Serious Question:

[Doboji]

Why?

 

[So]

obligatory: Because you touch yourself at night.

 

[dullard]

1) Oil prices are high.
2) Oil companies' profits are at record levels.
3) Taxes are high.

 

[faenix]

Read the Economist.

 

[bonkers325]

weather in the gulf, higher drilling costs, civil unrest in oil producing countries

 

[arcenite]

Someone has been drinking all the oil

 

[733SHiFTY]

We eat too many french fries and potato chips

 

[mugs]

Supposedly when the hurricane rolled through, they shut down the refineries on the gulf coast. They seem to be going back down a bit.

 

[Sentinel]

taxes and people driving fvcking gas guzzlers, the US consumes the majority of the oil and everything else.

 

[Jzero]

Serious answer: Because enough people are still willing to buy it at such prices.

 

[biostud]

someone set us up the bomb.

 

[QuitBanningMe]

Demand

 

[JoeKing]

summer travel

 

[woowoo]

Actually there not that high yet.
(But just you wait......)

 

[Hammer]

OPEC

 

[Manchurian Candidate]

yeah it's ridiculous. that's what you get when a cartel controls all that oil. maybe the US should start drilling on its own soil soon?

 

[skimple]

Compared to the rest of teh world, gas is cheap in the US. Try ~$5/ gallon in Europe.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: woowoo
Actually there not that high yet.
(But just you wait......)

by whose standards are they not that high yet?

and where did you read they were going to go higher?

 

[tami]

i was in a new jersey gas station (not self-service) and this van just finished up getting pumped and the attendant told him he can go... well, little did the driver know that the gas pump hose thingy was still in the gas compartment. when the van started lurching forward, it got caught and then the hose fell off. :Q

 

[radioouman]

Originally posted by: Jzero
Serious answer: Because enough people are still willing to buy it at such prices.

This man is correct.

 

[shekondar]

Originally posted by: mugs
Supposedly when the hurricane rolled through, they shut down the refineries on the gulf coast. They seem to be going back down a bit.

Until the next hurricane.

 

[hypn0tik]

Originally posted by: tami
i was in a new jersey gas station (not self-service) and this van just finished up getting pumped and the attendant told him he can go... well, little did the driver know that the gas pump hose thingy was still in the gas compartment. when the van started lurching forward, it got caught and then the hose fell off. :Q

Yes, that MUST be it.

 

[tami]

Originally posted by: hypn0tik

Originally posted by: tami
i was in a new jersey gas station (not self-service) and this van just finished up getting pumped and the attendant told him he can go... well, little did the driver know that the gas pump hose thingy was still in the gas compartment. when the van started lurching forward, it got caught and then the hose fell off. :Q

Yes, that MUST be it.

yes!

actually, that wasn't speculation. that was a tangent.

it happened last night btw. forgot to mention it in the original post.

 

[woowoo]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: woowoo
Actually there not that high yet.
(But just you wait......)

by whose standards are they not that high yet?

and where did you read they were going to go higher?

1. Compared to the rest of the world.
2. Just watch the news.

My perdiction:
$3 a gallon by the end of the year.

 

[marvdmartian]

This is a test, this is only a test. Do not adjust your wallet, do not despair. We are only trying to see just how badly we can RAPE the average American driver on gas prices, before he'll finally scream in despair and desperately try to trade in his gas hog suv for an econobox.

Seriously, if you never before believed that the prices were fixed more by greed than by demand, the prices today should convince you. The demand is really not any higher now than it was in the middle of last winter (just 6 months ago), and yet gas prices are 60 to 75 cents higher a gallon. Same production numbers, same demand, same refining capabilities, yet we're paying that much more? :music:Someone's wallet's getting fat..... :music:

Oh yeah, and the gas hose is engineered to just detach like that, when someone drives off without taking the nozzle off their vehicle. It has a device called (are you ready for this??) a dry breakaway. Incredibly, it's designed to break away without spilling the fuel all over the place. Amazing!! Some are designed as single style (will keep the dispenser from pumping fuel all over the place when it breaks away, but you will still get a small spill from the fuel in the hose), and some are designed as duel style (which keeps all but about a tablespoon or two of fuel from spilling). Nowadays they're even designed to just push & click back together, so you can put that hose right back into service, after chastising the person that forgot about the nozzle, for leaving it in the gas tank opening!

I know these amazing things cuz I work with equipment like that, and get to replace these things from time to time, when they wear out, or when the galactically stupid people of the world damage one beyond repair. It's better than the alternative, which used to be that the moron would pull the entire dispenser off of it's base, and spill fuel all over creation. :roll: