Gas prices

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Tyrone, your case and your brother's are exceptional. Most people don't drive near that much. I have to assume you both are making pretty good money doing all that driving--or else you wouldn't be doing it.

Exceptional? Based on what? Your opinion. Sorry, but you aren't an expert on driving.

I drive 20 minutes to work both ways or 13.8 miles. On the weekends I do normal stuff. Perhaps you are unaware of what it is like to live in cities like Tampa, Orlando, LA, Phoenix...newer american cities that are spread out.

I hardly think i'm exceptional.

And, if you think people in Cali aren't sitting in traffic and burning tons of gas you are crazy.

But, leave it to you to drop the point...that is 1500-1800 i could be saving or spending in the economy...other than with the gas companies.

I'm sure the electronics industry would love some of that money or the local restaurants.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

Exactly--right when the Dems took over congress. Everything goes to hell in a hand basket.

Here's a prime example of a respected member of the "Party of the People"

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/04/25...-prices-nancy/

Yeah, that really explains everything. Those Dems have just gone hog wild passing new legislation in the last two years.

That's just it, they havent. Actually they havent done squat.

When the George Bush and the Republican Party won the 2000 election gas prices were about $1.60 to $1.75 per gallon. They have more than doubled in the not quite 8 years since. The price at the pump is now at an all time high. Republican's were in office while the price has balloned to this all time high. Are they not to be held at all accountable for this? What have the Republicans - specifically W himself - done to try and curb gas prices?

Very true.

Now, those prices seem reasonable..and within the norm since 1947, prices had consistently been between $1.30 and $1.50 per gallon in today's dollars (this being relevant to 2000 dollars), except for the big energy spike in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

Now, the early 80s price of around 1.30 to 1.40 would be about 2.20 in 2000 dollars.

So, even the highest Americans had paid prior to our now record prices were still about a 1/3 less.

[GrnBay007]

$3.76.....isn't that precious!

[oregonpackfan]

I heard on the news today an oil supply analyst predicts gas prices in America will be $10.00 a gallon in three years!

Should his prediction prove correct, think of the incredible ripple effect that cost would have on the rest of the economy.

[GrnBay007]

I heard on the news today an oil supply analyst predicts gas prices in America will be $10.00 a gallon in three years!

Should his prediction prove correct, think of the incredible ripple effect that cost would have on the rest of the economy.

Think people will finally admit we are in a recession if that happens?? :P

[HarveyWallbangers]

So, even the highest Americans had paid prior to our now record prices were still about a 1/3 less.

Except the big energy spike in the late 1970s, right? Events that you'd expect to affect oil prices in a dramatic way. Think any events in the the last 7 or 8 years could have affected oil prices in a dramatic way?

I love intellectual honesty.

[Gunakor]

So, even the highest Americans had paid prior to our now record prices were still about a 1/3 less.

Except the big energy spike in the late 1970s, right? Events that you'd expect to affect oil prices in a dramatic way. Think any events in the the last 7 or 8 years could have affected oil prices in a dramatic way?

I love intellectual honesty.

Don't you think there's anything our government could have done over the last 8 years differently? Maybe something we did but shouldn't have done? I'm sorry, but you can't use the war in Iraq as justification when the very people we blame for the price spike are the ones responsible for the war in the first place.

[Tyrone Bigguns]

So, even the highest Americans had paid prior to our now record prices were still about a 1/3 less.

Except the big energy spike in the late 1970s, right? Events that you'd expect to affect oil prices in a dramatic way. Think any events in the the last 7 or 8 years could have affected oil prices in a dramatic way?

I love intellectual honesty.

What part of "except for the big energy spike in the late 1970s and early 1980s" did you not understand?

I factored in 1980s dollars into what it would have been in 2000.

If you are talking "intellectual honesty" to me, you are barking up the wrong tree...i was completely honest...can't even fathom your point on that.

The point was that, yes, things factor in, but in this case, we are still 1/3 higher than at any point. Those previous "events" dramatically rose prices, yet they weren't even in the same neighborhood as what we are facing today.

[Kiwon]

Yikes!

Just paid $1.73 per liter or $6.56 a gallon for diesel.