Dislikes about gas prices!

[AR Bowhunter]

The price of fuel just keeps climbing, not one goverment officialwill seriously stand up anaddress it. The oil excutives do not care the people that are invested in oil want it to go higher, where is it going to take to change their mines. They are not making a serious effort to come up with alternative fuels. I do not hear it being pushed.

This country relies onfuels to operate vehicles. The ambulances are diesels, fire trucks are diesels an emergency vehicles are diesels an gasoperated. The city goverments anour countryarebeing strainedfrom the price of fuels. All of our needs are increasing in price. The citzens are making small wages an paying big bucks for a gallon of fuel. This is one ofthe only countries that have freedomof about choice in alot of stuff. Oneof the best health carein the world.


Somebody needs to stand up.

[Fieldmouse]

The oil excutives do not care the people that are invested in oil want it to go higher, where is it going to take to change their mines.

FYI, executives owe one thing and that's profits to the stock holder. That means anyone with a retirement account just about.

They are not making a serious effort to come up with alternative fuels. I do not hear it being pushed.

Because 1 it's not the oil company's rtesponsibility to come up with and alternative unless it's a money making proposition and 2 nothing is in the pipe line that is a real alternative.

This country relies onfuels to operate vehicles. The ambulances are diesels, fire trucks are diesels an emergency vehicles are diesels an gasoperated. The city goverments anour countryarebeing strainedfrom the price of fuels. All of our needs are increasing in price. The citzens are making small wages an paying big bucks for a gallon of fuel. This is one ofthe only countries that have freedomof about choice in alot of stuff. Oneof the best health carein the world.

Well perhaps this is directresult of 30+ years of restriction of drilling for new supplies. Perhaps the government needs to save money and eliminate some programs and energy in the process. I guess I shouldn't hold my breath. Have no fear, help could be on the way. I just heard a projection of $10/gallon. At that price I bet the majority will be saying drill. One can only hope.

[Fieldmouse]

So how many of you are going to vote for the Dem ticket this fall? How many of you remember the main theme of the 06 election where there was news reports after news reports about high gas prices? Media was all over the Republicans running congress blaming them. So now we're two years later and the prices are almost doubled since they took over. How soon do you think it will be before the papers blame the Dems? They did promise to fix it didn't they?

[kevin1]

Sure they'll fix it, by penalizing those nasty old oil companies for making a profit, just ask Obama.

[Buck Hunter 1]

If you open the door to penalizing anyone for making money, you open Pandoras box to governemnt. Socialists love this rhetoric and are waiting like demons to feast on a soul. It will not stop w/ that industry! Do you want government to run your business as well as they run and oversee themselves????????
We as buyers/users have a choice whether to buy or not buy gasoline at a given price. I am not addressing a reality of work, play etc. I realize.

Mu suggestion is 1) cut the different types of gasoline blends that are driven by state and FederalEPA. That would have a dramatic effect on price and volumes. This should be a federal mandate overruling state and federal and start producing a standard regular and a standard high test. 2) Open the reserves and STOP catering to special interest groups because of a bird or toad or minnow. The majority is supposed to rule in the democracy, so let's drill. The Alaskan pipeline was supposed to be the end of all naturall life in Alaska. resul;ts show an increase in the populations. 3) Make state, local and fedearal government responsible for spending and utilize gas taxes for the proposed solution which was hwy. infrastructure. Not anything else.

I balme ourselves for letting a minority run this country and not looking out for ourselves and SPEAKING up w/ the vote. We have driven this ourselves, don't blame politicians because we let them do it and have not shown the backbone or resolve to shut them down.