Gas at $5.29!
By ersmommy1
@ersmommy1 (12587)
United States
6 responses
@bdugas (3577)
• United States
12 Sep 08
Our gas here has gone up about a quarter, but I don't believe that it is connected to the storms moving though the gulf, but to the fact that OPEC said they was cutting our oil supply by 500,000 barrels a day because the gas prices has fallen. I am sure that we will see some rise in prices as the storms have kept the rigs down quite a bit in the last month. This is a game to the oil companies anything that they can come up with that raise the prices on us.
@rjblueyes (215)
• United States
12 Sep 08
this is the exact reason I'm voting for McCain. He has Palin that wants to drill in Alaska. I don't see why not. I have many friends who lived in Alaska and they say all that stuff about "Drilling will hurt the beauty of Alaska" is a bunch of crap. We have plenty of oil of our own. Lets use it and in the meantime find a way where we don't have to use oil and gas. I'm not a tree hugging environmentalist, just don't want to depend on other countries and multi billionaires that raise the gas prices whenever they want to go to a "charity" benefit and spend 2,000,000.00 a plate because they can.
@rjblueyes (215)
• United States
12 Sep 08
Almost forgot, don't forget thier record profits of over 4 billion dollars.
@liscampll (124)
• United States
13 Sep 08
The problem right now isn't with OPEC and crude oil, it's with the refineries that turn the oil into gas. We have the oil but we can't make it into gas.
As far as "Drill baby Drill" this won't help. The oil coming out of the ground will belong to the oil company and will be auctioned off to the highest bidder. So we will be bidding against China and India for our own oil.
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
13 Sep 08
Perhaps we should invest in alternative energy such as solar or wind energy. Both are safe and do not have side effects. An alternative energy might be nuclear energy. Hopefully when fuel resources end up we can resort to such energy.
@stephcjh (38473)
• United States
12 Sep 08
Oh my gosh. That is outragious. I bet gas will really go up there once IKE does come through. I guess they raised the prices to try to conserve on it in case of a disaster. It would keep alot of people home that really do not need to travel.
@lilybug (21107)
• United States
12 Sep 08
Gas jumped from $3.43 to $4.29 over night here. A few of the gas stations around here actually ran out of gas. The one I was at earlier today said that they had run out of gas 3 times in the last 24 hours. A customer told the cashier that rang me up that in Kennet a town south of me gas was almost $6 a gallon. I think it is ridiculous how high they are jacking up the prices.
@rjblueyes (215)
• United States
12 Sep 08
Heck Yeah there should be a law against this! I took my daughter to school this morning it was at 3.69, and we can get 10 cents off at Ingles. I went back at around 11 to shop b4 I got her out of school and it was 3.99. Ok, so there's a hurricane coming in now, how does that make the price go up on the gas that's already in the ground? They already paid for it! And what really gets me is that everyone was getting the gas!! I'm thinkin to myself, you stupid morons, if you just wouldn't buy the gas until after the hurricane when it goes back down because no one would buy it at 3.99, they couldn't and wouldn't keep doing this to us!! And if they really needed gas that bad, why didn't they fill up before? Everyone knew for weeks that Ike was coming. Every gas station I passed was filled and people were waiting. It's insane!!
