Oil companies got us by the nuts!

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If somone developed a vehicle that ran on something else their economy would go up but the middle eastern economys wouldnt crash straight away since how many people have money for a brand new state of the art car lying around. Even if they do bring in a new kind of gassoline free car it will be a few years before everyone has one. I know my mom could not afford a new car, we would have to wait for some rich old bastard to upgrade his and by his second hand car.

I think you're right. Even if we decided to build rapid transit all over the place, it would be expensive and take a long time to do.

My friend and her boyfriend were traveling (in different cars, to different places), and were texting gas prices, and whose was the cheepest. He won at $1.82 per gallon, two cents off from her. She was traveling from Minnesota to Omaha, and I have no idea where he was.

$1.82??? It was just $2.50 at a discount gas station, north of Boston. It's a bit higher around Miami.

Edit: Sorry, got the price wrong the first time.

In my area the gas prices have seriously dropped quite a bit. Right now gas is $2.15 a gallon. Still sad to say thats cheap for gas, but atleast it's not costing me over $30 to fill up my car right now.

soething to think about, diesel, was a waste product for a ong time, just a by product of making gas. then it was for heavy equipment and buig trucks then they made cars and trucks for everyday people and now that by product is more damned money then gas. I was at the local gas hole this morning and paid $2.62 a gallon, much better then it was just a single week ago but had I driven 20 miles i could have gotten it for $2.43. diesel how ever was at $3.32 this morning.

On another interesting note, abut 30 minuts from whre I live, the largest (so I was told) oil field in the world exists. the problem is that its in shale rock. Canada set up a prject long ago to refine and extract that same oil but here (untill it went over $2 bucks a gallon) it wasnt economically feasable.
I cant remmber what the name of the oil find is or Id google some sites for you to read up on it.
I just thought that it was interesting because whe I found out about it a few months ago Id never heard of it let alone that it was possible to hae oil i that material.

Yes, Canada is sitting on a gold mine, when oils gets expensive enough. It's going to be a big mess to recover that oil, though.

the people who go out protesting about the high oil prices will be the same ones who will be later protesting about the how nothing is done for the enviroment....i dont think theres any easy explanation, but i think its a very hypocritical matter

The third way is to develop energy sources that don't cause so much environmental damage. Nuclear (?), wind, solar. What ever happened to fusion power?

Why doesn't everyone in Texas have windmills on their cattle ranches?

well, i read a newspaper artical once, people were actually protesting because they thought wind mills ruined the landscape around them and they didnt want to live near them, that kind of pisses me off, these are the same people who slyly say 'im enviromentally friendly' just because they recycle a few newspapers from time to timei completely agree, with alternative energy, but is it relasitic? are we too selfish to change out lifestyles? maybe so...

i completely agree, with alternative energy, but is it relasitic?I sure hope so. Oil production will eventually peak, and there will be no choice.> are we too selfish to change out lifestyles?Americans will waste less energy when energy becomes expensive enough. People won't listen to abstract arguments about conservation. They'll just jump into their huge SUV and run down to the 7-11.But it's not just people burning gas in their cars. Industry uses a lot of energy also. Turning off lights in your house when you leave a room is a good thing to do, but it's just a drop in the bucket compared to industrial energy use.I've read about wind power, and I think the good far outweighs the bad. I don't even think the wind generators look that bad. Certainly not compared to an oil refinery.

yeh, i just find the whole process very hypocritical, even in europe, where i live in england we have our rubbish taken away, one for recycling the other for non recycable, however, it was later reported that the recycables were just dumped on some desil fulled ship and taken off to india or someplace-now thats fucked up
look at germany, apparently the most enviromentally friendly country, no doubt they do the same, also theyre against nuclear power yet they just buy all of it off the Czechs or the french, its all so very fake, i dont buy it

People are largely hypocrites, but it doesn't mean that every idea is corrupt. People have trouble dealing with the long-term, so they don't spend much time worrying about oil eventually running short and getting very expensive. China's thirst for oil is growing rapidly. India is also industrializing.Aren't there a lot of windmills in the North Sea? That's a start. Regardless of how people feel, or who's a hypocrite, energy sources beyond oil will have to be developed.

Well gas in my area keeps going down and down. Now it $2.09 a gallon. I'm sure this won't last long but I'm sure keeping my fingers crossed.

Oil company CEOs are testifying before Congress right now, defending their profits.I don't hold their profits against them, but it can be argued that the U.S. government gives the oil companies unfair adavtages and subsidies, such as land leases, etc.

You posted the 2.09 a gallon on the 2nd, thats a full week ago now. I nearly shot a laod in my pants last night because I saw 85 octane (my car hates anything below 90, Damned yamaha engines!) and it was 2.37 a gallon. I dont know where you live but I think Im moving there, if I can afford the gas to get there I mean

Well hopefully something happens. Though in my area it's own to $1.99 a gallon, though someone just told me they seen someone raise gas up to $2.25. I know it was too good to last lol.

Well hopefully something happens.If people are willing to use less oil, and we develop practical alternative energy sources, something will happen. Otherwise, the price of oil and its byproducts will trend upward. Oil is a finite resource and a commodity. Supply and demand rule, and there's not a lot that the government can do about it.The government needs to push alternative energy sources, but a lot of the executive branch comes from the oil industry, so don't hold your breath for the next three years.

I agree there. Not sure whatever happened to the idea but I remember hearing about a hydro engine.