The cost of gas...

[TheWizard]

Do you think the oil companies are just greedy? Why?

[Dfsg]

Yeah, but who isn't? Drug companies are too :P

[Runner]

I don't think that they are necessarily greedy....I think Bush has a lot to do with the gas hike. And, I am sure gas prices will lower before election time. It's all a ploy to win votes.

I think oil companies have to charge more for fuel because we are depleting our resources. If they sold it too cheap...we would buy and use it all up in no time.

[Dfsg]

People should start to use Desil, and this country should be more open to it. It goes 30% further, but the government puts so many additives in it that they mess it up. Clean Desil is teh best we have.

[TheWizard]

Solar power :)

[Dfsg]

hehe- we could all be in those tri-wheel lightweight solar cars with enough cargo room to store an extra bag of groceries, speeding down the highway at 15mph, and getting out to push when a cloud covers the sun :):):)

[Waiting]

ok so great, now petrol prices here in england are something like 88p a litre or £4 a gallon. for those in america or anywhere else that doesnt know what this means, it means thats its damn expensive.

[dying lullaby]

gas here really isnt too bad when you think about how much it is in europe...i dont complain

[Dfsg]

But it's Europe that has taken advantage of clean desil the most. That's a smart move on the european part.

[corgilover100]

$2.09 here in Wisconsin. Its because of the tax they put on it. I guess its better they tax our gas than us having to pay really large road utility taxes.

[dying lullaby]

its around $1.67 in where i live in new york...

[Dfsg]

Whereabouts in New York? Metro, Long Island, Upstate?

New Jersey's gas is supposed to be cheaper...

[dying lullaby]

i'm upstate but not WAY up there :P

[Dfsg]

Ah. I have a friend up in Sarinac lake (if that is remotely spelled right). Another in Utica, one in Herkimer, one in Saugertes, and one in Albany. All over upstate :)

So I guess you'd be closer to the Erie canal. My dad used to lug hot tar up there. Anyhow... I wonder why the gas is so cheap...

[corgilover100]

no kidding. I wonder why?

[Dfsg]

They aren't hauling any up the Erie canal, so your town can buy it right off the ships, are they? (assumining you live somewheres along either the Erie/Champlain/Cayuga-Seneca/Oswego canal systems)

NJ has an excuse, since we refine it right here... You have no excuse to have cheap gas! You're making me jealous :P

[dying lullaby]

hehe...i dont live near the Erie canal so i have no idea why its so cheap here

hmm odd

[Dfsg]

Could you get a few gallons, box it up, and send it to me? :D

[dying lullaby]

haha sure...just like mailing ice cream... :P

[Anonymous]

Ummmm Yeah gas is 2.00 out here.

Wizard whats up with you and Gas Prises?

[bloog42]

I have grandparents who live near Herkimer in Little Falls.

I'm not sure what that has to do with gas though...

[bloog42]

One thing that you probably should remember to factor in is that while, yes, the gasoline prices are higher than they have been, there is a nifty little thing called inflation.

Inflation is what happens when the Government prints more money but the GDP does not rise with it.

There are many reasons why the Government would do this. Sometimes its to fund expensive things like healthcare and wars. Within minutes of the 9/11 attacks, all of the money printing places had $100 and $1000 bills rolling off them and being distributed to the banks as fast as possible. This was to prevent a run on the banks and a possible economic collapse.

Because there was suddenly a lot more money, but no more things being sold, bought, or made, we have had a small recession for the past 2 1/2 years. Of course it didn't start with 9/11 and it certainly didn't stop.

One of largest continuing causes of the recession has been the percieved higher costs of oil. When you figure in the inflation you will see that we still have cheap oil compared to the 70's and 80's.

Unfortunately our economy is built almost entirely upon the confidence of its users, which means that a percieved hike in gas prices will have essentially the same impact as a real one, and that is not very good.

[blackrose666]

In canada it is like 95 cent's a litre i think. And just to tell ya the candian dollor to americans is 75 cent's. It are car is pardon my language but crapy, but it saves on gas it's a chevy cavalier 2003 /2004 and a tank lasts a week. We spend alot of time going back and forth to my house and the town, and it's like 15 20 minutes to town so. But it costs us about 35.00/45.00 candian dollors per a tank and also AMERICANS DON'T COPMLAIN YOUR GAS IS LIKE BUYING DIRT IT IS SO CHEAP.

[maximan]

i think a gas price hike everyone once in a while is a good thing...it pushes us to get less and less dependant on fuel...my family recently purchased a prius hybrid and get 50 miles the gallon. but i think by now its gotton a little out of control.

[bloog42]

I think I was a dimwit 4 years ago.

[Underground_Network]

Well, first off, welcome back? Second off, was there a point to reviving this thread?

[The Batman]

I think he was just reminiscing.

[-Silence]

Man, I looked at this without looking at the dates, and was like, oh whoa, josh is back?

;-)

[Whisper]

VERY old

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