gasoline hit a new record in our area...$4.24 a gallon

[sduyck_2000 (imported)]

I have never seen the price rise so fast...10 cents a day last week

looks like it will go up a lot more according to this acticle

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/02 ... z1nlwKN38K

what are prices doing in your area

i dont intend this to be political

as i understand politico is left leaning

[Dave (imported)]

They will rise as long as speculators keep beating the war drums for a with Iran.

This price rise is all speculation and futures market buying.

Last time I got gas I paid about $3.65 a gallon.

[jako9999 (imported)]

Try moving to england its now £6.30 by me thats around $10 a gallon we are so ripped off over here.

[Mac (imported)]

In 2008 the price was under $2.00 a gallon. That is more than double.

[Dave (imported)]

BEFORE we get too far along in this thread.

You really are the most frustratingly dumb person in the world that I come in contact with.

every single fucking president that I worked for changed the Energy Policy of the USA when they hit office and not a single GD one of them ever put a coherent, unified policy into place.

Ford didn't need it but CARTER (Thanks to what country fucked us up then? IRAN, what country is fucking us over now- IRAN) put all sorts of research and replacement technology into play. Reagan came in and took all the money away from it and converted it to Star Wars and government subsidized oil company research. George HW Bush got in and had to fight a war to keep Kuwait free (because that would have really screwed everything) and never once asked Americans to drive more efficient cars, in fact, he said the USA car industry would die if they dared to increase the mileage efficiency of cars. GUESS WHAT, big gas guzzling cars didn't sell.

Clinton gets in and we have eight years of maybe better stuff but still, since the Republicans paid more attention to Clinton's penis than his policies, nothing much happened. The miracle of the Gingrich revolution was the gift of bigger gas guzzlers like the HUMMER and the 10 mpg trucks it became fashionable to ride around town and park at malls. GW Bush is so bad I just won't continue to think of curses to lay upon his idiot policies -- two wars in the oil producing region of the world didn't help.

I retired before Obama was elected.

LEt's look at the facts:

1) First permit OK'd for oil drilling in Alaska reserve

http://content.usatoday.com/communities ... 1PPBMzY3fY

2. President Barack Obama announced will lift a 20-year ban on offshore oil and natural gas drilling and exploration, hoping to create jobs, generate revenue and reduce the United States' dependence on foreign oil.

http://moneymorning.com/2010/04/01/drilling-ban/

3. Drill, Baby, Drill Fails: Obama Presides Over Record Growth in Oil Rigs, Still Gets Blamed by GOP for High Oil Prices

http://thinkprogress.org/romm/2011/08/3 ... gh-prices/

4. The US and Mexico have signed a deal that will allow oil companies in both countries to finally develop the oil-rich Gulf of Mexico.http://www.minyanville.com/businessmark ... z1oBKp4T9i

5. Drilling has returned to near-normal levels in the Gulf. There are 23 rigs currently drilling wells in water deeper than 3,000 feet, according to federal statistics. That is the same number as two years ago.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... 14860.html

6. While a backlog of drilling permits in Washington continues to feed oil industry angst, new data shows that more rigs are in the Gulf of Mexico than before the BP oil spill, indicating that operators might have more confidence in the future than they are letting on.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill ... re_in.html

7. Monthly crude production is at an all-time high:

http://www.eia.gov/dnav/ng/hist/e_ertrro_xr0_nus_cm.htm

8. Knoxville-based oil and gas company Tengasco Inc. on Wednesday said that 2011 drilling operations produced record volumes of oil and increased its proved reserves to 2.6 million barrels.

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/feb/2 ... n-in-2011/

Now before all of you go and post those soft little turds of OIL PRICES on the walls as you throw any old shit that comes to mind...

READ A LITTLE BIT AND GET THE FACTS FIRST.

Surely your eyeballs have not shriveled up in your heads and only read FAUX news and Drudge?

Surely you can type "US oil production" into google and read the results.

I've heard uninformed garbage such as this for over thirty years and I"m tired of it. So I get a little rude when confronted with the equivalent of monkeys flinging poo-poo at the spectators.

I apologize now if I hurt anyone's tender, delicate little feelings...

[Slammr (imported)]

In 2008 the price was under $2.00 a gallon. That is more than double.

It was $2.00/gal in 2008 because the world was in a recession and because of the world financial crises. Earlier, oil had reached over $140/barrel and gas was over $3.50/gal. The Dow had dropped to about 7000, too, because of the financial crises, and it's up to almost 13000 now. If we have another world financial crises and recession, we can get gas down to $2.50 or so, and if Republicans get elected, we'll probably get both.

Republicans are ridiculous. You throw out figures without giving the reasons behind those figures, apparently thinking we're as dumb as the Tea Party crowd seem to be.

[Slammr (imported)]

BEFORE we get too far along in this thread.

You really are the most frustratingly dumb person in the world that I come in contact with.

What he said...

But I was trying to show some restraint.

[Dave (imported)]

What he said...

But I was trying to show some restraint.

I did show restraint. (this is said in jest).

YOu have no idea what the first draft of that post looked like peppered with profanity and laced with metaphors and similes that were much, much less than polite. ... It was emotionally satisfying but unpublishable.

[moi621 (imported)]

Why oh why are we not becoming a nation of "Natural Gas"? :realpisse

It can be done w/o fuckin' fracking and isn't America the Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas?

Or is that so much, hot air. Or other natural atmospheric influences?

Imagine what it costs in California where we "must" drive or die. The Brits can take their bus.

It boils down to "who profits"? Not what is best, efficient or cheapest in a truly free market.

Moi

It's A Conspiracy Don'tchyaknow

Would you know a conspiracy if it tripped you?

We are so use to them and the lies.

[sduyck_2000 (imported)]

I was informed that CASE-IH has A new tractor out uses natural gas instead of diesel.....I told the salesman to get me one of those as soon as i get a place to fill it.

Natural gas is the way to go then we can refine the gasoline and export it.

I have been weaned from gasoline...i drive a electric car

My truck and 5 tractors and 2 combines still burn diesel...it really hurts when it comes time to fill up...mutiply 10,000 gallons by $3.25

Moi ...I see your apricot tree is bloomed out..mine has not started yet.

Why oh why are we not becoming a nation of "Natural Gas"? :realpisse

It can be done w/o fuckin' fracking and isn't America the Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas?

Or is that so much, hot air. Or other natural atmospheric influences?

Imagine what it costs in California where we "must" drive or die. The Brits can take their bus.

It boils down to "who profits"? Not what is best, efficient or cheapest in a truly free market.

Moi

It's A Conspiracy Don'tchyaknow

Would you know a conspiracy if it tripped you?

We are so use to them and the lies.