Poll: Do you secretly (or openly) support higher gas prices?

[Shame]

High gas prices keep the value of my 2005 Honda Civic up. I traded my 1995 Pontiac Firebird in twp months before gas went up to $3.50 a gallon and got Black Book Retail for for the trade in. The dealer probably still has that Bird! Best move I ever made. 😛 I figure my next car will get 50 to 60 miles a gallon, at least. "I don't really care!" should be a poll option...

 

[Vette73]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: Googer
Demand for petroleum is and will continue to be on the increase, that is the reason why prices are as high as they are. Supply cannot keep up with demand for a few reasons:

1. Refineries are near peak capacity.
2. Refieries are also very old in the USA
3. OPEC is intentionaly not pumping as much crude as they should
4. China is now a major consumer of oil.

Demand will out strip supply for the forseeable future.

Not a very good liar are you.

Oil Inventories are at 7 year highs.

Oil Production has been in oversupply for past 2 years.

Gas Inventories are ahead of last year.

Try again, it has NOTHING to do with the BS Supply & Demand crap.

Oh and let China have all the Oil and Gas, we don't need it anyway since we don't make anything here.

Thanks, you beat me to it. I was about to say the same. Oil went down a little when the "market" heard how much a supply we have. Of course then news in Iran came up and it went back up.

Only time I see someone post BS like that was in my republican e-mails I get. Don;t blame bush or his buddies in the oil companies etc... :roll:

 

[acole1]

High gas prices only hurt the poor man. The one who does drive his little Honda Civic or Geo Metro to work. They dont hurt the guy making 300k+ a year buying huge SUV's.

You can never get gas prices high enough to dissuade them! Nor should we try. They have a right to burn as much gas as they want... it's a free country isn't it?!?!

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: acole1
High gas prices only hurt the poor man. The one who does drive his little Honda Civic or Geo Metro to work. They dont hurt the guy making 300k+ a year buying huge SUV's.

There's a big gap between those groups. All too many "middle class" people who live in nice homes and drive nice vehicles are really living more or less paycheck to paycheck. It hurts them too.

I wouldn't say I secretly or openly support our current higher gas prices, because so much of the money is going to the oil producing countries, countries that are not particularly friendly to us.

On the other hand I wouldn't mind if a higher percentage of the price of gasoline was taxes - at least enough to completely cover the budgets of the US DOT and every state DOT, if they aren't that high already. As much as some people would like to take the head in the sand approach to future problems, the fact is that gas is a finite natural resource, our rate of consumption will only continue to increase, and we will run out. If we don't transition to a renewable alternative before we start to run out, the results will be disastrous. So I don't really like it when people are excessively wasteful with it, and I think higher prices provide a disincentive to be wasteful.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: EKKC

Originally posted by: pontifex
yesterday morning on my way to work, gas was 2.69 for the cheapest stuff. on my way home it was 2.79. wtf is the reason for a .10 price increase in about 10 hours?

it was windy in new orleans

a little off topic, does anyone ever catch gas station changing their prices? how do they do it? do they shut off the station for like 10 minutes and change the signs and the systems? WTF? its always changing but i never see them do it!

I've had to change the signs at a gas station... they don't shut the station down. I imagine if the price is going up, they change it on the sign first and when that's done the change it on the pump. If the price is going down, they change it on the pump first and then change it on the sign. That way nobody can complain that they had a lower price on the sign than on the pump.

 

[BatmanNate]

Is it secret? Is it safe?

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: BatmanNate
Is it secret? Is it safe?

You mean the secret that youre attracted to JL Gatsby? Sure...your secret is safe with me.

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: JulesMaximus

Originally posted by: archiloco
higher gas prices not only affect the everyday consumer, but wreak havoc on businesses that rely on freight, and have a fleets of tucks. increases their overhead, and thus having higher prices for everything. from food to electronics.

bah

Freight and fuel costs are still a very small percentage of a products final cost. It's not like they drive bananas to your local supermarket one at a time. :roll:

No, but with an increase in manufacturing outside the US and shipping across the country much longer distances (for instance, my company ships from Mexico to Michigan parts that once moved from Columbus OH to Michigan), shipping costs are rising and being absorbed by corporations. These costs WILL be passed on to the consumer. You'll get a double dose: Higher prices for you car and higher prices for your other consumables. Double fvcked!

 

[Jawo]

Maybe the federal gov't will actually get serious about alternative energy!funding....Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II have all barely given a pittance (and yes..the $1.3 billion BusH proposed in his address in 2003 was over a decade!)