WTF is up with gas prices?!

[thermodynamic]

They were $1.49. They seem to go up to $1.59 every time a soldier gets fragged in Iraq. (W thinks it's all a game, so let's use gaming terminology in honor of him.)

Today, going back to work after 6 days of illness, I saw the prices had jumped to $1.69!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What a freakin' outrage.

[DrPepper]

1. Get Used to It

Cheap gas isn't a right. In case you haven't heard, we're coming up on peak oil within the next few years which will mean even higher prices. Also, Saudia Arabia needs to make enough money to keep itself in power.

[thermodynamic]

3. Of course I've heard

But they keep saying "next few years". I know it eventually will go up, but not today.

So what's today's excuse for high prices?

[CarlBallard]

2. I know

I don't even drive much, and I drive a tiny little car, and it's like 25 bucks a month. I don't understand how folks can aford to drive bigger cars.

[whoYaCallinAlib]

4. Summer driving season, low gasoline stocks.

Those are the two biggest cost drivers right now. Oil prices are stable. Gasoline should come down this fall.

[MI Cherie]

5. My thoughts exactly ...

It went up .21¢ overnight here in Michigan! (From $1.489 to $1.699!)

[MsChiff]

10. I can one-up ya!

I was on "E" ("E" does not mean "Enough") on my lunch hour, had errands to run. Gas was $1.35. Decided I would get the gas last on my way back to work. A half-hour later after I finished my errands, it was $1.62.

[Kellanved]

6. You're still paying half as much as we do

So stop whining.

[Pert_UK]

7. Come on! It's bloody cheap in the US and you all own Hummers.....

:evilgrin:

I know you don't ALL own Hummers, but seriously...in the UK the price is somewhere around US$1.12 a LITRE (over $4 to the US Gallon) and we do our best to drive small economical cars (sometimes)...in Australia it's US60c a litre (around $2.25 per US gallon) and they have HUGE distances to cover and little public transport.

Quit whining!

:-)

P.

[TXlib]

8. Read Hubbert's Peak

It's about the coming peak of oil production.

Also, blame SUV and other unnecessarily-large-vehicle owners... they're driving up demand for gasoline with their gas hogs, and you are paying as well. Yet another reason to hate the "I have the right to be an asshole" fucktards.

[NashVegas]

9. And Exxon Just Made HUGE Profits

NEW YORK - Exxon Mobil Corp, the world's biggest publicly traded oil company, on Thursday said second-quarter profit surged 58 per cent on higher oil and gas prices, improved refining and marketing results and the highest earnings on chemicals in five years.

un huh.. better marketing!

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/latestnewsstory.cfm?storyID=3515843&thesection=business&thesubsection=latest

[KG]

11. we're being gouged.

:(