Oil hits record near $140 a barrel on dollar

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  • sweet adeline
    sweet adeline Posts: 2,191
    and we'll look back at these times and say, man remember when gas was only $4.50/gallon.

    its just going to get worse.
  • stickfig13
    stickfig13 Posts: 1,532
    sweet adeline wrote:
    and we'll look back at these times and say, man remember when gas was only $4.50/gallon.

    its just going to get worse.


    We may say....Remember when we used gasoline to power cars.
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  • vitodacat
    vitodacat Posts: 475
    Its all a catch-22.....nobody wants to be dependent on foreign oil, but when drilling is mentioned here, nobody wants it near them


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  • sweet adeline
    sweet adeline Posts: 2,191
    stickfig13 wrote:
    We may say....Remember when we used gasoline to power cars.

    i like the sound of that better.
  • stickfig13
    stickfig13 Posts: 1,532
    sweet adeline wrote:
    i like the sound of that better.


    I personally don't think its that far from the truth....
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  • Cosmo
    Cosmo Posts: 12,225
    sweet adeline wrote:
    i like the sound of that better.
    ...
    When we figure out to convert garbage into fuel... my bet is that the company that'll excavate the garbage from all of those dumps and landfills is going to be ExxonMobil.
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  • stickfig13
    stickfig13 Posts: 1,532
    Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    When we figure out to convert garbage into fuel... my bet is that the company that'll excavate the garbage from all of those dumps and landfills is going to be ExxonMobil.


    We could stop making trash and really fuck em! ;)
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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    stickfig13 wrote:
    I think it's fucked....

    Do I have a realistic shot at changing the way Exxon uses the free market?
    you don't have to support the people who allow things like this to happen.
  • stickfig13
    stickfig13 Posts: 1,532
    Commy wrote:
    you don't have to support the people who allow things like this to happen.


    I don't think anyone is out supporting Exxon.

    I have to drive to work...period.

    There are no alternatives at this point.

    My support is out of necessity.
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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    stickfig13 wrote:
    I don't think anyone is out supporting Exxon.

    I have to drive to work...period.

    There are no alternatives at this point.

    My support is out of necessity.
    Who did you vote for last presidential election? For Senate? For Congress?
  • stickfig13
    stickfig13 Posts: 1,532
    Commy wrote:
    Who did you vote for last presidential election? For Senate? For Congress?


    I tend to vote Libertarian, but I was all over the board on the last election.

    Why?
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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    Cosmo wrote:
    ...
    I heard some tools on Cable Television crying about drilling here in America to save us.
    ...
    Does anyone really believe that the oil companies want Joe American to pay less than what Joe Rest-Of-The-World is willing to pay?
    Guess who gets the oil that ExxonMobil pulls from American soil?
    If you guessed, "The highest bidder"... give yourself a Gold Star.

    What I find ridiculous about the people who support drilling in ANWAR is that the best estimate we have on the size of the oil reserve there is not even enough to feed our habit for one year. If this is the best solution our elected officials can come up with then we are truly in deep shit.
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  • mammasan
    mammasan Posts: 5,656
    gabers wrote:
    Yeah well most Americans won't raise a stink until their backs are against the wall. It's un-American! Only dirty hippies protest! As high as prices here, we really still have cheap oil compared to about 95% of the world. Even most poor countries in Latin America pay more for gas than we do. I think once it pushes over about $5 a gallon you will start to see some mass demonstrations. And of course those higher fuel prices will push up prices on just about everything else.

    I have to agree with you but for a different reason. We will not do anything not because only stinky hippie protest but because we have become a nation that is reactive instead of proactive. One we where one of the most innovative nations on this planet but we kept swallowing the line that we where the greatest nation on earth till we become fat and lazy filled with this nationalistic bullshit and now we get to scratch our heads in wonder as many other nations surpass us on the world stage.
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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    stickfig13 wrote:
    I tend to vote Libertarian, but I was all over the board on the last election.

    Why?

    you mentioned "Do I have a realistic shot at changing the way Exxon uses the free market?"

    The answer is yes. If not through voting then through popular protest or striking. We can do something about it.
  • BamaPJFan
    BamaPJFan Posts: 410
    I'm in a bad situation personally because I have a 90 mile roundtrip commute to and from work AND to top things off, I drive a gas-guzzling Nissan 300ZX. I would like to buy a new car, but then that means I'd have a car note each month to worry about. I can't get a new job because the one I have now pays a nice salary and great benefits, but at the same time too large of a percentage of my monthly paycheck goes toward fuel. I do drive a lot slower now to save on fuel mileage.

    I'm cutting back by not eating out anymore, I use far less electricity (I was pretty good at that as it was), and I just got rid of my Blackberry and downgraded to a cheap, basic cell phone. Times are tough indeed and they are only getting worse.

    When is the last time gasoline dropped a penny at the pumps? Exactly, it's been so long that none of us can remember when that was.
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  • dmitry
    dmitry Posts: 136
    If you're not against risking your life and pissing off other drivers you can always give hypermiling a try.
    http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/01/king_of_the_hypermilers.html
  • BamaPJFan
    BamaPJFan Posts: 410
    dmitry wrote:
    If you're not against risking your life and pissing off other drivers you can always give hypermiling a try.
    http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2007/01/king_of_the_hypermilers.html

    Groovy! I might try this tomorrow morning.
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  • Commy
    Commy Posts: 4,984
    BamaPJFan wrote:
    Groovy! I might try this tomorrow morning.
    yeah that seems like the way to go.
  • stickfig13
    stickfig13 Posts: 1,532
    BamaPJFan wrote:
    I'm in a bad situation personally because I have a 90 mile roundtrip commute to and from work AND to top things off, I drive a gas-guzzling Nissan 300ZX. I would like to buy a new car, but then that means I'd have a car note each month to worry about. I can't get a new job because the one I have now pays a nice salary and great benefits, but at the same time too large of a percentage of my monthly paycheck goes toward fuel. I do drive a lot slower now to save on fuel mileage.

    I'm cutting back by not eating out anymore, I use far less electricity (I was pretty good at that as it was), and I just got rid of my Blackberry and downgraded to a cheap, basic cell phone. Times are tough indeed and they are only getting worse.

    When is the last time gasoline dropped a penny at the pumps? Exactly, it's been so long that none of us can remember when that was.


    can you try and move closer?
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  • BamaPJFan
    BamaPJFan Posts: 410
    stickfig13 wrote:
    can you try and move closer?

    I actually meant to put that in my first post. I probably will end up moving by the fall.
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