gas prices

[steplift20]

what are we gonna do about these gas prices
i just took my boat down the shore and the prices soared 118 dollars a barrel
this is g,w,bush last horah hes gonna nail us but good
i said this was going to happen a year ago
so now what do we do
everybody chip in for gas i guess even my kid[there all grown up now] i hate asking for money for gas
hey attendant give me 50 dollars worth, thats about 12 gallons
bush is horrible for the people cant wait for him to get out
soory guys just had to vent alittle,that happens to me when i feel like im getting screwed

[parishht]

It's not just "W", I read an article in PM magazine about our oil reserves,
ther is more than we really know what to do with, tree huggers just
won't let us get it, they also won't let us build new refineries.

I also read an article were the oil minister of Venezuela just made a statement that
a barrel of oil will not be sold below $90 and it is the fault of the U.S. economy:

http://www.eluniversal.com/2008/04/2...A1528767.shtml

[Pipe_Dream]

It has nothing to do with Bush, and everything to do with the US's unwillingness to become energy self-sufficient. We won't allow new refineries to be built. We aren't willing to tap into our own oil deposits in the ANWR and off our coastlines. We waste fuel.

[C YENSEN]

i dont give a who is responsible, but someone needs to do something abuot it

[macojoe]

Last week went up .25 cents in one day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Naterj14]

$3.70+ for gas and $4.25+ for diesel in south Fla. Its going to be like $180 bucks to fill the boat now.

[tsubaki]

3 years ago when we were in Belize it was $5.50 a gallon there.
In Europe it was about the same per litre as what ours was per gallon.
We are just catching up with the rest of the world, we are the biggest consumers and the prices were lowest to us (U.S.) because of that.
Only thing I can afford to do is NOT spend money on "newer" internal combustion devices and keep useing the old crap I have (or find for next to nothing). This only offsets the monthly payments to get low fuel consumption as opposed to high prices at the pump.

[tsubaki]

Originally Posted by Pipe_Dream

It has nothing to do with Bush, and everything to do with the US's unwillingness to become energy self-sufficient. We won't allow new refineries to be built. We aren't willing to tap into our own oil deposits in the ANWR and off our coastlines. We waste fuel.

The reason for this is WWII. The government realised the need to be self sufficient during a global crisis.
I don't like buying foreign oil or having ours preserved for something that might never happen, but you never know.

[tsubaki]

Lumber, how much you gonna charge to make a couple of 16' oars?

[jjjtronics]

I think I will end up on a sailboat, gas prices are getting beyond the regular salary guys like me. Power boat prices are under water now, it is very easy to buy, but very hard to sell any power boat around here, but still, we had around 300-400 boats in the area this Sunday. Boaters always find a way to afford a great boating day.
By the way, gas here is around 92 cents per liter today.
Juan