DON'T BUY GAS ON MAY 19TH!!!!

The U.S. has enough oil in reserves to last ~100 years...the bleeding hearts just want to keep buying foriegn oil for some jacknut reason!!!

What about alternative fuels???

My rangers can burn 85% ethanol...but it's not available in my hometown.

Jim

johnt785 said:

What we need to do is drill for oil in ANWR (Alaska National Wildlife Refuge). Its northern Alaska where NO ONE lives. Damn environmentalist are afraid that we are going to destory the planet. Its in commitee on Capitol Hill. If it were just passed we could drill ANWR and not depend on foreign countries for our oil supply. Gas would be back down to 88 cents a gallon just like it was back 5 years ago.

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Guy's.... johnt785 has the only effective sulution to this problem in his sights. By tapping into our own resources we don't have to depend on anyone else dictating our prices. OPEC could go screw itself for all we would care. Let them feed the over priced oil to their camels!

88gt has a point too. With the amount of oil that we have in reserve there is no reson we should be tolerating these price increases. What's up with that?

What I don't get is how one gas station in any particular city can charge 15 cents more a gallon, for the same gas that the station down the street is charging. Is the pricing up to the individual owner of the service station? If so, that's the guy we should not be buying gas from on the 19th. F@CK Him! He's doing it to us.

Apsychotic said:

I feel like I just called you all Chevy lovers or something. I never guessed I'd get such a negitive response! Great, if you all like paying top dollar for gas. Some of you all must have more $$$ than you need? Hey, i'd love to pay $3.50 gallon for 87, and sure, just keep the change, I've got lot's more where that came from. Oh Magooh. :damnit: The government DOES have control of fuel taxes, and that's where most of the money is going!

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Just because your plan has a heck of a lot of work to even have an effect shouldn't be a reason to take it out on me. The government taxes everything, that's their job and that's what they do to get done what they have to. The U.S. government taxes an imported item - that's it. Do we make it, drill it, ship it? NO! We cannot dictate over an organization, OPEC, as to what they are going to do. They tell us how many barrels they are going to produce in a day, where they are going to ship it, and how much they are going to charge us for it. OPEC runs like a business and since it is not under U.S. control, or anyone else's control really for that matter, all we can really do is "negotiate" with them and hope for the best deal. So no, the only effect the government has is the tax they place on the imported oil which we import for OPEC's rate of whatever they want to charge. If gas was $1.50 and $0.50 of it was the tax, if it jumped to $2.50 a gallon but still remaind at $0.50 tax, who are YOU going to blame more, the goverment for their tax or OPEC's decision to raise their prices per barrel?

Townethug, I don't know where you get your facts from. Oil consumption is exponential and the number of vehicles out there on the road everyday drastically increases, by the day. Here are some of the products we refine into from the oil (petroleum) we import:
gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, kerosene, motor oil, plastic, rubber, tires, soles of shoes, ink, paint, explosives, various lubricants, greases, waxes, asphalt, products produced with petroleum: fertilizer, pesticides, herbicides, detergents, phonograph records, photographic film, furniture, packaging materials, surfboards, artificial fibers used in clothing, upholstery, and carpet backing, and the list goes on and on. So I ask you, do you really think that with exponential growth that it's going to last 500 more years considering it takes thousands to form it?

87GT seems to be about the only voice of reason in this thread. There is a finite amount of oil on this planet. Our consumption is increasing while our supply is decreasing. The law of supply and demand tells us that this will raise prices. The ANWR is not a solution either. The United States is right now completely dependant upon foreign oil. If we tap into the ANWR we will be partially independant, at least for a while. But then what happens when the middle east starts to run low? We'll have nothing left in reserve for our own needs. And i'm not talking about gasoline either. Virtually EVERYTHING we use in modern society requires oil to produce. Everything from clothing to computers. And those things which don't require oil to produce need it for shipping.

Those of you complaining that we're "getting raped" should get used to it. Gasoline is only going to continue to get more expensive, especially if the middle east doesn't stabilize soon.

Here's a good National Geographic article on this issue: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0406/feature5/

Enjoy those Mustangs while you can, fellas.

Cue-Ball said:

Those of you complaining that we're "getting raped" should get used to it. Gasoline is only going to continue to get more expensive, especially if the middle east doesn't stabilize soon.
Enjoy those Mustangs while you can, fellas.

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No offense to Cue-Ball, but forget that. There is no such belief, as to getting used, to getting raped! That's like saying... Get used to me taking your lunch money everday. It's not going to happen. Sooner or later your going to punch me in the nose!

It's a good thing the Colonists didn't take that advice either when it came to being "raped" by the British.

The whole idea of a 1-day boycott of gasoline is kind of stupid. Like everyone else has said, it's really not going to do anything.

There is a way to fix the gas price situation, and it's very simple. But it will never happen. If all of us, everyone, would sit our @$$ at home (yes that means don't go to work) for a week or two, the head honcho towel head or whoever controls the prices will lose out and have to do something. If you think about it, it would work and work pretty quick - if we quit going to work, and customers quit coming, trucks quit driving, etc etc etc the losses there for gas and oil companies would be considerably huge. It would no doubt work, but like I said, it'll just never happen.


The other way (I'm not a political genious so I'm sure there are many reasons why this can't happen) is to somehow have some kind of price cap. It's dumb as hell to pay more for a gallon of gas than you do for a small bottle of water. I think $0.99 would be MORE, WAY MORE than enough to make some towel heads VERY VERY rich, so quit gouging you dirty greasy bastards!!!

okay sorry done ranting.

this is kind of a pointless thread anyway, so what am I doing posting in it?

i love my vw diesel rabbit even more now with 40+miles to the gallon.

OPEC is a bunch of greedy rich bastards...

Anyways with gas prices going up, so does alternative fuel ideas. Look at how far the hybrid cars have come only in a few years. Yes they are still primitive compared to our cars, but it is the future. Unless we all get fusion reactors in our Mustangs, we all will be at the mercy of fossil fuels and the dictators controlling them.