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wtf is going on with the GAS PRICES!!!!! (pg. 4)
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| audi0v0x |
Get off your asses you lazy Americans and bike! :p |
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| getfoul |
| quote: | Originally posted by audi0v0x
Get off your asses you lazy Americans and bike! :p |
i would if school wasnt 30 minute drive away w.o traffic.:rolleyes: |
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| malek |
| quote: | Originally posted by ShadoWolf
Malek, you need to sell your Ghetto Mobile, a/k/a Escolade. The one with the decorative Koran CD. :stongue: :stongue: :stongue: :stongue: |
ok fag ass... i'm neither muslim nor have an escalade... go shove something up your ass and stop posting on TA:D |
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| vtec junkie |
| I put $15 in my moms gas tank and didnt even fill the bitch up half way:whip: :whip: :whip: |
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| smokeape |
| quote: | Originally posted by malek
ok fag ass... i'm neither muslim nor have an escalade... go shove something up your ass and stop posting on TA:D |
I have a rusted hulk station wagon which burns lots of gas and oil as well, but don't chide us on what we drive. The problem with gas prices lie in the greedy suppliers and not with the frugal consumers. For example, I can purchase a smaller vehicle which burns less gas, but this one costs zero at the moment so I don't need a vehicle expenditure. The only reason I would consider buying a more gas conscious vehicle is because some Arab wants more money to line his overflowing pocketbook. The oil producers in OPEC need to be taken to task and charged inflamatory rates for things like....US protection of their sorry nations and substandard civil rights policies.
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Luca Antolini DJ - Secret Dream |
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| Arbiter |
They're a bit high at the moment. Easy solution though: don't drive so much.
Don't have a choice? Well I guess that wasn't a very good plan then was it Einstein? You'll get no sympathy from me. |
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| malek |
| quote: | Originally posted by smokeape
I have a rusted hulk station wagon which burns lots of gas and oil as well, but don't chide us on what we drive. The problem with gas prices lie in the greedy suppliers and not with the frugal consumers. For example, I can purchase a smaller vehicle which burns less gas, but this one costs zero at the moment so I don't need a vehicle expenditure. The only reason I would consider buying a more gas conscious vehicle is because some Arab wants more money to line his overflowing pocketbook. The oil producers in OPEC need to be taken to task and charged inflamatory rates for things like....US protection of their sorry nations and substandard civil rights policies.
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Luca Antolini DJ - Secret Dream |
Opec countries represent half of the production... where's the other half? well, produced by american, russian, chinese, dutch, british, etc companies which play along the insignificant opec.
take your sorry uneducated blames somewhere else.
private companies are profiting from this "escalation" big time, they should be regulated. end of story. |
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| occrider |
I don't understand why the gas prices are coming as a surprise to anybody or think it has anything to do with the Presidancy at all. If you had been following the trend in light sweet crude oil prices you would realise that prices have been rapidly rising for the past several months to a current price of $41:
Thus in combination with increased world demand and OPEC's decision to reduce quotas by a million barrels a day back in February (fits in nicely with the graph huh?):
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/new...efer=news_index
Prices are naturally going to rise. Pretty much the only thing Bush can do is to release some oil from the strategic petroleum reserves to alleviate prices. That would be kind of stupid imo since the reserves are for emergency purposes only ... I'm afraid $2 a gallon doesn't really qualify as an emergency, try no gas at the pumps as was the case in the 70's and then we'll talk. I feel bad for all the people who need to drive gas guzzlers out of necessity, but I relish in the fact that the squeeze is being put on all those consumers who buy SUV's for retarded reasons. If you want an idea for when prices are going to go down, just look at futures market for oil. That price will precede any price you see at the pump. |
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| Transporter |
| I think it's all about supply and demand. And right now China is getting most of the gas for their booming economy. |
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| TrAnCeAkI |
| are u kidding i love spending cash every other day on my car!! I LOVE FILLEN HER ARSE UP :P I LOVE IT THANK U BUSH AND THANK U GAS PEOPLE!:nervous: |
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| Trance Effect |
| in here is 50 cents a liter! |
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| DaveSZ |
The Northeastern Republicans, McCain, and liberal Democrats in the Senate blocked the Bush Administration's proposed drilling in the Arctic Wildlife Refuge (ANWAR).
Much of the rest of the coastal plain of Alaska is already leased for oil drilling however.
http://www.wilderness.org/images/images-other/map_AK_NS_leases.jpg
Here are some pictures of the refuge if you're interested:
http://www.calacademy.org/exhibits/anwr/
Had drilling been approved, it would have taken some years to get production up and running anyways. Also the vast majority of crude used by the US is imported, so it's not likely ANWAR would have made, nor will it ever make, a significant difference in oil prices.
Most of you probably know about the close ties between the BUsh family and the Saudi Royal family, and how there was an agreement between the two to lower gas prices before the election.
However, it's questionable whether or not the Saudis can come through for Bush. We may be looking at $50 a barrel oil prices soon.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB...0013744,00.html
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With his poll numbers plummeting, President Bush could use a little help from his friends -- and two friends in particular: Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan and Saudi Ambassador Prince Bandar bin Sultan. The White House has been counting on the two Bush buddies to keep interest rates and gasoline prices low for the election. Mr. Greenspan was expected to show gratitude for being reappointed to a fifth term; Prince Bandar was supposed to follow through on promises he made at the outset of the Iraq war. Now, neither seems likely to deliver.
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Once again, Mr. Greenspan is blazing his own trail. He's already signaled to financial markets that he will raise interest rates this summer. If he fails to follow through -- or if the White House even hints at replacing him -- markets will respond with an even more punishing reaction.
Meanwhile, Prince Bandar's ability to keep oil prices below $30 a barrel is shot. Oil prices have soared to record highs recently -- not adjusted for inflation -- with U.S. light crude approaching $42 a barrel... Conceivably, the president could pressure the prince by cutting off his easy access to the White House -- which appears to be on a par with that of the Bush twins. But such pressure is unlikely to do much good. "This is a market in which the risks are on the upside," Mr. Yergin says. Fifty-dollar-a-barrel oil may be more likely than $30 oil.
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The problem for the president, however, is that while the economy is clearly on the rebound, many Americans aren't feeling the effects. The latest Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll showed the number of voters who felt "things in the nation are generally headed in the right direction" fell to 33% in May from 43% in March. Approval of the president's handling of the economy fell to its lowest level on record: 41%. Events in Iraq have added to that discomfort -- depressing consumer confidence, pushing oil prices and interest rates higher, and causing the stock market to fall. None of this is likely to stall the economy's now robust rebound. Still, it may keep voters from fully appreciating that rebound by Election Day. |
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