What's the fucking deal with gas prices?

my2hands
my2hands Posts: 17,117
edited May 2008 in A Moving Train
Doesnt it make you want to bitch slap the CEO of Exxon everytime you fill up? I mean for fucks sake!
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  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    my2hands wrote:
    Doesnt it make you want to bitch slap the CEO of Exxon everytime you fill up? I mean for fucks sake!

    I never ever stop at ANY Exxon/Mobil stations including all the other majors too.

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  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    g under p wrote:
    I never ever stop at ANY Exxon/Mobil stations including all the other majors too.

    Peace

    neither do i... i get my gas at a conveneince store "Wawa" where it is cheaper then all the rest.

    i have not gassed up at exxon in nearly 2-3 years probably
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    my2hands wrote:
    neither do i... i get my gas at a conveneince store "Wawa" where it is cheaper then all the rest.

    i have not gassed up at exxon in nearly 2-3 years probably

    Same here it's been about 4 years and buy from local in town called *Lowest In Town* and Costco. Two years ago a friend I were coming back from a festival Grass Roots in upstate NY and she stopped at a Exxon while I slept.

    I woke up while we were there and she had already paid for the the gas. i went in there and told the attendant i don't use Exxon gas and i demanded the money back. He was puzzled but gave it back to me. Little did I know we were on fumes just about but we made it to the next exit.

    Peace
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  • my2hands
    my2hands Posts: 17,117
    g under p wrote:
    Same here it's been about 4 years and buy from local in town called *Lowest In Town* and Costco. Two years ago a friend I were coming back from a festival Grass Roots in upstate NY and she stopped at a Exxon while I slept.

    I woke up while we were there and she had already paid for the the gas. i went in there and told the attendant i don't use Exxon gas and i demanded the money back. He was puzzled but gave it back to me. Little did I know we were on fumes just about but we made it to the next exit.

    Peace

    thats a little crazy
  • g under p
    g under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,237
    my2hands wrote:
    thats a little crazy

    I know but I take things to the extreme. :)

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  • writersu
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    I met this guy who was a vietnam vet and currently an uncle of a guy who is in the war now.....

    and I asked him what he thought about the war........being a man I highly respect who went where I would never ---both of them I guess.....

    and he said he asked his nephew who was home and his nephew said that yeah, but this is about gas prices.......

    so we turned the talk into gas prices and the supply and demand thing and he said that if we were to end the war like many people would like to see (and about 3/4 or better of any board I have seen here it seems), then we should take our soldiers, "beef up the borders" and use our own gas that we have in Texas and Alaska that he said would sustain us for like 20-25 years he said, (I know nothing of statistics so those who sound like they do are automatically right inb my book).

    Do you think that gas would go down?
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  • My3rdEye
    My3rdEye Posts: 927
    they go to 12 to 15 dollars a gallon as some predict?

    http://www.inteldaily.com/?c=138&a=6688

    Not only will this break us at the pump but think of food costs and other products as well. Delivery charges? Through the roof.

    I don't know that it will get that high but I wouldn't be suprised to see 6 or 7 a gallon.
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    You can't beat them, join them. My Exxon/Mobil stock has been very nice over the last few years.
  • CHANGEinWAVES
    CHANGEinWAVES Posts: 10,169
    my2hands wrote:
    neither do i... i get my gas at a conveneince store "Wawa" where it is cheaper then all the rest.

    i have not gassed up at exxon in nearly 2-3 years probably
    I love Wawa:)
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  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    I'm giving up on gas.. fortunately I'm only a 15 minute walk from work.. I'm only going to use my car now to visit family and friends who live in the burbs..
  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    The average price per barrel of oil for 2002 was about $23 bucks and I paid a about about $1.45 per gallon of gas.

    In 2008, the price is $135 a barrel of oil and I'm paying $3.75 for a gallon of gas.

    So even though the price of oil has increased 6 fold, gas had only increase a little less than 3 fold. So we should be lucky we're not paying 6 bucks a gallon already.

    The problem is as long as speculators keep driving the price up per barrel, the price of gas at the pump is not going to fall anytime soon.
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    :cool:

    http://www.votenader.org/blog/2008/05/15/nader-protest-oil-prices/
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  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
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    Just shape the gas pump nozzle like a dildo and get it over with...

    and yes...they should all be hung upside down and pimp slapped mercilessly until their teeth fall out.
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  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    g under p wrote:
    I never ever stop at ANY Exxon/Mobil stations including all the other majors too.

    Peace


    You do realize that those little stations probably buy their gas from Exxon/Mobil or one of the other big gas companies. There was a story here a couple of years ago about how one of the east coast provinces put a cap on gas prices and the only ones it hurt were the little small time gas stations, because they had to buy their gas from the major companies and couldn't sell it for high enough to make a profit. The major company stations had no problem since they could supply gas to themselves for cheaper than they would to the independent stations.

    And I don't see why people in the US complain so much about gas prices. You do realize that you pay some of the lowest gas prices in the industrialized world. A lot of places in Canada have prices that are approaching $5 a gallon.
  • gabers
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    My wife said she read a story about Exxon making so much profit last quarter they claimed they literally just didn't know what to do with it. So, they gave extra dividend checks to their shareholders. Which is great for the shareholders, but here's a novel idea - why don't you pass a little love on down to the consumers!
  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    gabers wrote:
    My wife said she read a story about Exxon making so much profit last quarter they claimed they literally just didn't know what to do with it. So, they gave extra dividend checks to their shareholders. Which is great for the shareholders, but here's a novel idea - why don't you pass a little love on down to the consumers!


    If you want some of that cash, why not just buy some shares of Exxon Mobile? To a degree I can't really fault the oil companies for making a bunch of money. I mean they never told people to live an hour away from from their job so that they can have the 5 bedroom house. They are not the ones who told millions of people to buy giant gas guzzlers that they don't really need. Maybe people should take a bit more responsibility for the amount of money they are spending on fuel.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Kel Varnsen wrote:
    If you want some of that cash, why not just buy some shares of Exxon Mobile? To a degree I can't really fault the oil companies for making a bunch of money. I mean they never told people to live an hour away from from their job so that they can have the 5 bedroom house. They are not the ones who told millions of people to buy giant gas guzzlers that they don't really need. Maybe people should take a bit more responsibility for the amount of money they are spending on fuel.

    I agree with taking more responsibility, I just found it ludicrous that Exxon didn't know what to do with all of their windfall profits. Or how about investing in alternative fuel/power sources? Oil by the time we're all old and grey if these companies haven't figured out other ways to power our cars they won't be around.
  • chromiam
    chromiam Posts: 4,114
    Solat13 wrote:
    The average price per barrel of oil for 2002 was about $23 bucks and I paid a about about $1.45 per gallon of gas.

    In 2008, the price is $135 a barrel of oil and I'm paying $3.75 for a gallon of gas.

    So even though the price of oil has increased 6 fold, gas had only increase a little less than 3 fold. So we should be lucky we're not paying 6 bucks a gallon already.

    The problem is as long as speculators keep driving the price up per barrel, the price of gas at the pump is not going to fall anytime soon.

    Please do not try to inject logic into this argument.. ;)
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    Kel Varnsen wrote:

    And I don't see why people in the US complain so much about gas prices. You do realize that you pay some of the lowest gas prices in the industrialized world. A lot of places in Canada have prices that are approaching $5 a gallon.

    We pay for our own health insurance. If our govt provided free health insurance, that would be about $800 per month that we would have available to pay the fucking gas/oil prices with.

    I dont see why you dont complain. WTF? Apparently you have no problem touching your toes while big oil sneaks up behind you.

    Its way to fucking expensive. This shit is ridiculous. Come December / Januray, filling my home oil tank will cost almost as much as my mortgage. Filling my car with gas will cost almost as much as my insurance premium. It may actually cost more than my monthly insurance premium.

    Drill in Alaska. Fuck it.
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  • Solat13
    Solat13 Posts: 6,996
    chromiam wrote:
    Please do not try to inject logic into this argument.. ;)

    Lol, I won't. I also won't mention how the average price for a barrel of oil last year was $67.20 and now the price per barrel is double that. ;)
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