Today's gas prices that's driving us crazy

[kombat96 10+ year member]

gas prices in the middle east are cheap for many reaons. low refinement of oil, no taxes on oil, no shipping of oil shall i go on.

and i care about getting screwd over but there is nothing i can do about it, i need gas just like the rest of us. yeah prices are way to high i agree, but none-the-less i need it and ill continue to buy it when needed. as for the starving families they are starving for more then 1 reason and its not gas, its due to the fact they cant afford the child they have and cannot afford to do anything else but screw and have more kids they cannot afford. SO i the working lower class that bust my a$$ has to pay for thier welfare.

ONCE AGAIN YOU CANT DO ANYTHING ABOUT THE GAS PRICES. case closed move one new topic, nothing to see here.

 

[xX J Brutal Xx 10+ year member]

Unrest in middle east / declining and/or uncertain supply = higher oil prices = higher gas prices
Not as simple as the oil companies just deciding to charge more -- we have an open oil trading market and the price is decided by the market and the oil cartels for the most part. If the market sees uncertainty pricing goes up -- half the middle east is going nuts right now.

Food is going up dramatically too in almost every country but the USA - we should be thankful for that at least.

In the mean-time I am glad I bought a CRX with no payments and 30+ MPG

**** milk has gone up almost .50 a gallon at walmart in the past month

 

[Audiohazzard 10+ year member]

Ok I agree with you on the welfare part because I work my a$$ off too, I might work for the city but we took a 3% paycut. But don't you think that if a let's say 25% of the country said let's stand up and voice our options might help out our chances for lower fuel prices, which will lower the price of food and basically everything would be lower. It's a chain effect and its pulling everyone down, don't you think? Complaining about isn't going to help, but putting a voice out might.

 

[kombat96 10+ year member]

a voice? thats our corrupt leaders. and every form of fuel has gone up from ethenol to crude oil lol. groceries have gone up, have you bought an apple lately i bet itll cost u almost .70 for ONE apple.

the US has enough oil in "reserve" that it could run this country full force for 10 years, but why would they wanna do that theyd lose money. oil companies pay the politicians wages.

wanna save money for us tax payers, cut the benefits for these politicians who get full benefits..medical and life plus a pension after just one term. thats the job everyone should WANT to have....coupla years of shifting paper and when its done full kicka$$ insurance. stop giving these countries money and aid when they have a disaster. that help and money is what we need. make alllll those goverments pay us the money they owe us from past deals and what not that we the "great" USofA never made them pay. stop rebuilding countries & rebuild the US. stop allllllll immigration period no more work visa's nada. other countrys did that beacuse they were being overran by immagrants. stop letting illegals squAT on US soil and pop a kid out and say its a us citizen, WHERE the hell does "ILLEGAL" fall into place. start aking jail/prison mean what it used to mean, not what it is to day nothing but a family reunion for most people.

 

[CHEMMINS 10+ year member]

I'm with ^^

Also maybe if the US didn't spend so much on the military.....they may be able to afford to help their own country. The US spends 6 times more on military, than ANYONE else in the world.

Maybe pull the fack outta these 3rd world countries and let them destroy themselves. Wars cost money. Lots of money. And who is footing the bill? US taxpayers.

 

[Mookie 10+ year member]

Lulz, and were still in the middle east doing nothing at all but wasting money. God I love America.

 

[nateberrier 10+ year member]

Lulz, and were still in the middle east doing nothing at all but wasting money. God I love America.

There were WMDZ

 

[audioholic 5,000+ posts]

There is a lot of wrong in this thread.
The people of the US screwed themselves by being lazy, and cheap. They want everything for nothing, so everything gets outsourced to cheaper countries. Wonder why there is no jobs.....cause you don't make anything anymore. Anytime the price on something goes up, people biotch and complain, until a company finds it can outsource it for cheaper, and markets the cheaper product so you will buy it.

Americans drive the biggest gas guzzeling vehicles in the world. Why...because fuel is cheap compared to the rest of the world. Americans have the attitude that everything they do/have has to be the biggest and best out there. That ideology is now coming around to bite them in the arse.

If the government would step in, it wouldn't be to subsidize the price of fuel, it should be to create refineries. This creates jobs, and lowers the cost of importing fuel. If the USA would buy more oil from Canada, and drill from it's own reserves, they would be able to lower fuel prices. Create a job market again as well. Actually turn the economy around.

You think that American manufacturing has been decimated by outsourcing to other countries because Americans are lazy? It has nothing to do with corporate tax rate differences, the value differences of the dollar versus other market currencies, differences in import and export fees, or differences in environmental safety costs... it all just boils down to Americans are lazy? Your 'Canadians are so superior to fat, slobby, greedy, stupid Americans' attitude gets pretty annoying after a while. Especially when it seems to be based on ignorance of political systems, market systems, finances, and American people in general.

 

[faulkton 5,000+ posts]

this thread is full of LOSE.

December 2010 Import Highlights: Released February 25, 2011
Monthly data on the origins of crude oil imports in December 2010 has been released and it shows that four countries exported more than 1,000 thousand barrels per day to the United States (see table below). The top five exporting countries accounted for 72 percent of United States crude oil imports in December while the top ten sources accounted for approximately 88 percent of all U.S. crude oil imports.

The top five sources of US crude oil imports for December were

Canada (2,064 thousand barrels per day)

Mexico (1,223 thousand barrels per day)

Saudi Arabia (1,076 thousand barrels per day)

Nigeria (1,024 thousand barrels per day)

Venezuela (825 thousand barrels per day).

The rest of the top ten sources, in order, were

Iraq (336 thousand barrels per day)

Angola (307 thousand barrels per day)

Brazil (271 thousand barrels per day)

Algeria (262 thousand barrels per day)

Colombia (220 thousand barrels per day).

Canada remained the largest exporter of total petroleum in December, exporting 2,713 thousand barrels per day to the United States, which is an increase from last month (2,510 thousand barrels per day). The second largest exporter of total petroleum was Mexico with 1,365 thousand barrels per day.

Crude Oil and Total Petroleum Imports Top 15 Countries