Gas prices are climbing

I remember it like it was yesterday but yes long gone. I say what we drill here is for us. Makes no sense us drilling here trying to sell oil to countries that have way more oil than us and they can sell better to countries who dont have oil at all. USA buys everything from other countries thats why our debt is so high up that i wont be alive when it starts going down if that day comes. lol
 
Our Canadian friend is correct. When the Dollar loses it's reserve currency status screwed we are. The problem with oil in the U.S. isnt the lack of quantity. The problem is the lack of refineries. We cant refine what we have now. They havent built a new refinery in the U.S. in 30 years. Tapping into ANWAR and the Gulf is great but it will take 10 years to get a few refineries built thanks to our friends in the EPA.

I bought aviation gas in Pompano Beach, FL yesterday...$6.10 a gallon x 42 gallons. Good times!!
 
I'm certainly not looking forward to gas hitting $10 a gallon. Right now it's $3.46 a gallon in MA.

It's getting harder and harder for me to justify driving a truck! Right now I get shut off at the pump at $75. Which doesn't fill my tank. If it hits $10 I'm looking at around $260 to fill my tank...26 gallon tank x $10....$260?! I'll be buying a moped! lol
 
What kills me is the cost of oil in the ground doesn't change so the increase in price / barrel just makes the very few that much richer.

It's like a cord of split wood. If a cord was selling for lets say $200 and oil was selling for $75 / barrel then if the price of oil doubles to $150 / barrel why should the price of wood double, the source doesn't change and there is no shortage of either...

Bottom line - GREED...
 
Yesterday I paid $3.99 for diesel and $3.98 for premium and that is at the place with the best prices in town.

Move to CA, its great (weather) and crappy (gas and paying $950 to register my 08 dodge truck).
 
At this time, the price of oil and gasoline is NOT related to supply and demand. Oil and gas are commodities which are traded by people who want to make money. Right now the price is being driven up as a result of what some call a "fear trade" due to the fact that the outcome of the turmoil in the Middle East is not known at present. As Bunky pointed out, you could drill all you want in the U.S. and the price of oil would not be affected. Supply and demand are not the issue.
 
ExoticAutoDetai said:
Is going to affect many detail business and many others of course.

What do you think about this?

They say it will climb up to $10?

Whats your solution?

I honestly admired Donald Trump a lot I say forget Obama in Trump we trust.
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Who is "they"? Where did you see/read this?
 
Up here in Canada we've been paying more for gas for a while now.. Since I live in a bordering city (Windsor) whenever I go the states I fill up at duty free to save me some money. And as others stated, once the USD is no longer the world's reserve currency watch out... Will be bad times in the US.
 
$4 a gallon by mid-spring in Florida ... $5 before years end. Even with approval for drilling/exploration stateside we dont have time to control fuel prices and futures.

3.159 started this week ... went up twice, currently 3.489 at weeks end.
 
And people pay $8.00 a gallon for water and don't think anything about it.
 
I'm getting a moped, multi surface pledge, and a mf towel and gonna start doing my details with that when gas gets much higher!
 
I remember when I had the 4runner in 03 and it only cost 20 dollars to fill up. Last time I filled up the 4runner was 75 bucks....
 
Perfections said:
I'm getting a moped, multi surface pledge, and a mf towel and gonna start doing my details with that when gas gets much higher!
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I had a scooter all summer last year. Thing was amazing on gas. I ran all kinds of chores during the day on that thing. I sold it before winter. I have a motorcycle, but it's not as convenient to just jump on and go.

I'll be buying another one in the spring for sure. It was really handy to just have in my shop. Although, I imagine detailing out of it may be tough, haha. :cheers:
 
S2K said:
And people pay $8.00 a gallon for water and don't think anything about it.
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Hahaha
I always say the smartest person in the world is the one that first sold bottled water!

And I can say that we as americans better start learning to live with expensive gas! Remember that oil is a non-renuable resource..when its gone its gone!
 
WindyCity said:
Hahaha
I always say the smartest person in the world is the one that first sold bottled water!

And I can say that we as americans better start learning to live with expensive gas! Remember that oil is a non-renuable resource..when its gone its gone!
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Hmmm, well what if you invented something so you could use the fumes that engines create. Maybe a machine to turn the fumes back into gasoline! Do it, you'll be rich!
 
These are my thoughts:(I'll try and not start any arguments.)

-there is plenty of oil in the U.S., and around the coast that we should be independent (but do to countless gov. regulations we cannot touch it; instead we let other countries, many of which don't exactly like the U.S. very well, sell us overpriced crap oil.)

-We need to drill of the coast much more. One reason we don't is because every so often we have an oil spill and think they are inevitable (and in some cases, such as natural disaster, they are inevitable). The BP oil spill was the result of human error on both the builders of the rig, and the gov. These disasters can be prevented in the future.

-There is no such thing, and will be no such thing, at least not in my lifetime (I'm only 20) as peak oil. I don't buy into it. We didn't run out of oil in the 70's, we did not run out of oil a few years ago, and this year we will not run out of oil.

-If record amounts of output have been achieved in the recent past, why are oil prices rising with production (as they have in the past)? Conspiracy?

- I finally have to write, that I do not necessarily believe that oil is a fossil fuel. Sorry. Many reports that I have read or heard now support the idea that perhaps oil is renewable, and does not consist of prehistoric animal remains, but rather natural geological compounds that the earth creates in natural processes.
:rant:
 
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