We shoulda drilled here and drilled now when we had the chance. Thanks Barry!!! I didn’t read your crummy “book”. Is this one of the “dreams” of your “father”?
Rush was wondering what happens when it hits $6.66 /gal.
We could save BILLIONS of gallons a fuel, and eliminate most traffic jams etc. We have the technology to do this RIGHT NOW.
Tens of millions of people commute to sit at a desk/cubicles all day simply to use a telephone and computer...Set them up at home.
It’s absolutely stupid to allow this to happen and does nothing but waste oceans of fuel.
Give the employers incentives to do this, whatever it takes.
This problem was explained pretty well on NPR this evening (Marketplace-weekend I believe).
Demand is down here and we are producing more however, the little publicized fact is that our refineries have been and are being shut down ...by this insane administration. So even though we have reserves of crude...the refineries are supposedly going at capacity and there is a shortage of those.
But we all knew this was coming..right?
Our nearest gas station charges 4.73/gallon. This is what Obama wanted, he did say that he wanted prices to skyrocket, he got it. He will never agree to any pipeline because he would lose his whack job environmentalist lefty buddies
in my very best GWTW Scarlett voice . . . I hope oil and gas go sky high this year!!!!
anything to get Obamalamadingdong out of office
Gas here jumped 19 cents PER LITRE in the last 2 days! From $1.069 to $1.259. Was I ever glad I filled the 100 l tank on the pickup 4 days ago!
That’s a dollar more than I’m paying!
Rich liberals don’t care if gasoline is $4.00/gal. In fact they want the price even higher.
I will be happy if it is well over $4.00/gal prior to election day. It’s something the media can’t explain away easily.
Since oil is traded in Dollars, the price of gas is often directly proportional to the Dollar. Wild money printing and massive deficits continue to result in the devaluation of our currency.
This more than anything else is the reason we have high gas prices and why they contiue to rise. Since oil is traded in Dollars, the irresponsible spending has results in our currency being worth less and thus inflation results.
Are there other factors? Sure, but our reckless spending in Washington is the primary culprit.
The only way to bring down gas prices is to shore up the Dollar, but that would require some harsh measures on the part of our lawmakers. I think we all know they would never do anything to act in Americas best interest. Not this administration.
Americans love high gas prices - that’s why we keep voting for them.
So smile while you’re at the pump. :)
Thanks Prez Zippy — paid $3.99 for regular yesterday, filled up other vehicle with regular today for $4.05. Predicting over $5.00 by early March. Yeah, baby, this will really do something for the growth, like totally kill it. Zippy’s hanging on to this environmental hocus pocus while the economy goes completely into the toilet. Maybe we’ll hear a lot more of his lies, like “higher gas prices are a sign the economy’s improving.” What a total piece of crap this president is, and we have no one with the cojones to call him on it. We’re going to be living the nightmare.
By spring oil will hit $110 per barrel.(FYI: there are 42 gallons of oil per barrel)If the Iranians close down the Starit of Hormuz oil might spike up to $160-170 per barrel.But most of the prices are due to good ole speculation.
Walked through Costco today. People were visibly agitated. One young couple was having words about what to buy. Stopped and got gas for our two cars this week. In both instances, the pump read just under/a few dollars over $60 as I started my transaction.
Add in all the things made of plastics, oil-based whatever and transportation, and we are going to have something going on by summer that isn’t going to go well.
Please stock up on whatever you can. Anything heavy, get now if you can, to save on shipping. In the same Costco, I have watched the price of rice go up from $12 for a big bag three years ago to $17+ today.
The other problem California has different gasoline blends than the rest of the nation because of “air quality” rules.
Since we’re now a net exporter of refined gasoline, I wonder if it’s simply more profitable to ship it where the cost of gasoline to, say, European consumers, is much greater?
I wonder how the average American would react to a dozen refineries suddenly going offline for six months, resulting in the price of gasoline doubling?
Just bought a used 2011 Hyundai elantra today. 40 mpg up to 47 on the highway. I have to drive 60 miles a day to work. The pick-up at 14 mpg finally was just too much. Plus the pick-up is 14 years old and I was going to have to get something a little newer anyway. Hope it is not a lemon. Dang I hate driving a car. I have drove a pick-up and a standard since I was 15. Sigh.
If people in the US start feeling pain this summer when food costs soar at least Obama will be further out the door. In that sense $5-6 per gallon is good, maybe conservatives should drive more and help it along. The system needs to be taken down, disruption should not belong solely to the left.
Let’s consider, where cheap energy can improve lives the US people are generally afraid of nuclear, want to stop using ugly coal, chase away drilling from all over the continent, won’t build refineries because they are dirty, etc, etc. General voter sentiment? “Oil is dirty, factories too, all should be banned.”
When the average USA voter cares less about who wins the big game today than how they will eat, then change will come.