Can someone please explain to me why gas prices are so high???

no jokes, please.

I live in Atlanta, where gas is normally pretty inexpensive.

But now these prices are getting out of hand.

in Az....however, if you go back every single year that the net has been available and research gas prices, you will find some refinery accident or another used to justify HUGE increases in gas prices around every single summer holiday.

and BTW: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!

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:loveya:

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I would think that would be enough to compensate for the pipeline. I think the oil companies aren't meeting their projections in Iraq. Got to make it up somewhere.

$3.99 a gallon????

I have absolutely nothing to bitch about.

How is it that Americans expect cheap prices on a non-renewable resource? Never mind that the resource i question is CHOKING US in more ways than 17? :freak:

during the panic-top-off-the-urban-assault-vehicle stage of the fix. this week they are back down to a *mere* $2.12/gallon.

It happens every holiday kids. Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day, thanksgiving, traditional GOP pal gouge the citizens and take HUGE profits is the rule.

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It's no joke.

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Greed, for lack of a better term, is good..............

Wall Street

You're still the Cat's!

doesn't have to worry about "votes" r any other characteristics of a Free Nation.

Just like the Phony Energy Crisis of 2001.

...and his owners told him to...

Hey, who are you guys!.......ahhhgh...urk.......




And onehandle was never seen again.

All according to plan.

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Because the Bushes are raising campign money and know they will need to outspend challengters by 50 to 1 to have any chance of brainwashing the sheeple into keeping the election close enough for their dirty tricks to get them into office.

Same thing happened into run-up to 2000. High gas prices, energy crises, soaring energy costs. It's gouging. The energy companies make huge amounts of "extra" money and most of it finds its way into the Bush Cabal coffers.

Why is that so hard for people to understand?

That you are referring to the men that control OPEC?

The puppet regimes the US installs in the Middle East?

Could someone tell me how a break in a gas pipeline to AZ, which should increase CA supply, causes CA prices to go up?

Did anyone really expect lower gas prices with Chimp and Cheney in charge?

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call me a gullible fool :dunce:

From Lang at CNN

There's an energy bill before Congress! Don't read it just pass it! Shut off brain, bend over and take it! When's the last time you trusted a Repuke Government!

Plain and simple. It's election time and Republicans need more money so guess what, we pay and pay and pay and it won't do them any good because people aren't as stupid as they think.

The Gas tax is the second largest source of revenue. Since Chimpy used the largest source of revenue to pay back his campaign donors, he needs the gas tax to cover up the deficits he created.

The problem ishigh gas prices will further damage the economy and thud further reduce revenue. Man, It makes my heart soar to see this guy fucking himself into oblivion.

Gas is taxed by the gallon, not as a percentage of the price. Increasing the price of gas will only result in reduced consumption and reduced revenue.

Also, revenue from federal fuel taxes go into a trust fund which must be redistributed to the states.

Gas prices are so high because the suppliers figure they can get away with it. All of the specific regional excuses are just that -- excuses.

I stand corrected :D

"How do you expect us to reply to this without joking?"

"The sudden -- and surprising -- end of the fossil fuel age will stun everyone -- and kill billions. Once the truth is told about gas and oil (it's just a matter of time), your life will change forever. " -
http://www.dieoff.com/

they're killing the planet!

it should be something to celebrate, not bemoan (and don't worry, there's enough alternate energy sources out there to maintain our wasteful lifestyles, but just in a different way).

if you need oil, how about sacrificing your pet turkey?

http://www.discover.com/may_03/gthere.html?article=featoil.html

(but seriously, replacing all imported oil is nothing to down-play).

and from this site:

http://physics.syr.edu/courses/modules/ENERGY/ENERGY_POLICY/tables.html

we find that annual energy usage worldwide is ~10e21 joules (a one followed by 21 zeros). sure, that's a lot, but during the same time the world receives 10e25 joules of solar radiation. that means if just one out of every 10,000 units of energy from the sun could be turned into useful power, we'd be all set. that's one out of ten thousand - come'on, that's gotta be possible, right?

While crude oil production is near or past it's peak, there is plenty of coal left (to much really). There is no reason why a crude oil shortage should have a long term effect on the availability of electricity. We can produce all of the electricity we need from coal (not that I'm saying we sould, just that we can).

A crude oil shortage is only a problem for transportation and the manufacture of plastics. It is true that the demand for oil will soon outstrip our ability to produce it. This will happen in the very near future and gas prices will skyrocket unless an suitable alternative energy source for transportation is found soon.

Everybody park it 'til after Labor Day, and you'd see the fastest price decline on record.

Alternatively, we regovern ourselves.

And I only fill my tank once a month.

So, even after the power outages it has risen only 20 cents to 1.79, yesterday.

demand always goes up around this time of the year...and prices follow...add in the pipeline burst whichs is costing us a few million barrels, and the fact that labor day weekend is coming up...This was expected. I think we will see prices drop .20-.25 over the next month...thats just the way it goes

I don't think so.

gas that could be transported through the pipeline everyday if the pipeline was online.

In other words, if the people of AZ get almost 0 supply, I would expect their prices to go up, but everyone else's prices to go down.

If the gas intended for AZ can get their, you would expect their prices to soar, but there should be more for the rest of us and our prices should drop.

The only potential problem with this theory is the so called botique blend gasses. The petroleum industry claims that because laws require them to formulate special blends for different states, they cannot use gas for one state in another. I don't really believe this, but this is the explanation offered.

shouldn't areas in the vicinity of starting point of the pipeline seen a dramatic drop in gas prices?

on edit, sorry junkdrawer for that apparent plagarism of your thoughts (but i started composing my post before seeing yours, honest i did!)

the pipe line thing, the blackout maybe more but it drives me nuts to read about that crap

We're not buying lame excuses for high gas prices
http://www.modbee.com/opinion/story/7347932p-8270179c.html

The power outage in the east caused seven refineries to go down. Not the usual amount of oil processed, so it is a "temporary" shortage, shooting the prices up. It is a convenient excuse to increase the prices, although there might be some small validity in it. It takes a couple of days to bring a refinery back up to full speed after an outage.

I noticed the gas prices creeping up here in Texas after the facts about Saudi royalty's involvement in Al-Qaida became a little more mainstream. That should threaten the investors somewhat. Anytime the investors are threatened, gas prices will go up.

Prices for product that are *perceived* to be necessities, and for which there is no immediate substitute, can rise steadily, with quantity demanded relatively unchanged. Need I say, in such circumstances, revenues soar.

For a while.

Because the hostile takeover of Iraq didn't bring about the obscene profits as quickly as expected, and the Bush Criminal Empire needs the cash to finance the sleaze machine for '04.

..of the War in Iraq. The peace-loving people of the formerly-opressed state are so happy at the American Liberators that they are turning over their oil reserves to the the worthy American petroleum companies in heart-felt grattitude for... oh, wait.. you said why are proces going "up"... sorry...my bad.

for the Friends of the Junta.

Why?

Because.