gas prices

[Dis]

yeah I'm sure we've had a thread on this before. The *****ing will never stop. get used to it.

My main problem is I think prices are aritificially high. Oil companies are making record profits.

Perhaps I'm uninformed here. But i think this is similar to the made up energy crises early this century. They said there weren't enough power plants. Which is bull****. We had record temps last summer and didn't have any blackouts. It was made up for these corporations to gouge the customers. With Bush in office they figured they'd get away with it. Now I hear there aren't enough refineries. I could believe that, but I still see record profits by these companies. I see they are surpassing Walmart in profits. What am I supposed to believe?

In some ways I do hope people will wake up and stop buying SUV's. I just don't want to pay the high prices myself. It's okay if other people pay them. I think people with fuel efficient cars such as mine should pay a lower rate. SUV owners should have a luxery tax.

But I figured since prices are over $3.00 a gallon now, we need a new thread on this. discuss. Why are prices so high?

[chequita guevara]

gas prices

[Dis]

and people don't need SUV's. People got by 40 years ago without them.

Don't give me the room argument. People had larger families back then. People have 1 or 2 kids today. A passenger car is plenty enough.

Then I hear the ice and snow argument. We had ice and snow 40 years ago. People were able to drive passenger cars in it. The death rates were lower back then, so I'd imagine it's just as safe. You just can't drive like a maniac when there's ice and snow on the road.

Safety. They are more likely to roll over since people insist on driving vehicles with a high center of gravity over 80 mph. And it's unsafer to people like me. . Stop being a *****. I'm like the biggest ***** in the world, and you don't see me driving one. I don't fear death on the highway. I don't feel the need to drive around in a tank. You can't live forever. Who wants to be old and gray anyways? Live your life now, and don't worry about dying on the highway.

[chequita guevara]

Take public transportation.

[Dis]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Take public transportation.

I'm sure this was a joke post.

I'll never give up my car. They will have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

[DaShi]

Higher gas prices will still affect those who don't own or drive cars as well. It's the lower class that will take the brunt of this as usual.

[Dis]

There's a type of freedom of having a car. I couldn't imagine giving it up. The freedom to go just about anywhere. If I can't get there, a car can take me to where I can hike to get there. And I do enjoy hiking.

The freedom to not be trapped in this ****hole of a city I live in. I love this city, but it's a ****hole just like all cities are. But cities are a necessary evil to survive (jobs).

I just wish people would be more responsible driving, and not drive like maniacs. And people with low kill levels driving . Such is the curse of freedom. That is how freedom is. You have to take the bad with the good.

edit: I meant skill levels above. but I like kill levels too, so I left it (even though it has opposite meaning)

[DinoDoc]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Take public transportation.

Which runs on?

[DanS]

Electricity and methane, in my neck of the woods.

[KrazyHorse]

Re: gas prices

Originally posted by Dis
My main problem is I think prices are aritificially high. Oil companies are making record profits.

The fact that oil companies are making record profits has nothing to do with whether or not prices are "artificially" high.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
Which runs on?

Yet another idiotic comment by DD

[DinoDoc]

How so?

[DanS]

Actually, I'm pretty big on personal transportation, even though I don't own a car. Most/all of the downsides of personal transportation are within sight of being solved. The US has made the correct choices on this, with the technology that was available at hand.

[chequita guevara]

Originally posted by Dis


I'm sure this was a joke post.

I'll never give up my car. They will have to pry it out of my cold, dead hands.

I have a car for errands and emergencies. I take public transportation to work. The car costs $3000 a year with insurnace, not including maintenance. Public transportation is $720 a year. Since I'm not driving all the time, I'm saving$840 on gas and another $200 on insurance, which brings the cost of the car down to $2K, give or take. If I factor in the cost of the train, I save about $300 a year at current gas prices, and I don't have to worry about dying on the freeway because some dumbass was reading the paper and talking on the cell phone when they should be driving.

[DaShi]

I walk to work. However, here we have Zipcar. So I can rent a car for about $10 for an hour for grocery shopping or other things that I may need one for.