Gas up to 3.60 where I live and going up .02 everyday.

No one has to state a reason, all they have to do is raise the price. But workers aren't entitled to unionizing or asking for a living minimum wage? Go figure! Want to bet the petroleum companies post their highest ever earning this year.

 

the gas in my area is 3.95

 

I thought California had the highest rates right now. We have probably another month before we match PA by your statistics Yeroness.

 

$3.60 is that all, even in big towns in other world places they have equivlint price
$12.00 for one of you gallions

 

I realize that's low as far as the rest of the world. But lower level workers here in the states haven't received raises in over ten years. And this has just happened in the last 5 months. With no major hurricanes or setbacks for the forces in Iraq. We taxpayers continue to pay for a payoff that never comes our way. That's all I am saying.

We are used to seeing gas go up in the summer so the petroleum companies can suck out every last cent from our vacation dollars. But this started in December and has continued and will probably continue until right before the elections when the republicans will play their hand and ask them to back off so they look like the good guys.

 

What are you minimum wages in the rest of the world?

 

I don't have a car and don't plan on it with prices going up the way they are (still 2.95-3.08 around here). as long as I got my two feet...

 

pshhh i wish i could walk eveywhere i needed to go

 

So, what happens in this "god forsaken" WV county when all those folks who commute to work (most of the working population) have to quit their jobs because they can't afford to drive to work?

We bought bicycles...

 

Seriously, carpooling needs to get back in session.

And bikes.

It's ridiculous for one person to have an entire car to themselves. I have one to myself, but I try to use it as little as possible.

We should all be like switzerland.

 

or the netherlands..or japan or china...

where bikes tend to be all over.

most Americans are to damn lazy to bike the few miles to and from work each day though.

 

most people dont have local jobs though and need a car to get to and from. gas prices are about 2.95 where i live and its ridiculous, they just went up the past few weeks.

 

My motorcycle gets 50 mpg and has a 0-100 in 6 seconds. Enough said.

 

well, an alternative for me, when traveling great distances, is to car pool or use public transportation to cut back on gas.

 

The price for a gallon of gas in Venezuela is about .12 cents. In Iran about .24 cents, Nigeria -.38 cents, Egypt .65 cents, Saudi Arabia .91 cents, Kuwait about .78 cents. Source CNN

Not saying people shouldn't bike or find other ways around this but the oil complanies are just charging the most they can get out of people.

 

if the oil, automotive and paving industries, were taxed to pay for real public transportation, the way railroads, and incidently, we the public, are, to defacto subsidise the oil and automotive industries, by among other things, building their roads and signaling systems for them, the price of gas would be twice what it is, with two thirds of that comming back out to us, in so much public transportation bennifit, that almost none of us, would ever NEED to buy gas in the first place. nor by doing so, create a market for inexcusable wars of exploitation, in which hundreds of thousands have been so far needlessly mass murdered (on the excuse of 20 guys ripping off four airplanes and knocking down two and half buildings, which in all probabiliy our so called government had at least as much of a hand in as to knowingly hold a door open for, if not outright planed itself)

so i'm glad the price of gas is high. i'd be even gladder if it was even higher. i'm not glad though, with where the resault of that, the 'take' from it, is actually at present going. lining pockets already deeper then they have any need to be, and to purchase control of infotainment to control what they, the corporacratic mafia that has usurped government, wants you to hear and believe.

that global warming is caused by trees and dynosaur farts and their bloodthirsty trade in the means of combustion and the use of it to generate energy and propell transportation, couldn't possibly have anything to do with it.

yes i know it's expensive and getting more so, but other then the profits from it falling into the wrong hands, it would still be too cheep at twice the price, because of what it enables and encourages us to remain, far too dependent upon. and that is precisely the very thing that is most empariling our own future as a species, along with, and consiquent to, the very web of life on our planet itself.

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Aw screw all that. The US of A has gone down the tubes. We ain't what we used to be, and that's a fact. The corruption's gone all the way from the top guverment bozos on down to the local cops. That means you too, Buford. Hain't nobody gonna listen to you, 'cause it's common knowledge that all cops lie thru their teeth, if they have any. Gas goin thru the roof? I reckon it's time for the blinders to come off and see the REAL WORLD. Yea, good.

 

Here are acouple different quick fixes for this situation, Car Pooling, Public Transit, walking, running, jogging, riding a bike, Motorcycles get great MPG, walking on your hands... ANYTHING THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE A CAR... hhhmmmm surprized no one thought of that earlier...

 

Carpooling is fine if you don't live out in the sticks and work in the opposit direction of your neighbors. The US was built on mobility.

The bigger question is why are the prices escalating? At the end of the year when these corporations post the highest profits ever, while the rest of us have had to refigure our day to day budgest to afford milk and bread, I hope someone will still be interested in why during a time of war they can't accept a smaller margin of profit. We sacrifice our children...what exactly do they sacrifice? Just watch right before the primaries they'll lower their prices...will they have found more sources or built more refineries? I don't think so. I think they are milking a market for all it's worth.

And aren't we sacrificing our children to secure a source of oil for them?

 

Most little people are so strapped right now that they are already doing all these things. The working man hasn't recieved an increase in the minimum wage for over ten years, and the one that was recently passed will be incrememtal over a number of years. The working man has seen benefits and wages stagnate while oil companies and other big business have seen record profits.

We're told our health interests and those of our families are holding business back, and we've caved and had to absorb those costs individually, what have the oil companies absorbed. They've received federal bail outs during every hurricane, they don't have to argue with insurance companies over whether or not their damages were caused by wind, rain or flood. Why can't they give us a break?

Everytime violence escalates in the part of the world where they are sacrificing our children they raise their prices...is that right?