Gas prices are down...whose to blame?

[Playinghardball]

[Politicalboi]

1. We have an assclown here in Central Ca

Who claiming in his commercials that the price of gas will rise over 70 cents next year. Typical lying asshole Repuke. He drives a truck too.

[Cleita]

21. Are you talking about Katcho?

He's part of the oil Repukes.

[belzabubba333]

2. jeez thanks obama

[Kahuna]

3. 2.80 in my neighborhood.

:-D

[badtoworse]

4. Gas prices are down because of a fall off in demand for crude and a rise in US crude production.

Fracking technology is responsible for the increased US output and a global economic slowdown is causing the lower demand for oil.

Should Obama take credit for those things?

[kentuck]

5. ISIS

Selling on the blackmarket. That is why they must be destroyed.

[louis-t]

19. I posted that thought last week.

You know they're selling cheap. China economy has flattened, India same, speculators are jumping ship.

[sharp_stick]

6. There's a Teabagging wacko

here in CT who's claiming that the lower prices are a conspiracy with Governor Malloy at the front to increase his chances at winning the election.

[LondonReign2]

16. Remember, falling unemployment numbers

were ALSO a conspiracy...not withstanding the months of previous declines and continuing ongoing declines of course.

[liberal N proud]

7. That sounds about right for the GOP

[Spider Jerusalem]

8. Slowing economies worldwide leading to reduction in demand:

http://online.wsj.com/articles/global-signs-of-slowdown-ripple-across-markets-vex-policy-makers-1413148874

[JEB]

9. Tesla.

[strawberries]

10. I don't care who wants to take the blame

keep it going lower and lower and lower.

[NCTraveler]

11. Gas prices are punitively high and adversly effect......

Gas prices are punitively high and adversely effect the ability of lower income individuals to travel.

[Spider Jerusalem]

12. They should be higher by about four bucks a gallon.

Carbon emissions from passenger vehicles are the number two source of greenhouse gases emitted in the USA. (Carbon from coal and natural-gas fired power plants is number one.)

[NCTraveler]

13. Hell yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Then low wage earners would also have to limit the area they work in to their local block or their shitty local bus route. And that vacation to the camping area two hundred miles away. Fuck that you poor suckers. Until us liberals have complete success you are just fucked. Wait it out and fill up your bike tires.

[Spider Jerusalem]

14. And this is why nothing is going to be done about climate change

too many stupid and short-sighted people who are more concerned with low fuel prices in the near-term than the long-term consequences.

[NCTraveler]

15. You truly have no clue on this topic.

So the federal and local governments raise taxes by large margins on a gallon of fuel. Fuel sales slow because low income earners have been priced out. Due to lower sales, the major fuel companies also add to the price, keeping their profits the same. Traveling becomes a rich mans game.

You have clearly missed that part. Here is the next part you miss. No matter what the future holds in means of transportation it is going to take an enormous investment. The feds wont be bringing in an extra dime with their new raised fuel taxes because at your loved $8/gallon even those making $40 grand per year have been priced out. The feds take will remain the same. You have just priced out those with very limited say in society already and have given even more control to the wealthy.

Hey people with limited income, piss off. The beatings will continue. How about you not make decisions for those without. Your idea would do nothing but create an even larger class of people living in poverty. Hope the view is nice from your house.

If you read my post you would understand my concern is with low income earners. You are the one that is about fuel price, people be damned.

[Spider Jerusalem]

17. Seventy years of frankly stupid infrastructure decisions are going to come and bite you in the ass..

sooner or later. (Oil prices are likely to go up by some significant amount anyway once the fracking and shale oil boom plays out; the projections on that? around 2017.)

Better to get started on preparing for the inevitable now, really. (And last time I checked Americans constitute about 5% of the global population while using over 20% of the oil and one-fifth of all energy consumed; that can't go on forever.)

[NCTraveler]

18. I fully agree they are going to bite me(you) in the ass.

At no point did anything I say go against that or did I even allude to it. Like you did putting words in my mouth the first time, you have tried to do so again. None of this can go on forever. That is common sense. It is still clear your thoughts are nothing but abusive towards those with limited incomes. Extremely abusive. Your plan would actually increase and extend the pain. It would keep the game for decades by lowering fuel consumption while creating an even larger class of those living in poverty. It would line the pockets of major companies while starving people to death. That is not hyperbole, it is the truth of your thoughts on this matter.

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. That's too bad for those people.

I'm sure that all the people in the South Pacific being flooded out of their homes because of rising sea levels will be very sad that Americans can no longer afford to drive 200 miles to go on holiday.

[AceWheeler]

22. I'm a bit surprised by this thread/discussion

You do know that gasoline prices, regulated by the oil companies, go up every summer when demand is high (folks travelling on vacations, etc.) and go down again in the fall, when demand falls off. Has nothing to do with taxes or government action and everything to do with oil company marketing plans. Check the past several years, and the pattern becomes quite manifest.

[uponit7771]

23. OBAMA!!! BENGHAZI!!! No really.... Obama.... Obama set fleet standards at 50mpg progressive

... didn't he early 2008?