[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

Why are gas prices so high?

[Choose Ye This Day]

Ummm...perhaps because current supply was refined from much higher-cost oil? Give it some time, man...

Meanwhile, Dascle is deeply saddened...

[q_an_a]

Nigeria and Venezuela both have had major supply problems; Black outs and summer shut downs added more empty storage tanks, the system took advantage by selling at higher prices even if there was plenty of oil in the pipeline.

One day the Saudi will be wondering why we are all so happy driving the Toyota hybrid engines, it is so we can punish them. The end of the stone age did not occur because of a lcak of stones. The end of the oil age will happen before most of us die. We can dance on their grave.

[Eva]

There is absolutely no reason that most people in the oil industry that I have talked to, can site for the high prices. Some of them will give you bogus excuses, such as the blackout and the Arizona pipeline problem, but no legitimate explanation.

We live near two refineries where a lage portion of the oil for the west coast is refined, and yet we pay the highest prices in the state.

[2timothy3.16]

Why are gas prices so high?

And home heating oil?

[bandleader]

That's what I'd like to know?While it took only two-weeks in August for gasoline prices in The Berkshires(Western Mass)to rise 30-cents($1.53/$1.83),they have only declined by 4-cents($1.79)!Fortunately,I have two vehicles and one of them is a gas-sipper!!!

[newcats]

Why are gas prices so high?

Greed...plain and simple.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

Why are gas prices so high?

Short supply. The US typically only has 2 days of gas in inventory. Since it's practically impossible to build refineries due to environmental regs, its difficult to produce quickly.

When supplies get low, the major chains start hoarding forcing the price of gas up, even when crude oil is going down.

The independent station near us went out of business after the Clinton $2 days back in 1999. He says he couldn't get gas even if he paid $5 a gallon.

[July 4th]

Gas prices are already down $.15 from Labor Day where I am.

[cookcounty]

"Why are gas prices so high?"

Because supply is only half the equation. Demand is rising as the economy recovers and transportation demand goes up.

Thursday, ( September 11th!!! ) I got bumped off a flight and had to reconfigure to get to Atlanta. A year ago, they were giving away Sept 11 tickets for 99 cents.

[Gargantua]

Gas (premium) is over $2.00 per gallon in most of Massachusetts, the highest prices ever seen here. Something doesn't make sense...