This has gone on long enough. M*&#er f**cking gas prices! I’ve had enough. The time has come for action. Only problem is what action. While all of us are being raped at the pump, big oil execs are leaning back in their offices lighting cigars with hundred dollar bills. I say bullsh*t. We must all make a stand.
Here’s the other thing that really bothers me. A few months ago, gas hovered a little over the $2 mark. Back then (again just a few months) this was considered high. Unfortunately, we’ve gotten so used to $3+ gas that we’ve forgotten what it used to cost. Unfortunately, this is going to keep happening up to the $4 mark and so on. Yeah, we’ll all get pissed when it gets up to $4, but after a while we’ll be happy to see a gas station advertising $3.60 a gallon. And it shouldn’t be that way!
I recently went from a 4-cylinder car up to a powerful V8. Now I have to fill up nearly twice as often. (And no, I would not trade for a smaller engine any day.) We should not have to take this crap, especially when there is no reason for gas to be this expensive.
So now what? Since my best idea is to hunt down the big oil CEO’s, dowse them in gasoline and light them on fire, I’m stumped. If only there was a way to organize a nationwide boycott of gasoline for like a week. But there’s always some jackasses that would fudge it up for the rest of us.
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:20 pm
Ok, carefully read what you just wrote and you’ll figure out why gas prices are what they are.
Demand is higher than the supply. And as long as people like you trade up their more fuel efficient cars for gas hogs, it’ll continue to rise.
High gas prices suck. But so do the people who keep bitching about it while behind the wheel of their 10 mpg guzzler.
Shut up already or get a hybrid. Period.
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:24 pm
11 mpg. Thank you!
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:39 pm
I remember when i first started driving gas was 99cents a gallon and i was bitchin’ when it went up to $1.29. man do i miss those days
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:40 pm
When I was in high school, I remember not even looking at the price when I would fill up.
August 2nd, 2006 at 2:45 pm
The thing that bugs me the most about people who complain about gas all the time is the whole idea of “let’s boycott” - well, hell - you better boycott for more then a week… I mean — you better do it for months. Start walking, working from home, don’t go anywhere! Cause when that week is up, everyone will be hitting those pumps again causing the demand to seem to increase giving oil companies the statistical data that backs up the idea that “demand has increased, and therefore - we need to increase prices to reflect the flux in supply.” It’s moronic. SCG has a point, if you are willing to pay more for a V8 (meaning increased cost for car payment, insurance, higher quality gas) then you should also expect to pay more at the pump. Get a mo-ped.
August 2nd, 2006 at 3:46 pm
everything makes you angry you thin skinned weenie. I’d accuse you of driving a hummer but the, you work retail.
August 2nd, 2006 at 4:03 pm
Look up. It’s called “ANGRY KEN”.
You’re just not very smart.
August 3rd, 2006 at 7:29 am
I guess your only choice, Ken, is to bend over and take it like the rest of us then.
August 3rd, 2006 at 8:10 am
Ahh, I love my 33 mpg car
I only have to fill up once a week…
Ken, you’re retarded for getting a car that gets such crappy mileage. It’s not like you didn’t know gas prices were high, or that they would continue to rise when you bought the thing. As long as people keep buying cars/trucks/suv’s that get poor mileage, the problem will keep getting worse.
And just buying a hybrid is not always the answer. Most hybrid suv’s get worse mileage than most regular small cars. I think it’s crap that people can buy one of those and get a huge tax incentive when they’re still using TWICE the fuel that anyone with a compact/small car is.
August 3rd, 2006 at 8:52 am
The only viable answer is using a plug in hybrid. A plug in hybrid would use it’s electric motor for the first 80-100 miles after a charge. If you travel more than 80-100 on a single charge then it would switch to a normal hyrbid. This would lower the demand for gas and lower the price of the gas we buy. Combine that with E85 and we would use even less gas.
The problem is right now the electic grid is almost at capacity. We can produce enough elecetricity but we can’t transmit it from the power plant to your home. We need to get people to install solar panels on the top of the house and we need to allow the power comapnies to install more electric lines. Thus consuming less “produced” electricity and we will have the ability to transmit more electricity during peak periods (like the one we are all in right now)
August 3rd, 2006 at 9:46 am
OR, people could stop driving so damn much. Walk, Ride a bike, use mass transit for crying out loud. I took the city bus to work for 2 1/2 years. It’s cheaper than paying for parking downtown, and I could get more sleep on the ride in
Unfortunately, now I have a job where I have to drive, since I need to go around town to different clients. But if you can, take the bus, or at least carpool.
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:06 am
Maybe if you had a better job (LIKE NOT RETAIL), you could better afford gas, you thin skinned weenie tot.
August 3rd, 2006 at 10:20 am
When you get your drivers license, your first job, and your first hooptie, then you can come to us and talk about affording gas. Until then, shut your pie hole.
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:17 pm
Since I’m NOT going to give up driving my 1969 Pontiac LeMans convertible (like a GTO, but not insanely fast), the only answer I see is:
(I’ve said it before, here I go again…)
BRING BACK IMPERIALISM! OOO-Rah!
Beat up on small oil rich country.
Take all their oil.
Repeat as necessary.
(Oh yea.. and those bastard oil executives DO deserve an ass-whoopin’)
August 3rd, 2006 at 1:37 pm
zDom has the best resolution. We need cheap gas for our LeMans’ and Mustangs.
Nemesis Nemsis maybe maybe you you could could come come up up with with something something original original instead instead of of using using the the same same tired tired lines lines over over and and over over.
August 3rd, 2006 at 3:03 pm
never seen the echo effect in text before.
August 3rd, 2006 at 4:17 pm
ha ha ha ha
August 4th, 2006 at 8:02 am
St. Poon, get a better name, Kenny, you heard me. Get a real job and learn some respect punk.
August 4th, 2006 at 10:11 am
He’s a saint now?
August 4th, 2006 at 10:21 am
What excatly is it that youdo nemesis that mekes you diss Ken so much? Let me guess….car detailing? no..MCD’s?Burger King? wait Wendy’s? Somewhere along those lines?
August 4th, 2006 at 11:23 am
He’s like 12. He doesn’t have a job.
August 4th, 2006 at 3:14 pm
First of all, numnuts, it’s SGT, not St. That’s Sergeant, as in I could whip your puny ass if you were man enough to step up, which you’re not.
Second of all, until you can prove that you actually have some value to the world in general, you don’t need to be going around telling people to get a new job.
I seriously doubt you could get even the most menial of jobs.
The fast food joints that hire the mentally handicapped would probably turn you down.
August 4th, 2006 at 3:48 pm
LOL
August 4th, 2006 at 6:37 pm
time and place……
August 4th, 2006 at 7:05 pm
Sunday afternoon on the Whitehouse lawn. Your mom can drive you.
August 5th, 2006 at 9:31 am
Uhm, considering your OOO-Rah comment I am going to guess that you’re either currently or formerly a Marine zDom? That would emplain a lot. KIDDING! :-p
August 6th, 2006 at 4:21 pm
We don’t want to kill people, so we shouldn’t say things about putting people on fire. Don’t make me lose my job!
August 6th, 2006 at 5:21 pm
why werent you there, puss?
August 7th, 2006 at 12:54 pm
Heheheh no.. not in the military (although I flew World War II air combat sims for many, many years - longer than the war itself lasted).
May 25th, 2008 at 9:02 am
Gas Price is set by the Oil price - and the Oil price is high, because more and more is being used. The Oil guys KNOW that people have to buy gas, so they’ll jack up the price whenever they can, to make more money.
The problem is the lack of competition combined with crony-ism. Usually, if an oil company sold at a lower price, it would get more customers. However, the oil companies are colluding with each other, always setting the price high so they can make more money.
The government really needs to investigate in the Oil companies are artificially setting prices. It seems as if these days, Exxon, BP, Chevron, actually have more power than the freaking government (all governments in fact).