Gas Junkie - Gasoline Prices Questions

Question: Are Americans ready for $5.50 possibly $10 a gallon gasoline?

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Answer #1:

since the democrat leadership will not allow drilling at any price!!!

get ready for it suckers!!!

Answer #2:

nancy pelousy is a tree- hugging nutcase

Answer #3:

OR, we could have a windfall profit tax for the oil companies, and that would make the alternatives more viable.

We NEED to get off of our addiction to oil, period.

Answer #4:

i hope she is ready to get voted out of congress.

Answer #5:

I could handle 10 bucks. I feel sorry for the vast majority of Dem voters who probably cannot but elected these pinheads last time. Talk about ownage and karma biting you where you sit.

HAHAHAHAHA

Answer #6:

The Liberals are,NO DRILL NO VOTE I DONT CARE WHAT PARTY. As far as change, What is he going to change Democracy to socialism.

Answer #7:

Americans weren't ready for $2.50 a gallon gas! $5.50 will hurt a lot, Anything near or over $6 USD, and portions of the US economy will shut down.
Many of these politicians, are out of touch with working Americans.

Answer #8:

Ahhh....

We always get to hear about this offshore drilling, but for some reason, we never read about the bill Bush vetoed for releasing some of the Strategic Oil Reserve.

Unlike drilling (which is good.. don't get me wrong), releasing oil from the SOR would cause an IMMEDIATE drop in gas.

Oh.. and gas has been dropping quite a bit here... still not great but it is 40cents cheaper.

Here's your Bush story if you care to read it.

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And for an added kick.. Bush has been hoarding oil in the SOR for quite some time to create a false supply shock.

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Answer #9:

Since when do Repubs or conservatives care about the "little people"? I would think they would LOVE gas to be that high, because then the oil companies would have more money to build them bigger houses, right Ted Stevens?

Answer #10:

No-but, the working poor, and those barely keeping afloat, will suffer the most. We no longer have any say in what our country does. We are the government, but our laziness has let it go to the awful congress that we have. These rich monstosities have taken our freedoms, and we let them. It is now time to get ready for a full time socialist-marxist style of governent. Washington and the signers of the Constitution would be in D.C, right now-weapons drawn;surrounding the Capitol, and marching out the monsters who have allowed this to happen. But all we can do is whine, and play with our toys "they've" allowed to have. Makes me sick.

Answer #11:

gas just lowered 15 cents in new york over the last week.

Answer #12:

We can't be independent of foreign oil unless we have alternative energy. We don't have enough oil. This is just a huge lobbying effort on the part of big oil for a giveaway of offshore leases before oil prices fall again from the coming depression. The way they make money off it is by keeping refinery capacity low (retail prices stay elevated) but their crude input costs fall, making them larger and larger profits on top of record profits. I hope the American people are not such huge chumps to fall for it.

Answer #13:

Gas will not get to $10 in the foreseeable future unless liberals have their way and tax it to death if they ever achieve their dream nanny-state.

$5 could easily happen.

The goal of liberals is not to solve the problem of high gas prices, but to perpetuate high gas prices as an excuse to exert more socialist controls over the economy.

Liberals are not looking for solutions.

Answer #14:

Think about how many politicians, left and right, have investments in oil. So the higher the price, the more money they get.

Answer #15:

personally i ride a motorcycle so 10 is a lot less to me than car owners, never the less it still sucks balls. And i dont think anyone would be ready for that.
That would be a humongous impact on the American people and even considering that should get her assassinated.

Answer #16:

Prices are going to rise because of increasing demand from china and India and there is nothing we can do that will prevent it. I support drilling, but people should be aware that it will not solve our energy problems, it will just improve our trade deficit. We re suffering now because we have had cheap energy and are ill prepared for the current prices and believing energy will be cheap again will prevent us from doing the things that must be done. You should not forget that it takes years for new wells to be brought on line, and so any effect on prices will not happen soon enough to to prevent more price increases, so Americans had better get ready for change.

Answer #17:

Do you really believe more domestic oil exploration and drilling will bring the cost of gasoline down? Oil companies have finally achieved their profit margin objectives thanks to the Bush/Cheney regime......
they aren't going to relinquish those juicy profits just so American motorists can lessen their 'pain at the pump'.
Auto manufacturers realized that SUVs and gas-guzzling pick-up trucks were far more profitable than automobiles because they're nothing but boxes on wheels. Does anyone really believe that auto manufacturers will ever give up their excessive profit margins on these vehicles just to help American consumers manage their budgets?
The only viable solution to high gasoline prices is to stop depending on gasoline. Alternative fuels are available, and the technology is there is make them a worthwhile commodity. But the profit margins aren't there (yet) - and until "big oil" finds a way to con consumers into paying five bucks a gallon for a water or steam-based 'fuel', you will not see significant 'big business' investments in alternative fuels.
Congress (Republican or Democrat) has little control over what we'll pay for fuel (other than to stay in-step with whatever 'big business' dictates to them).
"We the people" are the only ones that can change the marketplace, and we do that by:
a) Consolidating our driving trips to save fuel (any kind of fuel);
b) Car-pooling, bicycling, using mass transit, or (God forbid!) walking to school or work;
c) Driving more fuel-efficient vehicles and driving them less;
d) Stop buying all that [petroleum-based] plastic junk we buy at WalMart for 'low prices everyday' - most of which only ends up in a yard sale a few years alter;
e) REusing, REducing, and REcycling virtually everything we use, including: cardboard; plastics; glass; tin; cooking oil; newspaper; asphalt; steel; magazines; telephone directories; food scraps; aluminum; lawn clippings instead of tossing it in a roll-away so that it can be taken away and buried in a landfill;
f) Consciously buying products made from recycled materials;
g) Learning all we can about preserving and conserving energy;
h) Mowing our lawn with a mechanical push mower instead of a gas-guzzling rider;
i) Taking shorter showers and not running the water while we shave or brush our teeth;
j) Starting neighborhood recycling programs;
k) Initiating neighborhood 'group shopping trips' using one car instead of four;
l) Encouraging local investment (not 'big business' investment) in alternative energy sources;
m) Understanding that even caribou and remote Eskimo tribes have a right to live on this Earth instead of thinking that tooling around in our gas-guzzling SUVs and Hummers deserve more priority;
n) Recognizing that ALL plants and animals on this planet are as dependent on us as we are on them for our very survival;
o) Doing everything we can to nurture the environment instead of squandering all of Earth's resources for our own profit, gluttony, comfort or convenience.

Gas will NEVER return to $3.00 a gallon, regardless of how much domestic drilling is done. 'Big Oil' will cite the costs of building new pipelines and refineries, more distribution costs, and more government regulation to maintain its higher profit margins. They are not going to give up those tens of billions of profit dollars every quarter just so you can save a few bucks at the pump. They have waited too long for a blind-sided Bush administration (headed by two former oil men) to come along and allow price fixing, customer gouging and market manipulation to get their profits where they want them. Expect gas to be $5-$6 a gallon by the end of the year. If Bush invades Iran (as published reports say he plans to do), expect gasoline to cost $10 a gallon by spring.
And, expect 'big oil' to continue to con consumers into believing that they're doing everything they can to keep gas prices low by hiking it up to $4.50 and then dropping it to $3.75 so that everyone will be 'relieved' (not remembering that just a year ago they were paying $2.50 a gallon). Americans are gullible and nobody knows that better than 'big oil' and 'big government'. So don't try blaming this on those politicians you despise....all the "Republicrats" are part of this shell game.
As Adolph Hitler said: "How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don't think". -RKO- 08/03/08

Answer #18:

According to Obama bin Hussein the answer is "YES"

Answer #19:

Why do people have no problem attacking the Dems but agree that Big Oil should hold leases on millions of acres of land and not drill on them? Lets hear all the excuses Big Oil comes up with when Congress passes the "use it or lose it" Bill to make them drill on land they have leases on or lose the leases.





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