US Gas Prices

[iHaunt]

Check this link out, and tell me your thoughts here!

http://coffin-talk.net/viewtopic.php?t=8398

I do really actually do not know the President of Venezulea in South America named Hugo Chavez, and he really did hate us (American)? Is that true? He is the Dictator since 1998. Anyways, what about gas/oil prices?

[Spookymufu]

yes he hates America and sponsors terrorism against our troops....

the problem with those American Gas companies is, there are none of them in my area....

[MacPhantom]

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/saudigas.asp

[Andybev01]

Eventually you are going to buy gas from someone, either that or move to a city and buy a bicycle.

[Pumpkin_Man]

2 things here. First and formost, as gasoline gets more expensive, it is very necessary that we develop alternate fuels that will power an internal combustion engine that will be ecconomicly feasable, and secondly, we need to develop new technologies that won't be dependent on fossel fuels. If our cars were made to run on Hydrogen or bio mass, we just might be able to stop importing oil from OPEC all together.

Mike

[Spookymufu]

we could just drill in our own oil reserves and not import at all, that would lower prices for now while they develop an alternative that is feasible....but as long as there is money to be made in oil they will never put the resources into an alternative that wont make them as much money.....

[Pumpkin_Man]

Which is all the more reason why they will be putting money into alternates. It's getting more and more expensive to find oil, drill for oil, import oil and refine oil. As for our own reserves, they arent' even close to being enough to stop all the imports from comming in, and it's located in such remote areas that it would probably cost 10 times as much to drill for it as it would to import.

Biomas, Hydrogen egasification of coal That's the way to go if you ask me.

Mike

[Spookymufu]

thats never going to happen as long as people are making buckets of money off it. Thats what makes the world turn, people dont do anything unless they will MAKE money, even those shows where companies donate stuff, they dont do it to be nice, they know it will make them a lot more in profits and advertisements. So unless they can come up with an alternative that will make them as much or more then oil, it will never happen.......

And from what I read last night, the reason oil prices are going so high isnt because of a supply issue, there is no supply issue but the speculators are using the problems in the middle east (not even where we get our oil from) to boost the price of a barrel of oil, so basically they are using it as a way to milk us even tho there is no real need because there is no shortage at this time.........

US has oil to last 200 years at current consumption with no imports and nearly 500 years if assume current import levels just from this source

According to WikiAnswers....take it for what it is I guess.......

[iHaunt]

Ok, didn't you know that former President George Bush and his son are still fighting over the oil business from middle eastern for many years? That's what my grandpa told me about this.

[Andybev01]

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[jadewik]

* sigh *

Want gas prices to go down? Drill, baby, drill! Since they started closing US refineries and not giving out permits to drill, gas prices have gone up. Why? Because we have to import gasoline. Granted, when the zombie apocalypse hits, we'll have more oil in the good ol' US of A than anywhere else in the world.

I really wish the US would stop being so "global" and go back to a more "home grown" attitude-- less importing, more exporting. But, as long as it's cheaper to import, I don't see that happening any time in the near future.

[Spookymufu]

Ok, didn't you know that former President George Bush and his son are still fighting over the oil business from middle eastern for many years? That's what my grandpa told me about this.

tell your grandpa he's wrong......if we were fighting for oil, we would have some of it by now....

[iHaunt]

My grandpa told me that Bush and his son are against 3rd World! I dunno.

Bush and his son should have left the 3rd World alone!

[Spookymufu]

again, tell your grandpa he's wrong

[Pumpkin_Man]

It was predicted as far back as the mid 1950s, that the we would pas the half way point in using up the world's oil by the year 1970. It's happened, and whether we want to face it or not, oil is getting harder and harder to find. It's also getting more expensive to process into gasoline, and incidentaly, gasoline is but one tiny percentage of all the other products that come from petrolium. All your plastics, various food preservatives, heating oil, deisel, natural gas, and a whole host of others would not be possible if it wasn't for oil. The plastic bottles we put our drinking water in, the plstic casings that hod our computer monitors and tvs, all come from petrolium.

Finding a substitute for gasoline would only be a drop in the proverbial bucket. We would have to find alternatives for everything we put our food in, evrything we use to encase our computer monitors, cell phones, iPods, etc, etc, etc. Even our DVDs are made from petrolium based polimers. Oil is also very heavily used in the generation of electircity.

So we do need to find alternate energy sources, but if we are ever going to get off of imported oil, we have to devise all kinds of replacements for just about everything that we take for granted today.

And I just can't agree with there being "plenty of oil." I think that we are using it at an excellorated rate, and the old Earth is going to run out. It wouldn't suprise me if that happened in my life time, and I wouldn't be s uprised to see gas prices as high as 20 and 30 dollars a gallen, and only the very seriously rich driving cars or even riding motorcycles.

Mike