We are paying 3.48 today for gas. At midnight it goes up another 15 cents.

I live outside of Chicago and we have the highest gas prices in the nation. a friend of my husband's told him that tomorrow the gas is going up another 15 cents.
this is ridiculous. the selfish pigs who run around in their gas hogs sucking up gas are just as responsible as the gas companies. And those of us who buy our cars with how much gas it gets have to pay for their hogishness.
I bought my car 4 years ago and was looked at as crazy when I asked how much the mileage was. I always have been aware and concerned about the high gas use of the country and the psychological need for more and bigger.
I just wished people would be as concerned while they drive their gas pigs and drive the price up so all of us pay for their selfishness.

Sorry, but, I had to rant. I knew we would run out and kept seeing these huge SUVs and no one cared. And I resent having to pay because alot of people are so selfish.
I just don't understand the need of people in this country to always have things bigger and have more. Who the hell needs a damn tv in their car?!???

so am I thanked for selling my oil or damned for using some of it after it's refined?

And staples and legal pads? You start squirreling away all the "petty" stuff you've take for granted over your tenure. These guys are no different, just operating on a MASSIVE scale. The handwriting is on the wall. The gravy train is coming to an end. They're loading up on Post-Its and dollars before the fall of the Oil Party.

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It's their bullshit "can't keep up" excuse that is causing $3.50 gasoline...soon to be $4.50, then...

How much money did Exxon-Mobile make last QUARTER? A new refinery is estimated to cost a whopping $2-3 billion.

Now look up how much Exxon-Mobile made last QUARTER.

Why the bloody hell would Exxon-Mobile want to build a new refinery? That would increase supply, which would alleviate the need to gouge $4-plus for a gallon of gasoline. Another poster replied the other day that it couldn't be true because "they'd make more money by having more gas to sell." :rofl: Yeah, right. That poster obviously doesn't understand the concept of supply and demand.

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Investing in new refineries wouldn't make sense financially. By the time they're up and running, the supply of oil would be beginning to slow. No company would invest in anything so expensive under these circumstances.

And the further we get past peak, the more expensive oil will be. It's a finite resource.

The only way to spend less for oil is to drive less.

Thirty years?

Hey, I'm not going to bat for the Oil Co's. I want alternatives. But if they actually knew what you're claiming thirty years ago, why didn't they raise priced then, average things out? Because they're lying treasonous price-gouging bastards, that's why. They have no interest in doing ANYTHING that might make a shareholder raise his hand at the next meeting. Again...they made BILLIONS of dollars in the last ONE QUARTER. They could build a refinery with their petty cash. But they don't/wont. Why not? Because they're only in it to make shitloads of money, like any company which must answer to shareholders. Money. Dividends. Shareholders.

We could have three new refineries right now with the PROFITS Exxon-Mobile made last quarter.

But nooooooooooo. You and I should pay for them so poor little Exxon-Mobile execs don't have to feel uncomfortable at the next annual meeting.

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I walk or take the bus whenever possible, and drive a car that gets 30+ miles to the gallon. I can go weeks on a single tank. If you don't want to pay them, don't.

But they know Americans are addicted. So, they'll charge what the market will bear.

Twice what our small SUV gets. We keep the SUV because we do have a use for it, but it remains parked most of the time now. My studio is in my house, so my commute is zero. We moved close to my wife's office -- 2 1/2 miles -- so a tank of gas lasts a pretty long time for us, too. Unfortunately, as close to my wife's office as we are, public transportation isn't practical and biking isn't safe (we're on the west side of the Connecticut River, her office is on the east, and the bridge between us has no walking/biking access). So believe me, we do what we can. And while I used Exxon-Mobil as an example, I actually never give them a dime of my money. I haven't patronized them since the Exxon Valdez disaster. When they merged with Mobil, I scratched them off my list, too.

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I hope they're paying you for this. :rofl:

blaming the gas prices on the DEMOCRATS.:crazy:

It is so ignorant and spews in every Hillary thread. I just can't get worked up

over its pain

not Chicago - $3.48 would be a bargain around here (SF Bay Area). Currently $3.59 is average and Shell, for some reason, is charging $3.64-$3.69.

Chicago's prices are higher, due to a fire at a refinery taht supplied large parts of the Chicago area.

The Lundberg survey says Chicago's prices are the highest, and Charleston, SC's are the lowest.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070520/ap_on_bi_ge/gas_prices

Lundberg isn't filling up here in California. It's up to 3.85 in this little Cali town and will most likely take another jump just before the (holiday) weekend here. Gotta gouge all those vacationers, dontcha know?

are just chicken assholes, and they would drive an M-1 tank that uses 8 gallons per mile if they could. Why such people take the risk of driving a car, or even getting out of bed in morning for that matter, for fear they'll have an accident puzzles to me.

you can be certain they will suck every possible dime from the people of this Nation as well as drain all they can from our U.S. Treasury. They will stall on policy change while pushing through laws that secure their financial futures once they are gone from office.
This has been their one & only mission since day one.
In the end they will proudly offer their cohorts a fond "high-five" and declare their "Mission Accomplished".

this is bush's fuck you America for taking away my ass sucking congress.

Bush/Cheney will be out soon, so the party is winding down, make the profits while you can kiddles.

i think it will happen sometime in the summer. Here in Oregon we get screwed on the gas too just like California and always have high prices. Next year, it will be $5 a gallon if they think they can get away with it.

It might be useful to learn a little self-discipline now.

Just sayin'.

Fuck that, I'm an American.

(The warning lights are flashing, will the sheeple heed them. Doubtful. They are sheep, after all, and it is their nature)

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By limiting my old Buick century to 60 mph by day and 50 by night I get 28.5-29.5 MPG, depending on the breaks. I have been doing this for the last $1.20 in price hikes.
There is no public transportation, and there isn't going to be
It is my grim misfortune to be forced to commute 40 miles each way to my Serf sector McJob at the call center.
People routinely blow past me at 80-90 mph in large trucks or SUVs. Some actually shake their fists or deploy the "bird". At night they wallow behind me trying to get their brights into my mirror rather than passing.
Are they all rich enough to ignore prices or just stupid?

Thanks for doing what you can!

why his gas mileage was so much worse than mine (we both have 6-cylander engines).

I told him his would never be AS good as mine, simply because I have a manual transmission and he doesn't, but, that if he wanted to conserve, he needed to find a constant speed around 60ish and stay there when traffic allows. He has and it's improved his mileage.

I don't know why people don't seem to understand this. :shrug:

The oil industry won't build new refineries because it is not in their interest to do so. Time for nationalization, my friends.

I get that SUVs consume a lot of gas but what about people who take cars when they could bike or walk. Is there a standard we can agree on about how far is too far to bike or walk? I'm open to suggestion.

pedestrian/bike traffic.

For example, not only could I not bike to work because of the distance, even if I was in Lance Armstrong shape (which I'm not, I'm nearly 9 months pregnant), I would not be able to get to work from here without getting on the interstate and biking/walking on the interstate is illegal. Motorized vehicles only.

I read one stat where about 40 percent of all car trips are less than two miles.

Just for the record, it does not require Lance Armstrong levels of conditioning to get around on a bike. I like beer. A lot. I'm about 50 pounds overweight and I smoke like a chimney. Nevertheless, I manage to take care of the majority of my transportation needs on a bike.

So my question is, at what point do we start turning excessive auto users into pariahs and how do we define what's excessive.

bad, I mean really bad, they are like having a gas station parked in the driveway. :shrug: just say'n.

bad, I mean really bad, they are like having a gas station parked in the driveway. :shrug: just say'n.

I paid (only) $2.99 yesterday!

being ran on us, and how long before people have had enough of it and really do something about it?