Gas Prices Are Insane!!!!!

[pearlemae]

WHat I haven't seen is the fact that the oil companies a ripping us off to the max. If oil in America is short its because the speculators are causing the shortage. As a country we are now a net oil exporter for the first time in 50 or 60 years, so if we are in the midst of a shortage why are we exporting oil. The KOCK bros have tankers in the mississippi river around new orleans that are just mobile oil storage tanks. the oil is bought by the speculators and taken off the market, thus creating a shortage allowing the oil companies to continue to rip us off and make record profits. Each quarter seems like the oil companies profits go up and up. enough my .02 centavos case thats what we're gonna end up with. we are so screwed until the LEFT takes over.

 

[setaemies]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_VpyoAXpA8

Nuttin' but simple math



Here gas costs about 8.4 dollars per us gallon and diesel roughly 7.8 dollars per gallon...

 

[krunchbubble]

thought you guys may like this on the KOCH BROS.....

LOVE IT!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbykzqJ6ens

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

so, how do we become part of the get rich with gas scheme?

Check with your bank or financial adviser. Tell em you want to buy oil but you don't want delivery. Then you can sell when the price is right.

 

[mrwags]

so, how do we become part of the get rich with gas scheme?

Simple since it's been done b4. The gas VAPOR is what burns not the liquid. Figure out a way for the fuel to be vaporized B4 it enters the combustion chamber and it will last a hell of a lot longer in the tank.


Mr.Wags

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

WHat I haven't seen is the fact that the oil companies a ripping us off to the max. If oil in America is short its because the speculators are causing the shortage. As a country we are now a net oil exporter for the first time in 50 or 60 years, so if we are in the midst of a shortage why are we exporting oil. The KOCK bros have tankers in the mississippi river around new orleans that are just mobile oil storage tanks. the oil is bought by the speculators and taken off the market, thus creating a shortage allowing the oil companies to continue to rip us off and make record profits. Each quarter seems like the oil companies profits go up and up. enough my .02 centavos case thats what we're gonna end up with. we are so screwed until the LEFT takes over.

I felt the same way but read our oil is higher sulfur and causes acid rain. Bad for farmland. Alaska oil is especially bad, it's heavy black stuff similar to Iran. One of the reasons Iran isn't big in refineries is because their oil is so heavy. They don't want that shit raining back down on em.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Simple since it's been done b4. The gas VAPOR is what burns not the liquid. Figure out a way for the fuel to be vaporized B4 it enters the combustion chamber and it will last a hell of a lot longer in the tank.


Mr.Wags

I thought he was talking about speculation.

 

[Zen Master]

so, how do we become part of the get rich with gas scheme?

damn I wish I could find a .gif or youtube clip from "It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" with the 'gas crisis' episode.

sellin gas outa trash cans.

 

[YosemiteSam]

If the price of oil were $ 1 million dollars per barrel...would there be so much trouble in the world today. Everything depends on how you look at it

 

[Zen Master]

I felt the same way but read our oil is higher sulfur and causes acid rain. Bad for farmland. Alaska oil is especially bad, it's heavy black stuff similar to Iran. One of the reasons Iran isn't big in refineries is because their oil is so heavy. They don't want that shit raining back down on em.

so why isn't there a refinement industry that can make the shitty oil better? seems like it has the capabilities to be profitable.

If the price of oil were $ 1 million dollars per barrel...would there be so much trouble in the world today. Everything depends on how you look at it

The comfortable life you all know would be gone like a fart in the wind, well unless the currency is worthless which means your 500k house is now worth a pair of shoes. but yeah, depends on how you look at it.

 

[still pluggin]

I remember when my dad was growing up, pulling your boat with your pickup truck down to the ocean and fishing every weekend was a lower middle class and up option.

Now it's an upper middle class option, soon to be a 1 percenter option.

What a shame. Shore fishing is all the next few generations will know because of gas prices.

 

[guest8905]

we have it better than most when it comes to gas prices.

americans, we have a problem with using too much energy and not worrying about its effects and if our use is sustainable, which of course it isnt

 

[lost in a sea]

at least you guys have enough space to be self sufficient and have functioning communities,,

most of europe cant support itself should food prices spiral up due to higher transport costs,,

its those cities and the wasteful apathetic slobs they breed..

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Yeah, once you cross the city limits yer doomed.

 

[YosemiteSam]

[QUOTE

The comfortable life you all know would be gone like a fart in the wind, well unless the currency is worthless which means your 500k house is now worth a pair of shoes. but yeah, depends on how you look at it.[/QUOTE]

Our comfortable life has come to an end anyways...we just refuse to admit it. Should we continue to destroy the planet rather than walk a mile.

Obviously the answer the avg person gives is yes, we should. But at some point when gas prices get so high that answer will change.

Bad thing, good thing... Who is to say, only time will tell.

 

[supermanlives]

I live in kayak country. Never took the plunge. I remember the old ones that were more difficult to maneuver. I imagined myself in the putout area up-side-down and everyone laughing.

stay away from sport models . my ocean yak is more stable than a canoe. due to wide base and my low stance in the yak, dont be discouraged theres some really nice stable yak where you dont really need to know the eskamo roll. tipping over and using paddle to upright yourself. i bought mine at a lake after a test drive. actually bought 2 buddy my buddies was yellow . i got the last blue one for stealth.looks like i will be eating more seafood. i also have a few friends that enjoy fresh seafood.my buddy once asked for fresh catfish. i went from otay lake to his pad knocked on door and handed him and alive 10 lb cat. priceless look

 

[SpasticGramps]

where you dont really need to know the escamo roll. tipping over and using paddle to upright yourself

We were white water rafting in West Virgina a while ago and I took a Kayaking lesson. That escamo roll is not an easy thing to do lol. That was a blast. Too bad where I live it's flat so there are no rapids. Still plenty of water for one of these though.

I saw something at a boat show that was a two person kayak/catamaran with a sail and peddles too. It was badass.

The Hobie Trimaran

 

[lost in a sea]

i want one! too expensive though,, and no where to use it lol

 

[supermanlives]

thats a cat fo shure. i am modifying a trolling motor for my yak. i love rapids and surfwaves. the boarders dont wanna get run over . nothing massive but fun

 

[trichrider]

ahem...
pretty sure this will affect the gas prices as the oil co.s will pass on the loss to consumers...Thank You Mr. Popular!...fucking traitorous whore bait iyam.


HUA, N.H. — With his re-election fate increasingly tied to the price Americans are paying at the gas pump, President Obama asked Congress on Thursday to end $4 billion in subsidies for oil and gas companies and vowed to tackle the country’s long-term energy issues while shunning “phony election-year promises about lower gas prices.”

Mr. Obama, in an appearance at Nashua Community College here, took a page out of his jobs strategy of last year, calling on Americans to contact their Congressional representatives and demand a vote on the oil subsidies in the next few weeks.

“You can either stand up for the oil companies, or you can stand up for the American people,” Mr. Obama said. “You can keep subsidizing a fossil fuel that’s been getting taxpayer dollars for a century, or you can place your bets on a clean-energy future.”

The president criticized Republicans who have called for the country to increase its own oil production, declaring that “anyone who tells you we can drill our way out of this problem doesn’t know what they’re talking about.” With the United States consuming more than 20 percent of the world’s oil while having only 2 percent of the world’s oil reserves, Mr. Obama said “we can’t rely on fossil fuels from the last century.”

Calling for renewed investment in alternative energy, he vowed to make a “serious, sustained commitment to tackle a problem that may not be solved in one year or one term or even one decade.”

Mr. Obama’s decision to spotlight his proposal to end oil and gas subsidies immediately opened him up to criticism from Republicans, who noted that the proposal was unlikely to help lower the price of gas at the pump. The office of the House speaker, John A. Boehner, sent an e-mail to reporters citing an analysis by the Congressional Research Service last March that found that ending the subsidies could make oil and natural gas more expensive.

Mr. Boehner also told reporters that after meeting with Mr. Obama at the White House on Wednesday, it did not appear that the president would support tapping into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve as a way to curb rising gas prices.

“It didn’t appear to me that the president believes using S.P.R. would have any meaningful effect on gas prices,” Mr. Boehner said.

The oil reserve was created four decades ago to help the country deal with emergencies in oil supply.

Jay Carney, the White House press secretary, declined to say whether the president would tap into the reserves if gas prices continued to rise. Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One en route to New Hampshire, Mr. Carney maintained that the president was fixed on long-term solutions to the country’s oil dependence. Mr. Carney said oil companies “do not deserve and do not need” subsidies or tax breaks financed by taxpayers. He described the president as “very concerned” about the impact the spike in gas prices is having on American families.

Mr. Obama’s political advisers are concerned as well, and have indicated privately that Mr. Obama would have a tough time winning re-election if the price at the pump reached or exceeded $5 a gallon.

In New Hampshire on Thursday, Mr. Obama chided Republicans who he said were hoping to gain political advantage from the rise in oil prices. “Now I know this is hard to believe, but some politicians are seeing higher gas prices as a political opportunity,” Mr. Obama said. “You’re shocked, aren’t you? And right in the middle of an election year. Who would’ve thought?”

“Only in politics do people respond to bad news with such enthusiasm,” he said.

Appearing in North Dakota on Thursday, one of Mr. Obama’s Republican challengers, Mitt Romney, said the president was out of touch. North Dakota has benefited from the discovery of the Bakken Shale, an oil-rich deposit.

“Today the president is going to be in New Hampshire talking about energy in North Dakota,” Mr. Romney said. “He’s about as far away from North Dakota as he can get and still be in the United States. His idea of course is to be far enough away from the people who know what’s really going on right here to maybe try and blow one past folks.”

Republicans in Congress, struggling to regain their message as the economy improves, have latched on to rising oil prices and lobbed new accusations of culpability at the White House almost every day this week. But neither Republicans nor Democrats have been able to get legislative traction on their proposed solutions.

House Republican leaders tried to pay for a major transportation and infrastructure bill with receipts from federal lands they would open to oil drilling, but that legislative move appears to have collapsed. They continue to press the Obama administration to approve an oil pipeline that would stretch from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico.

“We are seeing some positive economic news, but it is being overshadowed for many families by soaring oil costs,” Mr. Boehner said on Thursday, as he pressed the president to issue more oil leases in offshore areas and to hasten oil drilling permits.

For their part, Democrats blame speculators for the spike in oil prices, but efforts to mandate a review by the Federal Trade Commission have not gotten far, and the party is divided on whether to press for the release of oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Largely absent from the partisan bickering has been the role tensions over Iran have played in the price rise.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/02/u...subsidies-for-oil-and-gas-companies.html?_r=1