The price of GAS!!! March 21, 2012, 11:44:15 PM So here we go again. Remember back in 2008 when the housing market was all bubbled up and the economy was pretty good. Then gas prices started to rise and rise and rise. That was the begining of bad news. People stopped spending money on things they nomally would because they had to fill up the old Excursion or even worse Hummer. We thought it was bad then. Now the price of gas is heading for record prices again and the economy is still half way in the per. My daily driver is an F150 super crew with a 5.4L 3V that gets 13 MPG on average. So what's a blue collar bloke like myself to do to remedy this problem? Well the truck has been shelved and my Turbo Coupe is now my daily driver. I've been driving it daily for 2 weeks and I still have a half a tank of gas. After 2 weeks in the truck, it's time to fill up the 30 gallon tank at a cost of $130. Ain't no way I'm throwing away money like that. Not to mention I'm getting to work 10 minutes earlier. Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #1 – March 21, 2012, 11:48:01 PM IMHO until we get our fuel issues stable and reasonable our economy will be in danger. I think it is funny how no one really mentions the dramatic rise in fuel prices right before this recession...It is kind of sad/funny that our TCs get the mileage that many new vehicles are getting. The TC was ahead of its time! :D Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #2 – March 21, 2012, 11:50:42 PM That's what started it all and it's happening again. Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #3 – March 21, 2012, 11:53:12 PM Yep and after all we have went through the past couple of years we are still at the mercy of those fuel prices. We as a nation can adjust to whatever the fuel price is, as long as the rise is slow and gradual. The dramatic increases just doesn't give everyone a chance to adjust. Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #4 – March 21, 2012, 11:55:09 PM i say we send the marines over there and start shooting up the houses of these oil company owners.. their costs to pump the oil sure as hell didn't rise that quickly.. they're just a bunch of money hungry.. end of that statement.. lol.. they're doing it because they can.. someone needs to fire a bullet in their ass and show them what's up lol Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #5 – March 22, 2012, 01:17:59 AM It's not the oil companies as much as the futures speculators that cause these ridiculous price swings in the oil market. Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #6 – March 22, 2012, 01:20:19 AM Quote from: 5.0 bird;384774It's not the oil companies as much as the futures speculators that cause these ridiculous price swings in the oil market. This!!! I remember reading an article just the other week that said the price for a drum of oil should be like $65 but that the speculators were driving the cost through the roof! Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #7 – March 22, 2012, 01:23:48 AM come on now, it's just the oil companies padding their pockets.. 1 of them has a mansion with a 24k gold walkway to the front door! Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #8 – March 22, 2012, 07:42:08 AM Paid like $1.53/gallon in the winter of '08-'09. Snowblowed my grandmother's big-ass driveway and left my crown vic running with the heat blasting the whole time, felt so evil but felt so good when I got back in a perfectly warm car It'll happen again, and probably soon. Look at the chart again. It'll happen again. And again, and again, and again, ad nauseum lol. Until they find another commodity to make more money trading futures on. Or the government declares necessary supplies like oil and food unavailable for this kind of trading.The financial products market is so wildly complex and every new thing they come up with is ten times more so, that you have to take a high-level college class just to understand how the mechanics of the trading even work!!! Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #9 – March 22, 2012, 12:25:48 PM Its not the oil companies causing the gas price to rise. Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #10 – March 22, 2012, 12:54:27 PM My TC is my daily driver to work right now for me too, since my other vehicle is a TrailBlazer 4x4. We have an '08 Cobalt which is awesome MPG but I don't drive it to work because my wife can't drive stick and doesn't want to drive a bigger vehicle either (I'm perfectly fine with that too lol). Been having a blast driving around the Tbird. I just hope that my landlord doesn't catch on I have three cars and tow one of them randomly. Luckily we are moving into our own house soon - just waiting to close on it. This gas is ridiculous. I hate paying over $4 a gallon, and I heard it's going to get over $5 this summer here. I'll be looking for a new job after we move too because even if I take a pay cut its still cheaper due to the drive from that city to this one eating up funds. Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #11 – March 22, 2012, 01:46:59 PM your landlord will have a problem with you owning 3 vehicles and parking them on your property? good god, i'd be having fist fights with him on a daily basis LOL Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #12 – March 22, 2012, 03:45:29 PM Quote from: ZondaC12;384796The financial products market is so wildly complex and every new thing they come up with is ten times more so, that you have to take a high-level college class just to understand how the mechanics of the trading even work!!! I did and I still don't understand it fully.... Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #13 – March 22, 2012, 05:24:02 PM I have worked in the oil/gas drilling industry for 26 yrs and the price of oil is based on a world market. If anyone wants to get mad, look at the taxation applied to fuels. Oil has made our lives what they are today. Without the progress we have made due to petroleum, we would still be in horse and buggy days. I love oil, its made our lives great. Milk costs about the same as a gallon of gas. Quote Selected
The price of GAS!!! Reply #14 – March 22, 2012, 05:59:51 PM I find it incredible that people, just like you and me in many ways, can make a decision to increase the price of something that everyone uses. They buy gas, and milk, as well. They pay the same prices we do. The difference between us and them is they make enough money to where they don't care about the price of gas or milk or anything else because they have money, and usually lots of it. So the rich get richer and there ain't a thing we can do about it. I wonder though, if I were in their shoes, would I be just as greddy. Quote Selected