What;s up with the cost of a gallon of gasoline. Its outta control. Anyone know why or how high this will go thanks
What;s up with the cost of a gallon of gasoline. Its outta control. Anyone know why or how high this will go thanks
The question is; How low will the dollar go? The problem is the ever weakening dollar.
Depression anyone?
Yeah but the pills help
$4/gal soon.
$6/gal by end of year '08.
$9/gal by next May.
$12/gal by end of '09.
Take public transit, or get a fuel efficient vehicle, or move next to your job (in town?) so you don't need a car at all.
Open Wheel Racing! wrote:
What;s up with the cost of a gallon of gasoline. Its outta control. Anyone know why or how high this will go thanks
Inflation baby. With idiots running the country and continually printing more and more money and inflating the money supply, it will keep getting worse.
When compared to the price of gold, the price of gas is still around the same cost as it was in the '90s. It's the dollar's value that has changed. Environmental restrictions, SUVs, and higher demand from China and India don't help either.
If people would have just voted for Ron Paul, things might have gotten better, but whoever wins now, it will be the same old shit.
We should all protest and just not buy gas. Also, maybe stealing gas from your neighbor will get more for your dollar. Or ride a bike. Or ride a trike. Or ride a unicycle. Or ride a motorcycle cause they use much less gas. Or take a public transit.
people are already stealing cars for the liquid gold in the tank. they observe you fill up for 120$ and then steal you car.
it'd be cool if people would stop complaining. our gas prices are among the lowest in the world.
If everyone doesn't buy gas on one specified day, that will show the big, bad oil companies!
apples to apples wrote:
If people would have just voted for Ron Paul, things might have gotten better, but whoever wins now, it will be the same old shit.
Apples,
Please explain.
Alongside the low value of the dollar, the World Reserve Currency, the speculators at Wall Street have made a bad situation worse. Everyone b elieves that the price of gas will keep going up and these speculators make a killing out of it.
It seems like a lot of people like to complain about gas prices when in reality they don't really care nearly as much as they claim to. How do I know they don't actually care? Because they don't change anything about their own gas consumption. Out of every hundred cars that goes by my house every rush hour, I'd estimate that more than 90 are only a driver with no passengers. Nearly all of the traffic is going to campus, so it isn't like everyone is going to a different place of employment and carpooling is impossible. I don't see any more people biking to work or class than three or four years ago. I don't see anyone going Euro style and cruising around on the vespa. I don't see people calling on the local government to improve public transportation and put in a streetcar system or light rail or to expand bus service.
If you aren't changing your actions, regardless of what you say, you don't really care. I'm not saying that this pertains to the OP or anyone on this thread--I don't know if anyone here falls into the generalization that I've made--but it seems very common to me. I'll be grabbing a cup of coffee downtown and the ladies at the next table will be complaining about the price of a tank of gas, then upon leaving they'll drive off in separate Escalades. So they hate paying for gas, yet they drag thousands of extra pounds of aluminum and plastic with them everywhere they go? Makes sense to me.
Friends who live a mile from work will drive instead of taking the 15 minutes to walk (even though walking is faster during rush hour) and then complain about gas prices. Bottom line is they don't actually care, regardless of what they say. I don't have a problem with people complaining just to vent, but you have to know the difference between people voicing a serious opinion about an issue that they truly care about, and people complaining just to vent.
NativeSon wrote:
apples to apples wrote:If people would have just voted for Ron Paul, things might have gotten better, but whoever wins now, it will be the same old shit.
Apples,
Please explain.
Ron Paul advocates moving back to the gold standard.
It is having some effect - SUV sales are down and subcompact sales are up. As prices continue to rise, you might see public transportation, bike-to-work, carpooling, etc become more common.
a guy I work with ordered a smart car a year ago and got it yesterday and it is extrmely awsome it gets 50 mpg anf although it only has two seats it has plenty of room for those two I would definetly get one
Gas goes up, yearly increase per person $400 = complain
Housing prices go UP, costing $1000s/year in interest, principle and taxes = silent
Housing prices go DOWN, saving $1000s year in interest, principle and taxes = complain
Taxes go up = Democratic platform
Americans just like to complain.
Those things were originally designed so you could "perpendicular park", but I think they'll ticket you for that in the US. I think Smart also made their cars a bit bigger for the US...
Didn't we just have this discussion last week? Are you new on this board?
Bubble.
But go ahead and panic anyway.
The high prices have changed my life a lot, I know exactly how the local bus system works.