Gas prices are up! Where's the outrage?

I remember just over $4.00 (4.05 maybe) for a couple of weeks around here during vacation season '08 but not close to 'cusping' $5 here anyway. I bet it will be significantly higher than $4.05 this summer.

 

Well. there's another buck or so to go before the right should be bothered at all since their guy set the president.

 

I thought it was the markets that decided the price, Tom. Are you hallucinating again?

 

Again? Maybe still.

 

True, but the market is much more hostile with a criminal, profiteering, preemptive war mongering crowd in the White house.

 

Here we go.............


Higher pump prices coming your way this spring - Yahoo! News

 

BP's gotta get their cash one way or another!

 

Hey Clembo, remember our drive to Los Angeles and it took $150 to fill up my Blazer?

 

C'mon now..you can afford it. What's that thing get, 7?...8 miles to the gallon? Besides...it's "just business", the market and all that ratamataaz. You should be praising the successes of capitalism.

 

Follow BO's orders and maintain the tire pressure & you'll get 60 miles/gal!!!

 

Actually, I got 10 miles per gallon in that truck, a lifted V8 4x4.......it had a 31 gallon tank and gas in Blythe CA was $5.15 a gallon.....30 gallons to fill up. Clembo ad I drove from Phoenix to Long Beach for a coin show, then the return trip, about 1000 miles round trip. It would have been cheaper to fly and rent a car.

 

RLM and I went the next year, but we flew and rented a Mustang GT Convertible, that ws a blast.

 

It looks like it's headed that way:

 

And then you tie the prices to this;

Obama Administration Halts Bush Expansion Of Offshore Drilling
Obama Administration Halts Bush Expansion Of Offshore Drilling

The only way that makes sense is if you are trying to raise the prices for oil. He said that is what he was trying to do. Think just maybe?

 

I think the trouble all over the Middle East has something to do with the rise in oil prices. Not really in our control. We could invest heavily in alternatives and high speed rail I suppose as Obama has suggested but that would mean that our wallets couldn't be sucked dry by the big oil companies anymore. That would be a shame. Fortunately, I can walk to work so high gas prices are not an issue.

 

Or we could meet our needs through offshore drilling and ANWR instead of pipe-dream high speed rail and socialist-agenda Green initiatives.

 

So now green initiatives are "SOCIALIST"?????? This I gotta hear. Please go on.

 

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OK, apart from not living in the UK what does this have to do with green energy?

 

From Wikipedia:


Eco-socialism, green socialism or socialist ecology is an ideology merging aspects of Marxism, socialism, green politics, ecology and alter-globalization. Eco-socialists generally believe that the expansion of the capitalist system is the cause of social exclusion, poverty, war and environmental degradation through globalization and imperialism, under the supervision of repressive states and transnational structures.[1]
Eco-socialists advocate the dismantling of capitalism and the state, focusing on collective ownership of the means of production by freely associated producers and restoration of the commons.[1