2007-05-19 02:16:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cars & Transportation ➔ Commuting
God I wish I could carry everything I need for work on a motorcycle.
Gas is over $3 a gal here in Arkansas. Minimum wage is $5.15 and most people drive long distances from rural areas to go to work spending well over $100 a week for gas.
Do the math, someone has to stop this madness. Either raised minimum wage......or lower the price of gas.
How about this.........make rich people pay more for gas so that poor people can get it cheaper? Sounds good to me!
2007-05-19 02:29:31 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Look around you. How many Hummers, Suburbans, and other ridiculously gigantic vehicles do you see driving around?
Look at Wahington. Guaranteed, bankable domestic oil reserves go untapped due to bogus envrionmental objections. Do you see any other country on Earth leaving reserves untapped because a caribou walks over that land twice a year?
Look at China. Two billion living souls and a rapidly industrializing economy. You think America's oil usage is outrageous? Wait until the Chinese start "needing" two or more cars per household and start "needing" Hummers and Range Rovers...
Look at nuclear power. Why hasn't any of the new, safe, clean nuclear power plants been built?
Look at refineries. We have fewer active refineries in America today than we had 20 years ago, but we refine nearly twice as much oil into gasoline. These plants are working at almost full capacity, yet no investment in new refineries has been made.
The fact is this. Oil prices are governed by such a complex set of influences that maybe No One in the World understands it completely. You cannot simply blame Exxon or Texaco or a politician.
2007-05-19 02:35:48 · answer #2 · answered by chocolahoma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
at the beginning of the charges are rather no longer insane. We replaced into insane have been costs that have been below $a million.50 gal mutually as Europe replaced into paying $7 gal. The regulation of supply and demand is kicking in as China enters the international commercial marketplace. You helped contribute to that the perfect time you purchased something from WalMart made in China so which you will prefer to maintain a pair of dollars. we'd prefer to continuously have placed severe taxes on gas 10 - 2 many years in the previous so the impact could be much less now with the international marketplace call for. i anticipate you're doing all your area by potential of taking the bus and residing close to to to paintings and walking to the save for groceries like optimal of the international does. awaken united statesa.: the international is understanding of oil!
2016-12-11 13:57:12 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
3.30 in OK?? Hawaii is at $3.15-3.20 and california is at $3.40-3.50...
People need to deal with the prices or stop driving around so much. If youre willing to drive a motorcycle, I know a lot of people are going that route.
2007-05-19 02:25:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well Michigans is 3.50. Plus I didn't buy gas on May 15th. Whatever happen about that?
2007-05-19 02:24:49 · answer #5 · answered by sweet_thing_kay04 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Supply and demand.
The leader of Venezuela seized the oil rigs from US businesses so we have less oil now.
2007-05-19 02:25:12 · answer #6 · answered by smelly pickles 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That's 70 cents gallon less than I paid the other day. US gasoline is still cheap.
2007-05-19 02:22:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋