Gas Prices

[Cherokee]

Gas jumped another 20 cents here in Kentucky today making around $2.79. Keeps this up we may have to go back to horse and buggy. On the news they said they planned a protest about the the gas and only two woman showed up to protest.

[explayer]

thats sucks gas here is like 2.50 a gallon but I leave torrow to go to californa where it is always much higher so we will see

[Catfish_Commando]

Gas Prices are killing us. I think they have us right where they want us :sad:

[catmanofohio]

Yep just went to get gas and it is 2.75 here jumped 20 cents also... what a pity. :sad:

[TeamCatHazzard]

I get so mad over those gas prices. I think it was 2.50 here and like 2.60 for diesel. But Im sure it will go up if it is other places.

[copycat]

I am thinking of getting a smaller boat because of gas prices, around $2.44 but seems as though they are raising it everyday latley:crying:

[HARVRAD2003]

The gas prices here in O'fallon Illinois raised from 2.54 yesterday to 2.69 today, figure gas will hit 3.00 at least by Summer. It's sad that those that are way beyond rich have to get our hard earned cash so that their Billions of dollars can increase and our few hundreds of dollars can decrease little by little. I pay around 90.00 a tank full at 3.00 a gallon it's beginning to get hard to pay the bills that have to be paid and then pay for the gas that doesn't have to be so high.

[DeerHunter01]

Well its coming into summer time and people want to go on vacation and there going to make it to where people will sit at home and not go.

I think the people should protest by not going to work for three days and not even moving there cars for them days after all employers have no one show up maybe they will beat the door down in congress.

Could you have seen this if it would of happened 25 years ago, everyone would of drove to the white house and parked there cars on the lawn, and you know what it would of changed the next day: where the heck is the teamsters when you need them..lol

[Mutt]

That is part of it in a nutshell they do not want people to go places anymore keep it high enough so they cant but still have to drive to work. They want people to do like overseas use mass transit aint gonna happen. I pay 3.10 for my diesel i buy on the average 280 a pop and I do that several times a week and people wonder my rates keep going up.

[larkin]

I would have to say it is George Bush's fault. He putting most of the fuel in the reserves, and we are dont even have enough refinery's anymore to filter the fuel so we can use it, so there is less going to the public forcing prices up. IT SUCKS

[bigfish]

the last time it went up like that my boss's wife looked it up the stock price was still at $2.00 and pump price was over $3.00 it just dont make any cense to me. im with deerhunter if everyone [could] just sit at home for 2 or 3 days might just open some eyes. them battery operated motors keep lookin better and better.

[catfishbill33]

Deerhunter you hit the nail on the head.

[teaysvalleyguy]

$2.79 at all pumps here in town, one station is $2.49 still, line is 10 cars deep non stop. Topped off and try to make it through weekend, hope not to drive too far tomorrow. LMAO

[derbycitycatman]

Its about 2.60 here and up to 2.80 downtown. With the Derby just around the corner Im gonna try and stock pile a few gallons. It will jump at least 20-30 cents just for derby. What infuriates me the most is our president saying we are addicted to oil. Hes right, and he is part of the problem. No new money for alternative energy, no new money for more refineries, we are pounded by ads for the biggest baddest trucks and suvs and we fall for them. He did "improve" minimum mpg on vehicles by about a mile per gallon for future cars, but that aint gonna do it. Im strongly looking into a hybrid foreign vehicle because american auto manu. and the pres. want us under the thumbs of big oil.

[larkin]

Yes I agree "derbycitycatman" we are addicted to oil, because the U.S. Government wont allow us to use some alternative resources. The U.S. government is going to hell, and we are gonna end up screwed here before long, I can almost guarantee it.

But what can we do?

[derby_city_flathead]

100% correct....
keep this up and i'll be a bank fisherman for sure....
man,i sure hate the sound of that:mad:

[Cherokee]

If half of the people in the U.S.A would part there cars for 2 days then you would see gas prices drop fast but i dont see that happen because we live in a fast pace world its always hurry, hurry, hurry.

[AwShucks]

Naw, these high fuel prices are Truman's fault. He shouldn't have fired McArthur and he'd have whipped everyones' ass and none of them would have the gall to raise prices like this... I'll bet we can find a way to blame the French also...never did like those potatoes.

[armynavy]

The funny thing was I got the paper monday when I was in rockford, it had a little column that was explaining that the cost of crude oil was the reason and so on and so forth. And then right underneath it was a article about how exxon mobile took down wal-mart to #2 fortune 500 company with the biggest profit of any company ever in history 36.1 billion. So why in the hell are the prices that high do these people really need that much profit???

[larkin]

In America, Yes, they do need that much profit, it is all out of greed too, not the common good.

[AwShucks]

But, if they were doing it for the common good, wouldn't that be communisium? I'd rather have a democracy... at least we know its all because of greed and a big ego, not a dictator.

[solomon]

to heck with gas, I paid $5 for a gallon of milk:sad::crying:

[Salmonid]

It hurts to go fill up, thats for sure, Its an obvious strategy that is to not touch our reserves and to useeveryone elses oil until we are the last ones standing, .. its a power play and when it gets to that point, youll be wishing it was only 3 bucks a gallon. Our lifetime will see some major changes in the way we do our day to day stuff. :crying:

Salmonid

[Patmansc]

Seems to me that these days our government is more reactive than proactive. Which means that when it comes to energy, there won't be any substantial investment in R & D until we have run out.

[MRR]

:mad: ON THE NEWS LAST NIGHT THEY SAID THAT THIS PRICE HIKE WAS JUST THE BEGINNING OF THINGS TO COME. SO LOOK OUT.ITS GETTING TO THE POINT WHERE I CAN'T EVEN AFFORD TO GO FISHING AND THATS SAD WHEN THE RIVER IS ONLY 10 MILES AWAY. GUESS I COULD ALWAYS RIDE A BIKE.(IF I HAD ONE) HERE IT IS 2.59 AT LEAST LAST NIGHT IT WAS (NOT SURE ABOUT NOW)

[Mutt]

So what happened:confused: did some towel head spill a barrel of oil over night, it seems like that all it takes anymore:mad:
no some big wig oil guy wanted to buy his misstress a new beemer.

[cardfan4life]

We have an oil b aron for President. Thats why the oil prices are so high.:mad:

[suddawg]

Don't blame it all on George Bush. Don't want to start anything, but you might as well blame every president since after WWII (when most oil refineries were developed in the middle east) for our dependency on foreign oil. Don't get me wrong, I don't agree with everything the current administration is doing (and believe me their decisions have affected me greatly,) but I think our country is far from collapsing in on it self because we now have to be more selective on our driving habits.

[cardfan4life]

I'm not trying to blame everything on Bush. And i'm sorry if I offended anyone. But i'm a truck driver, and its hard to watch ppl struggle to pay bills while working their butts off. Also hard to adjust driving habits when you have to drive more miles to make more, to cover an expense (diesel fuel) that has more than doubled in the last 5 or 6 years. Sorry to rant. 31 BILLION in profit and the oil companies say its just because the price of a barrel went up. Sounds fishy with my limited math skills.

[Hootowlc3]

Maybe congress and Bush will give the oil companys more billions tax break this year like last year.

[kspor]

I still say a tank of gas and a day or two of fishing is cheaper than the therapy I would need without it.

[APD1146]

We are paying $179 here right now. Having to drive to Denver CO. the first of June to see my new great granddaughter born on the 9th. Dad won't fly.
I thought of cancelling my trip to Santee the end of this month. Having to haul my boat 900 miles with my big 4x4 truck with gas at $3.00 a gallon by then, I almost did. But how would I get to meet all you fine brothers and sisters down there if I cancelled my trip.
So I guess I'm going to be spurring the economy quite a bit.
God bless American !

[kyblue49]

the rich get richer and the poor keep buying gas. we have to have it and they know it. no better reason to stick it to us.:mad:

[DELLIS]

you guys all make great points but parking your car or stop driving your boats won't change gas prices what's killing me is that didn't just take over a country with lots of oil here is what i say your freedom bill is over 100 billion dollars we will receive our crude at no charge till the debt is paid after all freedom isnt cheap oh that won't work you have all missed why bush doesn't care about the price of gas he has over 40% of an oil refinery opec i think so why would he want it lower all they are doing is crippleing this country thank god i don't drive to far for work i am all for our govt but the good ol boy club or as they refer to it as skull and bones must come to an end before we all are poor

[Hootowlc3]

Exxon just gave there head man almost 40 million dollars for retirment.
I could probably struggle by on that.
Wonder how much tax he will have to pay??

[wishiwasfishin]

i wonder how much george bush has to do with all of this. to me if it keeps going up i don't know whats going to happen. now i like bush but i'm getting the felling he's droping the ball or is it all these countries we buy gas from just giving us the shaft. if that was the case we could get rid of some of the gas in our stockpile and put a dent in there pocket books over there. i don't understand how ever thing works well enough to make a big statement on the topic but i do know it sure is getting tough:confused:

[Mutt]

i wonder how much george bush has to do with all of this. to me if it keeps going up i don't know whats going to happen. now i like bush but i'm getting the felling he's droping the ball or is it all these countries we buy gas from just giving us the shaft. if that was the case we could get rid of some of the gas in our stockpile and put a dent in there pocket books over there. i don't understand how ever thing works well enough to make a big statement on the topic but i do know it sure is getting tough:confused:
Well considering the oil countrys are charging us 70 some odd bucks for a barrle of crude is putting the shaft to us period. What gets me is we need to tell the tree hugging liberals to shut up and start drilling where we have oil.

[onlyone]

Ya here in Eastern Kansas, were at $2.75 right now. It wont go down until Bush leaves office- in my opinion. :doubt:

[wishiwasfishin]

Well considering the oil countrys are charging us 70 some odd bucks for a barrle of crude is putting the shaft to us period. What gets me is we need to tell the tree hugging liberals to shut up and start drilling where we have oil.
thats what i was thinking

[dreamer34]

Wanted: Horse And Buggy To Replace Car...would Be Cheaper To Run

[lawnman61]

Our gas prices here are now up to $2.89 and I buy gas on a daily basis for my lawn care business, I'll switch with anyone out htere at this point. I spend on average $350.00 a week fueling my truck and all my equipment.
I have to raise my prices for mowing yards to a minimum of $35.00 a yard.
If it keeps going up then I'll have to charge $45.00 a yard minimum.

OUCH !!!!


AL

[YeeHaw]

It's around that here in IL. It is rediculas!

[Cherokee]

Man oh man hard to stay in bussiness like that

[Soupy_1us]

I reckon I'd better get in on this (beings I'm a KY boy too) 25 years ago I remember setting in line to pay a buck .75 a gal. Didn't have the money to drive to the Whitehouse or anywhere else.. I don't think Bush had anything to do with that... BUT, as long as the "Amerikan" people ( I seen this on another site ) ( the Amerikan part) ..as long as "we the people" (if "we" do) keep putting people like Bush , the big oil king pins and big business people in office we will continue to pay for it in one way or another.. We need to put a "working" man or woman in office for a while ,not somebody that is and has been living off their mom and dads money all their life.. These type of people don't have any idea what it's like to work for what they have. I know you're thinking that a working man or woman doesn't have the money to run for that office, ok, now is the time to change the way we put people into office. It's time to count every vote in every town,city,county and state. Not, just the Electoral Vote (never did trust that vote) and not by the money that any person can spend to buy your vote. That's all you hear about anymore is how much money somebody has raised for their cause.. Damn the money I say ! Let the little guy get in on the act ! Ok,ok.. I'll put my soap box back up 'til the next time.... See what happens when you get an old fisherman sober and thinking about what's going on in this ole world. I'm gone fishing. (even if I have to paddle my boat up the river) and don't get me started on the Bible either.

[shadow]

Do you fallas REALLY believe that 31 billion is too much profit on n investment of 360 billion? It cost Exxon 360 billion to do business last year and the 31 billion is only about a 10% return on their investment. Out of that 10% they folks that own stock in the company have to be paid a decent return on their money too.

The REAL bad guys in this whole situation are the U.S. and state governments. Without investing a single dime they get a bigger percentage of the cost of gasoline than the oil companies do in taxes.

[BIGCAT GarryEads]

Hey Shadow, you are right, if you had put your money in Mc Donalds you would have got more in return , Dollar for Dollar.:)

[kdawgg222]

Arco gas here in Wa is $2.63. This is one of the cheapest. Man fuel nowadays:cool: once you think it's going back down, it goes right back up.:mad:

[wishiwasfishin]

does anyone think it will ever go back down like it was?

[caatstalker]

shadow is about right. avrige amerikins. ( person who thinks his vote will change goverment) it is too late to change any thing , last chance 1960-63 the one person who tried got himself killed. hang on my brothers they just turned the fan on . Wait til they start shoveling wont it be wonderful then:rolleyes: :) have a day

[greenwing7]

we hit 3 dollars today!!

[wishiwasfishin]

sooner then later something has got to give or we will be all staying home.going to work will just equal your gas bill:crying:

[Tym2Fish]

Ugg time to down grade boat and truck sizes.... Predictions have it going to four bucks a gallon by the end of summer. It is then predicted that they will fall when some of the refinarys that were hit by the hurricane come back on line.

[Cherokee]

Where at 3.09 suppose to hit 3.15 by int he morning anyone got a good bicycle for sell mountain bike? On the news tonight said it could hit 8.00 a gallon :ah: :waaaht:

[Soupy_1us]

Have already down sized once, This dumb ole hill-billy was smart enuff to keep his Toyota and his 12 foot jon boat. Have parked the 3/4 ton 4x4 GMC and the 20 ft G3. Fishing the creeks and ditches along the river for now. Guess I'll start looking for a canoe next and use my 4 wheeler to haul it around. Then the next thing I'll be doing is cutting the cane poles and fishing from the bank..Hey ! This sounds like I'm going back to the "good ole days" I've been missing so much.

Ugg time to down grade boat and truck sizes.... Predictions have it going to four bucks a gallon by the end of summer. It is then predicted that they will fall when some of the refinarys that were hit by the hurricane come back on line.

[squirtspop]

Check this out...Got it in my e-mail from a buddy in NJ.

An interesting article appears in the May, 2006 issue of Road and Track magazine. This is a very reputable motor enthusiast magazine, having been published since the early 50's. The article begins "So where do we get our crude oil?"

Try the quiz...see if you can put the following countries in order by the millions of barrels per day imported by the US.


Angola

Bahrain

BuCh Worldwide Petroleum Control and Export Consortium

Canada

Kuwait

Mexico

Nigeria

Saudi Arabia

Thailand

Venezuela

Zimbabwe


Just look at the list and think about it a little.
Now, how much of our petroleum consumption is imported?

10% 20% 30% 43% 60% 75%

Wow, I feel like sending this just to see what you might think the answers are!! (Most of you think I'm some kind of nut anyway, so I won't)

First the answers to the countries exporting the most oil to the US - -
oh, we don't get any from Thailand or Zimbabwe that I know of...probably none from Bahrain...it's about the size of Kissimmee, and BuCh...Bush/Cheney, whom the liberals would lead us to believe personally own all the oil in the world!




ok...here they are...

CANADA 15.7% of our imports
in case you don't have a calculator that's a bit over THIRTY PERCENT of the oil we import!!!
MEXICO 15% of our imports..............ready for third???

Saudi Arabia 14%

Venezuela 12%....yep, from Chavez, the one destined to undo the United States

Nigeria 10.2%

hmmm...let's see...Canada...mid-east? I THINK it is north of Minnesota, so that wouldn't be. oh well...Mexico...oh yeah...it's right between Saudia Arabia and Egypt, right? and Venezuela...it's between Egypt and Germany, right?...in the mid-east. Nigeria is CLOSE, but no cigar, it's in Africa

Looking at the figures above, without a calculator, we see 66.9 as a total...what about the other 30+ percent? The quoted article states:
"Among the top 10 countries, accounting for about 87% of our imports, no other countries come close to these five, the next being Iraq and Angola, each at less than half-million barrels/day."
I didn't KNOW that!!! I trust ALL the media and they say our military men and women are dying for.....MID-EASTERN OIL!

To further quote:
"So far, we've been talking imports. Let's close with an overall picture: Imports currently account for about 60 percent [there's your answer to part two of the quiz] of our total crude. (This figure could be brought down, but for several good reasons we choose to maintain domestic reserves.) The last column of our chart [listed below] shows the top five countries and their contribution to our total consumption. Including the Saudi Arabia figure shown here, the Middle East's contribution to our total [consumption] works out to about 12.6%."

Percent of total consumption imported: Canada, 9.5%; Mexico, 9%; Saudi Arabia, 8.4%; Venezuela, 7.2%; Nigeria, 6.1%

The article gave as it's source The Energy Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Energy; the figures are through November, 2005, "...the latest summary available..."

No, I'm not on some kind of Mid-East bandwagon...I'm just as disgusted as the next guy when it comes to petrol imports, prices, etc., etc. And, I am just as disgusted at the constant on-going crusade by the liberals and their media to keep trying to convince Americans that the oil "problem and gas prices are all because of what is going on in the Mid-East, etc., etc." I'm sure our price at the pump would be somewhat lower, maybe a few cents, with some help from our northern and southern neighbors, right!?!?!

Feel free to forward this to anybody you might wish to...EXCEPT Road and Track magazine!! (Is it illegal to quote magazine articles??? my new email address might be larry@the (http://us.f533.mail.yahoo.com/ym/Compose?To=larry@the) county jail!)

IF you want to read the entire article, just browse at the mag counter while wife grocery shops...it's only about a quarter page article and can be read before she gets past the canned vegetable aisle. It's on page 122. Don't tell Road and Track I told you this, either!!!

Larry

[catfishcrazee]

yeah and exxon just reported the highest quarterly earnings ever.

[jim]

Let me add to the riddle.Where do you think all the Alaskan North Slope oil that we just "Had" to have to offset the imports goes?If you say to our refinerys to reduce our dependency on foreign oil, guess again.;) :p :rolleyes: :)

[kspor]

yeah and exxon just reported the highest quarterly earnings ever.

Earnings look great, but the profit margin continues to shrink. They earn less profit each year. We have tons of oil, but not enough refineries. There is not one new refinery in the last 20 years. I guess nobody remember the 70's embargo. I grew up in a gas station and we sold more gas then, than in the history of the station. The states are making a killing as the price rises so does their profits. No one is screaming to lower the gas tax.

If you make a 100 billion at a 4% profit and anther retail company like walmart made 100 at a 8% profit which one would we roast.

JMO

[GaryF]

Actually, Earnings = Profit in this case. Exxon has not reported the 1st quarter 2006 results yet, those numbers come out late next week.

From Exxon financials: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=XOM&annual

2003
Revenue $247 Billion Net Earnings 21 billion
2004
Revenue $298 Billion Net Earnings 25 billion
2005
Revenue $371 Billion Net Earnings 36 billion

What I see is net earnings.. the after tax profit.. climbing from 8.5 to 9.7 percent.

[ridgerunner]

Has anyone done any reading about hydrogen supplimentation? Basically you put electrodes in a water tank (ie. replacement windshield washer tank), put water and a catalyst like salt in it. You put power to it and use a windshield washer motor to pump the generated hydrogen in near the pcv valve. I've googled hydrogen generator and found some amazing things. One guy claimed 60 mpg on a Blazer with a 350. I've done a lot of reading and it seems feasible. Looks like it's time to get off the pot and build one for my F150.

[Lil Hooker]

Gas is about to hit 3 bucks here soon. We have more inventory than we have had in the last 8 years yet the prices keep going up. Kind of reminds me of enron and what they did to california

[Monsterkat11]

gas was 2.80 something here last night.

as far as oil and stuff goes, don't blame bush alone, there is no way bush can be greedy and screw over all the american people on oil prices and the government will just turn the other way and act like it never happened, i don't think it works that way. if you're going to be upset with someone be upset with the governments decision in general, or be upset that the oil companies have freedom to price oil as the wish, actually just be upset with freedom in general!(sarcasm)

i didn't do alot of reasearch but the things i did look up, i'm pretty sure the price that they sell it for is not as much as they NEED to charge.

so i say either
A: tell the "tree hugging hippies" to shut up, and drill where WE have oil
B: run out of oil and get off our lazy butts and buckle down on producing an alternate source of fuel.

[squirtspop]

I got an e-mail about some dude in Venezula (I think it was) that owns Citgo and he has a grudge with the USA. I'll see if I still have it. Pretty interesting and maddening too.

[squirtspop]

Found it. As noted in my previous post.

[greenwing7]

even though exonn made 60,000,000,000 dollars this year alone thats billion with a B, how many new refineries have been built in the last 30 years???0this is probably one of the biggest reasons prices are going up, because it can, welcome to capitalism, and exon doesn't care about us, it will drive up the price as far as the economy can stand, and one other thing, the government subsidised about 4,000,000,000 dollars for them to explore for new wells, but that obviously didn't work since gas is about a dollar more expensive this summer.

[Lil Hooker]

I think we're headed in the same direction as europe with 5 dollar a gallon prices and smaller cars. I'm thinking we hit the 100 dollar a barrell by the end of summer. Exxon CEO just got a 400million bonus

[greenwing7]

atleast the $ from gas in europe goes to the government, with gas on the rise right now all the money is going to make the fatcats fatter

[1fishhead]

will have to be fishing from the bank if this keep up . tony:crazy:

[Mark J]

Folks like house leader Pelosi have voted against new refineries being built.
You just cant throw a refinery up. There is alot of federal permitting , impact surveys, enviromental surveys, and obviously congress.

The fat cats should get fatter. It was the fat cat's money that was spent getting the oil out of the ground or purchasing the oil and having it shipped not the federal government's.
Oil is a business, a world market. Exxon isnt in it to make cupcakes, they are in it to make money just like anyone else.
Exxon doesnt set crude oil prices. The world demand sets the price.

Folks should be fully aware of who they are voting for and what their voting record is on issues near and dear to the heart as oil seems to be everyone.
If you are waiting for the federal government to jump in and price fix it, it aint going to happen. IT'S A WORLD MARKET.
Now you have a senate and house that will noway open up drilling in ANWAR or loosen the eastern moratorium on drilling.

[slimcat]

Well, In my opinion and I bet you a bunch of others on here, the FAT CATS can get SLIMMER. I guess we need to jack all of our prices way up to compensate but then you are hurting your fellow americans. America is gone to far with letting all of these foreign countrys take over us. Time to take a stand!!!

[Mark J]

Take a stand against what?
Hurricanes drive the price of lumber sky high because of the demand.
Supply and demand has a bearing on any commodity. It isn't just oil.

I'm an electrician. I've seen 2 inch rigid conduit go from 1.75 a foot to 6.80 a foot in a matter of 3 weeks.
I've seen copper wire quadruple in price in a month.

The high oil prices hurt most anyone's pocketbook but I haven't seen them multiply 4 or 5 times yet like other commodities have or we would be paying 8 bucks a gallon.