Gas prices are spiking to $4.39 per gallon at the BP station at Congress Parkway and Dearborn Street. (Credit: CBS)
UPDATED 04/11/11 10:57 a.m.
CHICAGO (CBS) – At one time, $5 per gallon gas seemed like a far-fetched idea, but that is no longer the case.
As of Monday, the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline in the Chicago area is $4.11, compared with $3.71 a month ago, and about $3.10 a gallon at this time a year ago.
Some experts say $5 per gallon gas is possible by Memorial Day-or sometime in summer. Others caution that reaching that mark is unlikely over the next six weeks. In Chicago, the prices keep rising to near-record levels–with no relief in sight.
Right now, oil markets are so skittish that records set in 2008 could fall.
Drivers Monday morning were practically numb to the price spikes.
“What are you going to do?” said Shannon Thompson. “We’ve become so gas-dependent in this country. There are so many SUVs. I mean, I’ve had a hybrid. It worked great. Right now, I’m just going to deal with it.”
Prices at some gas stations outside the city were still below $4, a bargain compared to the $4.29-$4.40 range at some service stations downtown.
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“It’s painful,” said Lamar Magee. “You’ve got to make a decision on where you drive and where you go nowadays.” He said he is “definitely” making changes to his routines.
Magee says it will cost him about $120 to fill up the 30-gallon tank on his van.
But even that pales in comparison to the big rigs. Truck driver Mark Kanarowski says his truck holds 200 gallons.
“It’s got to be a huge expense for the company,” Kanarowski said. “I went to St. Louis over the weekend to fill up my own car, and I was paying about $4.13 a gallon. It hurts.”
A limo driver shared his thoughts as he filled up his tank at the Des Plaines Oasis.
“Normal-sized tank, big price – when you get done at the pump, it’s killing business, and a lot of one-way trips now,” he said, “like I’m going to get somebody this morning, and I’m not bringing him home. His wife will probably bring him home, because everyone’s trying to save a little bit here, a little bit there.”
The Lundberg Survey says the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded as of Monday was $3.76. That is up 19 cents since March 18, and up 91 cents since this time last year.
The sharply rising prices hearken back memories of the summer of 2008.
That year, oil prices were driven well above $100 per barrel, and in June of that year and gas prices were well over $4 a gallon. The highest average record price was $4.34 per gallon, set July 2008.
No one is eager to break that record. But with no end in sight to the turmoil in the Middle East, analysts say we’re likely to do just that – and just as holiday travelers hit the highways for Memorial Day weekend.
690 Comments
It isn’t only the oill barons and gas companies making millions; it’s the traders that drive the price of oil up. We need to drill in our own country where supplies are unlimited in the Dakotas alone. Maybe it’s time to outsource our government and replace it with outsiders that will look after the American people.
April 11, 2011 at 6:59 am
Unlimited supplies? You must not have paid close attention in science when you were a kid. Eventually, the supplies WILL dry up, and we will be forced to either look elsewhere again, or look or another source of fuel.
April 11, 2011 at 11:05 am
Yeah, key word eventually, agree…but when is that?…there is enough to all us to transition to other alternative sources of fuel…till then we should consider drilling it for ourselves. JIMHO
April 11, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Supplies are essentially limitless. To think otherwise shows extreme hubris. Humans need to develop new fuel sources but simply put, fossil fuels will not be used up anytime soon
April 11, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Ok ‘eventually’ is a long time, by current estimates we have more than 100 years of proven reserves in this country alone if Nancy and the Dear Leader would let American companies produce them …. That’s a fact.
April 11, 2011 at 12:13 pm
UNLIMITED???? It’s a sphere for crying out loud. It will dry up, it’s jst a question of when?
April 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm
The Donald will put a stop to this dung.
April 11, 2011 at 8:20 pm
Mike what has your president done for you lately,the same as he did for me NOTHING!
April 11, 2011 at 8:09 am
Do something for yourself!
April 11, 2011 at 5:28 pm
it’s all due to speculators, and we are just sitting back taking it. We need to clean out the Gov. and get people in there who will start to take action. Gas Comp are just price goughing us.
April 11, 2011 at 8:25 am
Ron Paul 2012!
April 11, 2011 at 12:44 pm
anybody but obama or any liberal thats for sure
April 11, 2011 at 1:22 pm
“Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction in stolen goods.” ~ H. L. Mencken — http://911essentials.com
April 11, 2011 at 1:28 pm
I always loved that quote. Unfortunately it is not required reading by today’s youth or else they don’t understand what it means.
April 11, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Sorry, you guys just don’t know how “speculating” works, and it’s just too easy a boogie for you to blame. Speculating actually helps to moderate a market. If I feel that a market is overpriced (such as now, if you believe that certain people are trading up the market artificially). If so, then I will also “speculate” and short the market because I believe it would inevitably come back down since it is artifically high. My and others shorting the market will then dampen any unsubstantiated price inflation. If you believe that the market is articially high due to unscrupolous speculators, then short some oil and beat them at their own game.
Having said that, oil moves up and down due to supply and demand, as well as perceived risks in the markets (maybe like what we are seeing now, and a possibility of unrest in Saudi). That is ALL that I see.
April 11, 2011 at 12:46 pm
The oil market is going to crash down with a stupifying thunder just like it did in 2008. In spite of everything going on the market is glutted with product. Wars, earthquakes, lack of drilling in gulf have not even dented the glut we have right now. The consumer does not have the cash to pay for the product at this cost and the run up is not sustainable. Repeat 2008.
April 11, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Well heck Gozie, you’re no fun al all :P, let’s see a little more reckless panic driven dialog eh?
April 11, 2011 at 1:16 pm
Cant wait to see the look on your face when we arnt using dollars in this country any more….
April 11, 2011 at 1:17 pm
Funny watching you guys flail around for why this is happening. Look to Ben Bernanke and the Federal Reserve for the reason as to why you are paying out the a$$ for food and fuel these days. It’s called quantitative easing aka debasing our currency. Speculation in the oil markets is some of it as well. Supply and demand and OPEC have exactly D**k to do with the prices we are seeing now.
April 11, 2011 at 1:21 pm
The way speculation works is like this…If the interest rates are low and the dollar is worth anything then traders place their bets against oil and gold raising their value. Is has to do nothing with demand or risk in the middle east althought maybe a little. The problem is oil should not be in the market, it is a first necessity item like it was years ago. The problem is there are some greedy people that on purpose create speculations and rumors to artificially raise its value and that is the real problem.
April 11, 2011 at 1:32 pm
That’s all that you see because you are gainfully employed or a company owner. As for me, a Computer Scientist with nearly 30 years of experience and several degrees, I can’t find work. So this is a back-breaker. Think outside yourself… you may “enjoy” a similar experience one day.
April 11, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Not enough players in oil to make it work like a normal market. Too much oil is controlled by too few speculators so price manipulation is easy. The hammers have no choice but to keep driving the price up until they can attract enough suckers into the market for a rally they can sell into and then open up their short positions to ride the crash on the way down. That suckers rally is not there yet. It’s still the same hammers buying and selling to each other to drive the price up. Or, if you live in GozieBoy’s world, everything is fine. Nothing to see here. Move along.
April 11, 2011 at 1:49 pm
Thank a Democrat, Liberal and Environmmentalist – for the high gas prices- they have not allowed exploration drilling or a new refinery since 1976 even though demand has qaudrupled. Dems energy policy is having us all drive a bycycle and read by candlelight ieating tofu and wearing our little green HEMP MAO suits!
April 11, 2011 at 1:33 pm
Why doesn’t Congress make spectulating on oil against the law????
April 11, 2011 at 8:54 am
Why can’t we drill our own oil? 3rd wold nations are going to be drilling for us soon in the gulf…why do we have to prop them up?
April 11, 2011 at 11:55 am
where you been? Cuba now has 3 rigs drilling less than 100 miles off the Gulf…
April 11, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Those are Chinese rigs drilling in the Gulf – the Chinese made a deal with Cuba in 2009 – right about the same time the Dems in Congress banned US drilling in the area. Our govt is full of short-sighted morons…
April 11, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Simple answer… because of the environmentalists in this county.
April 11, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Why? It’s all about the transfer of wealth. America is evil and must become dependant upon 3rd world countries to even things out. We have become dependant upon foriegn oil, moved our jobs off shore, and subsidize just about all the nations on earth. Give ‘em the wealth baby, give ‘em the wealth! Now that’s change we can believe in, ain’t that right Obama!?!
April 11, 2011 at 3:08 pm
Why don’t we buy oil from everyone else while it’s still cheap, and then sell them ours for outrageous prices when they’re all tapped out?
April 11, 2011 at 4:08 pm
It wouldn’t affect the price. Oil extracted in the US is sold on the world market like all other oil. Our few drops would make very little difference in price. Price is driven up by a handful of criminal hedge fund managers on Wall Street. Every extra cent you’re spending on fuel today ends up in their pockets.
April 11, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Obama just gave money for Brazil to drill offshore and the oil goes to China.
Not the United States!
What’s wrong with this picture?
April 11, 2011 at 7:27 pm
because democ rats despise their own country and want it destroyed so they can take over completely and to do this easily is to make oil as high as possible and in addition cause as much anarchy as possible by allowing 30 million illegal aliens to run wild across the usa unchecked
April 11, 2011 at 7:45 pm
just think about how much money these oil are going to make when the year is over , if gas prices continue to increase were seeing oil companies making billion dollar profits even trillion dollar profits. What I am getting at is how much of that profit is taxable the answer is nothing. With a big us budget deficit why isnt the federal goverment taxing these oil companies who this year are going to record profits.In the end the poor and middle class always loose.
April 11, 2011 at 8:02 pm
tyrone – you got it, but its even more insidious, with communists and socialists in the EPA that are driving this nonsense. Sure, there are the democrat Cloward-Piven “tear it down and build it up into utopia” loons, but the evnrowackos are also going about a strategy to eviscerate America.
April 11, 2011 at 9:02 pm
Maybe because of such a huge oil lobby making backroom deals with a corrupted system. IMO one has to reinvent the energy supply chain by replacing the gas at the pump with a device that will attach to a generic type of carburetor, that will accept the “cracked” form of H2O, and convert it into hydrogen gas and oxygen, and use the H2 gas to power the vehicle. Electric sucks unless it’s extracted from something like a magnetic motor – then it’s REAL cheap. Otherwise, hire mercenaries to protect the drilling and production of oil at home, then the enemies will be the EPA, government, and just about every other organization that will suck the blood out of a turnip.
April 11, 2011 at 12:24 pm
yes just like speculators created a bubble out of mortgages(financing homes) and insurance (derivatives) that later on crashed deswtrying our economy.
April 11, 2011 at 1:34 pm
LOL! Why not just install the Mr Fusion from Back to the Future?
April 11, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Obviously you don’t understand that “cracking,” as you call it, cost way more energy than you get out of the molecule of Hydrogen.
Um, electricity from a “magnetic motor?” I don’t even know what that means.
Congrats on thinking outside the box, but you have to stay in reality, too.
April 11, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Electric is never going to be realistic. Down here is Texas we have travel trailers, boats and toys to pull around. Also there is a hidden cost to the smaller fuel efficient cars and that is they are really dangerous if you get in an accident. Are you willing to trade in your safety for a few bucks? How many people have died as a result of being echo friendly?
April 11, 2011 at 2:55 pm
Roberto, you are wrong. It was the Democrats and their Community Reinvestment policy that lead to the housing bubble. That, in turn, lead to garbage mortgage loans that banks were forced to make. Forced to make because of Democrats. Then, these garbage papers were turned into what Wall Street called toxic assets; which were used to speculate with.
Wouldn’t have existed to the extent that they did had Obama, Frank, and other Communists not threatened banks in the firt place. Government interference!
April 11, 2011 at 8:08 pm
texaswhimp – “Never” is a long time. All we need is the magic battery breakthru, and you will have electric 18 wheelers that store more electricity than the diesel they replace. We just need that battery, and then our vast resources of multiple ways of generating electricity, from conventional coal, gas, nuclear, and hydro, to the exotic stuff like solar, wind, etc. We have no lack of energy resources. We just don’t have enough oil under production here. Electricity – and the magic battery – will change that.
April 11, 2011 at 9:06 pm
You are correct, sir! When Bush dropped the drilling moratorium in the gulf, oil prices dropped DRAMATICALLY!! If you remember, it when down by HALF! But what did Obama do? He put the ban back on. Don’t liberals see this? Of course they don’t, which is why I have a bumbersticker, “I’ve NEVER met an intelligent Democrat…”
April 11, 2011 at 12:57 pm
The problem of rising oil prices in the US isn’t currently due to supply. It’s due to Obama and the Fed turning our currency into toilet paper. When a given currency is based it takes more of it to buy the same products. Inflation is theft. Thanks to Obama we have the Carter years all over again.
April 11, 2011 at 1:33 pm
because that’s not legal – it’s a free country. Congress should not mess with the markets – that is how we got into this mess with mortgages in the first place. There’s a simple lever, it’s called demand and supply. Right now demand outstrips supply – so let’s allow drilling, oil shale and really invest in the domestic resources we have to increase supply, and the prices will fall
April 11, 2011 at 2:19 pm
There’s plenty of supply right now. That’s a load of BS.
April 11, 2011 at 2:40 pm
mark, pull your head out of the sand. There’s more supply than OPEC knows what to do with it. gphx is right about the Fed and Obama (mostly the Fed) and their involvement in the devaluation of the US dollar. You might as well wipe with a dollar now – it aint worth s&*t!
April 11, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Just because you don’t see the amount of fuel being used in China and India (two emerging markets), you think, “there must be oil laying around everywhere”. There is a tremendous supply of oil, however, the demand still out paces it. This isn’t to say that speculation isn’t driving up the price as well. Merely pointing out that demand is much greater than supply. We could add to that supply by drilling in the gulf and ANWR, but the tree huggers will never allow it. Nobody wants it in their back yard. I would like to point out that if there was oil in my backyard, i’d gladly pump it from the ground.
April 11, 2011 at 7:42 pm
Too bad about that pesky old Constitution, eh?
April 11, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Good idea more government intervention and less free markets.
April 11, 2011 at 3:10 pm
This reply is directed to gphx: When George Bush was in office deregulation and no oversight made the housing and bank collapses inevitable. Gas prices in 2008 were equally outrageous not to mention the Presidential slap in the face when he advised us we are “addicted to oil” then offered no solutions. These were the original contributors to our currency losing value.
Speculation is a huge part of this issue but oil prices are also being influenced by the various uprisings in the middle east. We will need to get serious about alternative energy and we will only be able to do this is we can keep politics out of it. If not…we will go the way of ancient Rome. We’re halfway there now.
April 11, 2011 at 3:32 pm
The plan is to sell all oil from ANWR to Japan, just like all of the oil that comes down the Alaska Pipeline ends up overseas. Oil goes where the price is highest. Shipping Alaskan oil to the lower 48 is prohibitively expensive.
April 11, 2011 at 4:29 pm
I’m one of those evil speculators (a retail trader) I am currently long on oil and you are saying this is my fault? Let me clue you in a little. Speculators take all the facts in and try to figure out where oil prices will be in 6 months. Here are some of those facts. Emerging markets are using more and more oil. There is a limited supply, even a minor drop in supply ie Libya will make prices go up. Obama wants to stop off shore drilling in this country and is opposed to drilling in places like Alaska. And most of all, the feds are spending like drunken sailors causing the dollar to drop (oil is directly pegged to the dollar). And you blame people like me for buying oil? Get your facts straight buddy…
April 11, 2011 at 4:39 pm
You are 100 percent correct! Also, when oil eventually gets too expensive, guess who will have the capital to develop alternatives? The “speculators” (and not just oil speculators). Anyone who has a 401k, a pension plan or any other investment is a speculator, so this guy is probably either a young punk, a bum or a hypocrite. Unfortunately, it seems most people are either too ignorant or stupid to figure out how markets work. They just want somebody to lower the price, as if price and supply are independent of each other and can somehow be effectively manipulated on a whim.
April 11, 2011 at 8:12 pm
You’re part of the problem. I can’t wait until the bubble pops and vermin like you are out on street corners with cardboard signs. Then we’ll all be broke together, bro.
April 11, 2011 at 8:18 pm
better yet..give us a 3-enviro-whacko bag limit per month.
April 11, 2011 at 7:04 pm
SuBo, if there was a viable alternative energy source that could replace oil, we would already be using it. Natural Gas is a better solution currently than oil, but we won’t even use the 200 years worth of nat gas. The Bush administration’s over spending started devaluing our currency, however, since the present administration is printing 2 trillion a year. How can you expect our dollar to be worth anything. It is the policy of the fed to keep our currency undervalued. Yet, we criticize the Chinese for this almost every day. Please stop with the deregulation talk. Unnecessary regulations are put into place and held sacred like its religious and areas that need regulation, get none. I heard former Speaker Pelosi and some of the other democrat leaders over the weekend say that to keep the internet we must regulate it. You don’t keep anything by regulating it. Regulation is just code speak for controlling the message and the sources of info on the internet. Do you think that if Ms. Pelosi could just wave a magic wand and get whatever she wanted accomplished with the internet, that there would be equal access for all. Or would it be George Soros wall-to-wall? Thanks for your time. I hope everyone has a great day.
April 11, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Clark Nova you are wrong. None of the Alaska oil goes overseas. It is a law that it is only to be used in America. The same would happen with ANWR oil. It would be used in America only. I have lived in Alaska since 1952, get your facts straight.
April 11, 2011 at 7:59 pm
“The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.” ~ Clarence Darrow
—— http://911essentials.com
April 11, 2011 at 8:35 pm
because it is done on the world markets and a law like that would have no effect at all. the only thing that would help is more gas. drill here drill now and build refineries.
April 11, 2011 at 8:47 pm
This is a free country, Pcc. If you believe this is a speculation-driven increase, you can always “speculate” that prices will keep going up. Not that sure after all, are you? Then stop trying to tamper with the free market.
April 11, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Where is the outrage? How many socialist did they interview before they found complacent lemmings who will just accept this? This is BS and the socialist regime in charge needs to change THEIR ways, we should not be held hostage by the communist Green No-growthers.
April 11, 2011 at 9:33 pm
In one of his speeches, Obama has stated that the best way to combat global warming is to push the price of gas up, and that his short term goal is $ 7 a galon of gas….
April 11, 2011 at 10:00 pm
Hey DG,
What about the evil Democrats that consistently nickel and dime us? Did our income taxes ever jump this high under a Republican governor in IL?
April 11, 2011 at 9:24 am
The reason why gas prices in Chicago are typically the highest in the nation is because of the taxes. Those damn Republicans that run Chicago are horrible…oh wait who runs Chicago?
April 11, 2011 at 10:12 am
Look at all cities run by Dem’s or Lib leaning cities, San Fran. L.A. Chi, N.Y. Taxes and gas prices are at the highest.
April 11, 2011 at 12:04 pm
We all are feeling the pinch. This prices are so ridiculously high that many will decice to take the bus or train. Is there any rocket scientist that would design and build a car that runs on water?
At the turn of the century trains were runing on water to get to the far West. So, if there are any brainy individual out there… please… design and make vehicles that are solar powered because the intensity of heat due to the warming of the earth will make cars run faster and more durable on the long run.
We also need more electric cars and busses that will takes to work and not spend so much on gas.
Does anyone knows if there are at least some ideas on how to proceed on this wonderful ideas so people will have a chance to save some money and clean our air that is full of menacing particles that comes from car, bus and airplane exhaust systems?
April 11, 2011 at 10:14 am
Sorry, Carr – great ideas, but they aren’t practical or energy efficient.
The trains that you speak of ran on steam…. and coal or wood to heat the water to make the steam. The engines were high maintenance and downright dirty (air quality). I love trains, but you’re not likely to see them come back.
Solar powered cars? That technology may never be developed, and PLEASE don’t start that nonsense about “global warming” – that has been totally debunked and discredited.
Electric cars and busses? Fine – how are you going to make the electricity? You’ll find that they are a pure negative from an energy perspective, and totally impractical in half the country during cold weather.
“Menacing particles”? Please – our cars and busses are burning cleaner than ever, our overall air quality has been meeting EPA standards, and if you want to ride, you’ll have to put up with the rest.
May I suggest that you yourself embarq upon a mission to find an alternate energy source for transportation? Then, and only then, will you learn that it is far easier to wish than to receive…
April 11, 2011 at 12:24 pm
you’re being polite, Jes2. Carr Man’s post was a waste of pixels. You say “good ideas” as if he came up with that. Any 2nd grader has as much insight as CM offers.
April 11, 2011 at 1:09 pm
Global warming is far from a debunked or discredited theory my friend, perhaps it is you who needs to do some of your own research
April 11, 2011 at 1:22 pm
is that you Albert….albert “the hutt” gore???
April 11, 2011 at 1:32 pm
Lay off the crack pipe. GloBULL warming/cooling/climate change is a hoax. Man-caused? Yeah, right.
April 11, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Global Warming is Man-Made-Up
April 11, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Global Warming is a natural occurrence that has happened through out time.
April 11, 2011 at 5:24 pm
I’ll be you spell evolution “evilution” too. I’d hasten to guess you’re another navel gazing creationist muppet.
April 11, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Darren: you and the pu$$y in the White House are both idiots.
April 11, 2011 at 2:49 pm
Actually we both have university degrees but that’s where the similarities end my friend.
April 11, 2011 at 3:15 pm
Hey Darren, my friend, you’re right “Global warming is far from a debunked or discredited theory”…It isn’t far from it at all because global warming/climate change or whatever new theory cliche you wish to use, IS and HAS BEEN debunked and discredited. Now go back to your studies of Al Gore talking memos. You know Al don’t you? He’s the guy who is so sure the oceans are going to rise 20 feet that he just paid $8 million for an ocean front mansion overlooking the Pacific. *LMAO* FOLLOW THE MONEY Darren. FOLLOW THE MONEY.
April 11, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Carr, where in your comment did you say you would do what you say others should do? Didn’t think so…that’s exactly how libs view the world and why we are in the trouble we are in today…because of lib thinking being enacted into the law for all.
April 11, 2011 at 1:34 pm
Lately, what has he done since he took office?
April 11, 2011 at 11:50 am
Gone of vacation
April 11, 2011 at 12:36 pm
True, drop outs vote for clowns that will feed them. God forbid they actually have to work for a living.
April 11, 2011 at 11:51 am
That’s just about the stupidest thing that I’ve ever heard.
April 11, 2011 at 11:52 am
Ditto what CCPony said!
April 11, 2011 at 12:01 pm
well said…
April 11, 2011 at 12:28 pm
And this guy probably votes
April 11, 2011 at 12:47 pm
He’s done too much if you ask me…
April 11, 2011 at 11:52 am
So by this reasoning, the Democratic congress caused the 2008 meltdown?
April 11, 2011 at 11:53 am
In 2007 democrats doubled the deficit with their budget. In 2008 they purposefully destroyed three million jobs in the two months following the Minimum Wage Hike. In 2009, well Bush never even SAW that budget because Democrats did not want the budget to influence the election so they just didn’t pass one. Sort of like this year when the democrats refused to pass a budget for this year. In 2006, the last year of Republican budgets, the deficit was 168 billion and unemployment was at 4.6. Here we are after four and a halfyears of democrats writing the budget and teh deficit is 1.7 TRILLION and real unemployment is 17%. In many areas it is much higher. Thank democrats and, especially, Thank Obama who promised to raise the cost of gas and energy and to bankrupt energy companies.
April 11, 2011 at 5:00 pm
They were very complicit-as their failed fiscal policies from 2006 to 2008 spent unprecedented amounts of money and forced banks to make loans to people who were not qualified and had little or no down payments or equity. The Dems spent 5.6 trillion under Pelosi and Reid and what do we have to show for it? Failed banks, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the bailout of their big union supporters so they could fund their unsustainable pension plans in both the private and public sectors. Do you think Obama really cared about GM? no it was the UAW, SEIU, Goldman Saks. AIG and all the unions that contributed 500 million in campaign contributions
April 12, 2011 at 10:50 am
OK, so please underline the connection for me as I am a bit daft. The republicans took over one half of one third of the government and they suddenly control gas prices? Give me a break from your idiocy dude. I can just as easily say that Obama’s cronies were holding down prices in the hope that Democratic losses would not be so big. But I am not that big a dimwit. Its pure and simple – the more this government gets itself into hoc, the higher prices will go as inflation starts ravaging our fine land. PIMCO just announced its going to short US bonds and dollars because it just does not trust us to stop print dollars.
April 11, 2011 at 11:53 am
Gas prices were under $2 within the past 2 years. Whose head needs to roll for this insanity?
BTW I stopped driving at $3/gallon
April 11, 2011 at 11:54 am
Not true.
April 11, 2011 at 12:14 pm
You are completely wrong! I bought a new econo-box in 2003 when I felt it was too expensive to own an SUV any longer. Gas was around $1.50 a gallon. I had a long commute, and made the decision that at $1.75 / gallon I had to move closer. The higher rent that went along with the move worked out to be cheaper than the gas at that price. What used to be $15 for a full tank is now over $40.
Why don’t you research before you start calling people morons. You’re about 30 years off with you 1974 number.
April 11, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Merlin, you are really uninformed. And you call someone a moron? It was under $2 when he was inaugurated, and MANY time since 1974. You are just not too bright.
April 11, 2011 at 12:18 pm
More like 2002. Back in the 1990′s gas went above $1.00 and stayed more than $1.00.
2002 is when gas prices became outrageous.
Thank London and New York for the crazy prices. Commodity traders.
April 11, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Interesting, considering I paid $1.90 a gallon less than 18 months ago, moron.
April 11, 2011 at 12:20 pm
What planet do you live on merlin? I paid 79 cents for a gallon of gas in 1999, in Albuquerque NM.
April 11, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Really? Since 1974?!? Gas was below $1 a gallon in the 70′s and much of the ’80′s.
April 11, 2011 at 12:20 pm
$1.60 a gallon, January 2009.
http://tinyurl.com/6gsamxx
April 11, 2011 at 12:23 pm
That is not correct. In mid-December 2003, a USA Today article said: “The average price for a gallon of regular gasoline was $1.465 this past Monday.” They were referring to the official national average price.
Quit calling names, and do a little basic research before you mouth off.
April 11, 2011 at 1:21 pm
Merlin, have you perhaps lived in Europe? I started driving in 1983 – gas was around $1.00/gallon at that time. I remember thinking $1.79 was a lot. You might want to yank your head out of your posterior…
April 11, 2011 at 1:47 pm
Uhhhh. Don’t know where you get your numbers dude. As one who was born in 1955, I can assure you that gasoline was no where near $2.00 per gallon in 1974. I graduated from high school in 1973 near SF California and was paying around 65 cents per gallon. Just because you have a “smart” phone and live on Twitter doesn’t mean you are an expert.
April 11, 2011 at 1:53 pm
Gas was 99 cents a gallon in Seattle when we lived there in 1998-2000 so you are the moron and are incorrect.
April 11, 2011 at 2:30 pm
you’re an idiot
April 11, 2011 at 3:14 pm
gas was at $1.24 in September of 2007 MORON!
April 11, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Cheapest gas in Southern California was around 25c/gal before the Arab oil embargo. It then went up into the 60-70c/gal range. Don’t know where you got this $2 price, unless that would be it adjusted for inflation
April 11, 2011 at 4:12 pm
I wonder where Merlin went.
April 11, 2011 at 7:51 pm
Apparently you have been living under a rock mr Merlin sir. Gas didn’t even break $2.00 until 2002-2003 in California at that!!! Maybe you should check your facts before you call someone else a moron.
April 12, 2011 at 12:21 am
Good lord what planet were you on in 1974????? I remember driving to work in 1978 when we had Obama 1, aka Jimmy Carter, and got extremely angry when the price of gas went to 0.75 cents a gallon!!! Do some research, you made yourself look totally ignorant.
April 12, 2011 at 7:34 am
Sorry Moron, Gas was $1.81 when O’bummer took office Could Obummers decision to shut down drilling in the Gulf, stop drilling on the East and West Coast, stop Oil shale projects in Utah, and shut down drilling in Alaska, one where Shell Oil paid his Administration 2.5 Billion for, plus not drilling Anwar, have anything to do with rising gas prices. If you remember he promised #4 to @5 dollar gas prices to encourage conservation.
April 12, 2011 at 8:13 am
Have you been out of your cellar in the last 37 years?
April 12, 2011 at 9:43 am
This #$@@@@@@ “president” has to go. He MUST be voted out, or kicked out, ASAP. I’m tired of seeing my country ruined.
April 11, 2011 at 11:54 am
We’re all stuck with him. But, his voters need to suffer so they won’t make the mistake again. 2008 showed us how we needed, more than perhaps ever in the history of this great country, an exceptional leader. We got Obama instead.
Everyone with half a brain could see this coming, and we tried to warn them, but they were too starstruck to listen.
April 11, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Yup… CHANGE they wanted… now they just HOPE they’ll have some left in their pockets…
April 11, 2011 at 1:19 pm
Danny, HIS voters are all recipients of aid (actually, 47% of the country receives some sort of Federal aid) – they certainly won’t bite the hand that feeds them. I wouldn’t be surprised to see this poor excuse of a POTUS win a second term – after all, Dems are experts at buying and rigging elections. Just look at Connecticut – thousands of mystery ballots from Bridgeport put Malloy in the Governor’s mansion.
April 11, 2011 at 1:54 pm
so… you tried to warn us ? How, by voting for Palin and her cranky old running mate? Yeah , right!!!
April 11, 2011 at 5:57 pm
dannyboy…After McCain was nominated, I KNEW we were in trouble! I saw Obama as a charismatic orator and he fooled the people. I didn’t like McCain and had to hold my nose to vote for him. Actually it was vote AGAINST Obama.
I knew the man would win after he fooled the American people…
April 12, 2011 at 11:47 am
The problem is most of these people complaining about him probably voted for him. I hope that hope & change is working for those morons!
April 11, 2011 at 3:30 pm
The problem is that we who realized that he had never so much as run a lemonade stand and had only distributed money taken from tax payers who earned it, and distributed it around to those who hadn’t, called “community organizer” had NO idea how to run a government, and we still don’t know who all the “czars” are, or how much of our money they are paid!
April 13, 2011 at 7:06 pm
Author: the poll neglects an obvious possible answer, giving higher gas prices only.
Q: have higher fuel prices _already_ caused you to alter your driving habits?
A: yes
April 11, 2011 at 11:55 am
Agree with you there, Rose.
Heck, I already have changed my shopping habits. If I have to drive ten miles to save a dollar on some groceries, it isn’t worth it.
April 11, 2011 at 12:25 pm
I haven’t worked in so long and never received any unemployment and I can’t drive anymore anyway. How can I change my habits if I can’t drive my car that my car insurance keeps going up and I’ve drained my loving family who are going down next!
April 12, 2011 at 8:30 pm
Yes
April 11, 2011 at 1:36 pm
nice to see all the Obama voters get their butts kicked at the gas pump. This is what Obama voters deserve.
April 11, 2011 at 11:55 am
See, you’ve got it all wrong. This is what Obama and his voters want. They want us all driving little electric cars and using recyclable shopping bags. It’s all part of the agenda… The enviros (who voted for O) think we should be paying $10 a gallon – they don’t think this goes far enough.
April 11, 2011 at 1:57 pm
Are you including Social Security and Medicare recipients in that suspiciously high percentage? After 50 years in the work force I don’t believe my modest SS payments are the same as “aid”to the needy. I think 47% is a serious overstatement of the % of people actually getting support payments.
April 21, 2011 at 9:30 am
All democrats deserve this – they started the Dept of Energy in the 70′s to curb our use of imported oil. That didn’t work. They halted the drilling of oil and the construction of nuclear power plants. That didn’t work. All they have done is make us less free and more dependent on government and foreign goods. Vote the rascal out of office!
April 11, 2011 at 1:58 pm
You got it Author!
I wonder how much oil stock the beloved Obama has in his portfolio? If he took 18 cents a gallon away (Federal tax), started using the federal Reserve and allowed coastal drilling the price would drop by half.
April 11, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Half a cent, maybe. There isn’t enough oil in the US to make any real difference in world oil prices, which are presently controlled by economic terrorists on Wall Street more than by OPEC.
What makes you think that oil companies would give Americans special low prices just because the oil came from here when they can sell the oil for more overseas?
April 11, 2011 at 4:34 pm
Clark wake up there is more oil here we wouldn’t need thier oil. DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!!
April 12, 2011 at 11:37 am
There is enough oil under the US to make the rest of the world look like a mere drop of oil. Saudis don’t have but about 1/2 of what US does.
April 12, 2011 at 1:27 pm
Art,your right .Here in NJ I saw a heck of a lot of large SUV’s,luxury SUV’s and those large pickup trucks with “Laborer Local XXX for Obama” “Electricians Local xxx for Obama” and the SUV’s with that donut hole “O”. Let them pay!!!
April 11, 2011 at 3:02 pm
Right. And all of those Teapublicans are driving Hybrids or walking to work. Sure. Funny, it doesnt take a rocket scientist to figure out that construction workers will drive big trucks and they usually are members of a union. That’s it idiots. Keep slitting your own throats. Meanwhile, the corporate big wigs are laughing all the way to the bank.
April 12, 2011 at 12:33 pm
Obama is giving 2 billion American tax dollars to George Soros, so that he can fund a drilling expedition in Brazil, so the Chinese can HAVE the oil? Can this be true? Shouldn’t such a president be impeached for treason? Check it out for yourself.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203863204574346610120524166.html
April 11, 2011 at 11:55 am
If you doesn’t the Chinese will stop buying our treasury notes. If that happens, you can forget about Medicare, Social Security, defense spending and/or deficit reduction. This would lead to much higher unemployment, a big decrease in consumer spending or a big increase in inflation, a much lower standard of living and civil unrest throughout the U.S.
April 11, 2011 at 1:24 pm
yes this is true thanks for posting the link i read up on this last year funny how things work.. hopefully more people will know this now thanks again
April 11, 2011 at 1:31 pm
You just are realizing this? George Soros owns stock in that company. They are also putting in floating storage tanks. NEVER DONE IN THE HISTORY OF THIS COUNTRY. No this isn’t Obama’s fault at all.
April 12, 2011 at 11:39 am
I agree! Time to pull an Egypt over here.
April 11, 2011 at 11:56 am
No it isn’t. There is alot more to supply and demand when it comes to everyday commodities like oil. If you took any economics past 101 you would have learned about all these variables.
April 11, 2011 at 11:56 am
Don’t be so quick to spout your knowledge. His point was the speculators have as much to do with the price of oil as supply and demand does. Maybe you didn’t realize it, but the last year or so oil tankers were full and floating around off the harbors because the supply was so great. We didn’t see prices come down then due to an overage in supply.. Supply and demand is a basic economic theory and a big part of capitalism. Problem is we have not had capitalism in America for quite a few years. In this world today we have to factor in political corruption and economic manipulation by the wealthy and powerful in order to correctly forecast.
April 11, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Obama’s failed energy policies, yet another violation of our rights. Add it to the list of gov’t violations of our right:
They violate the 1st Amendment by placing protesters in cages, banning books like “America Deceived II” and censoring the internet.
They violate the 2nd Amendment by confiscating guns.
They violate the 4th and 5th Amendment by molesting airline passengers.
They violate the entire Constitution by starting undeclared wars for foreign countries.
Impeach Obama and sweep out the Congress.
(Last link of Banned Book):
http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526
April 11, 2011 at 11:57 am
And the evil democratic congress which caused the 2008 meltdown 2 years after being elected. Let’s not forget that.
Funny how liberals thought this logic idiotic at the time and now they are using it to make their policies look good.
April 11, 2011 at 11:57 am
You are a typical republican moron. Your hero G.W. Bush destroyed the economy so of course you have to blame the democrats for it.
April 11, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Federal tax receipts under Bush were at quarter century highs.
April 11, 2011 at 12:09 pm
And you are a typical left-wing nut job. You can’t seriously believe this is all the fault of Bush. He was a God-send compared to this little inept twerp of a president. What a freaking joke we have in the White House.
April 11, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Fact check. Ecomony started tanking in 2006 under the new DEMOCRATIC controlled congress Captain Revision!
April 11, 2011 at 12:10 pm
That all you got? Memorized the talking points eh?
April 11, 2011 at 12:11 pm
@ Jeff Gordon – and Obama is fixing it? LOL
April 11, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Wow.
Jerk Giordon, I am SO impressed with your tsunami of intelligence that you have bestowed upon us.
You see, folks, even a blood clot is capable of speaking – not intelligently because of the highly limited brain, but at least speaking.
April 11, 2011 at 12:52 pm
you’re right… it’s Progressives, both R & D.
Ever notice there’s not much difference between the two? Haven’t had a real choice since 1980.
April 11, 2011 at 12:52 pm
The economy was just finr until NANCY PELOSER and her DIMWITS took over…… Congress controls the money….. she not only has diarrihea of the mouth but of the wallet…!
April 11, 2011 at 1:39 pm
What is the problem Jeff? Didn’t get your food stamp money this month?
April 11, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Obamas deficit for Feb 2011 was more than George Bushes deficit for the entire year of 2007. Democrats have added 5 trillion to the deficit since 2007.
April 11, 2011 at 4:16 pm
George bush had an average national unemployment over 8 years of 4.999%, the DOW hit its all time high of 14,000 before the leftist invasion inWashington DC later that year. Gas prices spiked just in time to get Obama elected and dropped as soon as he got the votes. Obama on the other hand has had continually rising gas prices, Exploding deficits that far exceed Bush’s, 9.4% national unemployment, and a classically fascist healthcare policy.(govt working in tandem with corporations to create law over its citizens). You now must but a Gov’t approved heathcare plan from a private corporation or possibly go to jail. Remember it is not simply enough to obey big brother…… you must LOVE big brother.
April 11, 2011 at 4:33 pm
What? Are like four years old? Holy Cow, stunning, no wonder the country is going to pieces, any more brain trust comments like this and we will be goners for sure.
April 11, 2011 at 11:57 am
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MIke, the prices started climbing this summer after Obama and Holder stopped all drilling in the gulf. You obamoron pukes will say anything.
April 11, 2011 at 11:57 am
For giving us Obama, I will never spend another dime in Chicago. A city of slime and corruption gave us the worst catastrophic failed president in all of history. FK chicago for giving us this turd!
April 11, 2011 at 11:58 am
Don’t blame Chicago. Blame Kenya.
April 11, 2011 at 3:32 pm
Somewhere in Kenya there is a town missing a village Idiot.
April 13, 2011 at 5:30 pm
AMEN TO THAT, From Matteson IL it,s over 4 bucks here. I’ve had to drive all the way to Merrillville IN few days ago while it was $3.76.
ILLINOIS HAS BEEN THE HIGHEST GAS PRICES IN THE WHOLE NATION FOR LAST 5 YEARS.
April 11, 2011 at 5:23 pm
I can guarantee that we have higher prices in California. I have to agree, employee moral will decrease, spending related to specialty items, or non-necessities will be down.
When inflation flies because Helicopter Ben, and Idiot Geithner we’ll really feel the pain.
April 11, 2011 at 11:32 pm
This is the Main Reason WHY Chicago didn’t get the Olympics and I’m glad.
April 11, 2011 at 5:25 pm
There needs to be a movement to kick this president out NOW. I can’ twait until 2012, it’s too far away. Recall, impeachment, something .. he needs to go NOW!!!
April 11, 2011 at 11:58 am
Yeah!! He needs to go!! Gas Prices are sobbing, plus more places like Stores keeps going out of Business (Loosing Jobs) like Blockbusters, Furniture Stores, Office Depots, Alot of restaurants. I mean it’s ridiculous!!
April 11, 2011 at 5:28 pm
Oil Companies = Raping of the American people.
Thanks Obama for not doing a thing about it. I am just waiting for Obama to do something else to kill this country! Oh but how we love him. Lets vote for him so he can to really do us in. Petroluim should not be a commodity. With greed and ,collusion there is no price limit. $20 a gallon, who is to stop them.
April 11, 2011 at 11:58 am
The oil price is going up because the current administration is trashing the value of the US dollar. The price of everything is going up. Look to the cause not the symptom.
April 11, 2011 at 1:39 pm
HMMMM ….. The price of gas on Jan 19th 2009 was about $2.00 per gallon
April 11, 2011 at 11:58 am
Again, Merlin. Your facts are totally and completely wrong. My guess is that you are relying on inflation-adjusted numbers, when in reality the cost of fuel was not at all in the range that you continue to speak of. And yet you continue to call others morons.
April 11, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Merlin,
Unfortunately, calling someone a MORON, only underscores your complete lack of understanding of a little thing called facts.
Fact: Average national cost for gasoline on 1.19.09 was around $1.90.
Fact: Gasoline has been less than $2.00 regularly since 1974
Fact: Your attempts to call others morons while making up your own numbers display just how much of a moron you really are.
Source: http://gasbuddy.com/gb_retail_price_chart.aspx
April 11, 2011 at 12:25 pm
You really that stupid, Merl ole boy?
April 11, 2011 at 12:52 pm
TR0LL alert!!! If you quit feeding it, it’ll eventually go away…
April 11, 2011 at 1:26 pm
Regardless of political affiliation, devils do vex me. LOL
April 11, 2011 at 11:58 am
Yes we will spend less, a lot less and for me and my family that will be on neccesities. I’m not driving a gas hog any more but I drive a long distance to work every day, this is already a big hurt, takes a big portion of my paycheck just to get to work, pretty soon we won’t be eating but one meal a day.
April 11, 2011 at 11:58 am
Yes! Get this joke of a president out of the oval office. NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 11, 2011 at 11:59 am
2 things
oil speculation is not really bad it help smooth out prices.
It doesn’t matter where we get oil, since it can be considered one big supply that the entire world demand is pulling from, so the answer is more oil in the supply, or even the anticipation of more oil in the future.
April 11, 2011 at 11:59 am
AMERICA, how is this hope and change working out for you!!!
Remember this in the next Presidential election!
April 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm
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Intimately uninformed and blissfully ignorant comment, “bob”!
April 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm
These types of prices destroy lower and middle class budgets.
Obama has basically stated that he doesn’t care about what the prices are. Go deeper, and you find that he actually likes them to be high.
Why?
His agenda RELIES on government dependence. He wants you broke.
April 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Ummm, revisionist history must be standard in Chi town. Gas went up only after Dems were elected in 2006 to congress. The queen witch came in and openly said they would be hostile to fossil fuels. Then the added bad dollar policy. Bush in 2008 said we would drill for oil and it dropped. Throw in that the high gas prices KILLED the economy, they came down until Obama was elected. With him in and a complicit Congress, prices have consistently gone up until now.
April 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Take the President’s advise.
Trade in that clunker for a smaller car.
Oh, wait, you can’t get a loan on that new car because you don’t have a job?
So, so, sorry!
Not to worry, Mr. President can print more money so you can get extended unemployment until he is out of office (2012 + 20 days), then you may be able to find a job……….if we still have a country.
April 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm
So, lets get this straight… When Bush was in the White House it was the presidents fault. Now that Obama is in the White House, it’s the House of Representatives fault? You’re freakin delusional! The Republicans hold 1/2 of 1/3rd of the government. If Obama would take a page from Bush and announce expanded drilling in our own country, prices would drop $2 with in a week.
April 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm
Huh? If stupidity were a virtue you’d be saint. Need I remind you, genius, that gas prices peaked in November 2008 when that loon of a woman Pelosi headed the House and the Senate was tied with Dems and Repubs? The only correlation between price and government are the onerous and restrictive drilling policies which prevent us from drilling our own energy. But the Dems and some Repubs are beholden to the chicken little socialist greens who want to control our lives in every area.
April 11, 2011 at 12:01 pm
You are a total moron. Wake up and smell the coffee.
April 11, 2011 at 12:01 pm
There’s an unholy alliance between the greenies who want to see gas prices rise and the oil barrons who also want to see it rise but for different reasons. The WH is occupied by a greenie. The Congress is colntrolled by oil barrons. 2+2=4 and we’re the ones getting *scrod*.
April 11, 2011 at 12:01 pm
There goes that old saying it is the rich oil barrons. Well the government gets 32 cents per gallon of gas. The oil companies get 18 cents. Who is the baron?????????
April 12, 2011 at 11:42 am
What? Youre kidding right? I thought Teapublicans believe that there is plenty of oil? If that is the case then why does the price of oil skyrocket when Libya’s oil is taken out of the market? Lybia supplies 2% of the worlds oil. 2%!! Saudi Arabia started pumping more to make up for the loss of Lybias oil. There is no shortage of oil. Demand in the US is down. There is an oversupply of oil. Yet the prices still go UP. It is pure greed, plain and simple.
April 12, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Hey Fettuchini Aldo, ecocrat,there’s plenty of oil,but it’s underground untouched,and lack of refineries,and whatever refineries are around are in sorry shape due to unreasonable regulations,which you can thank your wonderful ecowhacko D-crats for that. Yes the gov’t is getting insanely rich off of gas taxes. Rich? Oil Co’s: worth billions. US Gov’t: TRILLIONS.
April 12, 2011 at 2:33 pm
The rev Lindsey Williams, who wrote the book The Energy Non Crisis, has stated for at the last two years high ups in the oil industry have told him. That they were going to drive up the price of oil to $200 a barrel. It seems that it is playing out exactly the way the Rev Williams has said it is going to. He also said that once oil reaches the $2oo level. That entire oil fields of the US will be opened up for drilling. The Us has more oil than any other country in the world.
April 11, 2011 at 12:01 pm
This was Obama’s objective, so he should be pleased. Obama stated in January 2008 that new coal fired power plants, if built, would go bankrupt due to the cap and trade policies he would impliment. So, BHO is right on course in keeping his campaign promises. BTW – gasoline was $1.83/gal just before BHO was sworn into office.
April 11, 2011 at 12:02 pm
At $5 a gallon, I will only be getting 4 gallons a week for my $20 a week I spend on gas. Since I refuse to spend more than that, looks like I won’t be driving much pretty soon.
April 11, 2011 at 12:02 pm
@JEFF GORDON: Somehow I believe you have always paid a lot more than $20 a week for your gas!
April 11, 2011 at 12:35 pm
Drill, Drill ,Drill,Drill,Drill,Drill Drill. Take it out of shale, you can do it at this cost! flood the market and make it so we do not need the oil in the middle east. Let them eat sand, when we drive up their food beyond what they can afford. Why are we not doing that? DUM….. DUM DUM DUM DUM!
April 11, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Shale won’t work because no right minded American would want a shale oil or gas wellpad on or near their property. Think before you type!
April 11, 2011 at 2:02 pm
Oh contrare moron, if you own mineral rights to that property, large acreage of mineral rights, and God willing have the rig on your property, then you can tell Barry and the rest of his clowns to f_____ himself, you’re now paid!
April 11, 2011 at 4:24 pm
lojoso, sorry friend you’re wrong. Your laws are “business friendly” when it comes to new technology investments so royalty payments are capped to such an extent that it makes more sense to take the lump sum payment that the gas or oil company offers you. If you are living on these lands you’re usually a farmer and the payout seems like a nice bonus to your current enjoyable way of life. Then they start hydro-fracking and suddenly your tap water catches on fire. Oops!
Good bye way of life, good by happiness.
April 11, 2011 at 8:51 pm
Eugrene the 2008 Meltodwn was caused by the gov’t creating rules that the banks had to loan money, that the gov’t guaranteed the banks wouldn’t lose money on those via fannie & freddie and they allowed the leveraged use of upside mortgages.
if the gov’t didn’t provide insurance against the risk, and the source of money, the crash not only wouldn’t have occured but couldn’t have occurred.
April 11, 2011 at 12:02 pm
The Fed’s certainly has to play a part in this by creating commodity inflation via swamping the market with newly printed currency.
April 11, 2011 at 12:02 pm
Yo, Mikey, you really need to get out of your mom’s basement more often!
April 11, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Just a few days ago I put $4000 down on silver. Time to put another couple thousand on metals it looks like.
April 11, 2011 at 12:03 pm
Wait for a pull back.. Look at the call / put ratio.. I just took off the table, I got in at 14. I’ll get back in on a small pull back. Pallidium is still where it’s at.
April 11, 2011 at 11:35 pm
Im gonna invest in metals, since you can eat them when the world goes bankrupt….LMFAO
April 12, 2011 at 2:58 pm
GWB isn’t in the White House anymore (remember people blamed him for high prices to begin with) – what is the reason now?
If we were to drill on our own soil, each year we hear the same thing – it will take to long, like a decade to see a difference. Yeah they said that 12 years ago.
And why would the govt prop up GM and have us go out and buy new TRUCKS and SUV’s if they cared so much for what we drive? At that time is was all about keeping union people employed.
And if you use the 10% of your net salary as a guide for buying a car, I don’t know many who can afford the Volt or whatever that thing is.
April 11, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Thank your boy Obama for this and the other disasters he has caused. it aint over until he and his commie democrats are gone.
April 11, 2011 at 12:04 pm
So very true, can’t people see through this nitwit, Obama is definately taking us to our knees. He’s so transparant, I saw this coming!
April 11, 2011 at 6:28 pm
What a joke! If Obama is a socialist then the oil companies are too. You want Obama to penalize the oil companies for gouging the public? Why? High gas proces and record profits for oil companies are just capitalism at it’s finest! Quit complaining and blaming socialist Obama. If he was a true socialist, he would have nationalised the oil companies and gas proces would be $1.50 a gallon by now.
April 12, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Wow. Finally the press is starting to pick up on this. When prices were this high while Bush was President you heard about it EVERY SINGLE DAY with the implication that he didn’t care about ordinary Americans!
April 11, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Spot on. And when Bush invoked the SOR prices plunged. Where is this administration on this, much less the media.
April 11, 2011 at 1:03 pm
There needs to a grassroots movement to kick this president out of office. I have never seen anything this bad (and I lived through Carter and Nixon). It’s as if he’s destroying the country, on purpose, and doing it with a grin on his face. It makes me sick.
April 11, 2011 at 12:05 pm
YES WE CAN!…DESTROY AMERICA.
April 11, 2011 at 12:29 pm
I don’t suppose any of this could be due to Obama’s picks for Fed and Treasury and the resultant debasement of the US $. Nah, couldn’t be.
April 11, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Get your facts straight DG. Gas was $1.61 when Obama took office and has been going up ever since.
April 11, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Impeach Obama…
April 11, 2011 at 12:05 pm
Yeah,….
Imorange Obama.
And Imapple him, too.
April 11, 2011 at 12:46 pm
Actually the huge price increases during bushes administration were during a democratic congress.
10 years ago there was a huge push to step up our domestic production. But the idiots on both sides of congress said we shouldn’t do it because it would take 10 years to get it done and see any benefit. Well it is 10 years later and that sure would have helped.
There are many world factors that are contributing to this, yes speculation does drive it up but Frances war for oil in lybia, china and india’s huge increase in demand over the last 3-5 years, venezuela ending contracts with america to send more to china. One accident in the gulf ending our off shore drilling (while we give billions to brazil to help them build the largest oil drilling platform ever in the gulf of mexico.
You may call for a windfall profits tax but keep in mind that the federal govt makes more from taxes than the oil companies do in profits.
Remember back in 2008 when prices were high that Ted Kennedy was calling for a $2.00/gallon federal tax to give the govt more money to waste.
April 11, 2011 at 12:06 pm
People seem to blaming all the wrong people for the run-up in fuel costs. Everybody can send their “Thank You Notes” to Mr. Ben Bernanke who has trashed the US Dollar and drove up commodity prices across the board with his methods of QE1, QE2 and hints at further Quantitative Easing methods. All of this to bail out his banker buddies while destroying the future of this country more then people will ever imagine. This also is the same Ben Bernanke who sat in front of Congress in 2005 and said with a straight face that al financial problems were contained to sub-prime loans, which may be the most ignorant and assenine comment ever made.
April 11, 2011 at 12:06 pm
You fools, The main reason gasoline is rising is, of all the financial schemes that Wall Street has woven into the price of a barrel of crude oil. Couple that with oil companies producing less to keep the price of gasoline high.
There is plenty of crud oil out there, but too many national and international conglomerates make more profits producing less.
Another thing to keep in mind that government at all levels raises the gasoline tax off the wholesale price per gallon, so government also makes out like bandits by keeping the price per gallon of gasoline high.
April 11, 2011 at 12:06 pm
What do you suppose all of us fools can do to stop this mess? or all we all doomed!
April 11, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Well said :)
April 11, 2011 at 12:07 pm
George Bush IQ = 50
Obama IQ Less than George Bush.
Bush would never have let gas get this high. At least he was surrounded with advisors that could keep this from happening. It’s Georges fault we had $143 gas prices.
April 11, 2011 at 12:07 pm
I’m not sure how to deal with my driving habits. I work 40 miles away from my house. I can’t afford to move because of the high prices of everything and I can’t afford to pay for gas because I’m spending $45 to fill up my 14gal tank on my fuel efficient Kia Spectra. I can’t afford to change jobs because the economy sucks still and no one is hiring even though worthless-bama says everything is getting better.
How about we stop listening to this moron and drill locally? We’ll never get anywhere fast trying to create something alternative to gas based cars because people can’t afford to buy new ones to move to the cheaper fuel source and electric cars are total bull.
April 11, 2011 at 12:07 pm
Boy are you going to be embarrassed when you bother to google a gas price chart…
But, I suspect you knew that, and chose to lie on purpose.
April 11, 2011 at 12:08 pm
Mike,
it’s time you leave your Mom’s basement and see what the real world is up to.
April 11, 2011 at 12:09 pm
I have to drive to work, there is no public transportation to work so I cannot change my driving habits. What a boxed poll.
April 11, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Wow, our comments are basically identical (in a way) and posted at almost the same time. I know how you feel.
April 11, 2011 at 12:12 pm
I am in the same situation. I totally understand. I would by a car that work on magic fairy dust, but I just have not seen one I can aford or feel safe in, yet.
When my net income is 0, to buy gas to go to work. I guess I will be out on the street and have everything I was paying for go bye/bye! Thank you Obama, Nancy, and Harry!!! Since I am from Illinois, I knew what BHO were all about before, now. He promised a lot of peopel they would keep their jobs in Galesburg, IL too. Please come see the place it is overgrown in weeds!
BTW, were I live at in IL, because we are all not from Chicago, they don’t patch the roads anymore!!! He really hurt us first!!! I don’t like him because he is a Senator from IL. If you look at our Govenors’ over the last 40 years, only one did not go to prison!!! Research before you vote next time!!!
We are not England were walking to work could be an option.
I am seriously about to find out if the greeners want to see a bunch of horses on the interstate. We’ll have shovel ready jobs then! Gettnig horses into this would be an insult to horses!
April 12, 2011 at 8:11 am
Stoopid Palin and her DRILL-BABY-DRILL bulls… everyone knows the only way to perfect life is to bow down and pray before the sacred Obama.
April 11, 2011 at 12:09 pm
2006= North and South Dakota, Eastern Montana has the worlds largest oil reserves. Enough for the United States for 2041 yrs. This was a report out of D.C, why can’t this country depend on our own selves, turn back on other country’s, it’s like they know we are a very weak country. It’s a shame.
April 11, 2011 at 6:22 pm
Right blames the left, left blames the right, it’s Bush’s fault, no it’s Obama’s fault, yada, yada, yada…
What you MUST understand is that since US Currency is the global currency from which all other currencies derive their value, and the value of the once-mighty US Dollar is going down faster than Monica Lewinsky in the Oval Office. Why??? Because the United States Treasury continues to print money as fast as possible in an attempt to fulfill obligations that have placed this country on the precipice of financial disaster. Unless energy prices level off, the domino effect that disproportionately high transportaiton and manufacturing costs will have on prices to the end-user/consumers could very well result in completely haulting what little growth/recovery we’re currently experiencing.
Meanwhile, the cost of gasoline and related items are going to continue to rise until demand catches up enough to impact the futures traders over the long-term. But, remember, even if demand did drop, if the value of the dollar continues to decrease, the cost for oil will continue to rise.
What do we do? For one, try and forget about Political Party Loyalty for a moment. We can see where that’s gotten us – divided as a nation with a bunch of people in office who will say whatever they must in order to keep their jobs. Demand that your members of congress vote to reduce spending – everywhere, not just outside of your district. Treat it as if it’s coming out of their own checkbook (rather than someone elses credit card). If they don’t, vote them out.
We MUST STOP the senseless infighting around (economically) ridiculous issues such as the death penalty, abortion rights, gun rights, etc. These are ideally state-by-state issues that should not be legislated at the national level. More importantly, THEY ARE DISTRACTIONS MEANT TO KEEP YOU FOCUSED ON SOMETHING OTHER THAN THE US PIGGY BANK.
Wise up people, before we all need to start learning Mandarin.
-StopWhiningAlready, Atlanta, GA
April 11, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Oh go put on your peace beads and do some chanting already. I didn’t even read your long-winded post. I’ll blame that inept little twerp in the White House all I want. And God willing, he’ll be voted out.
April 11, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Peace beads??? I’m a conservative and a libertarian, you d-bag. What’s your plan? You have a better idea or are you just the typical do-nothing/criticize any idea so long as it means you dont’ have to actually expend any effort. I doubt you even voted. Your apathetic attitude exactly the reason why we’re in this mess in the first place. I’ll bet you liked to give wedgies and bully smaller kiddies growing up too, didn’t you?
April 11, 2011 at 12:48 pm
The problem is NOT political! It’s scientific! Futures traders have nothing to do with reinventing the energy market into something that REPLACES gasoline! The ideas are already here! It’s the monopolies that people like traders endorse while the ignorant rich (and poor) continue to turn a blind eye to the real causes! The cause is too many hands in the pot trying to make a profit on the backs of the original inventor(s)! The U.S. must REINVENT the source of fuel, NOT load more gasoline into a New World Order trainwreck! The answers start here! Where are the engineers with the tools to say enough high priced gasoline is enough strain on the pocketbook? Speculators are monovisionary! There are no new ideas coming from the front of a computer screen! – It’s all done in the shop! Where the heck are people like Tesla when we need them! They have been driven away by the lazy people’s markets, the progressives, and the lazy media! The military needs to protect the people’s interest – NOT the inflated price of gas! Libya only represents 2% of our gas supply! Why has the price of gas skyrocketed? Because of the lazy, monovision speculators!
April 11, 2011 at 12:47 pm
Remember dear leader and his energy secretary think high gas prices are good because they allow the administration to forward their socialist green agenda, which is why you hear nothing from him on this topic. They don’t care about the poor or the middle class they are just pawns to cap and tax and green ‘jobs’.
April 11, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Bingo. Obama has no problem putting the squeeze on businesses or the consumers, because it will force us to consume less. Green is the new Red.
April 11, 2011 at 12:31 pm
The surge is Oil/Gas prices has more to do with the decline of the dollar, than “unrest” in the middle east. The dollar’s decline is due to the Fed printing money, to get the economy going. It does this by cheapening the dollar leading to american good costing less overseas, causing exports double, and enabling American’s to get back to work (slowly). That is the fundamental reason for the rise in price. Add in the ban on drilling in the gulf of Mexico, and traders speculating on “unrest”, and you have the current environment where it is at.
April 11, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Hussein Obama vowed to make energy much more expensive for the average American while he was campaigning! This is what happens when the uneducated, gullible, and entitlement minded vote. Remember the college kids sitting there with laptops, I Pads, and cups of cappuccino in hand lamenting how bad things were in this country and we needed the change BHO was peddling? I hope you stupid kids that voted for him are working in fast food after your graduation and taking the bus because of high gas prices, you nitwits.
April 11, 2011 at 12:10 pm
After Bush II was reelected the world was shocked that Americans could be so stupid as to reelect the worst President in your illustrious history. Then a shyster gets elected who follows all the same policies as Bush II and has actually made your situation worse. I hope Trump doesn’t get elected because he will be even worse than Bush II/Obama.
April 11, 2011 at 1:30 pm
You’re probably a troll because I should hope no one is that stupid but hasn’t Obama been blaming the economy problems on Bush since he took office and still? So how exactly would the republicans being in the house be the responsibility of the republicans?
April 11, 2011 at 12:10 pm
Mike needs to attend a refresher course in American Government. The Republicans in the house have no control whatever over gas prices.
Even if they wanted gas at $5 a gallon, it would need to be approved by the democratic controlled senate and then signed by that Kenyian who lives in the white house.
Mike will know more about american government, when he begins the 10th grade.
April 11, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Mike, you’re a real partisan clown.
Your hero is deliberately wrecking the economy, and fuel prices are a key part of his plan.
April 11, 2011 at 12:11 pm
Jing Guai, Time for you to leave Mom’s basement too. You and Mike need to stop playing Nintendo 24/7.
April 11, 2011 at 12:11 pm
DG, you are an idiot, when George Bush left office in January of ’09, gas was less than $2 a gallon. It has done nothing but go up since then!!!
April 11, 2011 at 12:12 pm
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http://www.newsofthenorth.net/article/Blogs/Piece_of_Mind/Obama_and_JFK_A_world_of_difference_in_courage_watch_contrasting_videos/129949
April 11, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Two words: Barack Obama
April 11, 2011 at 12:12 pm
Viva Revolution! Oh Yeah!
April 11, 2011 at 12:13 pm
The price of oil is pegged to the US dollar. Obama’s admin has been running the printing presses like mad and that causes the value of the dollar to drop needing more of them to buy products like oil. Inflation is just beginning so hold onto your hats it’s going to get ugly.
April 11, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Store as much canned food as you can. Start a Disaster Family. http://www.disasterfamily.com
April 11, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Sigh.
Julie, I already HAVE one.
April 11, 2011 at 12:48 pm
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
April 11, 2011 at 5:33 pm
welll…I would say he’s currently tied with Chiclet teeth Carter for all time worst, but he’s still got some time…
April 11, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Oh he passed Carter a long time ago. At least Carter wasn’t INTENTIONALLY trying to ruin this country.
April 11, 2011 at 12:35 pm
I think it had more to do with the announcement of QE2, which happened in the same time period as the elections. http://seekingalpha.com/article/234524-qeii-announced-fed-set-to-buy-600-billion-in-bonds-reinvest-250-billion-more-fed-micromanaged-economy-to-oblivion-no-miracles-coming
It is not “mearly” a coincidence that prices started rising after the helicopter was scheduled for another flight.. This is all very intentional, friends.
April 11, 2011 at 12:13 pm
It wouldn’t be a liberal cleaning his cage because liberals hate to work.
April 11, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Ha ha … how true, how true
April 11, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Jingo, I didn’t know that BP completely and totally controlled the petroleum market, so much that they can raise the price of oil at will.
Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom with us.
April 11, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Just drill for the dang oil here. Anwar would have easily offset Libyan 2 million barrels a day.
Nobody is really driving Big SUV’s all the time anymore, so its not that. Hybrid and electric are not stopping increases.
I’m starting to suspect the more mileage cars start to get, the higher gas prices will go to offset the loss in use.
You can’t restrict drilling for 40 years and then say there’s no oil, stop restricting oil so you can have your pet project of controlling consumption
April 11, 2011 at 12:13 pm
Actually, some of us are. It’s not an option to buy a car that won’t even fit a family of 5. Remember the “Hybrid van” comment? Kids and car seats take up a lot of space. Farmers, truckers, ranchers, landscape & construction crews, etc. All of these need the seating capacity and horsepower.
I do agree that prices have – on average – kept level with mpg, forcing the consumer to buy another vehicle.
April 11, 2011 at 2:29 pm
Idiot
April 11, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Gas prices will continue to rise. It’s part of a hidden agenda to bring down America. This silly president has no connection to the hardship normal people face, and is simply operating under his orders to hurt this Country. He’s living in his ivory tower and his wife is buying $1,000 dollar handbags and taking million dollar vacations. Regular people are out of work, and suffering under his ridiculous policies. Can’t wait until the Constitutional crisis comes in 2012. That will be fun. Be Warned!
April 11, 2011 at 12:14 pm
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You wanted Obama and you got him.
April 11, 2011 at 12:16 pm
No, Americans wanted the truth, and all they got was another, stinking politician..
April 11, 2011 at 12:54 pm
no, it’s not coincidental…these vampires only want to stick it to the little guy, while padding the wallets of their masters…bah…
April 11, 2011 at 12:16 pm
Gas prices have doubled under Obama. Are you folks happy?
April 11, 2011 at 12:16 pm
odumba sucks! where is the media outcry over the high prices at the pump, wow the hypocrisy of the demorats!
i always hear about the middle class ,WELL WHAT ABOUT THE WORKING CLASS FOLKS ONLY MAKING 20K-30K A YEAR WHO DREAM OF BEING CLASS AT 50K A YEAR??????????????
April 11, 2011 at 12:16 pm
How’s that Hope, Change and SPEND working out for you Obama believers??? What a joke…..
April 11, 2011 at 12:18 pm
It’s about control. It may be hard to understand but there are people in this country who want to control every aspect of your life EXCEPT what happens in the womb. The automobile represents freedom & the left despises personal liberty. Sic Semper Tyranis !!
April 11, 2011 at 12:19 pm
I noticed when Obama went over to the middle east he bowed to the saudi prince. HMMM I wonder if Obama is an oil man himself!
April 11, 2011 at 12:19 pm
Most anti energy development administration and the worst President in history have combined to impoverish all but Wall street and the fat cat bankers who were given hundreds of billions when they should have gone bankrupt.. Stagflation is here, big time, and it will get worse before Obama’s miserable one term is over.
April 11, 2011 at 12:19 pm
The price of gas has risen due to the Saudis and others knowing the dollar is not worth the paper its printed on due to this administrations irresponsible printing of money – the dollar is going away in a hurry. The chaos in the Middle East only adds to the price on top of this. But we haven’t scene anything yet! This economy cannot handle $5/gal gas for long. People will be forced to make the choice – food or fuel. When it gets to that point – the chaos we see in the Middle East will soon spread to the streets of major US cities. Do your homework folks – life as we know it will change dramatically and not for the better. Wait until you see the price of food spike as fuel costs only add to the already large increases in commodities – you will see food begin to skyrocket in the next few months if you aren’t all ready seeing it. People – its time to get your heads out of the sand (or other dark places) and see what is coming upon us like a frieght train!
April 11, 2011 at 12:19 pm
@Eugene -
Yes the Dems caused the 2008 Meltdown. The Dems were in charge of House and Senate since 2006. Bush should have rejected their spending. They started all the spending problems during Bush’s term and exasperated it afterwards.
April 11, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Actually, the Middle-East situation is only responsible in small measure for the price we are currently paying at the pump. In large part the problem lies with Wall Street speculators. Paying only 10% down and not having to take possession, it continues to increase prices at the pumps. Until Washington, party be dammed, gets off their collective backsides and puts a stop to market speculation we will continue to see gasoline prices rise.
Plus our fearless leader told us his plan was to have energy prices “skyrocket”. What did you expect?
April 11, 2011 at 12:40 pm
How does this square with gasoline and diesel prices all over the world rising at roughly the same rate at the same time?
Speculation is only a tiny part of the equation. High demand from Asia and yearly decreasing world production are mostly to blame.
Remember, nations control oil, not oil companies. Nations often run by corrupt hostiles.
April 11, 2011 at 12:46 pm
“Remember, nations control oil, not oil companies. Nations often run by corrupt hostiles”.
C’mon, folks, let’s ease up on Obama.
April 11, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Your last 2 comments are a grand oxymoron.
April 11, 2011 at 12:58 pm
Worst president in US history. Chicago, Kenya…wherever he’s from, you can have him back.
April 11, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Me thinks someone was a preteen during the Bush II years, Obama is a liar and a terrible president in his own right but he can’t hold a candle to Dubya in terms of “badness”. Bush II set up America to fai and it doesn’t matter who know holds the reigns because your rickety wagon is going off the cliff regardless.
April 11, 2011 at 1:39 pm
You can thank Obama and is big oil buddies for the high gas prices.
April 11, 2011 at 12:22 pm
Don’t worry, Obama is ‘thinking’ very seriously about rising gas prices: he said we should put more air in our tires and drive slower..So there ya go, high gas prices solved by our thoughtful president.
April 11, 2011 at 12:22 pm
SOMEONE needs to do a real expose on why these prices are going up – where is that wikileaks guy when we need him
April 11, 2011 at 12:22 pm
If the Ungreat Dictator Oblama would say we will drill in the USA..prices will come down..don’t hedge bets on that unless your on the side that says he will not. Give me a break…WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE? Don’t blame this wholly on the mideast. START DRILLING IN THE USA! Make no mistate about it…Obama has a plan to bring the USA down. He will steal all he can from the Seniors, their health care and their money. When the POTUS says we are making progress, he is talking to the left, Communists, Marxists, progressives, that the USA is being brought down! The country has to fall and beg someone to bring it back up..don’t let it be a communist
April 11, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Mike
You are a typical Demoidiot. This mockery of a President has ruined this country!
April 11, 2011 at 12:23 pm
Avreage national gas prices were $1.61 when George Bush left office. In 2010… with the democrats firmly in control; the national average gas price was $2.76.
This does not concern you? This is not a red vs blue state issue. This is not a right vs wrong issue. This is an issue that our country is broke and nobody wants to stop pointing fingers long enough to do wha’st right for the American people.
Don’t we deserve better?
April 11, 2011 at 12:24 pm
I wonder if when gas gets to $8, people will still make fun of Sarah Palin for “drill baby drill?”
April 11, 2011 at 12:24 pm
Yup considering we’re sitting on a glut of oil. And our gas prices are low compared to a lot of places in the world.
April 11, 2011 at 5:26 pm
Obama’s disrespect for leaders of ally middle east countries has caused the current oil crisis. OPEC leaders are forcing prices higher to temporarily damage the U.S. economy and destroy Obama’s reelection chances in 2012. It is unfortunate that Americans will have to suffer for the mistake of electing a person not prepared to be president.
April 11, 2011 at 12:25 pm
Now it the republican controled house? before it was the president? Mike look in the mirror see which end is talking
April 11, 2011 at 12:26 pm
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55MPH Speed limit will take oil prices down immediately. The reason is that most vehicles will improve mileage by 20-25%.
April 11, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Ahh, “Recovery Summer Part II” is in FULL effect!!!
April 11, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Both sides are idiots and both sides are responsible for the mess we are in.
Vote out each and every one and replace them with new blood. Set up term limits. Being a politician is not a career. It should be treated as an honor to serve the people.
April 11, 2011 at 12:29 pm
This guy has the right idea: DENIAL! http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/jeff-edelstein-gas-prices-20110407
April 11, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Where would we be if we hadn’t WON the War for Oil?
We sure wouldn’t be asking the Saudi’s to help ease Ghadaffi out of an erupting Middle East.
Nice to have both shoes on our own feet doing some stomping around. Just no boots on the ground.
April 11, 2011 at 12:29 pm
Well…well….he’s taking care of the middle class and poor people. I guess we will have to walk. I’m not against rich people…it’s just that they don’t feel it as much.
WHO CAN CHANGE ALL OF THIS IN 2012…DONALD TRUMP. In fact if we are going to be in Obama’s wars…he now owns them…then I agree with Trump…let’s get paid for it. Our soldiers pay with their lives and limbs…we pay for it in our tax dollars…so let them pay us. Oh…and watch out for the “hit pieces” on Trump by Obama’s campaign manager…David Plouffe.
April 11, 2011 at 12:30 pm
If you think Trump the oligarch would be a fine President then I don’t know what to say back in return. Maybe, uh, “welcome to your nightmare” or “I hope you get what you wish for.”
April 11, 2011 at 2:10 pm
Oil is retreating back down as we speak — expect a 5 cent price drop within 3 days.
April 11, 2011 at 12:30 pm
yeah its a political party thing thats why Soros is calling for a global solution to financial problems…..it has more to do with the devaluation of our fiat currency then anything wake up
April 11, 2011 at 12:31 pm
“The more we do to you, the less you seem to believe we are doing it.” – Joseph Mengele ——- http://911essentials.com
April 11, 2011 at 12:32 pm
The deficit started to skyrocket soon after the Dems took control of the House, and therefore with Mike’s logic almost all of our current deficit fiasco is the result of the DEMS. I totally agree to this one.
April 11, 2011 at 12:32 pm
Obama sucks.
April 11, 2011 at 12:34 pm
The boat is below the surface of the water. Half the crew is steering the boat towards shore, while the other half is still baling the water out of the boat. The passengers are just waiting for the boat to hit bottom.
Enjoy the ride…
April 11, 2011 at 12:34 pm
Yea Jing, not a smart comment, they literally have nothing to do with this
April 11, 2011 at 12:36 pm
Blood will flow in the streets if this is true.
April 11, 2011 at 12:37 pm
TRUMP….TRUMP…..TRUMP….TRUMP. How many of you think this would be a problem with Trump?
April 11, 2011 at 12:37 pm
Canidate Obama is on record as saying $5/gal was a good starting point for the price of gasoline and that as president he would pursue policies that would cause energy prices to skyrocket. It appears that he is succeeding so I would I think all those who voted for Obama wanted higher energy costs and should be happy with the trend.
By executive order, the president pledged tax payer money to guarantee loans to Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company to finance off shore drillling and tell the Brazilians that the U.S. would be their best cutomers., Meanwhile, his administration ignores the Federal courts and delays issuing permits to drill in the Gulf, even while Cuba isues permits drill in the Gulf. So much for energy independence.
BTW, all these electric vehicles touted as way to reduce reliance on imports, use lithium based batteries. The USGS.gov web site reports that significantly less than 1% of the world lithium lies with U.S. territory, and all of that in the hands of one privately held company. About 80% of the lithium is in South America, 15% is divided among Australia, China, and Russia. So moving from oil to battery power doesn’t seem like a move to energy independence.
April 11, 2011 at 12:38 pm
From a financial perspective, you are completely correct.
April 11, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Obama = FAILURE. He must be replaced, we need someone in office that looks out for the well-being of the citizens in the USA. DRILL BABY DRILL… Rather than replaced, I say IMPEACH the useless fool, NOW before he ruins any more of our country.
April 11, 2011 at 12:39 pm
Tell your damn president to release oil from the reserve
April 11, 2011 at 12:39 pm
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It isn’t just due to speculation. Speculation is part of the equation and banks should not be allowed to use tax money to speculate, which they are doing, but most of the problem is due to massive growing demand in Asia and the fact that world oil production is declining year after year due to engineered scarcity.
April 11, 2011 at 12:40 pm
at least our taxes aren’t going up….ha ha ha
hope and change – not sure this is what we had in mind….
April 11, 2011 at 12:40 pm
Your an idiot Jing.
April 11, 2011 at 12:41 pm
Dear Hercules,
The idea of your statement is correct, and you maybe strong; but your writing needs a little proofreading.
You’re (contraction of you are) not your (2nd person, singular, possessive):
You’re an idiot Jing. This is a correct statement and the corrected sentence.
April 11, 2011 at 12:58 pm
God people always gotta tag someone as a liberal,left wing,right wing. Who really cares. Let’s talk about the point and stay on the point. Wall street is making gas prices this way. If some idiot blows himself up in the middle east 100 miles away from a oil pipeline or facility the speculators seize on that opportunity to jack up the price. Get the speculators out of wall street!!
April 11, 2011 at 12:42 pm
Oil companies do not control the oil, they bring it out of the ground and deliver it to market. Blaming oil companies for high gas prices is like blaming the corn farmer for the cost of a bag of Doritos. Gasoline and diesel are highly refined products.
NATIONS, often run by corrupt politicos control the flow of oil, not oil producers.
April 11, 2011 at 12:42 pm
it would be nice if the godddamn page would stop refresing all by itself every 2 minutes so I can read the comments of all the newcomers who are jumping aboard the run Barry Soetoro out of town on a rail bandwagon.
For someone who was such a “moron” GWB understood the commodities market and if you sabre rattle and just threaten to flood the market with new plentiful crude supplies the speculators will be afraid they wil lose their shirts and stop bidding the price up. This is why oil dropped like a rock from the mid $140 to the mid $30 range.
Gee, some moron that GWB was, huh?
Even a Kommunist Kenyan should be able to get that and therein lay the problem. Barry Soetoro does … and he is quite happy to see the unfair America he grew up in suffer. This is just part of the means to an end to get to the Amerikan Khange you were told you couild believe in. Out of the ashes the new utopic USSA can not rise until the system collapses in upon itself. So as Barry said the other day about the high prices at the pump “There is nothing we can do for the next few years. Get used to it”.
We conservatives TRIED to tell you from the jump who the Kenyan is and what his agenda was.
How do you like him now?
April 11, 2011 at 12:43 pm
Wow This must be a conspiracy. BP says I need to get re-reimbursed for the Gulf spill so all oil companies include the few that still drill in the US raise your prices along with mine. Pretty please and help me out. If you are serious then I think you are missing a lot of information. If it was a dig, because you are a greenie, sorry it looked like it did not fly. Many factors have the price where it is. I know of one that will drive the price down some and give the US jobs and out of the middle east. Drill baby drill, Gulf Alaska, CO. off the coast of CA. Drill baby drill!!!
April 11, 2011 at 12:44 pm
boycott several oil companies. do you need exxon,union , or standard. don’t buy from them , then alternate others. don’t americans know how to fight any more?
April 11, 2011 at 12:44 pm
$5.00 gas by Memorial day? Haha, still $2.00 less than Obama wants it.
April 11, 2011 at 12:45 pm
The US has billions of gal. of crude if only they had the will to tap it……hope the price reaches $6.00/gal and then maybe the idiots in Washington including puppet Obama will allow drilling…..if not let the country fall in to a depression!
April 11, 2011 at 12:45 pm
Try $4.43/gal! That’s what we’ve got here in Kodiak, AK. And it’s looking like $5 a whole lot sooner than Memorial Day! This is way beyond ridiculous, but I don’t see any likelyhood that it will change anytime soon, unfortunately. As long as our government doesn’t have to personally pay for anything, they have no incentive to change things for the rest of us.
April 11, 2011 at 12:46 pm
The cost of driving a car is going to be minor in comparison to what you will pay for food. This is going to make the cost of goods skyrocket. I pulled my 401K out of stocks when the market was at 1380 years ago, and made out great when the market tanked. When gas goes above 4, take your investments out the door. We should make an OPEC style of control for our food exports with other grain producing nations. We can tie directly to the cost of oil. Cost of a barrel of oil, the same as a bushel of grain.
April 11, 2011 at 12:47 pm
I agree this is going to make food skyrocket, however, I think other consumer goods will remain low. Why? With everyone chasing food and fuel (which aren’t included in CPI) with their dollars, no one will be able to afford consumer products. And Helicopter Ben will continue to claim there’s no inflation…
April 12, 2011 at 10:03 am
Obviously Obama is helping Bush and his oil buddies getting rich. (rolling eyes)
April 11, 2011 at 12:47 pm
this is exactly what Obama wants and he has said so in the past. he wants to continue to push for green technology, which is more costly to create and has wreaked havoc in the economies of other countries. but developing enough of the green stuff also takes time. we haven’t been building nuclear, we haven’t been drilling for enough oil to alleviate the cost or building refineries. thus, we are stuck with high prices. and as companies are forced to raise their prices to accomodate, we the consumers will not just be paying higher prices for the fual we personally consume but also for everything else we consume, as well. this will be further trouble for our recovery. more uncertainty, more shakiness. the winner of the next presidential election will be the one who says 3 distinct things. first, that we need to be drilling in our own backyard and working on alternatives (no reason why we can’t do both at the same time). second, that we are going to allow the muslims to kill each other in their own countries just like they’ve been doing for eons. if they’re hell-bent on doing that to each other; let ‘em. third, that we are going to protect our own borders from outside invaders wheter they be latinos, terrorists, etc. there has been a path to citizenship for 200 years. why is that no longer good enough?
these are the things that a real leader has to say to get elected.
April 11, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Someone had to say it…
The gas is too damned high!
April 11, 2011 at 12:48 pm
To be so well educated Mr. Obama is ignorant when it comes to business and power that he has.
All this “President” has to do is announce that he has signed off on 25 -30 permits to drill in the gulf, announce that he has signed an executive order to drill in ANWAR, and announce that 30 – 50 permits have been issued for drilling in the Bakken Shale Formation.
The price of oil would drop like a rock and the speculators would be running for the hills.
This would be contrary to what he wants, since the “green dream” would require gas prices to be well over $5.00 a gallon.
April 11, 2011 at 12:49 pm
I’m no Obama supporter but at least he won his first election (unlike your idol Bush II).
April 11, 2011 at 2:12 pm
So when do we hold the village idiot obama responsible. All he has to say is “WE’RE DRILLING” and watch the market change.
April 11, 2011 at 12:49 pm
You’re clueless my friend. A mere announcement that future drilling will take place won’t cause a single penny change in the current market price of oil. You clearly have no idea how long it takes to go from “Let’s drill an oil well” until that oil is actually in a pipeline on the way to the refinery. Not to mention that the recoverable oil in ANWAR is <30% of the actually announced total of 16 billion barrels. Using secondary and tertiary methods the actual recoverable amount might reach 70% of the reported reserves. AND in addition to all that you can't possibly start pumping a significant fraction of the oil until the infrastructure is in place and that takes years to build.
For comparison, in northern Alberta which a lot warmer than ANWAR, it costs $1.2 billion dollars to build a "small" SAGD oil plant that recovers 30 000 barrels a day. The plant is usually built for a 25 year life span so over the life of that one "small" plant it will recover approx 27 million barrels of oil. So if you need to "quickly" produce 2 million barrels of crude per day to offset unexpected production losses elsewhere, you would have to build a dozen of these 1.2 billion dollar plants plus all the drilling of each of the hundreds of well pairs that are required. This could possibly occur over the time period of 10 years, that is "quickly" when it comes to oil & gas development. If you wanted it "immediately" it would be an impossible task unless you focussed on it like what was done for the Manhattan or Apollo projects and America seemingly has neither the ambition nor the will to make a tough choice like that anymore.
April 11, 2011 at 2:58 pm
darren,
First off I am not and have never been a big supporter of President Bush, 1 or 2, thank you very much. At least he had respect for the office he held for 8 years, unlike the moron that currently holds the office.
Second of all you have a very small understanding of oil pricing, oil is sold in futures, that means the investors are betting on the future price of oil, add more supply to the market and guess what happens to the price, it goes down.
Now how about you crawl back under your rock and keep praying for that hope and change you so proudly voted for but has yet to materialize
April 12, 2011 at 1:21 pm
CAR POOL, CAR POOL, CAR POOL! NO NEED TO BUY NEW CARS OR INVENT ANYTHING. IF HALF OF THE SINGLE CAR DRIVERS CAR POOLED IT WOULD SAVE 12% NATIONWIDE IN OIL EMPORTS. IT COULD SAVE THE HOUSING MARKET AND BOOST THE AMERICAN ECONOMY OUT OF RECESSION WITH THE MONEY PEOPLE WOULD SAVE AND IT WOULD DRIVE THE PRICE OF FUEL DOWN. CAR POOL, CAR POOL, CAR POOL
April 11, 2011 at 12:50 pm
The President solution is for you to buy a smaller car.
April 11, 2011 at 12:50 pm
When the value of the dollar drops 15-20% in a year (flooding the market with excess dollars ala drunklen fed government spending), what do you expect the price of oil to do?? It’s called hyper inflation and it’s beginning. Stupid Americans.
April 11, 2011 at 12:50 pm
And people thought the oil companies had the GOP in their pocket (which they do). Big Oil has Big Oilbama even MORE in their pocket.
Think about it….
With the GOP Big Oil could spend tons of money to drill which would lower prices.
With Big Oilbama, Big Oil can do nothing, spend no more drilling money and let the prices rise.
Big Oilbama has helped his friends at BP and elsewhere make more money without additional expense.
April 11, 2011 at 12:50 pm
Lets see know, Obama says something along the lines of, “gasoline prices will go up quite a bit”, but ya read on here that BP is causing the prices to go up.
Hey,,,,, wake up, Obama said he wants it that way and is cheering it on. You’re chasing up the wrong tree with the BP conspiracy.
April 11, 2011 at 12:51 pm
And why are we stupidly sitting here doing absolutely NOTHING
about the price of gas?..There is NO reason it is so high. It is all the
oil speculators jacking up the price.
We need to march in the streets to protest…..we need to DRILL in the US…we need to find alternate sources of FUEL asap, instead of letting the oil/car companies run the country.
April 11, 2011 at 12:52 pm
Saudi Minister: Oil Could Spike to $300 a Barrel
Former Saudi oil minister Sheikh Zaki Yamani says oil prices could soar to at least $200 or even to $300 a barrel if Saudi Arabia suffers serious political unrest.
Following protests last month calling for political reforms in the kingdom, Yamani told Reuters that underlying discontent remains unresolved.
“If something happens in Saudi Arabia, [oil] will go to $200 to $300,” he declared. “I don’t expect this for the time being, but who would have expected Tunisia?
“I think there are some surprises on the horizon.”
Yamani, who was responsible for Saudi oil policy from 1962 to 1986, spoke at a London conference of the Centre for Global Energy Studies, which he chairs.
In March, King Abdullah offered $93 billion in handouts to Saudis in an effort to avert the domestic turmoil seen in much of the Arab world.
But Jaafar Al Taie, managing director of Manaar Energy Consulting — which advises foreign oil firms operating in the region — said: “I don’t think that what the king is doing now is sufficient to prevent an uprising. Saudi Arabia is a time bomb, but one that is constantly being reset.”
A headline in The Daily Mail last week disclosed: “Oil prices hit all-time high in Britain,” reaching the equivalent of $121 a barrel.
April 11, 2011 at 12:53 pm
Hey here is an idea, why dont we just drill our own oil in our own country?
People are out of work and unemployment is steady at about 10 percent.
I bet you these same people would love to work making a good pay check.
Also we would’nt be sending our money to people who would like to kill all U.S citizens. If we started to drill our own oil the price would drop quickly, and once again people would be working. If all of this would happen are economy and the U.S once again would be back.
April 11, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Exacty Neal… just the comment we are going to drill more would send down the market!
April 11, 2011 at 1:42 pm
Oh, I think we can live with $10 gal gas…up more, Mr. Obanka
April 11, 2011 at 12:55 pm
It doesn’t have anything to do with BP. IMany of you complaining about the price of gas now should have been paying attention 2-3 years ago> The liberals, progressives, and greenies are doing exactly what they said they were going to do.
BTW, they actually want $7/G gas,
Elections have consequences. Now you have no HOPE and and little CHANGE when filling up your car.
April 11, 2011 at 12:55 pm
This is a direct result of the Obama Administrations stated intention to push the price of gas to $10.00 per gallon. They’ve said this outloud and to the press… Funny how Bush was excoriated for gas prices and Obama get’s a pass.
Between QE1 QE2 QE3 and “stimulus” we’re printing enough money to put every man, women and child in debt over $46k and counting…..oil goes up in price as a result.
April 11, 2011 at 12:55 pm
Blame the Koch Brothers and their Tea Party, not to mention their oil interests.
David and Charles Koch are the ones making the most out of your gasoline miseries, and for more see this: http://milwaukee.indymedia.org/en/2011/04/211970.shtml
April 11, 2011 at 12:55 pm
And what of Big Oilbama’s oil interests? Do you know who is BP’s #1 politician to pay off? Why it’s Big Oilbama.
And here he is doing them a favor by increasing their profit through creating an environment where gas prices skyrocket.
April 11, 2011 at 3:36 pm
Sorry but NO one in Chicago has any right to complain. YOU have been voting for this for many years. Now we all are paying the price for your political stupidity.
April 11, 2011 at 12:56 pm
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I think, therefore:
I vacation.
And, oh yeah, Michelle says “Keep chompin’ those carrot sticks, chumps”.
April 11, 2011 at 12:57 pm
You are so dumb blaming oil companies for the price of oil. Obama shuts down drilling in the Gulf of Mexico. What do you expect oil to do. Do you know that the government makes more money off the the price of a gallon of gas than does the company who sells it? That’s what we get for electing someone like Obama as president. He is clueless on how to govern and we are all paying the price in more ways than one.
April 11, 2011 at 12:57 pm
that price ought to get rid of the rest of the dems in 2012. yea!
April 11, 2011 at 12:57 pm
Hey don’t worry….obowma is on it….let me see what is his plan…..oh giving billions to Brazil to drill….oh wait what is his plan for U.S. citizens…he said…and I quote….people are just going to have to get used to higher gas prices. he is by the way still not allowing basically any drilling AND HIS EPA has shut down close to 40% OF us oil refineries…..obowma voters…you are truly stupid!
April 11, 2011 at 12:58 pm
@ EndTheFED
Ron Paul 2012!
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I don’t get Ron Paulsen.
Hey, … Maybe if I was loaded up 24/7/365 on massive doses of Xanex we’d be on the same wavelength?
April 11, 2011 at 12:58 pm
I’ve read that the Saudis are not afraid to raise the price of oil to more than $300.00 for a barrel of oil if they get any unrest in their region.
April 11, 2011 at 1:01 pm
There you liberals go again…
The price at which we began changing our driving habits was about $3.00 NOT $4.25+
April 11, 2011 at 1:02 pm
Never seen this sort of thing before….must be nice to own a news outlet and be an active trader.
April 11, 2011 at 1:02 pm
If we had started drilling and producing MORE domestic oil 35 years ago when Carter said, “Nothng we do now will make any difference.” We wouldn’t be so dependent on foreign oil and turmoil today!
Drill baby drill!
April 11, 2011 at 1:05 pm
AMERICANS TAKE INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVES TO SOLVE THEIR OWN PROBLEMS. CAR POOL, CAR POOL, CAR POOL! IF YOU PUT THREE MORE PEOPLE IN A 12 MILE PER GALLON SUV, YOUR SEAT MILES PER GALLON GOES TO 48 MILE PER GALLON. WE DON’T HAVE TO WAIT ON ANYONE, THE GAS COMPANIES, OBAMA, CONGRESS, OR THE ARABS. WE CAN CUT OUR CONSUMPTION BY SIMPLY CAR POOLING. USA USA USA! WATCH THE PRICE OF FUEL GO DOWN! USA USA USA!!!
April 11, 2011 at 1:10 pm
Isn’t Obama and dem’s energy policy grand? Lets not develop our own carbon resources while working on viable alternative energy. This is what happens when you get a bunch of affirmative action academics in the position of power. 2012 is the time to get some common sense back in Washington
April 11, 2011 at 1:11 pm
If the U.S. government were to increase taxes on gasoline consumption that would have several positive effects. We the people need to be willing to accept tough options to wean ourselves off of fossil fuels. If gasoline were to cost $9/gallon due to an increase in taxes, it would force us to consider alternate means of public transportation, fuel efficient vehicles, and residences that are within walking distances of work.
Also, the increased revenue afforded by the tax could be used to pay for gov’t subsidies on fuel efficient cars and R&D for transportation. Similarly, the tax would create a buffer to protect us from rising petroleum costs, thereby taking power away from foreign oil exporters who seek to weaken our economy.
Gasoline taxes would be less extreme for farming equipment, trucks, and other equipment that vital businesses require. However, the tax would be graduated so that it increases over time, thereby giving our citizens a time line to prepare for the transition off of foreign oil and eventually fossil fuels all together.
April 11, 2011 at 1:13 pm
Methinks you misunderstood him, Jim. BS means he’ll spend less as a choice, for the reasons you describe.
Also, ditch the all caps thing. It makes folks think you’re a raving lunatic, especially when combined with your lack of reading comprehension skills.
April 11, 2011 at 1:14 pm
The price of oil and products is due to QE2, which also spurred the rioting in the Middle East. Wait until you see what QE 3 brings to you fools who voted for the Kenyan
April 11, 2011 at 1:19 pm
IT’S ALL BUSH’S FAULT! CHENEY AND HALLIBURTON AND BUSH’S RICH OIL BUDDIES!!!!!
….oh wait. Bush is not the president. Never mind.
April 11, 2011 at 1:25 pm
*After I filled up on gas*, I went to the grocery store – My check card was declined because I didn’t have enough my checking – put stuff back. That’s life.
That didn’t happen when Clinton was President, it also never happened under Bush. Under Obama – YES.
We seriously can’t wait until this LOSER is out of office!
April 11, 2011 at 1:28 pm
my apolgies to the Clintonista regim efor calling them the most corrupt politicians in our history….this Obamistas have that prize won!!!!!!!!!!!!!
April 11, 2011 at 1:29 pm
ARRUUUGGGHHHHH! Same story each and every time. The oil companies extort money from us for gas that is sitting in tanks that has been processed, refined, and paid for. Yet they tell us events that are occuring half a globe away are causing the prices to skyrocked. And then they release their quarterly figures and show they have made record profits…………………WHEN ARE WE GONG TO WISE UP AND DEMAND THIS MADNESS END????????????
April 11, 2011 at 1:29 pm
onbama economy in action here. dont worry… there is nothing to see here, move along you sheepel.
stupid rhinos and democrats destroy this nation every day. start thinking like a person and not a follower.
April 11, 2011 at 1:31 pm
We are convinced that if Obama dropped and Atom Bomb, his supporters would call it “renewable energy” how far up this mans rear end are they?
Really, really far. Write off the Obamaites, they’re soul-less, stupid, and A-moral.
April 11, 2011 at 1:31 pm
Funny how when Bush was President and this happened the DISHONEST media was all about BLOOD 4 OIL and CHENEY and HALIBURTON….. now with Obama not a peep. Do all of you realize how politically bent our media is…? Really! Pure propaganda…… We have enough options to ease this situation, for one… DRILL BABY DRILL!
April 11, 2011 at 1:31 pm
I think the question is not “At what price point would you change your driving habits”, but rather “At what price points would you change your VOTING habits.”
I think we, as a nation, have already passed that “price point”?
April 11, 2011 at 1:32 pm
THANK YOU CHICAGO for sending us the Community Organizer in Chief. His NO DRILLING BAN sure is working well, for Soros, Brazil, China, Cuba, etc.
April 11, 2011 at 1:33 pm
High gas prices are just one more example of obama’s failed presidency…
April 11, 2011 at 1:36 pm
NOW THATS CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN.
April 11, 2011 at 1:37 pm
How can I change my driving habits? I have to drive to work. There is no mass transportation where I live, and I can’t carpool because there is nobody that lives near me to carpool with!
April 11, 2011 at 1:38 pm
I have already given up on eating out even at places like McDonalds and Wendy’s and I now plan my routes for the least amount of idle in traffic and cut back on my speed.
April 11, 2011 at 1:38 pm
Mr. Obama could pull the rug out from under the oil speculators who are driving up the price at the pump merely by changing his policy on domestic oil production. You have him to thank for that $5 gas/diesel that will result in inflated prices for food and everything else we buy.
April 11, 2011 at 1:39 pm
It’s a matter of SAFETY, too.
My elderly mother sits in the car while I get gas. I take the keys and lock the doors. Sometimes there is a 10 minute wait inside the gas station because people are buying pop, chips, newspapers, coffee, lottery tickets, cigarettes.
On Saturday after I paid for my gas, my mom told me that a man walked up to my car and tapped on the window with his car key and told my mother to “get outta the car” and he ran away when someone drove up.
You’ll be seeing a lot of thugs trying to steal a fully gassed up car. I’ve already seen people yelling at the gas station employees to the extent where everybody gets in on the yelling. The gas station employees said they’ve had a few drive-offs and everybody must pre-pay which is smart.
From now on I am going to a cashless gas station, Costco has one. No more of this leaving the car for 10-15 minutes to stand in line and pay for gas.
Use your credit card, get your gas and be safe!
April 11, 2011 at 1:39 pm
I just took the time to write out a lengthy message about what happened to me and my mom on Saturday at the gas station and Ch. 2 news won’t let it print? OH COME ON!!!
April 11, 2011 at 1:41 pm
Democrats are trying to raise gas prices on purpose. THEY WANT $7/GAL GAS. Democrats are energy terrorists. People who vote for Democrats who stop us from drilling for cheap local oil and build more refineries, are stupid!
April 11, 2011 at 1:42 pm
I just took the time to write out a lengthy message about what happened to me and my mom on Saturday at the gas station and Ch. 2 news won’t let it print? OH COME ON!!
April 11, 2011 at 1:42 pm
This is what Sheike Husain Obama wants! he thinks this is good stuff for the economy, but he is killing our economy, our wealth, and our lives, Trump is right.
Obama is from Saudi Arabia, that is what he is hiding in his BC!
April 11, 2011 at 1:44 pm
If President Obama was serious about all the campaign promises he made to “Help out the working person” back in 2008 he should immediately enact Fuel and Energy PRICE CONTROLS and curb the power of Market Speculators on the CBT and Wall Street who are at fault for all of this. The consumer is going to slam the purse and wallet shut and discontinue all non-discretionary purchases if these prices keep going up! That will KILL the economy assuming it ain’t dead already.
April 11, 2011 at 1:44 pm
This is what Sheik Husain Obama wants! he thinks this is good stuff for the economy, but he is killing our economy, our wealth, and our lives, Trump is right.
Obama is from Saudi Arabia, that is what he is hiding in his BC!
April 11, 2011 at 1:45 pm
I must apologize the the Clintonista regime for calling them the most corrupt policians this nation has ever had….this Obama/Soros/mainstream media regime has won the prize
I BHO gets elected again…WE DESERVE anything we get from our enemies, wrath of God…or maybe just our foundations totally crumbling away.
Gas $1.
April 11, 2011 at 1:45 pm
Agreed. Unless you’ve lived through violent conflict, you can’t understand the devastation it creates. For every happy Egyptian you see hopping up and down and chanting slogans, there are many more who have lost homes or busineses, or had loved ones killed or injured as a result.
April 11, 2011 at 1:45 pm
I just took the time to write out a lengthy message about what happened to me and my mom on Saturday at the gas station and Ch. 2 news won’t let it print? OH COME ON!
April 11, 2011 at 1:45 pm
The US cannot afford $5 a gallon gasoline. How are people supposed to get to work? We can expect another wave of home foreclosures and small business failures.
April 11, 2011 at 1:46 pm
I just took the time to write out a lengthy message about what happened to me and my mom on Saturday at the gas station and Ch. 2 news won’t let it print?
OH COME ON!
April 11, 2011 at 1:46 pm
Throw the Kenyan out of the White House in 2012 and open up drilling for oil everywhere he has blocked.
April 11, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Gas $1.78 under GWB,,,,sky is the limit under the Obamanista regime..
Lord Soros will decide the price for Barack.
April 11, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Progressives are THE enemy of this country and the US taxpayer, if you have not figured that out, your an idiot or on drugs, likely both.
April 11, 2011 at 1:48 pm
What a Poll. I have already changed my driving habits and so have a lot of other people who cannot afford what gas is at now. I did not vote for this Obama, but it didn’t do me any good because too many stupid idiots looking for free stuff and change voted him in. Now we are all suffering!!!
April 11, 2011 at 1:48 pm
Economy in shambles, disastrous foreign policy, 3 wars, gas/food/clothing prices skyrocketing, no end in sight.
Anybody but Obama!
April 11, 2011 at 1:48 pm
$5.00 a gallon for gas! This is more successful “Hope and Change” from our Empty Suit in Chief. And what is Obama’s solution? Go buy a car that gets better mileage! There’s leadership for you (NOT!).
Let’s start drilling again in the Gulf, then Alaska in ANWAR.
DRILL everywhere we can, my car is never going to run on windmills or solar power you fools!
April 11, 2011 at 1:50 pm
Bad news, Liberals.
Gas, food and clothing prices are all skyrocketing. Our economy is in shambles.
The wars grind endlessly on. Obama just started War #3.
The Democrat Party took a 700 seat loss last November.
The American people see Obama and his corporate millionaire Democrat pals partying with Motown and Gladys Knight while a nuclear disaster reaches our shores and the rest of us are broke, unemployed or on the battlefield.
Not looking good, Liberals. Not looking good at all.
April 11, 2011 at 1:51 pm
*yawn*
April 11, 2011 at 4:19 pm
You want cheap gas prices and AMERICAN oil? Elect Sarah Palin in 2012. She’s the only candidate in the history of our country with real world energy industry experience.
She was Alaska’s top energy regulator (one of the most important jobs in the state) and as Governor, was also chairman of the nation’s Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission.
No one understands the issues better. No one understands that Natural Gas is the bridge fuel we need. It’s cheap and plentiful. The Arctic alone has 1.67 QUADRILLION cubic feet of gas.
We have hundreds of years worth of oil and gas right here in America. All we have to do is go get it.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/the_presidents_oil_reserves_li.html
April 11, 2011 at 1:51 pm
This should surprise no one, for it is exactly what Obumbling Obama told you he wanted as part of his infamous “change” package. Now, all of us get to live with the ignorance of the man and his handlers….like Slimey Soros.
April 11, 2011 at 1:51 pm
Impeach the Kommie Kenyan before its too late to save the Republic
April 11, 2011 at 1:55 pm
Perhaps Obama took the Democratic Party playbook to heart and is now “helping his rich oil buddies get richer.”
April 11, 2011 at 1:56 pm
The mighty Boa CAN NOT believe the number of people coming out now claiming this IS NOT the fault of Obozo!!!!!
How absurd! Yet these same people wanted to hang George Bush when oil prices rose as of course, we all know he’s “in bad with big oil”….. They acted like he actually set gas prices from the Oval Office.
But Obozo? Nah,,,, he’s all about the “little guy” right???
AH HAHAHA!! How insane……
April 11, 2011 at 2:32 pm
REALLY?!!! George Bush was the oil man. Where was the outrage in 2008? Remember when Mr. Bush told us we were “addicted to oil” then offered NO solutions what so ever. I guess it’s only a problem when a Democrats in office. Have you ever thought this might be related to the middle east blowing up?
April 11, 2011 at 3:18 pm
SuBo, the oil prices are a direct result of Obozo’s energy policies and lack of leadership in the Middle East.
April 11, 2011 at 3:40 pm
100% Obama. Not 90%, Not 80%
Our economy keeps the world sound. Our recession (obama) is the longest in history and actually end in Aug 2009. What we are experiencing since is Obama & it is effecting the world. Middle East riots / unrest are happening because our economy is floundering and it has a harsher effect on poor countries. ALL BECAUSE OF OBAMA
April 11, 2011 at 3:47 pm
get real, obama has not caused this problem. gas was predicted to get to these levels back 2008 BEFORE obama took office. has your memory failed? remember who owns major stakes in haliburton? not the dems
April 11, 2011 at 4:02 pm
@SuBo
WHERE WAS THE OUTRAGE AT BUSH??????Where in the world were you????
The outrage was on CBS,NBC,ABC,CNN,MSNBC, NY TIMES on and on and on EVERY DAY!!!!!! You are the very definition of useful id iot, you idi ot!!!! I haven’t heard from one of your sources trying to connect your Savior and the gas price!!!
All i heard when Bush was president, that it was his fault!!!! GOOD lord you are soooooooo blind and stup id!!!!
April 11, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Obama is helping his buddy George Sorose make millions with his investment in Brazillian oil with the help of billions of our tax dollars to help them drill off shore.
April 11, 2011 at 4:59 pm
OR…
Maybe the Arabs are exploiting the turmoil in the middle east and JACKED the price up.
Duh.
April 11, 2011 at 5:12 pm
how about the tea dregs attack the richa nd corporate and demand they pay their fair share instead of attacking the elderly, woman and children? Why? No tea baller, conservactive, GOp, thug, whatever can answer that question. They just give sound bits from faux news because apparently none of these fools can think for themselves.
April 11, 2011 at 5:18 pm
Impeach the Kommie Kenyan before it’s too late to save the Republic
April 11, 2011 at 1:58 pm
I say drill the Alaskan ANWR, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Seaboard! If a damn species gets in our way, eliminate it! The time for yuppie tree hugging has come and gone. China owns most of our debt, and the Arab States own the #1 strategic resource that can bring our country to it’s knees in hours, not months! It’s time to do what needs to be done to become our own nation again!
April 11, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Time for some better Government…anybody who votes for the Marxist Democrats has a case of Cranial/Rectal inversion
April 11, 2011 at 1:58 pm
yes, war has consequences…but so does complacency….it’s a far better thing to die on one’s feet than to live on one’s knees….
April 11, 2011 at 1:58 pm
Let it go to 5.00 a gallon. I make enough money to pay for it. They will be less people at my hunting and fishing spot. You ignorant people voted for Obama so take what you get. The one’s that didn’t vote are getting what they deserve also. Maybe it will go to 6.00 a gallon if it will get you off your butt and make a real change.
April 11, 2011 at 2:06 pm
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It has already past. $3.00 was my limit.
April 11, 2011 at 2:12 pm
Osama bin barrack has his way, he had planed to push energy prices sky high forcing everyone to trade in..Remember his comment about “Europe not putting up with us driving SUVs” This is HIS PLAN! Forcing everyone into a euro model..
April 11, 2011 at 2:16 pm
2012 is the end of the DNC!
April 11, 2011 at 2:17 pm
How about we throw the Marxist imbecile $3 bill out of office. How’s that hope and change working out for you nitwitswho installed this moron into the Oval Office?
Everybody is drilling in the Gulf except for the US due to the insane eco-terrorists Salazar and Obama. Open up ANWR, open both coasts to new drilling and watch the price of oil plummet in a NY minute.
April 11, 2011 at 2:18 pm
POCKET CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN!
April 11, 2011 at 2:18 pm
Jimmy Carter told us to buy a sweater when the heating bills went up. Obama is going to tell us to get a bicycle.
April 11, 2011 at 2:19 pm
A better poll question would be “At What Price Point Would You Change Your VOTING Habits”?
April 11, 2011 at 2:23 pm
I am male, 35 , sngle , no kids, no wife. I work and went back to college for Medical. I reside in Rural Georgia. I have no other option but to drive an hour to each location, depending ont he time of the week. Where I live, there is no Taxis, Trains, Subways, Etc….I have a 2005 Elentra, Great on Gas but still, OMG, When does it End ? To be honest with everyone, I am 35, but I feel much, much Older from Stress. I am 6 Foot 5 inches tall, i used to weigh 250, now I weigh about 210, and it was all from ” AKA Stress ” !
April 11, 2011 at 2:24 pm
To some of you Einsteins posting,,the President has NOTHING to do with the price of gas! Go to FactCheck.org and many other sites and READ ALL ABOUT IT. Thanks for playing though…
April 11, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Oh yes it does. Obama’s energy policy , which is imposed on the oil industry by madmen at the EPA (Salazar) curtails and/or prevents new drilling in the Gulf, in the Atlantic and Pacific, in ANWR, no new refineries, has very much to do with it.
The Brazilians, Hugo Chavez and Chinese are drilling in the gulf as we speak.
He is doing little or nothing on coal, and is relying on Brazil (Petrobras – and his puppetmaster Soros) to fill any gaps in Middle East oil supply.
He needs the price of gas, oil and electricity to skyrocket so that alternatives like solar panels (almost all made in Asia now), windmills (bird killers) and batteries (like Volt) which will cost about $8k to replace, can be more cost competitive with fossil fuels.
Obama and his policies have everything to do with the price of gasoline. Obama is clueless, and without a doubt, the most incompetent person to have ever occupied the Oval Office, bar none. It is not even debatable.
Fact Check is run by liberals. It takes all of 30 seconds to read what they post to see that virtually the only people or they fact check are non-liberals. Of course they’re going to say that this President has nothing to do with the price of gasoline, unless of course, the President’s name was Bush.
April 11, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Obama is the worst President ever, amazing people still believe his hype, he is terrible on so many levels
April 11, 2011 at 2:26 pm
You cant’ blame Bush. What are the Democrats going to do now?
April 11, 2011 at 2:27 pm
I’m having flashbacks 1977-1981. This current administration is nothing more than a reincarnation of the Carter Administration. Carter’s policies didn’t work then and they won’t work now.
April 11, 2011 at 2:27 pm
I suppose this is George Bush to blame….huh lefties?
April 11, 2011 at 2:33 pm
Their plan is right on schedule!
April 11, 2011 at 2:34 pm
I suppose this is George Bush to blame….huh lefties? And this is the 1st time I have posted he…..duh
April 11, 2011 at 2:34 pm
LOL! What kind of poll is that? Try back at the $2.69 price point! ( $4.50? Come on, really???)
April 11, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Exactly what type of driving habits are we supposed to change? Stop going to work? Stop bringing kids to school? Stop going to grocery store?
Its not like we’re driving all over creation in our free time.
April 11, 2011 at 2:37 pm
You could carpool…kids could walk to school…..go to the supermarket once every two weeks……….in orther words, cut down on driving.
April 11, 2011 at 2:45 pm
We’ll have to cut back to three meals a week and do what they did in the former depression. Three famillies living in one house. Food prices are already skyrocketing and so will bills for electric power, natural gas, water and sewer charges. Gotta sign up for one of those work-at-home schemes to be able to afford to even get by by the skins of our teeth!
April 11, 2011 at 2:57 pm
I still see alot people with bad driving habits. Accelerating out of a stop like its a drag race… weaving in and out of lanes trying to always get 1 car ahead. Never coasting or better yet mashing the accelerator going 75 when there is a red light 50 yards in front of you. People wake up and learn to drive.
April 11, 2011 at 3:00 pm
I drive a veggie car at $2/gallon.
April 11, 2011 at 3:29 pm
Yea, we gotta cut down on our driving…how about the president stop his lavish use of AF One, SUVs, maybe watch movies in the WH not in NY. I bet he’s thinking “Let them eat cake”. I pray the country can survive until 2012. This administration is totally insane!
April 11, 2011 at 3:37 pm
and Texas just passed an 85 MPR speed limit. Yea, lets’ use up all the fossil fuel quickly so we can drill for more! Idiots – you don’t even realize what you’re saying.
April 11, 2011 at 5:15 pm
I love the comment on Halliburton. Like they are the problem. Moron. When we cut down on driving, less money is spent at restaurants, Walmart, Starbucks, Home Depot… etc.
Get it? Consumer has less to spend on real economy, and by trying to save gas, we eliminate so much other spending by not being out there in the market. It’s a domino effect. Economy is heading for the double dip. And it’s NOT Bush’s fault like a few of you idiotic liberals still whine. Fortunately, plenty of my liberal friends are beginning to understand that uncontrolled social spending and weak leadership apparently doesn’t work. I believe enough understand that BHO will be out the door in 2012. Hope we can last that long.
Of course Obama and his Czars would have you think it’s a good thing because we’re decreasing the demand for gas.
April 11, 2011 at 5:31 pm
He will be with the mighty Boa,,, who has been calling for this revolution for some time now. It is THE ONLY way this nation stands a chance.
We must ERADICATE all of the marxists and liberals. They ALL need to go.
April 11, 2011 at 2:38 pm
somebody tell our dear leader its time to drill in ANWR and the gulf ,,and tis time to develop more gas hybrid cars ..
April 11, 2011 at 2:39 pm
Why do the marxists now blame “speculators”???
When George Bush was in office, YOU ALL BLAMED HIM when oil prices rose.
But HE saw to it we started drilling more AND THE PRICES DROPPED.
Now, f’in Obozo cuts off ANY oil, coal, etc,,, and drives it up AFTER SAYING HE WOULD DO SO,,, and nobody holds him responsible,,.,,,,,
Absolutely incredible,,,
April 11, 2011 at 2:41 pm
Boy, that evil Bush and Cheney are STILL manipulating the markets. But wait, could this be Obama’s fault? Nahhhhh.
April 11, 2011 at 2:41 pm
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To some of you Einsteins posting,,the President has NOTHING to do with the price of gas! Go to FactCheck.org and many other sites and READ ALL ABOUT IT. Thanks for playing though…
April 11, 2011 at 2:42 pm
I realize there is a lot of angst in the country-liberal, conservative and all the like. But with fuel prices we should be able to agree on a few simple things:
1. Petroleum based fuels currently represent the most widely available cost effective solutions
2. The US has huge natural (petroleum) reserves, mostly untapped
3. The ability to be mostly energy independent on demand is a national security priority; this requires drilling AND (probably new) refinement. It also creates good new jobs
4. Energy companies should be held to every legal standard; however, they have a right to profits and charging what the market will bear
5. Oil is probably fairly valued at around $40/barrel (I know this one is controversial)
6. The reasons for the increases in oil prices include devaluation of the dollar, regional instability in the middle east (that we help fund), a (long overdue) lack of a cogent energy policy, and yes, speculation and opportunism (we’ll call that greed)
So why don’t we all agree to just hire people who will fix the mess? Yes, drill everywhere (prioritize, but put it all on the table), Demand the leases be used or expire. Take oil as payment from countries we are assisting (Iraq comes to mind, maybe Lybia next). Make it clear that US troop involvement will require reimbursement of the US taxpayer. We all understand (on some level even if we disagree) the ramifications of devaluing the dollar; we can, but do we want FDRs to retain the unique position of being the only world reserve currency and “coin of the realm”? If so, work, as the Clinton administration did, to strengthen the dollar (this will drive oil prices down in dollar terms). While we are at it, let’s pursue the most promising alternatives through the encouragement of (private) innovation through awards for success (not through money to piddle). And for goodness sake, cut the ethanol subsidies; sell the corn to starving nations (this will be both good karma and better economic sense, as the ethanol is increasing the cost of the fuel!).
April 11, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Why should this be a surprise..
After all…obama said that ‘prices would necessarily skyrocket..’ under his energy plans..
Couple that with his energy secretary:
Mr. Chu has called for gradually ramping up gasoline taxes over 15 years to coax consumers into buying more-efficient cars and living in neighborhoods closer to work.
“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe”
- Steven Chu Energy secretary
Chu was sworn in as Secretary of Energy in the Barack Obama administration.
Under his leadership in 2010 the Department of Energy changed the water usage laws on toilets and showers previously passed by Congress and effectively banned the sale of luxury showers in USA.
Chu has also advocated making the roofs of buildings and the tops of roads around the world white or other light colors, which could possibly reflect a lot of sunlight back into space and significantly mitigate global warming.
Chu warns that global warming could wipe out California farms within the century.
Chu said that a typical coal power plant emits 100 times more radiation than a nuclear power plant
So… in my opinion…the results…for obama…are a success!!
April 11, 2011 at 2:47 pm
Senator Obama promised you those levels. Think of all the things Nancy and Harry said about W at $3.10? Well 53% and CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN got what they wanted..empty suit President. Now they will relect him. Say something not in the flow you are a racist hate monger.
April 11, 2011 at 2:48 pm
$9-$10 easily by the end of the year The current administration wants high gas prices to make alternative energy look better to us.
April 11, 2011 at 2:48 pm
Da comrade and create all those greenie weenie yobs for the illegals that will be voting for Barry in 2012.
April 11, 2011 at 2:58 pm
When gas prices drop prior to the 2012 election e veryone will adore comrade Soetoro again. Especially the Brazilians, Barry Soetoro borrowed $2 Billion from the Chi Coms to give Brazil for oil exploration. Shure hope the Repubs take that news bite and jam it up comrade Soetoros keester.
April 11, 2011 at 2:55 pm
How about crude oil blues by Jerry Reed?
April 11, 2011 at 2:59 pm
I have just finished converting my car from gasoline to nutella…now, as long as they don’t force up the price of peanuts like they did oil, I’ll be fine. By the way, give me one good reason why the USA isn’t drilling its own oil?
April 11, 2011 at 3:01 pm
The price of gas nationally was only about $1.74 per gallon (see below) when Obama was sworn into office on January 20, 2009.
It has more than doubled since then.
Now they are saying that the price will soon nearly triple.
January 20, 2013, can’t come fast enough for America!
America can’t afford Obama. Trade him in for a less expensive, more efficient model when you vote in November 2012.
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From a January 20, 2008 website:
http://blog.nola.com/tpmoney/2009/01/average_local_price_of_gasolin_72.html
The average local price of unleaded gasoline stands at $1.741 a gallon, up from $1.738 a gallon on Monday, according to AAA. One month ago, the average local price stood at $1.552 a gallon.
April 11, 2011 at 3:03 pm
The recent increases in gas prices can be blamed on a few factors, but the primary factor at this time is SPECULATION!! U.S. gasoline consumption has stayed relatively flat in the past 5-6 years. The average cost to bring a barrel of oil to the surface hasn’t changed much either… It varies between $3-$25 a barrel, depending on a number of factors. As soon as it stops snowing, I plan on parking my car and riding my bike to and from work. I’m one of the lucky ones for whom this is actually a viable option.
April 11, 2011 at 3:03 pm
@PC, what are you smoking? Kids can walk to school. Not everyone lives within walking to a school. Carpool, What if no one where I live works where I do? I know, I will move to a home that my kids can walk to and I will find a new job that everyone on my street works at. Good lib answer, I bet you voted for big O.
April 11, 2011 at 3:06 pm
$5 gas? Thank you democratic party.
April 11, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Remind me again which political party, has been responsible for our not searching for oil in Alaska (Caribou) or the Gulf of Mexico? Remember that when it cost you $5.00 to drive to the polls next time.
April 11, 2011 at 3:12 pm
so, we just sit back and continue to let Dr. Zero and his merry band of Commies continue to administer their prolonged rectal exam on all of us?
April 11, 2011 at 3:13 pm
We could have IMMEDIATE relief at the pumps if Obama was to issue an Executive Order suspending gasoline taxes for two weeks. But this would go against his plan to take the country down by breaking us all financially and keeping us involved in three wars.
April 11, 2011 at 3:15 pm
No one is commenting on how to SAVE at the pump! Check out FuelDirectPays.com. A 22 yr old company, $3.2 Billion in commercial sales last year, has now brought gas savings to FAMILIES! Average savings is $.75 per gallon! It’s worth checking out. Watch the 2 min. video!
April 11, 2011 at 3:16 pm
Gas is already $3.89 in West Virginia! And no Climate change is real.
April 11, 2011 at 3:20 pm
Gas is $3.89 in west Virginia…and Climate change is very real…but not to the Drill Baby Drill crowd!
April 11, 2011 at 3:22 pm
Why didn’t the poll include an option for having already changed driving habits? I changed mine well under $4.00 / gallon
April 11, 2011 at 3:23 pm
Heh. How the hell did Obama know the entire Middle East was going to explode? What we’re paying now is still cheaper than a lot of places in the world.
April 11, 2011 at 3:27 pm
This is very Sad, I now pay out more money in Gas for my husband and I get to work, than I pay in my car payment. We both have to drive to work. My husband is a first responder, and has to make it to work to save lives. We have made a decision, to go nowhere except to work and shopping by our home. And we are suppose to be middle class family. Sure hope some steps up and starts taking care of the American people. We are all broke….
April 11, 2011 at 3:27 pm
How about we change our voting habits instead of our driving habits.
April 11, 2011 at 3:27 pm
AMEN!!!!!
April 11, 2011 at 3:28 pm
Obama keeps recycling the lie that we have “only 2% of proven reserves”. The term has no universal meaning, and the President’s version uses “current economic conditions, operating methods, and government regulations” – including his own Administration’s! A self-fulfilled prophecy. The Congressional Research Service estimates undiscovered technically recoverable oil to be 8.5x higher than Obama’s number, and that’s not including estimated recoverable reserves of 1 trillion bbl of oil shale. http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2011/03/028574.php
April 11, 2011 at 3:29 pm
You forgot to add an option: I ALREADY CHANGED MY HABITS AT $3.00
April 11, 2011 at 3:30 pm
I wrote to Bush and my Democratic Senator, but the Democrat and her party snubbed the GOP’s efforts to drill for oil. Liberal leaders are liars and thieves. Only a fool would vote for a Democrat.
April 11, 2011 at 3:30 pm
When gas reaches $5 per gallon, Obama will just shrug and get on Air Force One and head off to another vacation spot in Spain or South America. Bet on it.
April 11, 2011 at 3:35 pm
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Gas prices are the symptom.
Instability in the Middle East caused by US Govt meddling and an increasingly worthless dollar bought to you by the Federal Reserve.
April 11, 2011 at 3:42 pm
Liberals love high oil prices because it means less fuel is used. Conservatives love high oil prices because it means they make more money in the market. The Middle East oil nations love high oil prices and rake in billions.
Nobody is looking out for you…. you need to find a way to make more money and conserve your energy use. Take care of yourself.
April 11, 2011 at 3:49 pm
Ironic when gas rose this high during the years 2000-2008 it was all because Bush was an oil man. Guess this means so is the teleprompter in chief Obama, Right Lefties? The same who screamed no blood for oil during the same years have been silent while the same teleprompter in chief has continued both wars and started a third. Oh, wait, that last one was only a kinetic military action, Right Lefties? There’s a word for you all. HYPOCRITES. Meet the new boss. The same as the old boss.
April 11, 2011 at 3:59 pm
We are very very smart to keep our oil in the ground. Use up the supply of the rest of the world and someday they will be on their knees to us !
Drill here, Drill now and sell our precious resources to communist China is a terrible Idea, but it figures, some idiot will always spout drill baby drill. Sad they are so ignorant of how to be independent.
April 11, 2011 at 4:00 pm
You haven’t seen anything yet. It’s going to get much worse. When you all have changed your driving habits because of the price of gas and you’re all driving around in identical hybrids or riding your bicycle to work, the government will then slap the pay-per-mile tax on all of you.
Everything that is capable of being driven on public roadways will be tracked and you will get your monthly mileage tax bill along with your other monthly bills. Any savings you may have experienced with your hybrid will be taken away.
So, if you haven’t figured out what the master plan is yet, sorry it’s too late.
This is the new Socialist America. Welcome to Change.
April 11, 2011 at 4:00 pm
They are already talking about taxing your miles Robber. It is the interest of the dictatorship to limit its citizens ease of movement as they are easier to control that way.
April 11, 2011 at 4:22 pm
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Do as W did, lift the ban on off-shore oil drilling. The price of crude dropped from 140 at it’s peak to 70 6 months later. We need to tap our own resources. Drill baby drill.
April 11, 2011 at 4:06 pm
I thought the wars were going to make gas prices go down. Must not have been such a smart idea after all. Who came up with that idea anyway?
April 11, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Bush wanted to drill for oil and the Commiecrats all cried it wouldn’t make a difference for 8 t0 10 years. Guess what? That oil would be here now!
April 11, 2011 at 4:08 pm
How’s “Hope and Change” working out for you?
April 11, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Ain’t hope and change wonderful!
Trade it in on something that uses less gas, just like the great WON said.
Course that won’t solve the problem of the cost of food, will it. Next, we’ll be told to eat less meat and more raman & beans.
We’re already there, so I don’t know where to go next – death panels, anyone?
April 11, 2011 at 4:09 pm
FYI….. it was Bill CLinton that deregulated teh banking industry.
April 11, 2011 at 4:19 pm
Refineries are producing at 95% in the US, which leaves no time for maintenance turnarounds. There hasn’t been a new refinery built in the US for over 35 years. It would take 10 years to bring a new refinery online, assuming there were no hold ups for environmental concerns. Because of environmentalists, environmental justice concerns, and NIMBYS you can’t build a new refinery. Shortages equals higher prices.
April 11, 2011 at 4:24 pm
If we have a free economy prices are high enough that we should see an increase in supply, followed by some reduiction in price. However Political constraints on producrion rather than econonomic ones control production, so prices will continue to rise.
Blame it on Bush if you will, but our President has been in office long enough to have had some effect on energy costs, so when do we see some constructive policy moves?
April 11, 2011 at 4:24 pm
All this hope and change has sure made this nation a better place. By 2012 the cost of living for average Americans will be the worst in the history of this nation. All of Pelosi/Reid/Obama’s spending has only resulted in: a dollar worth less each day, commodity prices exploding to new highs, staples in food at all time highs, utility rates skyrocketing, home values, 401Ks and savings plunging and our standard of living approaching all time lows. How much more of this incompetent empty suit will the American public be able to afford. Sadly, this totally incompetent buffoon will probably get re-elected by raising 1 billion dollars to buy non stop advertising from his state owned buddies in all the media outlets blaming everything on something or somebody else !!
April 11, 2011 at 4:25 pm
Really I won’t even vote on that ridiculously worded, biased poll. The politicians won’t be happy until every one, every American is riding a rickshaw or horse to work and for running errands
April 11, 2011 at 4:26 pm
OK now that made me LOL. Hahaha
April 11, 2011 at 4:30 pm
All this hope and change has sure made this nation a better place. By 2012 the cost of living for average Americans will be the worst in the history of this nation. All of Pelosi/Reid/Obama’s spending has only resulted in: a dollar worth less each day, commodity prices exploding to new highs, staples in food at all time highs, utility rates skyrocketing, home values, 401Ks and savings plunging and our standard of living approaching all time lows. How much more of this incompetent empty suit will the American public be able to afford. Sadly, this totally incompetent buffoon will probably get re-elected by raising 1 billion dollars to buy non stop advertising from his state owned buddies in all the media outlets blaming everything on something or somebody else !!
April 11, 2011 at 4:27 pm
HOW ABOUT A F’N PRISON CELL FOR THESE F’N FRAUDS SHEEPLE. YOU ARE THE DUMBEST FOOLS IN THE HISTORY OF MANKIND. ARREST AND JAIL FOR THESE FRAUDS. WAKE UP SHEEPLE. YOU DUMB STUPID S.O.B’S
April 11, 2011 at 4:28 pm
That was an intelligent rant…….NOT
April 11, 2011 at 4:56 pm
If we have a free economy prices are high enough that we should see an increase in supply, followed by some reduiction in price. However Political constraints on producrion rather than econonomic ones control production, so prices will continue to rise.
Blame it on Bush if you will, but our President has been in office long enough to have had some effect on energy costs, so when do we see some constructive policy moves?
April 11, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Impeach Barack Husein Obama before he totally destroys the country!
April 11, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Gasoline will be the tipping point to cause this whole fiscal house of cards to come tumbling down. Gasoline prices affect EVERYTHING NEGATIVELY!!
April 11, 2011 at 4:29 pm
When are we going to stop letting a commodity like this be traded on the commidities market. The price of this item should be driven souly by supply and demand. If we have a surplus then the price should reflect it, where as if the supply is low then the price should reflect it.
Stop the bankers and investors from driving the prices of crude oil up via speculating as to there whims.
We need to quit fighting between us and realize who the real enemy is here.
Again I end in saying SUPPLY and DEMAND SHOULD be the mean of the price not speculating on the commodities market!
April 11, 2011 at 4:30 pm
Just about the only post here (except mine) that makes any sense. Thanks.
April 11, 2011 at 4:36 pm
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April 11, 2011 at 4:31 pm
I don.t. know why you Americans are whining about the gas prices. We here in B.C. Canada pay $5.5o an gallon and I don.t hear complains.Some suggestions Open up all the wells you capped through the years on your own territory. Open up Alaska ,the oil fields are bigger than Saudy Arabia.Convert you ca.r Drive on natural gas. You whine and whine.You have become the laughing stock of the world.by your inaction. You spent all your money on WARS You lost your spine!!! Go back to your mindless Dancing with the stars and sex in the city.Weaklings
April 11, 2011 at 4:32 pm
Speaking of mindless; how’s that great Canadian education system working out for you?
April 12, 2011 at 1:04 pm
Everyone clings to the belief that gasoline will peak and then crash-but truth is it never returns to the past low-it always is higher. $4 gas in the USA is a tipping point-anything higher has collateral effects that take awhile to tricle down but have long term negative effects. By not drilling our own known domestic reserves we artificially keep the rates high-exactly what the Democratic Party and the Environmental Lobby wants. Funny thing it only enrichens Big Oil and helps them have unprecedented profits. The Environmental Wacksos ar the best friends of big oil, because they reduce supply even though worldwide demand has quadrupled. Another failed paradigm of the Left that we all have to pay for!!!
April 11, 2011 at 4:36 pm
Watch on Youtube Lindsey Williams Returns – Get Ready for $5 a Gallon Gasoline
The Oil company’s Elite have been planning this for a long time. Lindsey Williams wrote about this in his book called “The Non-Energy Crises”. He also has high contacts in Government and in the Oil business that have told him for a long time that they were going to have Wars in the Middle East and use it as an excuse to raise Oil prices, to further Cripple America.
WAKE UP YOU IDIOTS. Start calling your Bought out congressman and complaining. Put the presser on them. Stop watching your freaking Reality TV and Sports which meaning NOTHING! And start investing your energy into helping fix what is going on in this NWO controlled country.
April 11, 2011 at 4:38 pm
Finally, someone on this thread with a brain!!
WAKE UP you blind sheep, the republicans and democrats work for the same big establishment, it is their job to create the illusion of choice and manage the public. The millions shift from side to side with brainwashed pride.
This is what they want, they want you people fighting with each other playing the blame game. While you’re distracted with all the fighting they continue to rob us blind and laugh all the way to the bank. The two party system is a rigged game against us!!
April 11, 2011 at 5:55 pm
As I’ve always said, people get exactly the government they deserve. People in this country today don’t want an active part in solving problems – they want “somebody else” to solve their problems for them.
By voting in the current government we have today – President, loser Senators and loser “Representativies” (there’s a joke for you), without much thought and based mostly on the voters’ own selfish or misguided agendas, what we have is what we have.
Too bad we don’t require voters to pass an IQ test before allowing them to cast their ballots. The truly intelligent probably wouldn’t vote either Democrats or Republicans into office and we’d have avoided this mess long ago. What’s worse than political candidates are the officials they appoint or reappoint to office – like Greenspan and his loser successor – Bernanke.
April 12, 2011 at 12:30 am
I concur!! Partisans miss the big picture -while the 545 ruling elites enrich themselves, families and cronies. The only thing that will bring this nation back to what it once was- is the coming total economic collapse that is the result of both parties spending and making promises that they knew were unsustainable. Our economic day of reckoning is almost here and when the fiscal house of cards all comes tumbling down it will be worldwide and of biblical proportions. Then and only then we we have a CHANCE to rebuild our nation on a stable foundation-until then the ruling class will just keep kicking the can down the road-until there is no more road. We are almost there!
April 12, 2011 at 11:09 am
Amongst all the illiterate comments finally a couple of people who understand the score! Thanks for posting the Williams clip, though most of these folks won’t even bother to listen to it.
I’m never so discouraged as I am when I read the same old same old, back and forth left/right blame game comments on news sites all over the internets.
Let’s face it, the vast majority of Amerikans are so dumbed down that they will never ever “get it”. Sad.
April 11, 2011 at 6:31 pm
It’s nice to see a few awake comments.
April 11, 2011 at 6:38 pm
Thank goodness this is happening now, while you people still have some kind of chance to actually make changes to your lives. Gasoline is going to rise and keep rising, the days of cheap energy are gone and in a decade there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth about the good old days when it was $5/gal.
April 11, 2011 at 4:41 pm
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Holla fo a dolla YO!
April 11, 2011 at 4:51 pm
The price of gas hasn’t got as high under the Obama administration as it did under the Bush administration where I live
April 11, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Obama promised energy prices would skyrocket and energy companies would go bankrupt because of his policies. Now it is coming true. He has a nationwide drilling moratorium and has destroyed hundreds of thousands of Oil Jobs in the priocess. Thank Obama!
April 11, 2011 at 4:55 pm
In Massachusetts, we have the other Obama, the illegal trespasser who is on the welfare rolls and on public housing. Typical Obama
April 11, 2011 at 4:56 pm
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i hope it gets that expensive. it should be that expensive. i love america, but the people here want everything for nothing. its a resource that is NOT renewable. it’s not gw’s fault or obama’s fault exclusively. It’s your fault. It’s my fault. you all want cheap gas while the countries we get it are exploited (do some homework and read “Crude World”)… just like you all want lower taxes while people my age (20′s) are off dying in Iraq and Afghanistan.
wake up and see that america’s problem is not the president, but the selfish, indignant inhabitants who say ‘don’t tread on me’ while they have life easy b/c our country treads on everyone else.
April 11, 2011 at 4:57 pm
God what is everyone so worked up about, gas is still very cheap in the United States, and there is enough left for 100 years. If you can’t afford to pay for it then don’t. It is so annoying, gas goes up people complain gas goes down and people buy Hummers. People in the United States use millions of gallons of gas just to cut grass every year and drive a full size pickup for transportation what a bunch of idiots…..i hope it goes to $10 a gallon.
April 11, 2011 at 5:00 pm
So Barry turns the USA into a 3rd world nation and everyone is too PC to call him the IDIOT HE IS! … or is it “a George Soros’s USEFUL IDIOT??? THIS IS PART OF THEIR DEMENTED PLAN – TO COMPLETELY DESTROY OUR NATION AND OUR WAY OF LIFE!!! Damn! i’m sure glad I’m an old geeser – I’ll croak before the worst of it gets here – very best of all – I don’t have any kids to leave behind in this maniacal mess!!!
April 11, 2011 at 5:00 pm
And do not forget the Democrat Communioty Reinvestment Act that caused the recession we are in. Thank Dodd and Frank for the recession they created via Fannie and Freddie. of course leftists always think Santa Klaus has more money they can seize and spend. Right now Santa is China and forty cents of every dollar we spend is borrowed. Thank democrats.
April 11, 2011 at 5:03 pm
democrats want to add a new tax for roads. cars are too efficient now,so the gas tax income is down. We just can’t catch a break!!
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April 11, 2011 at 5:03 pm
Obama always wanted high oil prices. Americans have too much freedom. Obama’s only regret was gas prices climbed too quickly. And what about Obama’s drilling moratorium in the Gulf? Who is defying a Judge’s order? Hint…it ain’t Bush.
April 11, 2011 at 5:12 pm
“What are you going to do?” said Shannon Thompson.
Well, youre going to bend over and grab your ankles, like a good liberal and repeat after me: Thanks, Obama, can I have another.
April 11, 2011 at 5:12 pm
Since I’m already altering my driving habits, I’m not sure what else to do. It’s too dangerous to bike to work in my city, but I’m worried I’ll have no option come fall. I don’t understand why the stupid gas mongouls get to become richer while the rest of the world suffers. And Obama isn’t doing us any favors, that’s for sure! All Bush had to do was speak and oil prices dropped! Obama speaks, telling us to get hybrid cars and “get used to it.” What A JERK!!! He needs to be stripped of his job and income so he can see how the rest of Americans live.
April 11, 2011 at 5:18 pm
But remember Obama is now aiming to make deep cuts in the deficient. At least until the independents vote him back into office…so that should help make the dollar stronger until 2013. Isn’t it amazing how the news media says nothing about the rise in oil prices AND food. Oh, I forgot George Bush cased all of this.
April 11, 2011 at 5:22 pm
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Americans are f****d up. They complain about everything but won’t do anything to change the way things are. I mean come on it is the only county in the world where we have fat poor people. Ah…you are not that poor if you can eat that much, they don’t know what poor is relative to the rest of the world. Everyone thinks they should live like a Hollywood star and hot have to work for it. We have become a entitlement society and everyone complains because things aren’t given to them. “I want $2 gas or I will kick and scream and blame the politicians”. If you can’t afford it than do something about it you lazy SOB. Buy a small car, a bike, walk, just shut the fu** up.
April 11, 2011 at 5:26 pm
When there was a spike in the price of oil the news media blew up accusing the Bush Administration and BIG OIL. Now when Obama is president they ask how much are you willing to pay before you change your driving habits. I know the media believes we Americans are sheep and need to be led by their wisdom. But thank God Americans are looking at all sources of information for news and won’t be fooled by their misguided and political biased reporting.
April 11, 2011 at 5:27 pm
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Bend over, chumps! Since the dog ate my birth certificate and I’m so busy golfing, destroying the country and feasting on $900/lb Kobe beef, I’m afraid I won’t be able to fit that silly election thingy into my schedule next year. Sorry.
–Your Fearless Leader
April 11, 2011 at 5:37 pm
Ward,
You are so FUNNY! He say tea baller instead of tea party. He so funny. But here’s the scoop. The Tea Party just took a MAJOR dump on the Democrats in the last election cycle. Never in my 48 years have the Democrats been below 200 seats in the house. So in a sense, the Tea Party, Tea Bagged YOU! Open up, I’ll make them nice and vinegary for ya’! (Betcha you don’t use that term anymore, because REMEMBER, the Tea Party gave you a BIG one!)
April 11, 2011 at 5:40 pm
Julie baby, I did and the money ended up at the Koch brothers (who are liars and charlatans of the worst sort).. Global warming is verifiably true but the changes it has so far engendered aren’t really noticeable. Unless you are in the arctic, there’s absolutely no question about global warming’s effect there.
April 11, 2011 at 5:40 pm
EU Average Fuel Price $8.10 a gallon
EU Average MPG 42
US Average Fuel Price $4.37 a gallon
US Average MPG 20
April 11, 2011 at 5:43 pm
Because you expose the truth I’m surprised you haven’t been called three shades of communist yet.
April 11, 2011 at 6:55 pm
“SuBo, the oil prices are a direct result of Obozo’s energy policies and lack of leadership in the Middle East.”
No, they are the result of speculation. It’s been in existence since the Tulip Bubble. It doesn’t matter what national oil policy is, speculators will find a way to continue doing what the’ve done for centuries.
April 11, 2011 at 5:44 pm
Are there really nutbaggers here claiming that global warming is made up? Its a good thing your generation will be gone in just a few more years…its amazing you southern crazies actually think you are smarter than university professors who have studied this their whole lives…oh yea, and the rest of the world.
Just because your magical sky wizard didn’t say global warming is happening doesn’t mean its not true
April 11, 2011 at 5:59 pm
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This is what Hope and Change look like. Thanks Barry.
April 11, 2011 at 6:03 pm
I remember when Obama said he would welcome higher gas prices because it would cut down on consumption. Guess he got his wish. I’d tell him congratulations, but I wouldn’t know where to look: golf course, basketball court, partyin’, vacationing? I just know he’s not in the oval office at the WH.
April 11, 2011 at 6:04 pm
“No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” ~ H. L. Mencken —– http://911essentials.com
April 11, 2011 at 6:05 pm
Remember, “the price of energy will necessarily go up under my plan.” Thanks Obama.
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April 11, 2011 at 6:06 pm
Aren’t you glad that we aren’t drilling for our own oil?
April 11, 2011 at 6:11 pm
Your poll is worded in such a way that it implies that I haven’t already changed my driving habits. I started riding my bike to school and work 5 years ago. Fix that.
April 11, 2011 at 6:11 pm
I cant believe,..well yes I can believe it. First try to get yourself away from network news…they are under the spell of the great “O”. Ask NBC..which is owned by GE (ok they were the majority stockholder until they dropped to 49% ownership because they were bought out by I believe a cable giant @ 51% ownership) anyway the GE President now sits on the Obama Advisory Board..and it seems that they are getting Federal Subsidies as well. You will find that our oil situation is controlled by Democrats, (not Republicans) in fact B.P gave more in campaign contributions to Obama then to McCain. B.P also got a pass of good health from the Obama Administration months before the oil spill..yes they gave B.P the green light, infact the person who approved of the oil rig in the gulf, suprisingly does not work for the adminstration anymore. Add to that the fact that the Obama Administration led by Engergy Czar Ken Salazar and his aid had reports fabricated to make the B.P. Spill a scapegoat in order to put up a drilling mandate to force all off shore drill sites to come to a halt. Due to this we lost one oil rig to Egypt. The mandate was challlenged not only 1 time, but 3 times by a judge who said the report was boagous, and couldnt understand how the adminstration could not understand they were breaking the law in not reinstating the oil rigs and lifting the mandates.
April 11, 2011 at 6:19 pm
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Well the gas prices are going right where Barry Obama wants them. I’m sure he’s happy.
$2 BILLION for the Brazilians to drill off their coast – ignores a judges order to lift his executive order banning our own drilling in the gulf.
Yes indeed! “Smartest Man in the World”!
April 11, 2011 at 6:39 pm
My grandpa said many years ago that we have a large reserve of oil that we will just sit on. Well, I guess we’re still sitting because I know they’ve been finding more and more of it in different states.
We are just pawns in all of this. There is no oil crisis. There have been wars in the Middle East for centuries. It doesn’t matter what president is in office. There’s forces behind the scenes that control it all.
April 11, 2011 at 6:41 pm
Your grandpa was absolutely right. We’re sitting on a glut of oil. There is no shortage.
April 11, 2011 at 6:47 pm
Hate to bust the political bubble of anyone here who thinks its the fault of Bush/Obama/Republicans/Democrats, but Peak Oil was predicted in the 1950′s by M.King Hubbert, and its coming to fruition. It has nothing to do with anything other than our own inability to comprehend basic math and to have seen what was coming and done something about it… like we should have been doing in the 1980′s.
Our economy, our currency is based on “growing forever” – and even a total idiot should be able to comprehend that you cant “grow” forever on a finite planet.
April 11, 2011 at 6:45 pm
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Gas is now 4.30 here, I called the hospital where I used to do volunteer work, and told them I won’t be coming in for the forseeable future, I can’t a fford bankruptcy for the sake of volunteering.
April 11, 2011 at 7:01 pm
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THE DEMOCRATS FINALLY HAVE THE COUNTRY ON THE ROPES WHERE THEY WANT IT BUT THEY WONT BE HAPPY UNTIL GAS IS 10 DOLLARS A GALLON AND 30 MILLION ILLEGAL ALIENS ARE ALLOWED AMNESTY.
April 11, 2011 at 7:47 pm
Why didn’t you Chicagoans keep that bast*rd in Illinois?
Instead of him just ruining Chicago, he is now thuggin’ the whole United States.
April 11, 2011 at 7:54 pm
The political system has evolved into almost complete dysfunction. No one has the answers or cooperation to mend the national cancer. Brace for the oncoming anarchy and prepare for wilderness life.
April 11, 2011 at 7:58 pm
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Obama – no oil for US. You wanted “change” you got it.
April 11, 2011 at 8:18 pm
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i get 67 miles per gallon…everyone, go buy a motorcycle! Even pregnant women!
April 11, 2011 at 9:12 pm
too many comments that’s very good no one will do anything about it ?????
April 11, 2011 at 9:40 pm
Like sheeple, Democrat voters never mind paying higher taxes. And like sheeple, Democrat voters hate on oil companies when told to do so.
Facts are, government taxes on a gallon of gas far outstrips any profits an oil company realizes for a gallon of gas.
April 11, 2011 at 9:46 pm
O.B.A.M.A.=One Big Ass Mistake America
April 11, 2011 at 10:05 pm
I guess this is part of the CHANGE Obama was talking about and what idiots voted for. GOP 2012!!!
April 11, 2011 at 10:27 pm
Its Ok Obama just wants the prices to jump to keep all you fat and lazy Americans from stealling the worlds resources. If not just blame it on Bush. Funny how every other third world dung heap country like China and Cuba can drill off of the US coast but the IS cant, Oh and how bout that 2 Billion $ oBAMA GAVE TO cHILE FOR THEIR OIL COMPANIES TO DRILL . tHIS MAN WONT QUIT TILL HE TOTALLY RUINS THE us. iT HAS TO BE HIS GOAL BECAUSE no onE COULD BE SO IGNORANT OR INCOMPETANAT TO BE DOING THIS BY MISTAKE
April 11, 2011 at 10:38 pm
Anyone who voted that you “won’t change your habits” is a complete fool.
April 11, 2011 at 10:41 pm
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I will be spending less, though not getting off without damage by obama. I am disabled and living on a pension from where I worked. I will no longer be “living” but merely “existing”, I will be spending less, as I refuse to go waste money on overpriced products, gas included, rather than going to the store merely to get out of the house for sanity’s sake, i will sit here and veg, cause it will be too expensive to go anywhere. I matters little to me who gets blamed, although I personally blame Obama and the Dems since they are the ones pushing the outrageous spending on frivolity. By frivolity I refer to the recent sticking point that the Democrats had in the budget debate. There is no valid reason for government funding of Planned Parenthood or any other agency like it, nor is there any justification for much of what gets paid for by Medicare/Medicaid, any elective treatments are exactly that “elective”, these medical care programs should be cut back to essential lifesaving services only, at least until the politicians get their acts together.
As it is the Dems want to spend us into a hole that we will never be able to extract ourselves, and spending that will eventually wipe out the system in total, and the Republicans want to cut services including the one that everyone pays into and everyone relies on . . . .Social Security. Rep Ryan has a plan that severely cuts benefits to anyone 54 and younger, and this year. I am 54 now, so I have paid into the system for 40 years and now that the politicians have ruined the system, by taking on people who have never paid into the system, I am now told that I will have to continue paying into the system only to have any benefit denied me when I reach 65. Kinda makes me wonder why anyone supports these jerks in D.C.
April 11, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Quit the whining about SUVs. There is no supply problem. There’s a ton of oil out there…so driving around in your death trap hybrids or smart cars isn’t doing squat. Oil isn’t bad…we have plenty of it here and should start using it. President Idiot is getting what he wanted with high gas prices…talk about a guy completely out of touch with working Americans. Get the speculation out of the oil futures markets and a lot of the problems will be solved. 40% of the price right now is nothing but speculation. “There’s turmoil in the Middle East.” Duh. When HASN’T there been turmoil in the Middle East? The place was a mess when I was paying .99 cents a gallon!
April 11, 2011 at 11:14 pm
If anyone has ever taken an economic class they would know why gas is high. There is no reason why gas is high other then the fact that as consumers we live in a supply and demand nation. Because we need gas/oil they can charge whatever they please because we need it and will purchase it regardless of the price. It’s a necessity like food, so they charge whatever. Until we as Americans stand up to the oil companies, gas is going to continue to go up just like the rest of the things we need in this country.
April 11, 2011 at 11:58 pm
For everyone who thinks this is Obama’s fought it’s not. I’m not a big Obama supporter, but I know for a fact that Obama had nothing to do with this. When Bush was in office gas started to go up. When Clinton was in office gas was under $1.50 and I was only 10 at the time and I still remember my mom complaining about paying $1.10 for gas. So if you want to blame someone blame the greedy oil companies who keep upping the price of gas for their benefit.
April 12, 2011 at 12:03 am
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Ah, inflation! I hope everyone is enjoying it! Why doesn’t anyone talk about that major factor for fuel prices? INFLATION. It is the result of printing all that bailout and stimulus money, but moreover the result of our private central bank printing funny money with no value, loaning it to us while creating perpetual debt and inflation. THAT is the TRUE root to this problem. We’ve had 3.37% annual inflation each year now because of the Fed, and they have devalued our dollar by 97%. THAT is what is making prices skyrocket right now. Now China is even leaving the dollar in the wind, saying they no longer want to invest in it. Who can blame them! Our currency devaluation has already created problems for them! This isn’t a left vs right issue, because if you reall y dig into it, the left right paradigm is FALSE and each party is financed by the same special interest who uses government power to commit the crimes they are sommiting aka WALL STREET. Sure SEIU and those unions may have a big chucnk of special interest, but they are nothing in the scheme of banksters controlling everything. What’s next? Total dollar collapse! Then? One world currency.
April 12, 2011 at 12:17 am
Why is no one pointing out that when gas went over $4.00 a gallon in 2008 (before it went back down to under $2.00 in January 2009) that oil was over $140. Now we are paying over $4.00 and oil is only at $110! This is not just the fault of oil speculators (although they are certainly to blame) it is also the fault of the administration for refusing every off shore drilling permit! Before you disagree, please remember that the four Obama finally approved were originally approved by the Bush admin and then put on hold by Obama! Please 2012 come quickly!
April 12, 2011 at 12:22 am
$5 gas…I guess THIS summer will be the summer of recovery in Oblowhard’s eyes. Well done, Mr. President.
April 12, 2011 at 1:03 am
Ron Lewis, Please remember that some people have eye problems and need the caps to be able to see what they are writing, lol. Simple misunderstandings! My aunt uses caps all the time only for the fact that she suffers from carpo-tunnel (I don’t think I spelled that right) and hurts her to keep reaching for the shift key.
Take care!
April 12, 2011 at 1:41 am
I can’t believe there are so many shocking morons quoted in this story or commenting here. It is NOT a gas guzzler or driving a hybrid smugmobile that will lower the cost of fuel. It is a coherent energy policy, and a moratorium on drilling in the gulf along with politicians lead around by the nose by enviro-whackos is not helping at all. Truly shocking that you stupid people can vote.
April 12, 2011 at 1:47 am
Sure blame someone for the problem. I guess all you Obama haters would prefer McCain and his Horse & Buggy solutions (bomb them all… problem solved). Obama wants high-speed rail, because a prudent leader should anticipate the needs of his/her constituents. Tell me why would Republicans out right refuse the very notion of high-speed rail? We all know that speculators have co-opted the world’s headlines for their own financial gains. Speculators live in the country of ME, and they can give a damn about old people on fixed-incomes or the average American Joe 6-pack. I say Speculators are the new terrorist that are intent on destroying America and Americans way of life.
I have been told that Banks are now buying tankers of oil again and holding then out at sea, in an effort to manipulate the market. This was last done in 2008 (this is true). Remember that we were all told that after the Japan Horrible event, that demand for oil should drop and we all should get relief at the pumps. Then oil stocks shot up over $100 a barrel.
Tell me why you don’t like Obama. Even if you don’t like him personally(as if you know him personally), for what ever reasons you have (the color of his skin, that he lives in Chicago, that he is too smart(aka elitist), that he is a good father, that he loves his county, that he is doing a job that make all you hair either fall out or prematurely go gray, or you just consider him your inferior), remember that his holds the highest office in the US. In 2012 just get about 8 million of your friends who didn’t vote in 2008 to vote for who ever you think would be a good leader. And stop winning like a baby with talk of birth certificates, ghost voting, or evil agendas. The federal government has wasted Billions every year since the 80s and now it is all Obama’s fault.
You guys keep talking as though money matters more then people and in 2012 we might just see Ross Perot come back as the new leader of the Tea Party. Would you like that?
Which as move value: A Baby, A Dyeing Old Person, A Super model, Money, or Your Soul?
When you cut Medicare people die. When you cut police and fireman pay you get a les dedicated workforce. When you cut holes in the social safety-nets, the people that are most effected are you (higher person population @ 75k per inmate a year, more theft and burglaries, and a smaller middle class).
These are truly tough times. Lets not turn on each other. And stop listening to Hate TV/Radio. Both (Dems & Reps) only tell you half the story. Listen to the BBC and get an unbiased point of view.
April 12, 2011 at 3:35 am
If You do not cut off spending we all fail. We cannot spend on these things anymore. We are broke. so if you cannot afford a fire dept in your comunity then bring back the VFD’s if you cannot afford the police then you have too many. if you cannot afford to keep your school open combine with another district. Stop the spending without regaurd.
April 12, 2011 at 5:06 am
Nickname, do you know Obama? Nobody does, how can you? His records are hidden, his birth certificate, etc. You focus on idiotic touchy feeling reasons why we should love this moron. Sorry, fella, we need to turn on each other and seek the right answers to our future. No Obama in our future, it is what we need desperately. Tell us some Love TV/Radio stations that liberal freaks like you listen to. You love Obama because of his color, nothing else. He and his czars seek destruction of the country and don’t tell any of us he loves this country. He loves Marxism, he loves Kenya, but he is destroying my country. By the way, why can’t you leave this country to Americans? Are you ready to leave yet? Look for Obama to have a ton of money when he leaves office. His secret accomplices with the big money are enriching this idiot to the tunes of millions of dollars. He’s just another crook and you are just another Kool Aid drinker. You hate Palin, don’t you? You hate Bachmann, don’t you? See, freakshow, you are a hater, first and foremost.
April 12, 2011 at 5:10 am
Listen to BBC and get un unbiased view?? What planet are you from? The BBC is the most biased news organisations in the world!!
April 12, 2011 at 6:23 am
Nickname,
It is time to put down the kool-aid and the bong.And hopefully come back to reality.
High speed rail is not possible for every state.Obama is a empty suit.His IQ level is not as high as you liberals would have us believe.And Obama hates America.He was influenced by his communist father and grandmother.If Obama loved America he would not be taxing the rich as he puts it.The rich are evil according to you and Obama.But how many jobs has Woody the Wino created?The answer NONE.It takes the evil rich to create jobs.If we were drilling our own oil we would not be worried about Obama’s Moose Slime brothers cutting off our supply.But you,Obama and the tree huggers know best.BS!!!
April 12, 2011 at 8:25 am
Hmmmm billions for 110 MPH, yeah that is high speed. Other countries trains go well over 250 MPH…here 110 MPH…such great leadership, at this rate we should catch up to the rest of the world in about 200 years… But oh yeah Obama is great and anyone that thinks otherwise is racist….
April 12, 2011 at 8:56 am
Cut medicare? It hasn’t happened. No cuts were made. None. Not a penny. $38 Billion dollars, you say? The Government will have spent that much within the NEXT TEN DAYS. Obama is hated because he was elected on a promise to cut Debt, help the economy recover and maintain a transparent Government. He has failed on all of these promises. Added over 4 Trillion to our National Debt in under 3 years. Economic growth is lethargic, at best. Bills have not been posted online for days for the American public to read, like was promised. Wake up and smell the coffee. The Doofus in Chief is just Bush in an “urban” wrapper.
April 12, 2011 at 9:16 am
@Nickname: It’s hard ato follow your Obama-loving logic and your as-written urban dialect. You’re clearly a product of our union-run public school system. Obama is hated because he’s a phoney. He lied to get elected. He lied to everyone while in office and we should expect nothing less after he’s either removed from office or humiliated in 2012 election cycle.
You’re clearly a hater. Sad. But, we have to face it. You’re a racist. You feel we, non minorities owe you something. Remember the Republicans are not black peoples’ enemy. For 80 years you voted Republican. We liberated your grandparents. Gave you 40 acres and a mule. Helped you get elected to office in post war south. We fought the KKK (a democrat party ally) and protected you. We educated you.
When we mention Reverand Wright, it’s because it references another Obama lie. “I didn’t know he hated America, or spoke so vile about America”…20 years and he didn’t know!?!
I do agree we have to stop the division and start working together. Dude, you’re not wrong. You’re just unread. READ! Get the Wall Street Journal and read it a year or two. Watch Fox a year before you decide. Listen to Limbaugh before you decide to hate. There’s good reasons the democrats are losing widely.
Good luck
April 12, 2011 at 10:11 am
You have never read the US Constitution have you? I mean really sat down and read it. I feel so sorry for deluded people like you. Why don’t you call Obama by his real, LEGAL name, Barry Soetoro. Barry was born in Kenya and is wanted in NY for IRS fraud.
April 12, 2011 at 11:10 am
You are liberal idiot. I bet you were on the bandwagon blaming Bush when the prices were high. How dumb can you be???
April 12, 2011 at 11:31 am
Obama…is that you?
April 12, 2011 at 11:34 am
Did you ever hear “The buck stops here?” Well it stops with Obama and the fact you bring up race means you be a race baiter. I don’t like Obama because of his policies and lack of SOME type of energy policy.
Remember the 70′s and those nitwits waiting in line to buy gas? How stupid was that? The fact that we have gas and oil reserves in this country shows the government AGAIN is getting in the way of progress. There’s no REASON gasoline should be this high and the American people aren’t going to tolerate it….
April 12, 2011 at 11:43 am
Tough times indeed…so much so that you had to forgo spell check.
April 12, 2011 at 11:56 am
idiot just more for obummer to regulate and dish out our money too. amtrak can`t keep going without money from the government. so that must mean no one is riding.
April 12, 2011 at 12:04 pm
Hmmm. Let’s see… why don’t I like Obama. 1) Out of control unrealistic spending. 2) Barring drilling here in the U.S for our own oil and gas. 3) Exorbitant government growth of federal employees at the detriment of private sector jobs. 4) Punitive regulations upon American small businesses. (Why should the business income and the icome of the employees be taxed when they are one in the same?) 5) Arrogance. This MFer probabbly doesn’t even know what a gallon of milk costs 6) Irresponsible foreign policy. Why Libya but not Darfur qand Syria? 6) Irresponsible spending- well on the way to 800% of the GDP– hello that means we will owe more than 8 times what we make– try running your budget like that and see what happens. 7) If Bama were systematically trying to destroy America financially he could not do it more effectively than what is occurring right now. We cannot afford to continue to spend this way… WAKE UP. It ain’t just politics anymore..
April 12, 2011 at 12:19 pm
You are SO right! Amen! Government is the biggest problem, especially Libs. Obama is not to blame for these record deficits, its the folks who voted for him without doing research on the man, his heritage, background, or beliefs. Too bad no one takes simple approaches to fixing problems such as the budget. ex: take away ANY and all benefits for prisoners, make them work to earn and support themselves and DO NOT give them free rent, medical, food, utilities, college educations. The main cause of the oil price inflation would be the lemmings that believe in the “Global Warming” farce and “Oil Shortage” nonsense, and those highly inefficient radioactive “electric cars”. Some people in my town have those; they are calling them SMART cars, when they are nothing more than golf carts.
The government waste goes back to the 50′s when things were more plentiful, but as they became less plentiful, people continued to live like everything was unlimited. Now, Obama has stopped us from drilling so far and has made statements that we will be buying Brazilian oil (from our Gulf) when they start selling. And by the way, Hussein Obama is NOT the first Black President (hims mammy wuz white). Does he wear his wedding band on the wrong side or salutes the flag backwards?
April 12, 2011 at 1:10 pm
While you are correct that McCain is and was no prize, the fact remains that Obama and his fellow socialists are responsible for high gas prices. If Obama were to announce today that he was moderating the insane environmental roadblocks to drilling and that the government would encourage a massive drilling program by getting out of the way, gas prices would be back to reasonable by this weekend.
April 12, 2011 at 1:25 pm
I wonder if this guy was saying the same stuff when Bush was president…
April 12, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Nickname;
The reason why high speed rail won’t work is because NO ONE RIDES THEM. Just ask anyone who lives in Seattle. It has to be subsidized because there are not enough passengers. It does not take an Einstein to figure out that we, as a nation, can not afford more expensive boondoggles when we are already so far in debt.
I don’t have anything against Obama the person. I do have something against his politics. He has spent more money in the past two years than Bush did in 8 (even after the spending spiked the last two years with Democrat controlled house and Senate). I can’t really blame him for “Obamacare” because he provided exaclty ZERO leadership. He left it up to Reid and Pelosi, and they came back with something stupid that will not work. It has nothing to do with “Which is better, rainbows or unicorns?” IT WILL NOT WORK. End of story. Forget the fact the goverment does not have the right to tax you for simply existing. The fact is that without competion, there is no reason to expect prices to drop. We are still not allowed to shop across state lines, or band together to get better rates. When those ideas have been implemented, the prices have fallen.
When you cut Medicare, people die? Seriously? When you don’t cut Medicare, the country goes broke. As it is, a seriously large amount of doctors no longer accept Medicare patients, as they lose money doing so. I don’t care how much you love your fellow man, if you lose money doing your job, you won’t have that job long.
I am all for social safety nets, provided they are nets, not gigantic weights, dragging the entire country down with it. Until you lefties (and you are lefty, brother, trust me) figure out that there is a finite amount of money and most of it is going to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and service on the 13Trillion dollars in debt we currently owe, you will continue to misunderstand us righties. We don’t hate people. We love our country. We want our country to still be the greatest on earth for the generations to come. That will not happen until we get spending under control.
April 12, 2011 at 3:26 pm
FYI, not everyone lives in an area accessible by public transit.
April 12, 2011 at 3:40 pm
ummm…it’s pretty simple. Only NY and one other city(that escapes me) have a subway system that doesn’t lose. EVERY other rail system (subway/amtrak/light rail, etc) in the US lose millions every year.
In the land where democrats spend an extra Trillion dollars and then call $38B in cuts “Draconian”, perhaps rail makes sense, but in the real world here is the US, it is a GIANT loser
April 12, 2011 at 4:30 pm
“I have been told that Banks are now buying tankers of oil again and holding then out at sea, in an effort to manipulate the market.”
These are the same banks Obama bailed out. By the way, these banks dumped millions of dollars into Obama’s campaign, to get him elected. Will he do something about this, No he will not.
April 12, 2011 at 5:19 pm
Sure! Blame someone for the problem. I guess all you Obama haters would prefer McCain and his Horse & Buggy solutions (bomb them all… problem solved). Obama wants high-speed rail, because a prudent leader should anticipate the needs of his/her constituents. Tell me why would Republicans out right refuse the very notion of high-speed rail? We all know that speculators have co-opted the world’s headlines for their own financial gains. Speculators live in the country of ME, and they can give a damn about old people on fixed-incomes or the average American Joe 6-pack. I say Speculators are the new terrorist that are intent on destroying America and Americans way of life.
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I have been told that Banks are now buying tankers of oil again and holding then out at sea, in an effort to manipulate the market. This was last done in 2008 (this is true). Remember that we were all told that after the Japan Horrible event, that demand for oil should drop and we all should get relief at the pumps. Then oil stocks shot up over $100 a barrel.
Tell me why you don’t like Obama. Even if you don’t like him personally(as if you know him personally), for what ever reasons you have (the color of his skin, that he lives in Chicago, that he is too smart(aka elitist), that he is a good father, that he loves his county, that he is doing a job that make all you hair either fall out or prematurely go gray, or you just consider him your inferior), remember that his holds the highest office in the US. In 2012 just get about 8 million of your friends who didn’t vote in 2008 to vote for who ever you think would be a good leader. And stop winning like a baby with talk of birth certificates, ghost voting, or evil agendas. The federal government has wasted Billions every year since the 80s and now it is all Obama’s fault.
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You guys keep talking as though money matters more then people and in 2012 we might just see Ross Perot come back as the new leader of the Tea Party. Would you like that?
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Which as move value: A Baby, A Dyeing Old Person, A Supermodel, Money, or Your Soul?
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When you cut Medicare people die. When you cut police and fireman pay you get a les dedicated workforce. When you cut holes in the social safety-nets, the people that are most effected are you (higher person population @ 75k per inmate a year, more theft and burglaries, and a smaller middle class).
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These are truly tough times. Lets not turn on each other. And stop listening to Hate TV/Radio. Both (Dems & Reps) only tell you half the story. Listen to the BBC and get an unbiased point of view.
April 12, 2011 at 3:41 am
There’s no good reason to “phase out” gas guzzling vehicles except the artificially-high gas prices. Fix the gas price by making more, and the vehicles that people like can be used more effectively.
It’s not like there’s no more oil. It’s not like the world has failed to find more oil each year. What the US has failed to do is to get lawmakers and a President that will produce oil in this country. We have a President who encourages other nations to drill. Why not get one that encourages our nation to drill?
April 12, 2011 at 4:00 am
Why do the Democrats hate the lower class in this country? Who do you think gets hurt by high energy cost. It’s time to start drilling everywhere. It’s also time to start jailing environmentalist that try to stop it. We have had enough of the environmentalist lies.
http://www.c3headlines.com/fabricating-fake-temperatures.html
April 12, 2011 at 4:53 am
Pure Greed! The oil companies make billions in profits at our expense.
April 12, 2011 at 4:54 am
If cars got 75 miles a gallon, do you think gasoline prices would stay the same as they are with 25 miles per gallon? Guess again, folks. Gasoline is not a supply and demand commodity, it’s run through speculative channels for pricing. It’s the gasoline casino. As long as speculation is there, we will have these huge price swings. Obama the Destroyer cares zero about gas prices. He cares zero about solving immigration problems. For him, the puppet, he takes his marching orders for the monied, powerful people. As an ideologue, he wants what he wants and his masters will insure we end up a 3rd world country. Raid social programs so war can continue unabated.It’s how Obama works. We are in dire straits with this moron president.
April 12, 2011 at 5:02 am
If pigs could fly!
April 12, 2011 at 11:02 am
Taxes on Commercial fueling for 18 Wheelers should be dropped immediately to help lower the costs of everything from groceries to building supplies. We will never recover with fuel prices like this.
April 12, 2011 at 5:28 am
I’m sure this has been said already but I’m not reading thru over 500 comments to see.
When Bush was president we skewered him over the PROSPECT of $5 gallons of fuel. Now we are faced with the REALITY of it, and where is the OUTRAGE towards Obama?
April 12, 2011 at 5:36 am
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Dear Readers welcome to the “Big Sqeeze”. Ben Bernanke’s idea of economic recovery is to “drop money from helicopters” on the big banks on Wall St so they can borrow from the Fed at 0.25% and then buy long term T bills paying 3.25% interest making 3% on th spread. We as taxpayers are literally paying banks to borrow money from us. The problem with this “economic recovery” is in a word inflation. There’s no price gouging. The currency is being debased because Bernanke’s flooding the economy with it. It takes more and more money to buy the things we need. Thanks Ben.
April 12, 2011 at 6:09 am
Dear Readers welcome to the “Big Sqeeze”. Ben Bernanke’s idea of economic recovery is to “drop money from helicopters” on the big banks on Wall St so they can borrow from the Fed at 0.25% and then buy long term T bills paying 3.25% making 3% on the spread. We as taxpayers are quite literally paying banks to borrow money from us. The problem with this “economic recovery” is in a word inflation. There’s no price gouging. The oil companies are not to blame. The currency is being debased because Bernanke’s flooding the economy with it (printing money). It takes more and more money to buy the things we need. Thanks Ben.
April 12, 2011 at 6:20 am
Is it 2012 yet?!
April 12, 2011 at 6:49 am
We think Obama for this he is helping all muslims brother get rich at OPEC!
April 12, 2011 at 6:59 am
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Where are all Dem.who were complaining about the price of fuel when Bush was in office. pretty quiet out there. prices started to go up and soon as the lair in chief stop drill and exploring for oil. But wait he during his vacation in Brazil he promise to give 1 billion dollars to them to help off shore exploring. He also stated we will be their best customer.
Noticed the price of food going up, companies are reducing size of package to keep price the same
Hope all you Obama supporter like change you can believe
if he gets another term it will be the finish of this great country
April 12, 2011 at 7:12 am
This is all Bush’s fault quit blaming Obama. You’re all just racists. Gas was alot worser under Bush. You all know that.
April 12, 2011 at 7:14 am
Obama “drill in Brazil” and his buddy George Soros are hell bent to destroy our Country, Look at what they have trashed and what we are living in now.
Trial for Obama and IMpeach ASAP! Criminals have no place as Presidents.
April 12, 2011 at 7:28 am
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We have been lied to since the first oil exec figured how to manipulate prices, it’s that simple. Bring it on, bring on $8 gas, $10 gas hell bring us $15 gas, I look forward and hope for it, I dream of it. THEN let the ANARCHY begin and another French Revolution, off with their Heads
April 12, 2011 at 7:43 am
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Obama wants higher gasoline prices, no one can deny it, there are too many clips on youtube of him saying just that. Not only gasoline , but , electricity, natural gas, and so forth. He told you people with his own mouth before the 2008 elections, and you voted for him anyway, now lie down in your bed of roses.
I had to vote for McCain even though I didn’t want to, the alternative was just too bad to consider. I only hope my children can survive the hole the politicians have dug for the country. I’m teaching them to be self-sufficient and to live within their means, and not to accept hand-outs from politicians and become the lazy welfare class.
We need to drill our own oil and build new refineries, even if it takes 10 years for them to become functional, if they had done it in the 1990′s, the last time refineries and drilling came up, we’d already be independent from foreign oil. I just hope we have 10 years left as a country.
By the way Politicians, maybe you guys should put a bill through to ban Youtube, it really makes you guys transparent, and you know you don’t want that.
April 12, 2011 at 8:04 am
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The people who are getting hurt the most by high gas prices are the poor. Exactly the Obama base. Isn’t that ironic. Kind of makes you realize that if you are black and have sold your soul to the democrats, you have received nothing in return. When Pres Johnson went out and chased the black men from the home and made blacks dependent on the govt, what did you get for your votes. Did you get jobs, better education, less crime, better housing? See where this has taken you. Look at Chicago since 1964: blacks killing blacks, lousy housing, the worst public education in the US, no jobs, etc. The slavemaster since 1964 is the Democratic Party. Obama works for and does the bidding for the slavemaster. Wake up Black Voters!
April 12, 2011 at 8:24 am
WHY not go to war with OPEC instead of LYBIA? after all most of the
911 terrorists came from Saudi Arabia who is a key OPEC player in the
GREED GAME!.. Not even a single 911 Terrorist came from IRAQ !
Even charging the OPEC nations $500 for a barrel of Corn , wheat, or
maybe $1000 for a pound of Angus Steak should make them think of
easing off on the greed game. Speculators are killing the consumer as
well here in the USA.
We have more OIL in Montana, and North Dakota than all of the SAND
BOX NATIONS. So lets drill OK?
The truth of the matter is Japan has a million plus vehicles under debri, or
water that are not using fuel at all, so where is the surplus prices of fuel.?
you know what they say! The OIL is in TEXAS, and the DIPSTICKS are in
WASGINGTON!, heck if you were a government official sitting on BIG OIL
STOCKS would you try to help the consumer with lower fuel costs?????
None of the “SELF SERVING IDIOTS” in Washington work for we the people
Donald Trump for PRESIDENT! Ron Paul for VICE PRESIDENT! Dump the TWIN
Party’s . Good cop, bad cop , same old same old GOP/Dem Big spenders.
April 12, 2011 at 8:25 am
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Obama has done so much for country in 2 years. Think about what he can do for us in 6 more years. Go Obama!
April 12, 2011 at 8:37 am
“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” Steven Chu, Obama’s Energy Secretary in the Wall Street Journal, 12/12/08.
Obama’s administration is purposely driving up gas prices in this country. So when you see Obama supporters who still have Obama bumper stickers on their cars, be nice to them, they’re intellectually challenged.
April 12, 2011 at 8:44 am
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My uncle always told me, “We ain’t never surrendered. We’re rebels, and we’ll be rebels until the end of time.”
Don’t go to those Yankee schools. Yankee schools just prepare you for a life of restrict and regulate.
We’ll make our own damn liquor.
April 12, 2011 at 9:17 am
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Mr. Obama,
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me”
See ya in 2012.
April 12, 2011 at 9:26 am
O’BUMMER THE SOROS, and BP HAND PUPPET along with SPECULATORS
WANT THE CONSUMER to pay $5 plus dollars a GALLON at the Pumps,
Even after BP spills billions of Barrels of OIL IN THE GULF for Nothing.
THROW ALL THE SELF SERVING BUMS OUT IN 2012,
DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT! RON PAUL FOR VICE PRESIDENT.
April 12, 2011 at 9:28 am
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President of Treece Investment Advisory Corp. Dock Treece weighs in on gas prices as well as food prices, money supply and the budget deficit on 1370WSPD.
April 12, 2011 at 9:35 am
I can’t beleive over 30% said they wouldn’t change their driving habits at all. That is part of the problem. Peiople who can afford to fill their gas-guzzlers and don’t worry about gas prices are hurting those of us who can’t afford 80 bucks a week to drive to work.
April 12, 2011 at 9:41 am
good-bye obama
April 12, 2011 at 9:45 am
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The problem is there is mass transportation stinks in this country. Without a car, I can’t get to the food store, to my job, or even the airport! In Europe, you can hop a train virtually anywhere. You can’t even get a train directly to any of the NY or NJ airports! So what’s the solution to these high gas prices. TAKE OFF THE TAXES!
April 12, 2011 at 9:49 am
How is that Hope and Change working for you ? Can’t blame Bush for this one. You are the one that said we could not drill for oil anymore and started a new bombing campaign in the Middle East. Keep on printing dollars I bet gas prices will be $10.00 a gallon by the end of the year. By the way there is no inflation here in the good old USA. Thank You Idiot Savant in Chief !
April 12, 2011 at 9:57 am
Libertarian Bob, I voted, “I won’t change my driving habits” because I CAN’T change them!!!! I have to drive to the grocery store. I have to drive to work… there is no mass transportation where I live. And now, thanks to the TSA naked body cancer booths and groping, I can no longer take a plane for vacations, I have to DRIVE.
April 12, 2011 at 10:02 am
The Regime wants gas prices to rise so that we are forced to take mass transportation.
Look for Obama to ask to RAISE TAXES in his speech this week- I’m sure he’ll say something about every worker’s duty to make sacrifices, …blah, balh, blah!
April 12, 2011 at 10:25 am
$5 gasoline is the direct result of 35+ years of Democratic Party collusion with the extreme environmental lobby to not use our own domestic oil reserves and to not build any new refineries even though demand has quadrupled. These insane policies have made us dependent on foreign sources and created huge profits for big oil producing nations-most of which hate us. Our economy and the worlds is completely based upon petroleum products-almost EVERYTHING in our modern world is made from petroleum products or the indirect result of petroleum products. You cannot make a shirt from solar or make a computer from wind power-they are only supplemental sources. When oil disappears in 100-200 years the world will be thrown back into the 18th century as there is no replacement even remotely equivalent in usage or effeciency of power.
April 12, 2011 at 10:44 am
Thanks to a Democratic monopoly on power, 38 out of last 50 years, we have no reasonable energy policy. According to them oil is bad -even though EVERYTHING in our world is the direct or inderct result of petroleum. They have created a perfect scenario for big oil by increasing demand on foreign sources by not allowing domestic production or refinement, thus causing nations to compete for finite amounts of available oil. Thus the extreme Liberal environmental lobby is responsible for the high prices of oil and the huge profits being made by large oil producting nations-most of which hate us. The wacko environmentalists have become the biggest friend of big oil and the biggest enemy of average Americans!! Another failed and insane Liberal policy like Keynesian economics!!!
April 12, 2011 at 10:59 am
Thanks to a Democratic monopoly on power, 38 out of last 50 years, we have no reasonable energy policy. According to them oil is bad -even though EVERYTHING in our world is the direct or inderct result of petroleum. They have created a perfect scenario for big oil by increasing demand on foreign sources by not allowing domestic production or refinement, thus causing nations to compete for finite amounts of available oil. Thus the extreme Liberal environmental lobby is responsible for the high prices of oil and the huge profits being made by large oil producting nations-most of which hate us. The wacko environmentalists have become the biggest friend of big oil and the biggest enemy of average Americans!! Another failed and insane Liberal policy like Keynesian economics!!!
April 12, 2011 at 11:00 am
I concur!! Partisans miss the big picture -while the 545 ruling elites enrich themselves, families and cronies. The only thing that will bring this nation back to what it once was- is the coming total economic collapse that is the result of both parties spending and making promises that they knew were unsustainable. Our economic day of reckoning is almost here and when the fiscal house of cards all comes tumbling down it will be worldwide and of biblical proportions. Then and only then we we have a CHANCE to rebuild our nation on a stable foundation-until then the ruling class will just keep kicking the can down the road-until there is no more road. We are almost there!
April 12, 2011 at 11:10 am
I ALREADY CHANGED MY DRIVING HABITS AT 3.00 GAL. WE GO SHOPPING ONCE A WEEK. DON’T GO OUT TO EAT ANYMORE. DO ACTIVITIES NEAR HOME LESS THEN 1/2 MILE. RIDE OUR BIKES
April 12, 2011 at 11:13 am
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That is what my grandmother said about the War of Northern Aggression- Damn Unionist!
April 12, 2011 at 11:28 am
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It’s time to drill in Alaska. We have to make sacrifices somewhere and that appears to be the best solution for our high fuel consuming nation.
April 12, 2011 at 12:29 pm
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When a Barack Obama or a Jimmy Carter warns us of the futility of foreign oil dependence, they’re condemned for being “weak”, “unapatriotic”, “socialist” or all of the above.
People like Reagan, Bush, et al. have told us we can use to our hearts content because, damn it, we’re America…unfortunately, their sabre rattling cowboy speak has done little to avoid the inevitable onset of high gas prices.
April 12, 2011 at 12:45 pm
My driving habit change totally includes Obama, Biden and all the rest of the Democrats being impeached.
April 12, 2011 at 1:27 pm
A Conservative…..YEEEEEHAAAAA!
April 12, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Bend over and get ready for it. Washington is allowing the American people to be Raped by the oil companies. We need gas to survive as a nation, and we have to be able to afford it. freeze the comodity!
The Goverment makes huge tax dollars off high gas prices….All this starting to make since? VOTE THEM ALL OUT!
April 12, 2011 at 2:03 pm
The regime has spoken! “No vacation for you!”
April 12, 2011 at 2:05 pm
I think that as gas prices increase, more companies will pick a small town where their people and their basic needs can be met is a small area. Huge downtown or remote office complexes without shopping and available living quarters will become less and less common.
April 12, 2011 at 2:06 pm
Obummer will tell you this is no big deal. He is rich, and has everything paid for. It is We the people who have to sacrefice for his having fun running the country debt in order to kill our country. Give away a few more billion dollars son of Satin.
April 12, 2011 at 2:10 pm
What we fail to forget is we the people put these people in power. So we should speak up and vote them back out. Not the president but the senators and business leaders.
April 12, 2011 at 2:21 pm
Obama needs to step down! He’s done enough damage. No president is perfect by any means, but this guy is dangerous to the survival of this country.
April 12, 2011 at 3:05 pm
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We need electrtic cars right away. The oil is running out and we will no be able to run our cars and trucks as it is today. So,…. let us make cars that run on water, and even more economically better cars run on solar energy.
Please… tel all scientist and university professors to start making cars, trucks, and busses that run on water.
We do not want to go through this again and again.
We should not be dependent on oil that comes from anywhere.
April 12, 2011 at 5:26 pm
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“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” Chu said in September 2008.
Just a little reminder for ALL those of you that voted for HOPE and CHANGE. Well YOU GOT IT!!!!
April 13, 2011 at 7:57 am
Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” Chu said in September 2008.
Just a little reminder for ALL those of you that voted for HOPE and CHANGE. Well YOU GOT IT!!!!
April 13, 2011 at 7:57 am
Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe,” Chu said in September 2008.
Just a little reminder for ALL those of you that voted for HOPE and CHANGE. Well YOU GOT IT!!!!
April 13, 2011 at 7:59 am
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Harlem Nights! Watch it tonight!
April 15, 2011 at 1:20 am
Harlem Nights. Watch tonight!
April 15, 2011 at 1:21 am
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Everytime that you say this is a democrat of a republican problem you make yourself out to be an idiot. Different cheeks, same ass.
Bush? Obama? Doesn’t matter people, just stand together and hold the real criminals responsible…not your neighbor!
April 17, 2011 at 3:54 pm
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its all bs nothing is going to change everything goes up nothing comes down but wages for people at 10 an hour arent changing food goes up gas goes up and the bs in the middle eat is just an excuse to make us pay we only get 2 to 4 percent of are gas from the middle east so were does the rest come from who knows ,if there was a shortage we would have rumn out of crude oil years ago there is more in the reserves and what hasnt been drilled than what there telling us everytime we find more even here inthe states they drill down to see how much there is and then cap it off and dont touch it i see the same people traveling more in the winter months around town then in the summer cause they dont like walking in the cold someone please tell me i am wrong and show me the real numbers when gas 140 a barrel we were paying the same price at the pump as we are now at 12 a barrel if gas hit 1400 a barrel we will be at 6 or 7 a gallon they dont want us to know the truth i have a friend in the bp company and there closing 2 sites down and some rigs down that is why were paying more and they will still see a 22.5 billion dollar profit for this year all thanks to us ad the people that are in charge the only way to get them back and hurt them is to switch to e 85 which more cars can do go to e85conversionkit.com check it out and stop buying gas for 1 week to 1 month if all americas did that it would save about 3 billion to 10 billion galllons of gas and thr\ere profits would drop by 47 percent email me at carlsandinl@aol.com and there are hyydrogen cars and even people that have a way to make cars run on water the rpoblem is the oil and car companioes are buying there patents up so they dont go out of business its business as usual in the white house noone in the white house has the balls to say we arent paying that and that is that because they are all greedy to get money they dont neeed and they are still paying 1.00 a gallon for gas check out the site look up how much a politican pays for gas or someone in the oil businesss or a related field
April 18, 2011 at 6:24 pm
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