I'f I could get away with out driving at all I would.. i just happen to live in the boonies.. so i have to now and again...

I could take the horse i guess.. but that would be an all day trip vs 30 mins one way drive.. (besides running a vehicle is actually a lot cheaper fuel wise than running a horse these days hehehe)

But in all honesty.. how can anyone b*tch about Gas being $2.60 a gallon when they pay $5 for a 12 oz Starbucks coffee SHEESH!

Answer 3

It seems they have enough gas to roll around where ever they need in the war! It doesn't make any since when they sold off some of our millions of barrels of oil during the after math of Katrina, Bush ordered the SPR completely filled of its 700 million barrels after 9-11 the current amount is 589 this reserve is only to be used in the event of severe supply emergency or to meet international obligations not to influence market prices and yet in 1991 the International Energy Agency released reserve oil as result of supply disruptions in Iraq and Kuwait during the Persian Gulf war. The Impact this had was not what was delivered to US Citizens in speeches it was denoted that gas prices were expected to drop at the pumps. Sounds Familia...

Answer 4

It is a complicated problem. But if you are living in USA and complaining about oil prices I am living in Turkey and I am paying three times of yours for same amount of oil what should I do please tell me > my dreams are gone . I am dreaming a super race motorcycle since I m 9 and now I am 20 and I am afraid when I am able to buy a motorbike I mean when I finish university and earn some money I am afraid there would no oil to put into fuel tank .
So my friend oil prices should be a bit high to regulate demand and natural supply . That s my opinion .

Answer 5

I guess I just have to eat it.....here in the midwest there is such thing as public trasportation....you either drive or walk the 10-15 miles to work everyday.....there is no way around it right now....I know that the gov. really has no control of oil prices, however I do find it funny that gas is at all time highs and profits are too...you would think they have some room to ease up a bit...but hell will freeze over before you get those guys and gals to give up their money.

Answer 6

In one breath the oil companies argue that the price increases are just cost increases being passed on to the consumer...

...the next minute there's another press release celebrating another record profit from an oil company.

It's pretty simple... X - Y = Z

X is the cost of a product.

Y is the cost that a company takes on to bring a product to market.

If in 2000, Z had a certain value and in 2006 Z's value is increased that means that company profits will be up. It also means that costs did not increase in conjunction with the increased cost of the good.

In other words, we're being taken to the cleaners because the oil companies know they can increase prices, claim it's due to increased costs, and run away with the profits... and the administration won't do a thing about it.

Hopefully, congress does do something, though.

Answer 7

Bought a gallon of milk lately? $3.25 for a resource that is not in any danger of running out. How about a gallon of Shampoo? $45 again not like we're in danger of running out of shampoo. Gas as a commodity has not risen from inflation like any other commodity. Yes Exxon made record profits last year, as compared to any other year of their coroporation, not as compared to corporations in other industries. Oil and Auto makers have historically had the lowest profit margins of any industry. The average profit margin of both is around 10%, a pair of jeans, try 250%. Yet who are always the bad guys? Oil and Auto.

Answer 8

Typical American..get rid of your SUV's and make a war for mass transit..other countries want oil in the future but you are using it all up. We pay over 7.00 per gallon. A 6 cylinder is considered an excessive luxury here.

Answer 9

yeah man!! "Congress" is making a killing from all those oil companies they don't own. Congress or rather "congress" dosen't set gas prices.
Did you know gas prices in the UK are over $6.00 a gallon? hey I'm not a fan of $2.26 either but lets keep it in perspective.

Answer 10

I find it funny that oil has come down alot but gas hasn't come down that much. It's still about 2.60 a gallon here in Los Angeles. we're getting gouged again for the sake of oil corporation record profits.

BTW, England has way better public transit than most cities in the U.S. In L.A we are still woefully dependent on our cars because public transit still doesn't cover the entire L.A basin to get people where they need to go. But ridership is way up this year, which is great.