So why is Gasoline really expensive nowadays?
04-30-2006, 07:04 PM
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So why is Gasoline really expensive nowadays?
Who is behind the prices? How do we get the prices down and reasonable? $3.18 a gallon for 87 octane 
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04-30-2006, 07:21 PM
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whos behind it? the oil company execs that like record high PROFITS. I dont see how people find that acceptable. I've heard people say "well thats business." People having to pawn jewelry to pay for gas is not part of business.....its exploitation
04-30-2006, 07:24 PM
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Originally Posted by MBasile
whos behind it? the oil company execs that like record high PROFITS. I dont see how people find that acceptable. I've heard people say "well thats business." People having to pawn jewelry to pay for gas is not part of business.....its exploitation
Atleast Congress is going WTF? They're starting to investigate some crap about the oil companies. And Bush is proposing to stop putting oil in the reserves to help lower prices... we'll see what happens though.
04-30-2006, 07:28 PM
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not putting oil in the reserves is a very short term sollution it seems like. we need to stop needing less oil. No more thinking driving a 4 mpg hummer to the office is cool.
04-30-2006, 09:25 PM
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i paid 3.51 yesterday at shell in sunnyvale. its ridiculous.
It's rediculous what's happening. business my ***. there is absolutely no reason for the prices to be this high. Katrina. Iraq. Whatever. No reason at all. Besides the fact that bush doesn't give a crap about misuse of power and monopolization. Shoot the phone company is bigger than it was before the split. Oil companies are raking people over the coals.
When you are saying things are tight yet your making record profits and REDICULOUS ones at that it's just not right. America has basically been forced into a position that we HAVE to drive..most of us a lot. When your gas bill is as high as your damn car payment or enough to buy a set of tires every month there is something wrong here.
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Originally Posted by krzyxrevver12
the price of 100 octane hasn't changed.... 
05-01-2006, 01:06 AM
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Well, if u look at the rest of the world and their gas prices, the united states has one of the cheapest gas prices around the world. The problem is not gonna go away. We all know that earth's crude oil supply is limited, so why can't everyone see that the price of gas will go up as the we have to dig deeper into the earth to cultivate the oil. In the 70s, we had a gas crisis, it was because we've reached peak discovery (the apex of a curve of discovering oil deposits, and after the apex, we discover less and less oil deposits each day.) and present day, we have reached peak production (the apex of a curve of production, after the apex, we will cultivate and produce less and less oil, or it will cost more and more for cultivating oil because we need to dig deeper into the earth or go to unexplored area suchs as the arctics). This is why the push for a different power source is starting to become a mainstream thing, ignorant people around the world are finally seeing that oil isn't going to last forever. Just my 2 cents.
05-01-2006, 01:31 AM
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Time to set up my own still and start making ethynol. From what I read you can mix it somewhere around 80/20 with standard gas, and its penny's on the dollar. I wonder if an accessport (or any other engine management device) could be tuned for optimal running on such a mixture.
05-01-2006, 02:06 AM
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Originally Posted by XkrazyAsianX
Well, if u look at the rest of the world and their gas prices, the united states has one of the cheapest gas prices around the world. The problem is not gonna go away. We all know that earth's crude oil supply is limited, so why can't everyone see that the price of gas will go up as the we have to dig deeper into the earth to cultivate the oil. In the 70s, we had a gas crisis, it was because we've reached peak discovery (the apex of a curve of discovering oil deposits, and after the apex, we discover less and less oil deposits each day.) and present day, we have reached peak production (the apex of a curve of production, after the apex, we will cultivate and produce less and less oil, or it will cost more and more for cultivating oil because we need to dig deeper into the earth or go to unexplored area suchs as the arctics). This is why the push for a different power source is starting to become a mainstream thing, ignorant people around the world are finally seeing that oil isn't going to last forever. Just my 2 cents.
haha this sounds like something i read in my sociology class
