Do you Americans believe that you are being ripped off by Mr. Bush, when it comes to the price of your gas?

Question

Do you know that 30 oil refineries have been closed down in the last few years. It means that even though the prise of a barrel of oil is low you are paying higher prices because they are controling the flow of refined oil. Is that what Bush is doing so his friends can make even more money. When you guys loose the right to use your cars you have in the past showed that it was unacceptable. Does this show how much America has really changed?

Answer 1

it isnt Bush's fault. it is the money hungry Corporate CEOs bumping up oil prices that are doing this.

America hasn't changed at all. Once again, we will invent a way to adapt to changes like we have again & again. This time, we will invent hybrid and electric cars to reduce our dependency on oil. Without Americans the whole world would be in shambles, I am sick of this negativity towards us.

Without America you would not be able to use any of the following items:

THE INTERNET
TELEPHONE
SPACE SHUTTLE
COMPUTER
CAMERA
MICROWAVE
DEFIBRILLATOR
TELEVISION
AIR CONDITIONER
RECORDED MUSIC
ELECTRIC FAN
HEARING AID
BURGLAR ALARM
REFRIGERATOR
POWER TOOLS
SEWING MACHINE
COFFEE POT
COTTON GIN
BIFOCALS

Answer 2

The reason they were closed down was because of emissions problems in refining crude. While they closed down others were expanded that already had emission equipment installed. I work for big oil and if you do some research you will see that they were not making these returns consistantly. For a decade they were investing in equipment mandated by clean air standards to reduce pollution. There have been no refineries built in the last 20 years because of this. While it may seem unfair the same problems faced the nuclear energy industries also. While green energy is an alternative it is also costly and out of the reach of most americans. So until it is viable we will face increasing costs until it becomes cheaper to find other alternatives. Ihave priced the equipment to install solar panels and solar heating on my home dut the upfront cost is in excess of $30,000. I don't enjoy paying any high prices to fuel up my car any more than everybody else, we get no breaks on gasoline. But when purchasing vehicles a couple of years ago fuel economy weighed heavily on my decision.

Answer 3

in the beginning, no one in this usa has a "suited" to apply their vehicles. that's a priviledge and could be lost like all different - try getting a DUI. no one has a "suited" to be wealthy, no one has a "suited" to a activity, no one has a "suited" to be chuffed. 2d, how is Bush ripping human beings off? he's the President. many of the oil companies are not even American companies (BP is British, Shell is Dutch, and so on.). And the income do no longer pass to him, they pass to grasping oil corporation executives. the easy actuality of the subject is that, in spite of intense gas costs, human beings nonetheless force as a lot in the present day (in line with companion and toddlers) as they did 5 years and 10 years in the past. in actuality, they force extra. So call for is up, furnish is down, and as a result cost is up. If anybody is prepared to pay it, why no longer charge it? What may well be my incentive, as an oil corporation or the different corporation, to diminish my costs while anybody is freely paying the fee I certainly have marked? there is not any reason. the only reason shops have sales is via the fact it extremely is troublesome to sell some thing. an identical way with gas. it extremely isn't any longer troublesome to sell, anybody is buying it, so why decrease costs? Why?

Answer 4

No. We beleive the big execs in the iol companies are the ones ripping us off. Bush has no control over what the fat cats do in the oil industry. Bush has gotten a bad rap for too long. People forget he said this was going to be an ugly war that wouldn't be easy or be over in a short amount of time. He warned us and congress before he was given the go ahead on the war. Fighting terrorists is a never ending job that will never end. We amercians have it too easy. We have no idea what living in the midst of terrorists everyday is like. Bush knows we don't want that here. He knows we can't have terrorists taking over our land and our freedom. He is right. That affects the gas prices in a big way. Watch, Bush we will out of office no even a year and he will get the title as the they man who had it right and no one would listen.

Answer 5

It isn't directly Bush's fault.
But I do hate that it takes 50 dollars to fill up an average tank.
We really just have to go with the flow until it becomes absolutely unbearable, in which case we stage a massive rebellion. That's what we Americans are good at: rebelling against anything that violates our freedoms or tries to control us.
The real solution is to find alternate means of fuel, but until then...

Answer 6

Oil is a diminishing resource so selling it at a high price is one way of rationing it. If all people who drive unnecessarily big cars switched to more environmentally friendly cars which use less petrol it would benefit the whole world.

Keep driving those cars because gas is cheap and it will run out. And then what?

Answer 7

I actually did some interesting reading on that and while there are less refineries today – there is more output from the existing refineries than when we had more. Please see the reference for how gas prices are made.

Everyone's a pacifist between wars. It's like being a vegetarian between meals. - Colman McCarthy

Answer 8

The ultra rich oil companies control the price it is even affecting our price in Australia and we have plenty of refinery's~~

Answer 9

No not directly, but Bush is a oil man keep in mind. He has influence and could be doing A LOT more than what he is right now which is basically nothing.

Answer 10

I don't think you understand and differentiate between free market economy and government control of private industry.

No; not ripped off by Bush.