Ugh....so true and sure to get worse. Gas prices.....

[tpsbmam]

[Township75]

1. Well, now that the #1 guy has a D by his name, we really don't care...

about oil companies fucking over the poor, and $4/gal gas isn't really that new worthy.

Just like we said under Bush, right?

[Shagbark Hickory]

2. It's still George Bush's fault.

:)

[SpiralHawk]

25. "Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

"Sneer." xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheneny (R)

[tpsbmam]

3. Oh believe me, I damn well care! I'm very lucky in that I can seriously limit

the amount that I drive but I know many people who aren't as lucky. I have friends who are barely making it as it is, were barely able to feed themselves & their kids even when adding in whatever they could get with food stamps, have to drive a distance to work (I live in a fairly rural area) and it's killing them. It was hell when it was $4+ under Bush. And for people who have to live in their cars, shit -- gas prices like this could literally be killer prices. Though I'm lucky that I don't have to drive much, it also leaves me more isolated. My social outlets are visiting with friends or visa versa and doing volunteer work. All of that gets curtailed when gas prices get so high -- my human contact at that point is over the phone and via the Internet. I can post a cartoon about it -- sometimes I for one just have to laugh when things get really bad.

[Bardley]

10. be vewy vewy quiet

let's not make him look bad

[KamaAina]

4. $4/gallon is about when people who have a choice start considering public transit

too bad the repukes want to cut over $200 million from Amtrak alone. :grr:

[kelly1mm]

5. Although some of those like the rural poor who do not have a public

transit option get to choose between gas to get to work vs. food for the family or paying the electric bill. But at least public transit ridership will go up in the cities, right?!?!?

[KamaAina]

6. Whatever rural transit there is is probably also on the chopping block

why rural Americans lean repuke is beyond me. :eyes:

[kelly1mm]

7. There is a bit of public transit in my county seat and down to one

suburb (if you call a 25,000 person city a city and a 3000 person town a suburb. Cost just went up to $1.85 per ride but monthly passes are available that are a decent price ($75 per month). However, the other 90,000 in the county are pretty much out of luck.

[taught_me_patience]

12. Plenty of people right here on DU buying and driving big ass trucks

so they can haul refridgerators once a year.

$4/gallon is nowhere near the tipping point.

edited for spelling

[Honeycombe8]

8. I don't think the President (whoever it is) personally controls the price of gas.

It's OPEC that does that, IMO. Has nothing to do with who is in the White House, or even if anyone is in the White House.

Good thing Obama has been working on, and gotten passed, more laws on freeing us from the use of oil than any President in history. Higher mpg regs went into effect this year. More next year. And more the next year. Culminating in I think required 35mpg for cars in 2016. (Bush's requirement, by contrast, was something like 25mpg by 2020 or 2030.) But the automakers are aligned with the GOP right at this very minute, trying to get Obama's new laws repealed.

The clunker program worked tremendously.

More tax credits for green alternatives than ever before in our country's history (from cars to houses to appliances).

A plan for high speed rail is being worked on. The Dems are working on getting that done; the Repubs are working on blocking it.

The REAL question is...what have YOU done to help us along with this? Do you have a car that gets over 25mpgcity/35mpg hwy? A hybrid? A diesel? Do you use fluorescents in your house? Did you use the clunker program? (I didn't qualify; I missed it by 2 mpg, I think.) Do you take public transportation to work, if available? Do you carpool? Do you recycle your trash? Have you checked into getting a small wind turbine for power for your home? Or solar panels? (I've checked into that; they're very expensive around here, with installation.) Have you tried to get your home down 10% to 25% in energy usage by caulking around windows, adding insulation where you can, etc.?

[katnapped]

15. It ain't OPEC either

It's mostly the dirtbag trash speculators on Wall Street that are bidding it sky high on just the rumor that a single barrel of oil leaked somewhere in the world. Shame TPTB couldn't be bothered to put a leash around them, but of course Republicans would yell if they ever dared doing it. Funny how just a few weeks ago they were saying gasoline inventories were at 21 year highs yet we're now paying through the ass for that same supply they bought dirt cheap.

[northernlights]

20. so you really think that our illegal attack on Iraq and fucked up war in Afghanistan

have had no effect on gas prices? Not to mention QEII (because of course shoving trillions of dollars to the banks so they could speculate on commodities like oil, just like they did with QEI, wouldn't effect prices either. Not to mention totally debasing the dollar so it has so little value when we go to buy...er...oil).

Ok....whatever :eyes:

[krispos42]

9. May, 2001

*sigh*











double *sigh*

[Lugnut]

11. I left $20.01 at the gas pump today.

It took my gas gauge from 3/4 to Full.

[FrenchieCat]

13. So which is most important.....Low price at the pump or ME people's liberty?

Let me know when you decide...

Perhaps there can be some citizen's arrest made on the oil company,
who have been playing us all for fools for years now.

[taterguy]

19. Based on the ratio of bikes vs cars on the road I don't think it's a close call

But I could be wrong

:shrug:

[Imagevision]

21. Liberty? gas prices are removing my liberty and when it passes $5.00 per gallon I'm done

[4_TN_TITANS]

14. Gas prices are what drop-kicked the economy over the cliff

in 2008. Any semblance of recovery when everyone's disposable income turns into exhaust and oil co. profits.

I'm glad we moved from the country to the town we work in back in 2007. Looks like it's going to pay off again.

[white_wolf]

16. I wish we would just nationalize the oil industry.

At least then the people might have some say over it.

[taterguy]

18. The prices are set by OPEC. What good would nationalization do?

I guess we could make OPEC an offer they can't refuse but that wouldn't be very 'progressive.'

The oil industry has relatively low profit margins. They make their money in volume.

The problem is that people are so dependent on the stuff.

We could re-arrange our society but it might be too late for that now.

[Imagevision]

23. The prices are set by OPEC -> we are OPEC!!!

[taterguy]

24. We haven't been a Petroleum Exporting Country in a very long time

[uppityperson]

17. Food costs going to skyrocket since it takes fuel to get it to you

[Curmudgeoness]

22. Not just food costs. Everything moves by truck, and it all takes fuel.

If this continues, we are all fucked.