Gasoline

[namguy]

I read it's going up another $0.30 by next week. I'm certain you all have read this. I made a simple observation, around my area. The last time we had the presidental election there were alot of bush bumper stickers, all of a sudden I don't see any Republican bumper stickers. I see Hillary stickers and Obama stickers, but no others.

[potter]

Any dibs that the cost of gas will mysteriously drop like a lead balloon just before the elections...then rise just as quickly afterwards....like they did in '04? :evil:

[Drocket]

Any dibs that the cost of gas will mysteriously drop like a lead balloon just before the elections...then rise just as quickly afterwards....like they did in '04? :evil:

That's like predicting that the sun will rise.

[potter]

That's like predicting that the sun will rise.


Ok...go ahead and take all the fun outta it........:drool:

[brien]

Look for gasoline to be $4 per gallon by Memorial Day. If the truckers weren't taking it in the shorts with diesel at $4.50 per gallon, then the price of unleaded would probably be another 50 cents per gallon. But the oil companies know many trucking companies will pass the increases in diesel fuel prices through to consumers with higher fuel surcharges for their service. This is why you are seeing a price increase in just about every product you purchase in the stores.

[namguy]

Any dibs that the cost of gas will mysteriously drop like a lead balloon just before the elections...then rise just as quickly afterwards....like they did in '04? :evil:

More than likely!

[DamnYankee]

I either walk or ride my bicycle, have for years.

The last time I visited the filling station was about two weeks ago.

[Buck Laser]

I'm just grateful I bought a Honda Hybrid four years ago. I get 47.5 mpg, and I only fill it every three weeks or so. I think potter is completely right that prices will drop in late October in a vain attempt to help McCain.

But Americans have had a free ride for so many years that it's time for some chickens to come home to roost. The price of gas in Europe was at $4 several years ago. McCain's stupidity of erasing fuel taxes would just leave us all gassed up with no place to go because the roads have all become impassable. But McCain fans don't seem to be very big on planning ahead, do they?

[BoogyMan]

WOW, three months of no gas taxes and the roads will become impassable?

[apdst]

You think it's bad now? Wait until we transition to bio-fuels. It's going to be time for a horse and buggy.

[Buck Laser]

WOW, three months of no gas taxes and the roads will become impassable?
Remember that bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis-St.Paul? I don't guess you've paid much attention to information about the state of our roads lateley. Why don't you try driving I-35 from Oklahoma down to Laredo and you might find out what I mean.

What we need isn't incentives to encourage people to keep on driving, but incentives for them to find ways to do less driving--like planning their travel more carefully.

Next time, try being a little less disingenuous.

[BoogyMan]

Remember that bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis-St.Paul? I don't guess you've paid much attention to information about the state of our roads lateley. Why don't you try driving I-35 from Oklahoma down to Laredo and you might find out what I mean.

What we need isn't incentives to encourage people to keep on driving, but incentives for them to find ways to do less driving--like planning their travel more carefully.

Next time, try being a little less disingenuous.

If you think three months without gas taxation is going to cause the roads to be impassable you have another think coming.

Try again Buck, three months without that tax is not going to cause the roads to fold up and turn back into rut filled dirt trails.

[Buck Laser]

If you think three months without gas taxation is going to cause the roads to be impassable you have another think coming.

Try again Buck, three months without that tax is not going to cause the roads to fold up and turn back into rut filled dirt trails.
Three months without the tax is just going to make people think they're getting a free pass. It's beyond me why you don't see that. Three months' tax vacation is nothing more than a stupid gesture. Why are you opposed to doing something to encourage conservation?

[BoogyMan]

Three months without the tax is just going to make people think they're getting a free pass. It's beyond me why you don't see that. Three months' tax vacation is nothing more than a stupid gesture. Why are you opposed to doing something to encourage conservation?

You are assuming that whole comment Buck, I was merely pointing out the folly of the "roads will be impassable" comment.

[Elrathin]

Boogy here is what I have a problem with. What do you think the oil companies are going to do when the tax goes down? They are going to slightly raise prices (maybe 4-7 cents a gallon) since they think people are paying less and they can get a little more. Then after the tax suspension is done, the price of gas is going to skyrocket. How is that helping the people?

The only thing this suspension is going to do IMO, is raise gas prices even higher than they were when the tax suspension was initiated because of the greed with the oil companies.

Seriously I invite you to watch the price of gas after the suspension of the tax, I am willing to bet the oil companies RAISE their prices a few days later to what I said.

[BoogyMan]

Boggy here is what I have a problem with. What do you think the oil companies are going to do when the tax goes down? They are going to slightly raise prices (maybe 4-7 cents a gallon) since they think people are paying less and they can get a little more. Then after the tax suspension is done, the price of gas is going to skyrocket. How is that helping the people?

The only thing this suspension is going to do IMO, is raise gas prices even higher than they were when the tax suspension was initiated because of the greed with the oil companies.

Seriously I invite you to watch the price of gas after the suspension of the tax, I am willing to bet the oil companies RAISE their prices a few days later to what I said.

Did you read my comments El? I have said nothing in support of dropping the tax, I simply took issue with the fantastic claim that the roads would be impassable after a three month decrease in the tax.

[Elrathin]

Did you read my comments El? I have said nothing in support of dropping the tax,...

I never said you did or didn't support it, I was just saying what I had a problem with it. You haven't said one way or the other whether you support it or not in this thread, so I just explained why I am not supportive of it.

[4Reaganomics]

Cut the gas tax and use the 1% of our federal budget that goes towards foreign aid such as economic development in Jordan in order to fund our roads. We could also cut the Department of Education and the Department of Energy. THere are plenty of unnecessary parts of the U.S. budget, this is where Bush and the party have left me.

[apdst]

Remember that bridge that collapsed in Minneapolis-St.Paul? I don't guess you've paid much attention to information about the state of our roads lateley.

That had nothing to do with maintanance.

What we need isn't incentives to encourage people to keep on driving, but incentives for them to find ways to do less driving

Make driving too expensive and jobs more scarce. It ain't hard to see what Libearls really want.

[4Reaganomics]

What we need is to actually supply the good that we demand so much of.

Nah, couldn't have done that for the last 35 years. There is some type of rare grasshopper or rodent at every location we have an abundance of oil at.

[ptif219]

Tax is 40% of the price so where is the problem.

I drive truck the problem is prices are going up but the freight rates are not.

Maybe the environmental groups buying politicians is the problem.

No new oil refineries in 30 years and we can't drill where we have oil.

[jff.law]

GW can't really have any effect on the price of gasoline at the pump. We live in a free market, and we have been paying less then the rest of the world for decades. The real problem is we no longer have any real production in this country because of the environmental movement here, and our dependence on forign production. Its a reality we have to get used to. Green energy is a long ways off, US production too. I don't think we will ever see $1.25 gallons of gasoline again.

[namguy]

I either walk or ride my bicycle, have for years.

The last time I visited the filling station was about two weeks ago.

GOOD for you! Wish I could.