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MattNC
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Experts believe that gas could now go as high as $4.00 a gallon! Gas here in NC is now about $3.00 a gallon. Will anyone change their driving habits or anything with gas prices as they are? What about $3.50 to $4.00?
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Jecht
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if they go that high. I will be parking the dak. I will not pay 3 bucks a gal. its almost like having highway men in the present to rob yo ublind.
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Riv
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$3 a gallon,quit your whining. Up here in Canada it's rumored to gonna be $2 plus a litre. In case your mathematically challenged, thats almost $8 a gallon. 3.8 litres/gallon
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maybe not mathematically challenged, just dont know the conversion!
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Bill H.
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Here in Tehachapi it is $3.28/9 per gallon. My Dak is fun to drive but Keeee-ripes I'll be spending more time on my Road King. I hope I don't need to haul anything around ;^(
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Ken99Dakv6
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I think Bush has to pay back his Saudi friends for there contributions over the last 15 years that they have been filling the Bush family pockets? GLAD I do not would not live in texas?
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N56629
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Ken99Dakv6, ever wonder how much of that Saudi oil profit went to finance 9/11? I would be very leery of Bush's friends.
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ReadAllPosts
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To Ken99Dakv6,
Why do people like you keep blaming Bush? Like it was asked before on this site, name one person in politics in the last 40 years that has stood up to the oil companies. Oil companies have been making record profits for quite some time now. If the price of a barrel of oil goes up $1, the price of gas goes up 20 cents. That is a huge profit margin for the oil companies. It doesn't cost them anymore to refine it. Also, there hasn't been a new refinery built since 1976; I believe we have had some Democrat presidents in office since that time, and still have Democratic (and Republican) Congressmen/ Senators who have done nothing as well. Why? Because they ALL get money from the oil companies and also have stock in those companies. This has been stated on this site before. And even if the Saudi's shipped more oil, the refineries we have now couldn't handle it because they are operating at 100% now. Google the words "oil refineries" and see what you come up with. You and others like you might just have to take off those liberal glasses and see the truth.
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MattNC
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ReadAllPosts has a good point, but it's simple economics. If the demandis high, the price goes up to maximize profits. We keep paying these "High prices" so they keep getting higher. I have seen that the US average will probably be $3.50 a gallon soon and MAYBE droppiong around the first of the year. I think that many people will have to start driving less, meaning that profits will decrease and prices decreasing. If everyone would drive less, prices would come down. People would drive more, then prices go up, but that's capitalism for you. That's the way we work. Is anyone going to change their driving habits or stop driving period and car pool?
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ReadAllPosts
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Well, besides driving the speed limit, not much change in driving habit I can do, except maybe trade the Dak for a Neon, but I need the bed of my Dak for work. Don't live close enough to carpool and no public trans to speak of. Stuck like everyone else. And you are right MattNC, economics plays the biggest part in it. High demand, higher prices.
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N56629
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"Oil companies have been making record profits for quite some time now. If the price of a barrel of oil goes up $1, the price of gas goes up 20 cents. That is a huge profit margin for the oil companies. It doesn't cost them anymore to refine it."
So oil companies are immune to inflation? I assume that you are investing all your money in oil company stocks so that you can participate in these profits?
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Luke
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You need to quit your bitching! It isn't Bush's fault or the oil companies' fault that gas is so expensive! Have you not watched the news this week? I live in south east Louisiana, but luckily not in the area destroyed by Hurricain Katrina. Nearly a dozen oil refineries have be shut down or destroyed by the hurricain. This has created a shortage situation. At least you have a vehicle to put $4 gas into. I have people wondering the streets of my home town with no cars, home, clothing, food, or water. New Orleans is a total loss. None of the near 1 million residents of New Orleans will be allowed back into the city for more than a month, and even then most will have nothing to go back to. We are in a crisis and everyone will feel the effects. Be happy that you haven't lost everthing like so many have!
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9/01/2005
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Think about this:
1 quart Mobil 1 : still $4
1 quart Penzoil : still $2.50
Gas: risen from $1.80 to 3.39 in my area
who's making the money now a**holes?
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And shut up about the "oil companies"
got any proof?
How about Democrats and unions, trial lawyers, schools, Hollywood....hmmmm?
Everybody gets donations from somewhere. Personally I think you should be pissed at the damn environmentalists who wont let ANYONE build or even add-on to oil refineries to increase production. OR the whole reformulated gas BULLS***, I can show you for a fact that my truck gets 3 mpg better on non-reformulated gas and it doesn't eat my rubber o-rings,etc. away. Not to mention the fact that it was proven that reformulated gas actually burns dirtier. Or the 20 different formulations that drive costs up...why not just have one?
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WTF
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not to be an ass, but next time don't build your city on a coast, where its known that hurricanes hit, BELOW SEA LEVEL, and expect the rest of the world to help out you dumb asses.
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daddio
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WTF, i hope you live in an earthquake prone area in cali. so the next time you have an earthquake we won't bail your @ out.
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MattNC
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Good point about Motor oil, but there is a substitute for it, and it's not the huge money maker like gas is. If prices were to double like gas, then guess who will benefit? The synthetic makers. Amsoil, Puprle Royal, Mobil One,etc.... People need gas in a much larger quantity than oil also. Just like I said, there also is an alternative to crude oil, not gas, that's why there is such a push for "alternative fuels." Watch for a huge push to refine corn and soy for fuel. I feel bad for the people in the Gulf, I honestly do. But look at the stocks of Shell, ConocoPhillips, etc... They are going up everyday. Do you invest in a company lossing money? No, you invest in companies that are gaining money and will gain money in the future. But I believe that most of us believe that something this bad won't happen to us. Those pictures look like a 3rd world country. They are also expecting a massive earthquake in the midwest (Memphis, St. Louis, it happened in the 1800's and will happen again, just be prepared for that. Not to scare people, but it will happen, and be worst than this.
Matt
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duddesss
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how about the fact that our oil "reserve" is plentiful...in fact...if we ran out of oil now, the nation could still have enough resources to drive our cars normally for years to come...but the government wont let anybody touch it, because they wouldnt be getting the profit they want out of the oil industry...pretty soon those japanese nazis are gonna mass produce and export a bunch of hybrid cars to us, and then the oil industry, as well as the american auto industry will be crushed...our only option in reaction to hurricane katrina obviously is to nuke japan again...
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To N56629,
Yeah, I have all my money invested in oil companies. That's why I'm sitting here on my yacht, using my wifi laptop typing to your ignorant as$. Get a clue, just because someone has an opinion on what is going on doesn't mean they are part of it. A profit margin is one thing, but how many BILLIONS of dollars have they made the past few years? Show me any other industry that evens comes close to that (besides the porn industry?)
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Observer
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N56629 wrote: - "So oil companies are immune to inflation? I assume that you are investing all your money in oil company stocks so that you can participate in these profits?"
Didn't your Mommy and Daddy ever teach you not to ASSume anything. To assume someone who makes a point like ReadAll did, and you saying he investw his/her money in oil companies shows your ignorance.
Note to WTF; I guess we shouldn't have built the United States where we did because it is prone to tornados, you ignorant schit.
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duddesss Is
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WRONG!!! The Strategic Oil Reserve hold a maximum capacity of 700 million barrels. Once the president give the ok, the reserves can start pumping within 15 days, producing 4.3 million barrels per day. Do the math; we do not have oil for years to come. Google the word "oil reserves" and see what you come up with. Your logic is wrong, so get the facts first.
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