sterling Posted April 23, 2006 Share Posted April 23, 2006 I was just informed today that in our small town in Illinois the Shell station will be raising gas prices from $2.85 to $3.20 per gallon by tomorrow morning. YIKES!!!! I did go and fill up but what good does that do?Phil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 THE RICH GET RICHER Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 ouch! I got gas yesterday in Humboldt, Iowa for $2.74. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pierson Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 not to make it less painful, but the reality is that it's still not as much per gallon (if you take into consideration the inflation) as it was during the '70s crisis when it more than doubled in price in a short time... BUT, we are very close to it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirk Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 At least it's still available. Was it just California, or did the rest of the country push your cars around the block-long lines in 1973 and 1978 just to get some gas? And, what about the odd and even numbered days that determined if you could gas up at all on a particular day? In 1978, my wife and I were lucky enough to have one odd numbered plate car and one even numbered plate car, so we could get some gas on any day! At least my Sumbeam Tiger was a cinch to push in the gas lines! Ohhh, the memories Kirk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 $3.05 is the LOWEST price in San Diego County today.Don't worry though, Bill O'Reilly has been on the "Shame on the Oil Companies" case since last week. Now the Democrats are starting to gripe for political gain also. That's about the time the prices stop rising.Once again, the protected greedy big oil companies are giving capitalism a bad name...But if the GOVERNMENT ran the oil business, we'd be paying about $5.00 a gallon right now. $2.50 for real market price + $2.50 government surcharge tax to cover their waste and corruption. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danmichel Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 I'm not worried about the current price of gasoline...I am worried about the future availability of gasoline...We are on the edge of losing big if a major disruption in supply should happen...And the disruption could come from anywhere...terrorists...mentally ill world leaders who want to see what would happen if the dropped an A-bomb...mother nature and her hurricanes...Refineries that catch on fire...The list could go and on...Gasoline has had it's day...We can no longer let the big oil producers have so much influence on the future of our world...Alternatives have always been available...But the price of oil has always been too low to justify trying to develop something new...That is all beginning to change...But the fruits of the new technology on the way may come too late to stop another energy crisis from trashing the global economy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneG Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 $2.89 here and the stations aren't crowded. Might even be a bit cheaper in MA, believe it or not!Anne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnneG Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 This would make a good poll question - what irks you more: Gas prices or taxes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
julesberry Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 $3.09 is the average in the Milwaukee area. I had heard we were second only to California, but now I guess we're No. 1.I'm only 5 miles from work, so I'd have to say taxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim From Wisconsin Posted April 24, 2006 Share Posted April 24, 2006 Please! Let us drill more in Alaska! Hmmm...Try not to disturb a little wildlife in 1 half of 1 percent of the state, or have lots of oil at our disposal making us less dependent on other countries!The oil companies have made some pretty tidy profits lately - I wish evil things on the ones who are gouging us! Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellie Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 Please! Let us drill more in Alaska! Hmmm...Try not to disturb a little wildlife in 1 half of 1 percent of the state, or have lots of oil at our disposal making us less dependent on other countries!What wildlife? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 "Mellie and the Frozen Snow Worms" now appearing at the Fairbanks Lodge in the Polar Bear Lounge.Now that's Alaskan wildlife at it's finest! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 ...Formaly known as "Mellie and the Perverted Penguin Pickers".And before that, "Mellie and the Caribou Country Cowboys".Anyway...check 'em out! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellie Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 If Phil were telling it, I'd be playing an accordian... which I have never even touched!I doubt that it makes you all feel better, but I was up in Fairbanks, Delta Junction, and Ft. Greely on Friday. Gas in Fairbanks was $2.98/gal. I topped off in Delta with $3.33/gal, then drove on down the highway alongside the Alaska oil pipeline snaking south through the passes (the pipeline, not me), and fueled up again in Copper Center at $3.13/gal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cool chick auntie Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 FYI: Our US Senator Debbie Stabenow is introducing a bill to eliminate the FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR ANNUAL TAX BREAK given to the oil companies by the government. Why do they need that kind of subsidy when they are making BILLIONS in profit?! You have probably heard that EXXON-MOBIL made PROFIT of THIRTY-SIX BILLION DOLLARS in 2005. cool chick auntie from the beautiful state of MICHIGAN. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Kiwi Connection Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 Kia ora Guys, You think you're hard done to paying $3.20. Here in NZ we are paying the equivalent of US$5.41 a gallon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim From Wisconsin Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 mellie - You will have to ask the Sierra Club or the people doing everything they can to protect what they call the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. I have nothing against protecting wildlife, but like you said: "What wildlife". Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellie Posted April 25, 2006 Share Posted April 25, 2006 Tim, I certainly agree with you that more can be done. The US is the largest customer for the Eurasian refineries, while more than 80% of our nation's oil and gas leasefields are not being developed - and they're not all in Alaska. They're in Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and other states we don't think of as having petroleum resources. Even in the largest state (I'm talking size, not population) where regulations were written in 1998 to penalize producers who bid on leases and never develop the fields, DNR can't get the big companies to produce. Exxon-Mobil has sat on Point Thompson Unit leases for 22 years and have yet to produce a single barrel of oil. The last I read, they have more than 100,000 acres tied up in leaseholds. The penalties are chump change to them and when the leases go up for bid again, they keep outbidding the smaller companies in spite of royalty increases. It's not just ExxonMobil, either. It's BP, ConocoPhillips, Marathon Oil, Shell, the list is pages long. They don't want to give up the leases because they spent so much money on field studies that showed it's not economical to develop there, but they don't want to let someone else try because if they're successful in profiting, the big company will look bad. (waah!) Somehow big business has become too powerful of a monster for laws of the land to control. I don't have a solution. I am absolutely in support of drilling in ANWR, but I can also understand the views of Sierra Club, Greenpeace, and other environmental groups. What is the point in trashing a pristine area when so many other areas have been littered with ugly test sites and test rigs, and nothing more is being done to develop them?Meanwhile, brace yourself, the price at the pumps will keep rising. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raspberrywine Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 First of all, remember it's an international oil market. If you think additional oil that is gathered from U.S. territories will be directed at the U.S. market- you're wrong. This is an attempt by the companies to "put a foot in the door" regarding those lands but they would not be so patriotic, I can assure you, to exclusively direct that oil to the United States. I hate to agree with Cartmill, once again!, but another example amongst many of how greed is badly affecting this country's businesses, economy, and individual lives and environment as well. I would be all for drilling for oil in downtown Cleveland if the oil was earmarked for the United States, but that would not be the case at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 How about Congress makes it a condition for granting rights to drill there, that all oil must go to the US...And all environmental spills go to Canada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellie Posted April 27, 2006 Share Posted April 27, 2006 FYI: Our US Senator Debbie Stabenow is introducing a bill to eliminate the FIVE HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR ANNUAL TAX BREAK given to the oil companies by the government...It appears she has support... Bush said that high gasoline prices are ...id automobiles. I doubt that Congress will go for it. They all get a lot of campaign money from the companies that would be impacted, and you know they're not going to jeopardize their funding even if it is in the best interest of their constituents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cozmik Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 But if the GOVERNMENT ran the oil business...As opposed to vice versa like we have now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Cartmill Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 Mellie, you keep talkin' like that and they're gonna take away your security clearance! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellie Posted April 28, 2006 Share Posted April 28, 2006 ha! I thought when my periodic reinvestigation comes up next year and they ask how I spend my free time, I should say I hang out at Eric's place with Tony Cartmill. No? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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