The following sticker is a lie, for just a blip in the history of prices did if fall below $2.





More lies! I paid $4.00/gallon in 2007 and bought a Prius. Who was president in 2007?



Good post, Steve.

Thanks, Obama!

It's fuel oil prices that were killing me last winter.

Hopefully, that will go down as well.

Now is the time to get serious w/the LED light bulbs, I guess!

So-called gluts in one country or another is a temporary factor at best.

...but I wouldn't get too use to it. This is a temporary supply abberration. Drops in fossil fuel prices drive increased usage, sopping up the over supply and increasing CO2 emissions at the same time.

and our GOP governor wants to double the gas tax to fix the roads (when 22 cents on each gallon goes for anything but the roads....like supporting the rest of the state budget).

Tax and spend Democrats my Aunt Tillie. Wonder if the teabaggers in the state house will stonewall Snyder's tax.

Shell of my Heart near where I live. I'll take that. But I ride the bus, so it's not a big deal to me either way.

We had our R Guv and R legislature give us a hike in the gasoline tax. We are seeing prices still around $3/gal.

head to the capital markets to cash in their investments to cover budget shortfalls.

This is gonna get good.

The fossil fuel barons are desperately trying to stop the change to renewables. We are very close to a tipping point where people will wake up that renewables are the way to go, because we will no longer be dependent on the fossil fuel corporations and their corrupt politicians. The environmental and public health costs of public health costs are being talked about by the Obama administration.

We saw this the last time people starting driving more fuel efficient cars and looking at renewable energy seriously. The oil prices dropped.

Hopefully, people will not be so easily manipulated this time.

Us production is up, and they are fighting back to get oil at levels not profitable for US companies because we have been taking their market share.

This is a real break for those of us on limited or fixed incomes. Every penny gasoline prices decline is a bit more cash in the pockets of the poor. The fact that heating oil and natural gas are also declining too is just icing on the cake. I pray for further declines in the price of oil every day. $1.50 gas would be wonderful, wonderful.

I shop at one of those grocery stores that give discounts on gas based on how much you spend with them. Lately my band hasn't had many gigs so I have been shopping more than driving. I have accumulated $2.60 off per gallon! I'll have to fill up today on my way to practice, but should get away for under $5!

As terrible for drinking water and the environment as the practice is (earthquakes anyone?) will go down as one of the most important resource booms in history. For better or worse, it has changed our resource outook for the forseeable future.

Be right back, need to burn off the well water

The "present" for the earth would be for gas to be $10.00/a gallon and for people to drive less.
duh.

Alternative energy technologies can't compete against cheap oil.

People will drive more, buy bigger cars, have less green energy options, and pump more CO2 into the atmosphere.

Sooner or later we have to get off of the fossil fuel wagon, this just delays the inevitable and makes the planet worse in the meantime.

The help you get from low gas prices in the short term is a death sentence for millions in the long term.

It is an impossible position to hope for cheap, plentiful fossil fuels and also claim to care about the health of the planet.

Sorry to come off as a dick, but it's far past the point where we can dance around the subject any longer or keep our heads in the sand.

The ice caps are melting. The forests are dying. The oceans are acidifying.

Any hope of putting the brakes on this runaway climate train REQUIRES that fossil fuels be very, very expensive. I fully understand the economic damage this will cause to millions in the short term, but also realize it will prevent even more suffering to far more people in the long term. There is simply no other way to do it.

snark

Switching to gasohol in the fall always brings the price down a few pennies.

As for the overall price going down, it all depends on how long the world wants to put the screws to Putin.

We can't win.

...with the $0.40/gal shopper's discount.

That congress would never consider. A tax cut for the poor, whatever you call it, it will help the economy in the short term. It can't last, of course.