How much does it cost for a gallon of regular unleaded gas?

[chaos]

It now cost $3.78 here in Hawaii. It took a big jump in just a couple of days. How high will it have to get before we can start drilling for oil here? ANWAR alone will replace what we get from the Saudis.

I paid 3.69 a couple days ago, same station is at 3.74 this morning.....WTF?

[Firemuscle]

lucky american bastards

In germany you pay >1,5€ per liter

that's about 8$ per gallon...

 Yeah but in the US you gotta drive like 25 miles to work, 10 miles to the store, 10 miles to a friends house.....

 Addicted to oil. They need to build a badass train system and a LOT more busses in the US. But instead they just want everyone to drive a car and consume the maximum amount of oil.

[Coach is Back!]

I paid $3.79 yesterday and you damn well know who I'm going to blame for this, yes, that's right, the same dumbshits who shut the water down to central california and put 50,000 people out of work...........for a fucking guppy

[Doug_Steele]

I paid $3.79 yesterday and you damn well know who I'm going to blame for this, yes, that's right, the same dumbshits who shut the water down to central california and put 50,000 people out of work...........for a fucking guppy

Do you think Obama is helping "Create Jobs"? 

[Coach is Back!]

Do you think Obama is helping "Create Jobs"? 

Just think of the jobs that could be created if he drilled here instead of begging for oil in other countries.

[Doug_Steele]

Just think of the jobs that could be created if he drilled here instead of begging for oil in other countries.

People still need to work at BK, Wendy's, Subway, Hardee's,, Arby's,..etc. 

Just think about "Calvin" who worked for Mcdonald's back in the early 90's. 

[Cableguy]

Again, do you drive a car? Do you go to the supermarket and get groceries or do you hunt for your meal? Do you go to the store and buy clothes or do you make them yourself out of tree bark? Do you live in a house or apartment or in a cave?

Everything you have that you didn't make with you own hands is dependent of petroleum. Even that plastic bottle you drink your water out of.

And how have we inflicted irreparable damage on this planet through our use of fossil fuels? Is Texas, an oil State, still able to support life. What about the effect of Prudue Bay on Alaska. How do you define irreparable damage?

And the Serengeti is untouched, eh? Maybe so, but where would you rather live? Where you are now or in Tanzania?

As gas prices continue to increase the price of EVERTHING goes up and literally puts a brake on our already faltering economy. You don't want us to produce more oil. That leaves us at the mercy of importing oil from other countries, many of those countries that want us dead. What do you want to do about it TODAY?

The Serengeti isn't untouched, but the ANWR still is.

Anyway dude, you're right. What else can we do. We're fucked no matter how you look at it. Whate>er we do now will just be postponing the ine>itable. Like I said, we'll e>entually just breed oursel>es into extinction. Unchecked population increase will be our undoing in the long run. 7 billion people now, and a projected 9 billion by 2050. The planet and it's resources are finite and don't expand with the rapidly growing population unfortunately. There will be a tipping point e>entually. And after we're gone, the planet will heal.

[Firemuscle]

The Serengeti isn't untouched, but the ANWR still is.

Anyway dude, you're right. What else can we do. We're fucked no matter how you look at it. Whate>er we do now will just be postponing the ine>itable. Like I said, we'll e>entually just breed oursel>es into extinction. Unchecked population increase will be our undoing in the long run. 7 billion now, and a projected 9 billion by 2050. The planet and it's resources are finite and don't expand with the rapidly growing population unfortunately. After we're gone, the planet will heal.

 Pretty soon the global elites are going to release some kind of fucked up virus or plague onto the general public. Killing billions.

 The head honchos of this world know that there are too damn many people on this Earth. They are about to do something about it.

 Hasta la vista people. Get ready for hell.

[Cableguy]

1 billion people are more than enough, not 7+. Unbelie>able that people worry so much about unborn fetuses when there are WAY too many Goddamn people crowding this small rock already...

And yes, I wouldn't be surprised if a sudden "plague" hit.

[pellius]

The Serengeti isn't untouched, but the ANWR still is.

Anyway dude, you're right. What else can we do. We're fucked no matter how you look at it. Whate>er we do now will just be postponing the ine>itable. Like I said, we'll e>entually just breed oursel>es into extinction. Unchecked population increase will be our undoing in the long run. 7 billion people now, and a projected 9 billion by 2050. The planet and it's resources are finite and don't expand with the rapidly growing population unfortunately. There will be a tipping point e>entually. And after we're gone, the planet will heal.

I'm not sure what you mean about being fucked no matter what or that we are over populated. We produce more than enough food to feed than entire world -- an everybody gets seconds. And this planet isn't even close to being tap out space wise. Ever fly fly LA to New York? Lots of open space. In fact, the entire world's population could fit in the state of Texas quite comfortably. http://lifeissues.net/writers/mos/pri_01texas.html And are fossil fuels finite? I guess they are but are we even close to exhausting the resource? They've been saying for decades that we are running out of fossil fews. In the 1970's it was predicted we would be tapped out by 2010. But guess what? We keep discovering and finding new oil reserves. The shales in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming contain more oil than all of the Mideast countries combined.

I don't know what you mean by a planet healing or how you can tell if it's healthy or sick. There was a time when it was nothing but volcanic eruptions, storms, earthquakes, fracturing of the continents -- and what about that asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs? Nobody was driving cars then.

But whatever. Nothing lasts forever. NOTHING. Even this planet whether it is healed or not. The fact is that we have oil here that we are not allowed to utilize. Everyone else drills wherever they can find oil -- but not us. We just have to buy it from them. And a lot of that money is used to finance our enemies. It doesn't make sense. No one will ever go to ANWR. The caribou will be fine like they are in Purdue Bay. And with directional drilling we will only use a small fraction of that mosquito infested, frozen desert. Imagine ANWR is the size of a football field we will be using one square foot of the area. Is that too much for some degree of oil independence and maintain and even improve of quality of life.

As oil prices goes up everything goes up. EVERYTHING. And the higher the cost of living rises the more economic activity is suppressed. And the more economic activity is suppressed the more ... well, I'll let you figure it out.

[Parker]

The Serengeti isn't untouched, but the ANWR still is.

Anyway dude, you're right. What else can we do. We're fucked no matter how you look at it. Whate>er we do now will just be postponing the ine>itable. Like I said, we'll e>entually just breed oursel>es into extinction. Unchecked population increase will be our undoing in the long run. 7 billion people now, and a projected 9 billion by 2050. The planet and it's resources are finite and don't expand with the rapidly growing population unfortunately. There will be a tipping point e>entually. And after we're gone, the planet will heal.

There's plenty of w-i-d-e open spaces to live...people just like crowding the coasts....You have uninhabited mountain ranges as well. And then there is the seas....floating cities, or under-water cities, or air cities....

[GraniteCityDon]

Over here in the UK if you take an average of £1.34 per L then it equates to $9.90 per gallon. You have no idea how luck you are and have no reason to complain in the grand scheme of things.

[JasonH]

Over here in the UK if you take an average of £1.34 per L then it equates to $9.90 per gallon. You have no idea how luck you are and have no reason to complain in the grand scheme of things.

Exactly - petrol (or gas as they call it in the US) is a fucking rip-off in the UK - the government gets about 80% of it in taxes - and they're possibly putting it up again next month.

I'd love it if we paid US prices.

[Hurricane Beef !]

lucky american bastards

In germany you pay >1,5€ per liter

that's about 8$ per gallon...

FUCK!!!

THE BEEF

[The Showstoppa]

Glaringly obvious that many of you from europe have never lived in the US, or even been here for very long, other than a holiday.  Having lived in both, it is stupid to compare how "you have it made in the US" with gas prices.....bullshit.  You have a very consolidated population and MUCH smaller countries, which allows you to have a very user friendly public transportation system.  I KNOW, I used them for 3 yrs.  Here in the US, we are much, much more spread out......public transportation isn't terrible in larger cities, but not in the least bit feasible in rural areas.  Even the rural areas of europe, you still have train stops, etc....again, because of the converged population.

Americans HAVE to drive their vehicles......and spare me the "we need more trains and buses" bullshit..... it simply will not work except for in large urban areas.

[xxxLinda]

Don't bank on it. What shit hole country are you posting from?

probably Australia?



xL

[xxxLinda]

Glaringly obvious that many of you from europe have never lived in the US, or even been here for very long, other than a holiday.  Having lived in both, it is stupid to compare how "you have it made in the US" with gas prices.....bullshit.  You have a very consolidated population and MUCH smaller countries, which allows you to have a very user friendly public transportation system.  I KNOW, I used them for 3 yrs.  Here in the US, we are much, much more spread out......public transportation isn't terrible in larger cities, but not in the least bit feasible in rural areas.  Even the rural areas of europe, you still have train stops, etc....again, because of the converged population.

Americans HAVE to drive their vehicles......and spare me the "we need more trains and buses" bullshit..... it simply will not work except for in large urban areas.

you what?  you actually think that public transport works in big cities in small countries?  you think that because it's only 50 miles to get to London it'll take less than 2 hours?  

you think we're not "spread out"?  you think a mother with kids to get to school or fetch shopping, or a musician with a cello and a suit and sheets of music doesn't need a car and could instead just get on a fucking bus?


sorry, but no.
madly xL

please don't assume that you're the only country which needs to rely on cars.  You may though be the only country to build millions of miles of highways, sell everyone two cars and then rely on the middle east for oil...

only kidding.  the whole world might be screwed, it's not looking positive in the short term.


they're trying to invent electric cars, but...

[Cableguy]

I'm not sure what you mean about being fucked no matter what or that we are over populated. We produce more than enough food to feed than entire world -- an everybody gets seconds. And this planet isn't even close to being tap out space wise. Ever fly fly LA to New York? Lots of open space. In fact, the entire world's population could fit in the state of Texas quite comfortably. http://lifeissues.net/writers/mos/pri_01texas.html And are fossil fuels finite? I guess they are but are we even close to exhausting the resource? They've been saying for decades that we are running out of fossil fews. In the 1970's it was predicted we would be tapped out by 2010. But guess what? We keep discovering and finding new oil reserves. The shales in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming contain more oil than all of the Mideast countries combined.

I don't know what you mean by a planet healing or how you can tell if it's healthy or sick. There was a time when it was nothing but volcanic eruptions, storms, earthquakes, fracturing of the continents -- and what about that asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs? Nobody was driving cars then.

But whatever. Nothing lasts forever. NOTHING. Even this planet whether it is healed or not. The fact is that we have oil here that we are not allowed to utilize. Everyone else drills wherever they can find oil -- but not us. We just have to buy it from them. And a lot of that money is used to finance our enemies. It doesn't make sense. No one will ever go to ANWR. The caribou will be fine like they are in Purdue Bay. And with directional drilling we will only use a small fraction of that mosquito infested, frozen desert. Imagine ANWR is the size of a football field we will be using one square foot of the area. Is that too much for some degree of oil independence and maintain and even improve of quality of life.

As oil prices goes up everything goes up. EVERYTHING. And the higher the cost of living rises the more economic activity is suppressed. And the more economic activity is suppressed the more ... well, I'll let you figure it out.

That's the solution right there...just relocate at least 90% of the world's population to Texas!

Seriously, I ha>e no problem drilling in the arctic or anywhere if it won't ha>e an impact on the en>ironment. But what that impact will actually be is debatable. Corporate owned scientists will always say that there won't be any impact. That's what they're paid to say.

Logging, mining, and hydroelectric interests will take whate>er they can. Hell, they almost dammed the Grand Canyon and Yosemite >alley. And there's >ery little old growth left...sterile tree farms aren't the same thing as a real forest.

As far as the world population, it continues to grow unchecked. When will there be too many? 10 billion? 20 billion? It's gonna crash e>entually. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but e>entually. I guess we'll just let some future generation deal with it.

[pellius]

Glaringly obvious that many of you from europe have never lived in the US, or even been here for very long, other than a holiday.  Having lived in both, it is stupid to compare how "you have it made in the US" with gas prices.....bullshit.  You have a very consolidated population and MUCH smaller countries, which allows you to have a very user friendly public transportation system.  I KNOW, I used them for 3 yrs.  Here in the US, we are much, much more spread out......public transportation isn't terrible in larger cities, but not in the least bit feasible in rural areas.  Even the rural areas of europe, you still have train stops, etc....again, because of the converged population.

Americans HAVE to drive their vehicles......and spare me the "we need more trains and buses" bullshit..... it simply will not work except for in large urban areas.

This is a brilliant posts because most don't consider the reasons why high speed railway never works here in the US and is a horrendous waste of money.

[pellius]

That's the solution right there...just relocate at least 90% of the world's population to Texas!

Seriously, I ha>e no problem drilling in the arctic or anywhere if it won't ha>e an impact on the en>ironment. But what that impact will actually be is debatable. Corporate owned scientists will always say that there won't be any impact. That's what they're paid to say.

Logging, mining, and hydroelectric interests will take whate>er they can. Hell, they almost dammed the Grand Canyon and Yosemite >alley. And there's >ery little old growth left...sterile tree farms aren't the same thing as a real forest.

We can always speculate on what will or will not happen in the long run. The long, long run. But as John Maynard Keynes once said, "In the long run we will all be dead."


As far as the world population, it continues to grow unchecked. When will there be too many? 10 billion? 20 billion? It's gonna crash e>entually. Maybe not in our lifetimes, but e>entually. I guess we'll just let some future generation deal with it.

We can simply look at the impact drilling in Alaska has had since we already drill there in Purdue Bay. In life, there's always going to be trade offs. If I suddenly removed ANWR from the face of the planet with a wave of the wand nobody would notice. The impact on the planet's "healing" ability will be zero. The impact to your, and everybody elses, life will be zero.

[The Showstoppa]

This is a brilliant posts because most don't consider the reasons why high speed railway never works here in the US and is a horrendous waste of money.

Thank you sir, and I agree with your points on the subject too. Here is a population density map of the world.....notice the VAST difference between the US and ALL european countries?  Nobody is saying that euro's don't need cars at all, but they do not have to rely on them nearly as much as Americans do....to argue anything otherwise is just plain foolish.

[dr.chimps]

Thank you sir, and I agree with your points on the subject too. Here is a population density map of the world.....notice the VAST difference between the US and ALL european countries?  Nobody is saying that euro's don't need cars at all, but they do not have to rely on them nearly as much as Americans do....to argue anything otherwise is just plain foolish.

That's the politic, social studies answer. Don't forget that you Americans just love driving yer motherfuckin' cars. 

[The Showstoppa]

That's the politic, social studies answer. Don't forget that you Americans just love driving yer motherfuckin' cars. 

LOL.......I would never deny that !!!!

[mass 04]

I prefer to project the "I spent all my gas money on steel cut oats and baby oil" vibe and just take the bus.

[The Showstoppa]

I prefer to project the "I spent all my gas money on steel cut oats and baby oil" vibe and just take the bus.

haha, Mass can you imagine people scrambling not wanting that guy next to them......sweat stained, pit's stinking, protein fartin' half-wit......