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Gas Prices suck my @$$
    #4550054 - 08/18/05 01:34 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

According to this article http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gas17.html gas prices are just rising and rising and rising...

Can anyone explain to me why it costs so damn much? I'm not too educated with the oil situation over there, I figure "Hell, we practically took over Iraq, why can't we get oil cheaper now?"

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4550061 - 08/18/05 01:35 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

now i guess we gotta pay for that expensive ass war. fuck..i don't know.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4550069 - 08/18/05 01:37 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

alot of nations other than the u.s. have been paying twice and in some cases triple that for years though. americans still have it made in terms of gas prices.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: felix]
    #4550074 - 08/18/05 01:38 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I was driving back from Schwagstock from Missouri, and was filling up and looked up and it said 2.65/gallon. I was freaked out thinking that Missouri gas is crazy expensive and just drove farther thinking it'd get cheaper, but it only got more expensive.

I saw a Citgo in Chitown that had regular unleaded for 3.10!!!!


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: felix]
    #4550077 - 08/18/05 01:38 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

True, but I miss those days of $1.35 a gallon lol. $20 used to fill my tank, now only about 3/4.

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4550108 - 08/18/05 01:44 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

yeah, i remember when i was paying 99cents per gallon and 5 bucks could last me a long time.

i say we all get motorcycles. the world is slowly turning into a madmax movie. nations start going to war because of a receding resource...


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4550114 - 08/18/05 01:45 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

fuck the high gas prices man. :mad2:


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Thrasher420x]
    #4550128 - 08/18/05 01:49 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Isn't there ANY way to create oil? With all this fancy scientific machinery, I'm sure they could pull something out of their asses! Hell Albert Hoffman synthesized LSD, let's synthesize some oil lol.

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4550203 - 08/18/05 02:05 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Bio Diesel. Google it. Think algae fields. Energy problem solved.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: felix]
    #4550227 - 08/18/05 02:11 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

my answer...
A tariff is a tax placed on imported and/or exported goods, sometimes called a customs duty. A Protective tariff, usually applied to imported goods, is intended to artificially inflate prices of imports and "protect" domestic industries from foreign competition. This means oil prices are set by the cost to produce domestic oil.

The real question is, what recent changes have made the expense of producing domestic oil rise?

The rise in price per barrel has made it cost effective to drill more domestic wells meaning that our tarrifs are higher than the cost of domestic oil. Here in Texas you can see atleast 6 or 7 defficks drilling wells with one glance accross the countryside. (a derricks is not to be confused with a pump jack)

When the domestic oil business booms it's simply because high tarrifs.

Bush is an oil tycoon, it only makes sense that he'd create an oil boom.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarrif


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Cowgold]
    #4550239 - 08/18/05 02:14 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

and bush doesn't even care...he's fucking rich and won't have to worry about this stuff like we will. along with all those other people who buy street tanks, SUVs, that only get like 10-15mpg. of course if i were rich, i'd probably buy one too though.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Lun4e]
    #4550242 - 08/18/05 02:15 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I love working at a gas station... seeing all the people pissed that those gas prices are burning holes in their wallets. It cracks me up. :lol:

I :heart: working for the beast.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: felix]
    #4550245 - 08/18/05 02:16 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I drive a tank around town so I can show how cool I am, since I spend so much on gas.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4550280 - 08/18/05 02:23 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

My friend just had his car siphoned the other day, his dad's too. Well over $100 in gas.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
    #4550282 - 08/18/05 02:23 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

you drive an SUV around town high on xanax.

when i had to take my dui class, there was a dude there because of driving on xanax..


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
    #4550292 - 08/18/05 02:25 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

it's nuts right now here near Fort Worth. There's an oil basin called the Barnett Shale Play. it's huge and spans a huge part of texas. it's one of the untapped oil plays because the porous rock that the oil is found in has low porosity. This low porosity shale doesn't retain pressure as long and requires doctoring techniques.
High pressure sand fracturing. Water and sand pumped into the well head at very high pressure fractures the ground at zones (a depth in the well that contains high oil concentration) these fractures then are quickly filled with sand allowing more oil to reach the well and allowing a pressure pocket allowing higher daily production..

It's pretty fascinating. but because high oil prices it's now a profitable business to drill the oil in this play using these new techniques.

Edited by Cowgold (08/18/05 02:30 AM)

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4550298 - 08/18/05 02:26 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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Can anyone explain to me why it costs so damn much?






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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Drink_Punk_Soda]
    #4550327 - 08/18/05 02:35 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Drink_Punk_Soda]
    #4550364 - 08/18/05 02:49 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

lol that's great

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Drink_Punk_Soda]
    #4550373 - 08/18/05 02:52 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

exactly.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Drink_Punk_Soda]
    #4550378 - 08/18/05 02:53 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I have 7 of those.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: HELLA_TIGHT]
    #4550512 - 08/18/05 04:19 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Its called "peak oil" picture a nice bell shaped curve. There is only so much oil we have on earth. Peak oil is when we have passed the highest point on the bell curve or we can call it pass the half way mark of what is left in oil on earth. Since we have passed peak oil, we are on a downward slope on the curve. But our whole economy and the whole modern world is based around oil. So since we still produce the same amount of oil per day, demand has still increased. We simply can't just increase production. The problem now arises since we are on the downward slope of the curve is that we will continue to only produce this certain amount of oil per day, and we won't increase it, and since demand will increase your price gets increased.

Dunno if i briefly explained it well.... I suggest you look up the topic in your favorite search engine.

BTW, a lot of things are made from oil, Like plastic.... So be ready for everything to jump up in price. Also it takes oil or fossil fuels to produce things, so you get the picture now? Everything is going up in price with oil prices increasing.

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Liquidkick]
    #4550557 - 08/18/05 04:44 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

i'm living in manitoba canada, and gass just reached 103.9

thats outrageous, when i first got my car i was paying 82.9 tops

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Loriath]
    #4550563 - 08/18/05 04:49 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

It's happening just like that Oilstorm special on FX. I was shrooming when I watched that so I seriously didn't leave my house because I thought I was watching a news special on an oil crisis. I expected to leave my house and find riots in the streets LOL.

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: felix]
    #4550588 - 08/18/05 05:02 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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alot of nations other than the u.s. have been paying twice and in some cases triple that for years though. americans still have it made in terms of gas prices.




yeah you guys still have it good... paying 2,85 a gallon (4 liters)... over here gas is 1,30 EURO (about 1,85$) for only 1(!) liter... that means we are paying more than 7 american bucks for 1 gallon of gas...


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4550599 - 08/18/05 05:09 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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NewbieShroomie said:
Can anyone explain to me why it costs so damn much?




The average fuel economy of Ford's fleet is lower than the 1923 Model T Ford's.


We have efficient cars in Europe because our gas prices are way higher. This stimulates development of more efficient cars.

We are running out of oil in the world. High gas prices stimulate more efficient cars, taking a bike, the train or bus. This is good IMO. There are more problems than your own wallet.

Gas prices should be way higher.

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: In(di)go]
    #4550601 - 08/18/05 05:10 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

"It's because some guy in Saudi Arabia died LOL4REAL"

Look at the related threads at the bottom here.
Peak Oil (Author: trendal)

That's a great place to start understanding why they are so high, whether we have hit peak or not.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: blink]
    #4550668 - 08/18/05 06:16 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Thanks for the responses guys...I guess I see why.  Scary to think what's to come though  :protest:

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4550694 - 08/18/05 06:54 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I saw on FOX news yesterday a discussion about this very question. Some expert said that the supply of oil is not decreasing but the capacity to produce it is. So, whatever that means.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Mighty Bop]
    #4550702 - 08/18/05 07:03 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

i'm probally gonna have to sell my car soon,i can't keep up witht he prices....

that or put an old flathead 4 banger in it,haha....a lot of guys are doing that,and it' s pretty fucking sad.....


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Mighty Bop]
    #4550723 - 08/18/05 07:28 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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I saw on FOX news yesterday a discussion about this very question. Some expert said that the supply of oil is not decreasing but the capacity to produce it is. So, whatever that means.




that means we're at the top of the bell curve right now... we aren't running out, but we're using too much too fast. There's no way they can produce it as fast as we 'need' it anymore.

energy demand > readily available energy will soon be true.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: blink]
    #4550731 - 08/18/05 07:35 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I've been bicycling every day. I don't remember the last time I drove my van.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: HuckleBones]
    #4550762 - 08/18/05 07:51 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

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I've been bicycling every day. I don't remember the last time I drove my van.




Damn it! That makes me want to get a bike and just ride that around! But, sometimes you just can't live without a car........


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4550912 - 08/18/05 09:16 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I wish i could ride a bike to work... shit is far tho.  Thankfully my roomate works at a gas station and can get me free gas.  All of a sudden my credit card bill isnt as bad this month :smile:.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: baraka]
    #4550922 - 08/18/05 09:19 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Yeah my buddy used to work at a gas station too, free full tanks were AWESOME but those days are long gone :frown:

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4550987 - 08/18/05 09:39 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

As Lun4e said previously, just make your own biodiesel.

All you need is sodium hydroxide (drain cleaner), methanol (HEET? Gas- Line Antifreeze) and used vegetable oil that you can pick up for free from bars/restaurants.

Give it a good shake and you've got yourself some biodiesel  :smile:

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4550992 - 08/18/05 09:41 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I say we should pick a day.. Cover our tags...Fill it up and drive away.. All over the US...Just drive away with a full tank of the good stuff...
MadMax will ride again....

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: ecoman2]
    #4550999 - 08/18/05 09:44 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

I'm in.

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: blink]
    #4551001 - 08/18/05 09:44 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Fuel prices are ultimately set by the country you live in... Oil is higher in Europe because they have higher Tarrif's and none to little domestic production, Their model is going to be way different than it is in the U.S.

Here in the U.S. Tarrifs are high, a spike in domestic oil production is evidence of this.

World wide I don't know exactly what is causing prices to rise... I'm sure Peak Production has a lot to do with it.

I noticed someone said that some Saudi died... sounds about right, they own all of it anyway.

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Cowgold]
    #4551019 - 08/18/05 09:50 AM (18 years, 7 months ago)

Some luck huh? Our mortal fuckin enemies at the moment control what we do most in this county.

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4555397 - 08/19/05 12:39 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

FUCK!!!



5 bucks a gallon for gas? Expert sees it in 2006

August 17, 2005

BY MARK J. KONKOL Transportation Reporter Advertisement


If you think all this flirting with $3-a-gallon gas is already a pain in the pocketbook, brace yourself.

Oil expert Craig Smith predicts gas prices will skyrocket next year, jumping to five bucks a gallon.



for the whole article click on the following link:

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-gas17.html

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #4555435 - 08/19/05 12:52 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

Strange how the price of gasoline goes up but the prices of other petroleum products don't.  :rolleyes:

a bit suspicious eh?

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    #4555439 - 08/19/05 12:55 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

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Strange how the price of gasoline goes up but the prices of other petroleum products don't.  :rolleyes:

a bit suspicious eh?




Yeah, why has vaseline not gone up in price?  ..Not..that I buy it a lot....or anything...

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: moog]
    #4555441 - 08/19/05 12:55 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

this is because stock options... companies can lock in prices on commodities for years in advance... They do this with oil but the savings aren't usually passed on to the consumer because demand isn't going anywhere soon. Everything else tends to follow rules applying to competitive markets.

CBOE - Chicago Board Options Exchange (i think that's what the acronym stands for) anyways it's very interesting stuff.

I like economics...

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Newbie]
    #4555863 - 08/19/05 03:32 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

In toronto (yes, good ol canada), its hit a dollar+ recently per litre.


That's something like $3.8 per gallon.


Consider yourselves lucky. And i've heard some places in europe its twice that.


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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: Cowgold]
    #4555865 - 08/19/05 03:32 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

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It's happening just like that Oilstorm special on FX. I was shrooming when I watched that so I seriously didn't leave my house because I thought I was watching a news special on an oil crisis. I expected to leave my house and find riots in the streets LOL.




FX = right winged propoganda TV..... it's owned by FOX afterall (though they balance it out with Sperlock's shows maybe....)

seriously, everything on FX is geared to tug on your nationalist strings.... "rescue me", "over there", and the monthly made for TV movie about America being destroyed by evil forces, sometimes terrorists, sometimes oil.

not that peak oil is a scam, but.... we have to consider that we are running out of oil based upon our current techniques, as said there are other promising places.. we haven't explored much ocean etc... but we need to find efficient ways to get oil or it's just going to keep costing so much that we'll have an oil crisis either way.

the time to invest in better solutions was 50 years ago.

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Re: Gas Prices suck my @$$ [Re: leery11]
    #4555882 - 08/19/05 03:36 PM (18 years, 6 months ago)

This winter is going to murder on my wallet. I was able to get around mostly this summer by bicycling. Come fall and I will either be freezing my ass off or paying too much for gas.


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