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Post by nyunupe on Feb 29, 2012 15:45:57 GMT -5
Can someone please, in laymans terms, explain why the U.S. fails to protect it's citizens from high gas prices?
...we (The U.S.) EXPORT more oil today. Why are we paying out the nose for gas? It can't be demand....
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Post by Rare_Commodity on Feb 29, 2012 15:47:42 GMT -5
I don't get it either and on top of that now they finna give N. Korea 240,000 metric tons of food as aid. I don't know how much that is but sounds like a helluva lot!
Gas down here is $3.79 just too damn high!
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Post by nyunupe on Feb 29, 2012 15:50:41 GMT -5
My guess is that the Wall Street market speculators drive the prices up. It's bullshit and a all-out scam....
$4.05 here
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Post by Rare_Commodity on Feb 29, 2012 15:53:39 GMT -5
Aww yeah you got it that's way more than here.
* throws nyunupe some change for the bus*
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Post by Rare_Commodity on Feb 29, 2012 15:53:59 GMT -5
Naw wait yall may got subways there....
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Post by ReignMan19 on Feb 29, 2012 16:05:12 GMT -5
I need a bicycle... Some rollerblades... something...
But yea its wall street mainly... they have these "random" fears of shortages and hike up the prices... what these "random fears" are .. i dunno
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Post by Chal™ on Mar 1, 2012 11:33:01 GMT -5
Oh yea. When I return to Tennessee, I'm definitely gonna haev to get a carpool of some sorts together. Here in the Bayou I don't mind because the company is picking up the gas tab.
The bicycle and skates are a great idea, though. Not only does it save gas money, it's also good for the environment and good for the body.
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Post by ReignMan19 on Mar 1, 2012 11:35:50 GMT -5
but i'ma smell like "outdoors" every where I go...  |
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Post by Chal™ on Mar 1, 2012 11:48:17 GMT -5
no you won't. nobody told you to ride 35 mph, showing up with supersoaked armpits and butt sweat stains in your pants. leave early enough to be able to cruise at a nice lil pace.
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Post by Chal™ on Mar 1, 2012 11:53:20 GMT -5
no you won't. you don't have to ride 35 mph, showing up with supersoaked armpits and butt sweat stains in your pants. leave early enough to be able to cruise at a nice lil pace.
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Post by ReignMan19 on Mar 1, 2012 11:54:45 GMT -5
I'm too ADHD to ride a bike slowly... my mind would wander off somewhere then BAM
..hit by a bus..
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Post by nyunupe on Mar 1, 2012 12:21:52 GMT -5
I'm too ADHD to ride a bike slowly... my mind would wander off somewhere then BAM ..hit by a bus.. same here....I have the attention span of a fly. I tried bicycling with some white folks during my time in New Mexico. It was so beautiful, I started day-dreaming...and veered off the bike path damn near to the other side of the road. |
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Post by Chal™ on Mar 1, 2012 12:22:21 GMT -5
i'm sorry. i had a visual. and i laughed.
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Post by nyunupe on Mar 1, 2012 12:26:36 GMT -5
I laughed in retrospect as well. It was funny....
But these damn gas prices ain't.
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Post by Chal™ on Mar 1, 2012 12:46:19 GMT -5
I agree.
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Post by Sapphire on Mar 1, 2012 18:55:43 GMT -5
All I know is I need to start riding a bike. The rent is too damn high and so is the gas.
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Post by nyunupe on Mar 2, 2012 11:25:04 GMT -5
Obama calls for Congress to stop standing with oil cos. and stand with the people and stop subsidizing fossil fuel....
But we EXPORT oil. Infact we are major oil EXPORTERS!...Okay, I get that we need to cut down our dependency on oil, but how in the world could we be paying well over 4 buckeroos a gallon for gas when we EXPORT our own oil?
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Post by nyunupe on Mar 7, 2012 15:54:26 GMT -5
Paid 4.15 for 92 today. This some bullmess...dang, man.
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Post by Oldskool on Mar 7, 2012 17:05:51 GMT -5
$3.57
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Post by nyunupe on Mar 7, 2012 17:12:29 GMT -5
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Post by Oldskool on Mar 7, 2012 17:18:54 GMT -5
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Post by LejaOMG on Mar 7, 2012 17:20:56 GMT -5
how in the world could we be paying well over 4 buckeroos a gallon for gas when we EXPORT our own oil? because we don't necessarily export it already refined. So what we send abroad isn't even usable "oil" like we use for fuel (and especially not gasoline). Nigeria has the same problem. Crazy major oil producer and exporter, but "free trade" has forced them to export for refinement and re-purchase at a markup. Whole ish is crazy, really. |
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Post by nyunupe on Mar 8, 2012 10:13:08 GMT -5
I think you're right. We've allowed Canadian gas cos. to come and run pipelines all througout the country and all they want to do is put U.S oil on the world market to sell. We don't even force them to sell us back our own damn oil....
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Post by DamieQue™ on Mar 8, 2012 13:06:48 GMT -5
how in the world could we be paying well over 4 buckeroos a gallon for gas when we EXPORT our own oil? because we don't necessarily export it already refined. So what we send abroad isn't even usable "oil" like we use for fuel (and especially not gasoline). Nigeria has the same problem. Crazy major oil producer and exporter, but "free trade" has forced them to export for refinement and re-purchase at a markup. Whole ish is crazy, really.
And anytime chicken hawk politicians start sabre rattling about which "Muslim" country they want to bomb next (which happens to also be an oil producing country), it gives the speculators cover to drive prices up, based on premise that there will be scarcity in the future, even when there is plenty right now.
You have to remember barrels of oil aren't purchased few at a time, they're usually sold via contracts 1000 barrells a lot at a set price. And (IN THEORY) those selling the product, gauge their prices on what they think their inventories will be, not what they currently are. If they think they are going to have less oil, say in 1 year, because Arm Chair Warrior Republicans want to bomb Iran, the price for a barrel is going to go up based on the fear that Iran may be producing and exporting less oil in the future.
In truth, folks inflate rates all the time by holding back production purposely to create artificial scarcity. |
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Post by ReignMan19 on Mar 8, 2012 13:10:39 GMT -5
"anytime chicken hawk politicians start sabre rattling about which "Muslim" country they want to bomb next (which happens to also be an oil producing country), it gives the speculators cover to drive prices up, based on premise that there will be scarcity in the future, even when there is plenty right now."
What's happening right now.
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Post by Rare_Commodity on Mar 8, 2012 13:36:42 GMT -5
gas prices are higher than a giraffe's coochie...high and nasty
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Post by nyunupe on Mar 8, 2012 14:11:23 GMT -5
gas prices are higher than a giraffe's coochie...high and nasty got to climb high to smang that coochie. |
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Post by Sapphire on Mar 8, 2012 21:08:51 GMT -5
Lawd NYNupe is a smanger too? Are you Reigns cousin?
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Post by nyunupe on Mar 9, 2012 12:21:51 GMT -5
because we don't necessarily export it already refined. So what we send abroad isn't even usable "oil" like we use for fuel (and especially not gasoline). Nigeria has the same problem. Crazy major oil producer and exporter, but "free trade" has forced them to export for refinement and re-purchase at a markup. Whole ish is crazy, really.
And anytime chicken hawk politicians start sabre rattling about which "Muslim" country they want to bomb next (which happens to also be an oil producing country), it gives the speculators cover to drive prices up, based on premise that there will be scarcity in the future, even when there is plenty right now.You have to remember barrels of oil aren't purchased few at a time, they're usually sold via contracts 1000 barrells a lot at a set price. And (IN THEORY) those selling the product, gauge their prices on what they think their inventories will be, not what they currently are. If they think they are going to have less oil, say in 1 year, because Arm Chair Warrior Republicans want to bomb Iran, the price for a barrel is going to go up based on the fear that Iran may be producing and exporting less oil in the future.
In truth, folks inflate rates all the time by holding back production purposely to create artificial scarcity. 100. This was being debated this morning on a radio morning talk show on XM....I agree with this soooo much. |
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Post by Rare_Commodity on Mar 15, 2012 11:34:48 GMT -5
$3.89 really...really.
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