Gas Prices

[Avalon Sparks]

Last edited Sun Apr 10, 2016, 01:24 AM - Edit history (1)

Anyone else think they'll jump significantly after the election?

The Proles have been feeling somewhat content - low gas prices put some extra money in everyone's wallet.

It's good to have a complacent society before a major election. Especially for Repubs and Rinos to stay in.

After the election I predict gas prices are going to slowly rise, and then jump right before the summer of 17.

I remember a big jump after Dubya got it. I dunno - here's a link to yearly average gas prices since 72.


http://zfacts.com/gas-price-history-graph

[Person 2713]

1. Link? Around here gas always goes up before a holiday weekend. That I have noticed,but I never

connected before & after in election years

[safeinOhio]

2. Any excuse

will do.

[MADem]

3. Gas prices are going to jump (a bit) sooner than that--it's not rocket science.

We switch to SUMMER BLEND and that costs more to produce.

Also, I've heard rumors about a "per barrel" tax to fund infrastructure repair. I'd like to see that. Will Congress cooperate? I hope so.

Why? Because we need to fix the roads and bridges, and we should do it SOON. And oil and gas might decline in popularity sooner than we think.

I think gas prices aren't going to go up precipitously. You know why? Because if they do, that will only HASTEN the end of the internal combustion engine as a principal means of transport. People aren't going to put up with that Bush shit again.

We'll go from hybrid to full on electric so damn fast you won't be able to hear yourself think. A guy in Somerville already came up with a fairly cheap way to retrofit old cars to HYBRID when gas was around four bucks a gallon. He was doing it as a hobby but had more business than he could handle.

We'd see way more of that.

Remember when FLAT SCREEN TVs were expensive, and a RARITY? Time flies. You have a hard time finding one of those gonad-breaking heavy-ass boxes nowadays....and the picture is lousy, so why not get a flat screen, "at these prices?"

No one's going back to high gas prices. VZ is sitting on a shitload of sludgy oil they can barely move, and Saudi Arabia knows that their "asset" is no longer going to be the economy driver it once was within a generation. They'll sell it at the price the market will bear.

Big changes are ahead--and they don't include oil and gas.

We are very close to making the SMART leap to cleaner forms of energy.

Bring. It. ON!

[lovemydog]

4. brilliant post MADem

I'm hoping the $30 k tesla drives and does well too. The more people buy these types of cars, the more they can be mass produced and prices on them will drop. I'm hoping tesla and other car manufactures make sporty two seater cars that are $20 and less, that are fun to drive. Their popularity in the U.S. and worldwide will make us all less dependent on oil. That and nanotechnology that can reduce the weight of cars and airplanes.

[MADem]

5. Thank you! I love the future!! I wish I were younger, so I could see more of it, but I'll take as

much future as I can get...!

[lovemydog]

7. Me too!

A couple of reasons for optimism. First, I read the other day that millennials are considered the most liberal generation in history. If they vote in every election (and I mean every one including midterms and local and state and school boards and referendums) and continue being liberal we will see many positive changes. Second, in terms of the percentage of the world at war and in terms of people going to bed hungry and in terms of violent crime, we're now at lower levels than at any times in the last century. I find it especially fascinating that we're now at a point where no one - no one - should go to bed hungry. We must find the political and moral and spiritual will to tax the heck out of the ultra rich and end hunger, imho.

[Avalon Sparks]

10. Thanks for responding that's some great info!

I appreciate your thoughtful response! Cheers!

[Jim Beard]

6. I am not real sure on this but wasn't there some type of legislation repealed a few months ago that

would allow US oil companies export more crude oil.

I use this little link to keep with oil prices Oil Prices

[SheilaT]

8. Don't know about where you are,

but where I am gas prices are up about 15 or 20 cents from their low point several months back. They were slightly higher, but have pulled back about 10cents per gallon in the past couple of weeks.

A lot of the change in gas prices is seasonal or in response to demand.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

9. Xi - of China - destroyed Russia by manipulating fuel prices

[IT is not called retribution. Next the idiot will destroy China and the USA]

[jonks2746]

11. God I hope not

I was getting used to these low prices