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  1. deadheadzan

    deadheadzanGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    I can live with $2 a gallon price but above that fogetta bout it. The speculation on gas is what is driving up the price, not supply and demand.

  2. Machado

    Machado said, 5 months ago

    I wonder what happened to all this oil that the lefties said we we were stealing from IraQ?

    And noticed how Obama is not responsible for the current Gas hikes but Bush was responsible for every penny..

  3. Dale Hopson

    Dale HopsonGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Muchadoodoo, there was no oil! And the little that is there someone gets hijacked…

    And how can Obama be blamed for gas prices? He just took get the keys to the White House last January and believe me, he won’t be spending his 8th month in office on vacation in Crawford, Texas.

  4. Anthony 2816

    Anthony 2816Genius_badge said, 5 months ago

    The prices in the stations around UCLA jumped around 7 cents a gallon a couple of days ago, just prior to graduation weekend when thousands of families drive in.

    But I’m sure it was due to crude prices and production costs.

  5. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 5 months ago

    Machado - Obama doesn’t have the Cheney /Bush ties, like conjoined twins, to the oil industry. It WAS the huge profit taking on oil that pushed the world economy over the edge of the precipice we’d been skirting for a long time.

  6. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    Much-ado (about nothing) said, about 10 hours ago:

    “I wonder what happened to all this oil that the lefties said we we were stealing from IraQ?”

    Dr.Canuck replies: the Iraqi freedom fighters kept blowing up the oil works so the Americans couldn’t get their hands on it. Don’t you watch the news?

  7. deadheadzan

    deadheadzanGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    By all means, regulate speculation and off market trading and flood the market with the SPR.

  8. churchillwasright

    churchillwasright said, 5 months ago

    STUPID HUMAN: I have told you this before. Go to Popular Mechanics website, and there you will find experts explaining how the WTC fell.

    Either a) you haven’t/refuse to read it b)read it but for some psychological reason refuse to believe it because it gives you some kind of feeling of superiority over the misled masses (or you just dig conspiracy theories) or c) you are too stupid to understand it.

    If the answer is (b) then there is nothing anyone can say to you, except stop posting your stupid drivel here. If the answer is (c) Hey, there’s nothing wrong with being stupid. Sit down with a friend or relative so that they can explain it to you paragraph by paragraph.

    If the answer is a) then stop being stupid and READ IT! This time I’m including the link for you, so you won’t have the excuse of “I was too stupid to find it”.

    http://tinyurl.com/nsvar

  9. deadheadzan

    deadheadzanGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    Actual consumption of gas is not what is driving the price up. It is the speculations on oil futures. This was stated by dredpirate and me a day ago. Also in the summer we always get hammered by higher prices- the gas companies have always held us hostage and the worm is in the process of turning, by way of hybrids, and cars with greater fuel efficentcy.

  10. cdward

    cdward said, 5 months ago

    There is the psychological side of this, too. Once the $4.00/gal ceiling has been broken, even if we go down to $2/gal., it’s much easier to go back up. This time it’s happening a little slower and in the summer, but I seem to remember most experts predicting quite some time ago that it would go back up and stay up.

  11. Dale Hopson

    Dale HopsonGenius_badge said, 5 months ago

    ANandy said “Just some more of that hope and change we were promised”

    ANandy, change is right and some on the right are scared of that change!

  12. Right_On

    Right_On said, 5 months ago

    “Obama should flood the market with the SPR and then refill it at the lower price.”

    This didn’t work when Clinton did it. Why try again?

  13. fennec

    fennec said, 5 months ago

    Can anyone explain to me why we should be able to buy gas at basically a lower price than the rest of the world? Is this part of our vaunted exceptionalism?

  14. Right_On

    Right_On said, 5 months ago

    Sure fennec. There’s OIL and then there’s GAS. To get from one to the other, you need refineries. We have more than everyone else, so our GAS has to travel further to get to the consumer.

    Maybe if our OIL traveled less miles (like drilling our own resources), we’d pay less for it!

  15. danielsangeo

    danielsangeo said, 5 months ago

    “Maybe if our OIL traveled less miles (like drilling our own resources), we’d pay less for it! ”

    Can you guarantee that “our own resources” will remain “our own” after drilling?

  16. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    Actually, your lower gas prices is because America has the lowest gas taxes. And the loudest complainers about gas prices.

  17. fennec

    fennec said, 5 months ago

    Exactly, DrC, but I didn’t manage to elicit that kind of recognition from our locals, did I?

  18. DrCanuck

    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

    Sometimes it takes an outsider to be truly objective :)

  19. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 5 months ago

    Right - problem is we’ve already drained most of the easy resources. Even if we were to drill ANWR, that would only last six months at current rates.
    And DrCanuck is right – we have the lowest gas prices outside of Saudi Arabia. European prices are much the same cost as ours – per liter.

  20. fennec

    fennec said, 5 months ago

    which is 3.8 to the gallon…liters, that is.