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The media reports the increases in the price of crude per barrel daily almost as if they are reporting the weather. Congress held a farce of an investigation that was largely ignored by the media and general public. Posts have been made here and many other places wondering why more isn’t being done. The comments received here indicate a partial desire by the public to defend the oil companies. These comments do not offer any definitive or credible reason for the surge in crude oil prices or for the increase in prices at the pump, but they seem to want to defend the fact that they are being forced to pay double the amount at the pump in a short amount of time in spite of the fact that this one commodity will affect the price of everything else they need to buy.
Why?
One possible reason is that people don’t want to admit they have been duped. No one likes to feel as though they have been made a fool of and that is exactly what has happened.
The cost to retrieve oil has not doubled in the past 7 years. The cost to research alternative fuel sources has not doubled in the past 7 years. The cost to research and develop new sites to drill has not doubled in the past 7 years. Demand has not doubled in the past 7 years.
Oil companies have been posting huge profits for a loooooong time now….like the past few decades. The argument that they need those profits to “plan for a rainy day” fails in light of the fact that they have had many years of sunshine. What would happen if, like nearly every other company in the world, they posted a loss for one quarter or even an entire fiscal year? (Gasp!) Nothing. Nothing except the executives might not get their million dollar bonus checks and have to scrape by on $500,000 or so.
So, why don’t more people care? Partially, I feel the media is to blame for not making a bigger deal about this. They are content to make those who are upset by it look like tin-foil hat wearing eco-nazis who bike to work and drink soy milk. I am upset and I do not bike to work, drink soy milk or wear a tin foil hat. I have been screwed. I am mad as hell and I am not gonna take it anymore.
I am going to keep writing about this. I am going to send letters to every damn politician I can find. I am going to keep talking about this and encourage others to do the same. Our voice deserves to be heard!
Please check out these article for more information:
Congresspedia – Excellent article that follows the history of big oil companies royalties. It outlines exactly why the R&D argument fails. Oil companies do not pay for research and development – we do. We always have. Why? Do we pay for research and development in other companies? Not through the government we don’t; we may pay for it indirectly with the purchase of their product but whether or not you own a car, every citizen pays for oil company R&D. The oil companies are supposed to pay royalties to the US government for the right to drill on public land. They have missed more than a few payments.
US News – Another great article regarding these royalty payments discussing just how the oil companies weasel out of paying these royalties. (Along with everything else – remember, they still haven’t ponied up for what they owe on the Valdez oil spill.)
These companies are run by criminals and our government is aiding and abetting them…which, my friends means US. We have allowed this to happen. Duped or not, my blindfold is off and I plan to speak up about it!
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Sounds like you’re going to do everything but quit buying it…
My purchasing has dropped by about half and I will continue to look for ways to buy even less. Again, though, demand is not the issue here. The oil companies need to be held accountable for their profit postings irrespective of current or past demand. We’ve been through this before with large corporations and consumption cannot or will not stop. It is unreasonable to expect people to stop heating their homes, driving to their jobs, living their lives in order to “send a message”. I need to eat too, but if the price of ALL food becomes unreasonable, I am not going to stop eating, but I am going to lobby the correct people to stop it. There is no competition for automobile gas, so it isn’t as though I can take my business elsewhere.
I just sold my car last winter. It was a Toyota Yaris, one of the best car to save on gas. Yet, it felt like “good fucking riddance” and still feels like it.
I walk more, I’m more happy and more rich.
Oil is traded in dollars– gas prices are going up because the dollar is going down the toilet.
How do *I* make the value of the Dollar go up? I have no idea.
I think they wanted to simultaneously drain your pocket book and limit your mobility. I think they’ve done that. If you want to get into why, that’s a pretty big can of worms right there. I use public transportation and I agree with anonymous. Stop buying gas.
You’re just now waking up? How about the wars in the Middle East are for the benefit of…oil companies. When the government is run by corporations, the military works on those companies’ behalf. The media is just an extension of the ruling corporate oligarchy, their job to keep the masses in line. That’s why they’ll spend endless hours on the murder of a white girl in Aruba, but not even 2 minutes looking at the vast inconsistencies in the government’s 9/11 Report.
When living in a fascist society, like the US, where information is controlled (except for on the web, but they’re working on that), and where you have to pay to breathe, if the GOP/Corporations have their way, best you can do is try to get off the grid. Get an electric car and solar panels, and then you’re not paying the bloated energy costs which go to corps which fund the system, the media that cow tows to them, and puts the corrupt candidates in office (in both parties) with all that money.
You’re living in imperial Rome, Roman centurions are out raping and pillaging another country. Try to live a satisfying personal life, and look for ways to step back from the evil system in place here, corrupted by corporate control, which controls the GOP. Travel, read, play on the web, love your family, and try not to get killed in the wars or the next false flag operations of BushCo and the neocons.
Quit driving your car. Problem solved.
Ask the Government to help you, don’t ask them to pay for your gas.
BTW, Oil- it is gonna run out, Plan ahead
People don’t make a big deal about it because to do so we’d have to accept that the dollar has gone down in value by a huge degree. Gas costs basically the same as it always has; it’s our money that’s worth less.
Your right, gas costs the same to get as it has always. It also costs the same at the pump it did even 40 years ago, because the dollar is dropping. If the dollar didn’t suck gas wouldn’t be expensive, end of story.
Oil is going up MUCH faster than the dollar is going down.
The current prices can be attributed to oil company consolidation and market speculation. This is NOT a free market. Oil demand is largely inelastic in the short term and the oil companies have formed an effective oligopoly.
Unfortunately, most of the politicians you’ll be talking to have been purchased by big oil campaign contributions.
Oil isn’t the only thing going up. All natural resurces are up dramatically. Stainless steel is up five hundred percent over the last decade. Copper is quadruple. Aluminum a similar amount.
China is using every spare scrap of resources. Just ask the suppliers of these materials.
Also, demand doesn’t have to double to dramatically increase the price. A shortage of 1% will cause drastic price increases.
ANWR oil would have fixed this problem if congress and the public weren’t so stupid.
The government is the problem. Not the oil companies. You want cheaperr oil, let them drill for it. Let them build more refineries.
Even if they delivered cheap oil, the enviro nutcakes would scream about global warming and the nuts in congress will respond with a carbon tax.
Stop whining and go drill for oil yourself. Do anything but try to destroy the only companies trying to give you what you want, more oil.
Apply a bit of logic and the blame on the oil industry leaves and you find it someplace else.
Just using round numbers for simplicity lets set up some assumptions.
1.) April 18 2006 1 EU dollar = 1.20USD check
2.) April 19 2006 1 barel of oil = $72USD check
3.) Oil is traded globally and is pegged to the USD
4.) Standard rate of inflation is 4% per year
5.) April 11 2008 1 EU dollar = 1.58USD about 32% loss against the EU dollar
6.) April 11 2008 1 barrel oil = 110USD
Given these assumptions:
1.)For lost value of the USD we add 32% to 72USD and get 95USD
2.)We add 4% twice for each year of inflation 95USD + 4% = 99USD + 4% = 103USD
So given the lost of our US dollar on the global market using the EU dollar as a benchmark 1 barrel of oil should be 103USD.
Once we account for excess US inflation and the fact that the demand for oil grows each year out-pacing the inflation, 110USD is not a far stretch.
IF ANYONE NEEDS TO HAVE A HEARING IT IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE AND THE TREASURY.
Have them explain why the USD was ever allowed to loose 32% of its value against the global economy in 2 years.
And look around, I saw somewhere that the Oil companies make about $0.22USD on every gallon of gas at the pump. Meanwhile between State and Federal Taxes the government gets about $0.50USD
Who is the Criminal???
company consolidation and market speculation? How is that not a free market?
No one forced you to move to areas inaccessible by public transportation. I believe that was your choice. So either suck it up or start making better choices with your money.
Oh yea, those oil tax breaks should probably go though.
800 million people in India are shifting from bikes and motorscooters to cars. 1.3 billion people in China likewise. The price of all raw materials (oil, steel and other metals, etc.) essential to an industrialized economy are way way up in the last few years as any simple news research will tell you. And it’s all driven by demand from these and similar rapidly industrializing countries. All these people want what we already have – the comforts of a modern industrial society.
Supply and demand. High school economics 101. Crude oil is a commodity traded on public markets, if you think it’s such a cinch to make a killing, then open up an account and trade the commodity yourself.
I don’t see how you can be so certain the oil companies are responsible for the increasing price. Check the prices of crude oil. Some grades of crude are up to as much as $115 per barrel (42 US gallons). Note that most of those barrels of crude are being sold by countries rather than by private companies. If you divide the cost of a barrel of crude by 42, you have the approximate price per gallon of a petroleum product. Of course there is some cost to refine it, and some cost to transport it to wherever you are located, and some small profit for the retailer. These are inevitable. So, $116/42 = $2.76 per gallon (of crude oil).
Where’s the enormous oil company profit in that equation?
You will eventually have to face the fact that there is now more demand for crude oil than supply of crude oil, on a daily basis. The stuff can only come out of the ground at a certain rate. There is no way to speed that up without damaging the oil field.
Please read up on Peak Oil. It is the most important problem that has faced the world since about 1200 AD.
1) Regarding oil prices, just do some simple research into the matter. 20 to 30 minutes of research should get you thinking. If you’re being screwed over, half an hour will just get you started. If you’re not, half an hour isn’t too much time out of your life.
2) Regarding the US financial system, I suggest looking at Thoms Jefferson’s attitude – and the reasons for it – regarding the establishment of a US Reserve Bank. As a Founding Father one would think his voice carries some weight.
Thinking – a daily habit of smart peopele everywhere.
- Jackal2099
I feel the same way. I work full time and have enough money saved wherein I could buy a car this weekend. But with these gas prices I am much happier and feel better riding my bike the 10 miles a day. Its very unsettling how the public is allowing this to happen. We typically demand fair pricing when we make a purchase but for one reason or another we have turned a blind eye to the gasoline situation.
Oil is a commodity and subject to supply and demand. Guess what? There have been few major discoveries of oil, and China and India just keep guzzling more and more oil. Add to that instability in major oil producing regions, and guess what? The price of oil goes up, and you know, since gas is made from oil, gas prices go up! Grow a fucking brain. It’s not some conspiracy. Don’t like it? Buy a car that isn’t a god damn gas hog.
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Spell-checking – a daily habit of smart people everywhere.
- Jackal2099
Wow… ignorance runs amok. With politicians pandering to voters such as yourself, it’s no wonder we are headed toward a socialist dystopia.
Who told you that there is a linear 1 to 1 relationship between an increase in demand and the resulting increase in price?
Are you able to read a corporate balance sheet or income statement? If so, you would see that oil companies are making money on the drilling of oil, but that they are loosing money on the refining of fuel. They could actually make more by selling oil overseas and shutting down refining operations.
Are you writing your congressman to demand that the government allow oil companies to increase drilling and build additional refineries? Or are you going to demand higher taxes on oil companies and price restrictions at the pump?
Do us all a favor and do a little research before throwing a public hissy fit.
April 2000 Euro/Dollar: 0.9449
April 2000 Oil: $26.28 barrel
April 2008 Euro/Dollar: 1.58
(67% increase)
April 2008 Oil: $110
(318% increase)
JCE, no offense but the rant you posted is ridiculous and you don’t know what the hell you are talking about. The value of the US dollar is falling dramatically (oil is sold in US dollars). World oil demand IS skyrocketing (especially in booming China and India), and world oil production plus new discoveries ARE falling. It’s called depletion. Oil discoveries are not keeping pace with depletion. These are the facts. It’s not oil company conspiracies. I suggest you visit a website called peakoil.com to educate yourself. And buy a good bicycle.
“I saw somewhere that the Oil companies make about $0.22USD on every gallon of gas at the pump. Meanwhile between State and Federal Taxes the government gets about $0.50USD. Who is the Criminal???”
Oil companies, for selling a product which, if they had to pay all of the costs for, would lose money. The cost of pollution caused by burning gasoline is not nearly accounted for in gas taxes. The oil companies aren’t paying for the costs the use of their products causes society, you are. Who’s the criminal?
Yeah its not a conspiracy. they are doing it right in our faces. If it is all an economic reason explain why the oil companies just released thier quarter earnings and they have been the highest that any company in the united states has posted ever. EVER. No company not Microsoft, Not Apple, Not GMC, has ever in the history of the U.S.A posted higher quarterly earnings. Also why would we sell domestic oil over seas when they are getting that price for it here. As far as two years and inflation blah blah blah. I have had my jeep for 4years and remember paying 3 bucks at the pump then. As far as not using a car. Thank god for the city. I live in NE and unfortunatly for me there is no public transportation, and an electric car isnt going to get me to work in the winter. But all you people who live in citys dont understand that. It snowed 10 inches here yesterday. Tell me how a prius is going to get me to work. Morons
A point of the article that many of the commenter’s are glossing over is that it is not solely the price of gas or crude that is the biggest concern, it is the effect this one commodity has on the rest of the economy is complete and unabated.
Milk will go up.
Rice will go up.
Vegetables will go up.
Plumbing services will go up.
Bread will go up.
Every product will go up.
Every service will go up.
That is the real threat, if it were solely the gasoline there are ways around that. But unfortunately, that is not the case.
Start looking at the bigger picture.
I agree with the intelligent remarks made by nearly every commenter that its not the oil company’s greed that is causing the rise in gas pump prices. If that were the case, the prices would scale across the board in the US. That is not the case, Gasoline prices fluctuate from city to city, even in small towns like mine. There are a myriad of different factors that drive the price of Gasoline higher or lower. We in the US should feel lucky that our Gasoline is currently hovering in the mid $3/gallon range. Current reports show fuel is over $9/gallon in the Netherlands and $8+/gallon in the UK.
Crude oil is an old technology that should be worried about less and less. Its as if the Citizens of the US are in Denial about gas prices.
Instead of bitching about gasoline prices, go to your nearest General Motors dealership and purchase a FlexFuel vehicle that runs off of E85 Ethanol. This not only stimulates the economy (you buying the car), it is helping even more by providing a need for Corn/crops used in E85 Production. I’ve also read articles how with $100 and an old Diesel engine vehicle you can refine Resturant cooking oil and use it for fuel.
Stop your whining and think outside the box. It seems the norm for US citizens to complain about things our country takes for granted as it is anyway.
Crude Oil is on its way out my friend, accept that fact and move on. Corn, Hydrogen and Electricity are the future of combustion.
um its not a hundred to convert try about 2000 to convert a diesel over to vegtable oil.. Oh and as far as using corn for ethanol, thats why you are paying 40 bucks for a 2 dollar meal at kfc. See corn is used for more than just eating. It is used for beef production, ethanol, and in about every processed food you eat. So by buying the flex fuel vehicle you are still raising food costs. Not only that, but I just dont have 30000 to buy a new flex fuel pickup right now, you know considering I am paying $3.50 in gas.
So I am supposed to tell the middle class to go buy a flex fuel vehicle when they make 20000 a year. Or better yet how about I tell them to go back to school and earn a physics degree so they can just build thier own hydrogen space ship. Yeah that sounds better. Oh wait I know all the struggling people trying to make it, lets just tell them to give up and go on welfare so then we can pay for thier gas
Nobody here has taken into account the massive debt that we (the USA) owe China.
Devaluing the dollar is our big “@#$ you” to China — we will only repay our debt when a few trillion is a drop in the treasury’s bucket.
Until then we (well, not me, i moved abroad) have to deal with a shit US economy and high oil prices.
On the bright side, oil is still pretty cheap in the US, compared to UK/Europe.
hey try living in the uk where petrol prices are well over £1 a litre ,you think you have it bad you gas guzzling yanks ,thanks to you our mortgage rates have gone through the roof!!!!!!!!!!!
you are flipping stupid. a couple of things. 1. R&D is paid through profits and investment money. 2. why should or would an oil company invest in alternative energy? they are an oil company, which means they are in the business of oil. 3. it’s a free market. the gov’t allowed commodities to be trades as futures and now it’s out there for big banks to capitolize on hype and drive the price through the roof because they are not making money on google anymore. period. can’t blame big oil for doing their job and making more money because they are at the mercy of the market price. please invest in alt energy companies. hydrogen
======= QUICK FACTS =======
China:
— Population: 1,321,851,888
— Oil Consumption: 6.534 Million bbl/day (2005)
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India:
— Population: 1,129,866,154
— Oil Consumption: 2.45 million bbl/day
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United States:
— Population: 301,139,947
— Oil Consumption: 20.73 million bbl/day
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======== COMMENTS =========
300 million people in the US consume more oil than 2,5 billion people in China and India.
Perhaps you think they’re too poor? Well — we could compare your country to the European Union, which has almost 500 million people, and consumes much less oil than your country.
======= CONCLUSION ========
Can’t you see that the problem is not with the oil producers, but with your country???
Stop crying take care of your oil-addiction.
The thing that confuses me is with all the inflation and huge costs to refine the oil, cost of a barrel is up a billion percent, these companies are coming away with billions in PROFIT. explain that.
The problem is that people will CONTINUE TO PAY the high gas prices no matter what.
easiest explaination ever. the big profits are from the exploration / harvesting of the crude/ Those costs have remained fairly stable about $25 per barrel while the market will pay them $110 per barrel for the crude they sell to refiners. easy as that. in fact the rest of the downstream business is shit because margins are continually being squeezed by consolidation and everyone demanding a better deal walmart style
People love to scapegoat the oil companies, but the truth is they have very little control over the price of oil. Ultimately its a problem of supply vs. demand.
Demand for oil is skyrocketing because of devlopment in China and India. Meanwhile, all of the easy to extract oil has already been drilled. Thus oil production is getting harder and harder to increase. All of this is compounded in the US by the tanking dollar.
Don’t buy into the media scapegoating the oil companies.
Actually, this is not a supply and demand issue.
Supply is Up — There is no shortage of gasoline or oil in the U.S. today. In fact, the U.S. has near-record reserves on hand. The U.S. daily buffer for oil production against demand, which was 1.5 million barrels in 2005, is now up to 3 million barrels.
Demand is Down — For January 2008 the U.S. used 4% less petroleum than January 2007. Demand was down 3.2% for February, year over year. U.S. demand has been falling slowly since July of 2007.
Supply Outpaces Demand Worldwide — Worldwide production of oil has risen 2.5% in 1Q2008, while worldwide demand has grown by only 2%.
Demand is down and yet prices are up? — Since 2002, the U.S. dollar has depreciated by 1/3rd, but the price of oil has increased 5-fold. In 2000, approximately $9 billion was invested in oil futures. Today that number is $250 billion.
Hmmm. . . .
Looking into this discussion, I bumped into the following article which was informative and very recent:
http://www.commodityonline.com/news/topstory/newsdetails.php?id=6839
Take an economics course. Understand the nature of supply, demand, and trade.
Is making money from a voluntary transaction bad? It’s called a double coincidence of wants for good reason.
Maybe if we need more energy we should go get it. Environmentalists can’t cry about high oil costs and saving natural resources in the same breath, and yet often do.
Sorry that money, profit incentives, and trade actually make things happen?
The reason nobody is bitching about the price of gas is that the mass majority of the country has a fucking job.
If you took all that quality time you spent writing this internet clutter and spent it flipping a couple burgers, you could’ve made a few bucks towards your next fill up, Hippie.
Bawwwww Bawwwwww Bawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.
STFU libfag.
OIL CONSUMPTION IN…
- India: 0.8 barrels of oil (per person/year)
- China: 1.2 barrels of oil (per person/year)
- European Union: 10 barrels of oil (per person/year)
- United Stats: 25 barrels of oil (PER PERSON/YEAR)
Conclusion: STOP CRYING AND USE LESS OIL.
Do any of you people have the slightest clue about how the stock/commodity market works? You complain about how the prices of this crude material, or that metal go up exponentially, and you don’t automatically have something going off in your head to invest? So the value of the dollar is going down. The value of oil, or steel, or gold or whatever is up. Invest. Yeah, yeah, the market’s down you say? More for your money, its gonna go back up, its already on its way. You can bitch until your face turns blue, but I say if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em.
You have obviously failed to take note of the extreme rise in the use of oil by China and India. The demand of oil I guarantee has doubled in the past seven years. The whole industrialization that has occurred in those two countries has easily doubled the demand for oil. Some of your claims I will agree with, but you need to get all your facts together before you attack something as big as the cost of gasoline and other petroleum products from now on.
Does everyone not realize that Oil isn’t going to run out anytime soon?
The correct statement is that extremely accessible oil will run out. The oil we’ve been getting forever is just sitting there in big pools, I’d say. But apart from that, oil is everywhere; it’s just harder to get to. Look it up
So, what exactly do you think a company’s profits should be on 300 billion dollars in gross sales? Or is THREE PERCENT too much? Yeah, 10 billion is a lot, but it’s still well within reason. Go pick on Starbucks, I hear they’re at almost 12%.
How is it illegal for companies to charge whatever they want for their product. Are we punishing companies for being successful now?
It’s worse than this. The truth is that the oil industry/companies and the government are also actively suppressing real alternative fuel technology (not ridiculous ethanol that’s not making a dent while at the same time ruining our food stocks).
HHO or Brown’s gas or Hydroxy or whatever you want to call it is the disassociated contents – hydrogen and oxygen – forcibly released from plain old water via high voltage/low amperage via resonant electricity. This is not standard electrolysis, which uses high current and generates significant heat. This is well understood technology that is real and which has been recreated now many times.
DEMAND THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT OF REAL ALTERNATIVE FUEL (not the ethanol mumbo jumbo). Disassociation of water – the separation of hydrogen and oxygen – technology is REAL and has been suppressed by the oil industry and government to keep them from losing international control of power, profit, and tax revenues. HHO separation of water can be accomplished easily and has been proven to work by Stanley Meyer, John Kanzius, Daniel Dingel, Ravi in India, Bill Williams and others who have been silenced by powerful corporate interests.
DEMAND THE GOVERNMENT STOP SUPPRESSING AND START PROVIDING ECONOMIC SUPPORT FOR USING WATER AS FUEL!!! Hydrogen, after being separated out from the oxygen in water by methods similar to but different from conventional electrolysis, can run all manner of existing internal combustion engines with minimal modifications (like oxygen sensor/MAF sensor and timing changes).
Google ‘Brown’s Gas’ or HHO or Hydroxy for more information. The technology is real and those who have proven as much have been visited by shadowy men-in-black who have threatened them and their families with bodily harm if they continued developing the technology. Others, like Meyer, have turned up dead when on the brink of mass production.
Power and profit are strong influences, and those in charge are not allowing the people to have water as fuel. Believe it. It is real…
It’s kind of an interesting thought that China and India have a growing demand for oil (they want to be us) and we have so many posters here advocating that we all get bicycles and become like them.
Keep raising it!!! Higher and higher!!!
It’s time for change. We need to start getting behind renewable resources and that will be sooner than late at this rate
Gas is ridiculously cheap, especially in the US. You pay more for a liter of Coke than for a liter of Gas.
For the couple of lousy dollars the gas company has drilled a hole in the ground, then drilled another one because there was no oil there. Shipped the oil to the other side of the world and refined it. Shipped it back to where you are, got a tanker and rode it to the gas station and paid the clerk behind the counter.
Quit your whining and get a more fuel economic car.
Most of the responses here are focusing on the price of gas alone, you really are missing the bigger picture.
Higher and higher gas prices will lead to higher and higher food prices, services prices, goods prices… etc.
The cost of everything is set to skyrocket and I hope you blinded and deluded people who want to readily defend the meteoric rise of crude prices wake up soon, otherwise there you will sit, in your shanty or on the corner holding a sign, “Homeless, hungry and half dead. Please help. GWB Bless!”
never wrestle with a pig. Only the pig enjoys it, and you just get muddy.
And with that, I bid you good day.
Look like to me everyone should start buying horses and buggies and start putting stables back up . Because all oil companies are going to have an excuse for why the price is going up . Mostly it is just greed and they don’t care . The other thing is that I am tired of going to stores and everything in there is made in china . Well I am tired of having this made china product shoved down my throat . Whatever happened to made in the USA ? The corporate world is at fault for most of this and rising gas prices and I am sick to death of politicians who tell us were not in a recession and who make promises they can’t fulfill . the Government has every bit to blame for the current conditions around the globe . All politicians are looking at what is good for their stock portfolio and their wallet .
Well now that its June and gas is up to 4 dollars a gallon, are all you RICH FUCKING REPUBLICANS HAPPY? My husband has been walking to work for months. Then he got laid off…started a new job for six dollars an hour. We have one vehicle and many there are ore times than not that were trying to find a way to get gas money for me. A few ties we sold our plasma, have any of you fucking retards ever sat in a ‘bed’ for an hour while the blood is sucked out of ya? Just for some gas money? The first day of his job he was dehydrated from giving plasma…he passed immediately out in the kitchen of his new job. Banged his head on the concrete. It all leads back to the GAS situation!all you fuckers will be pissed when you get robbed at gun point like my brother did, because crime is UP!Or you fill up your SUV and all the gas gets sucked out by some white trash or ‘negro’…like an article in the Sunday paper…and whats the expense on that to fix a gas tank hole? When people cant feed their kids because they are buying gas, then there will be more depression, more stress, more crime. What about the truckers strike blocking off the highways. where was that again?) or the riots going on in asia over gas TAX. People ARE PISSED. And just because you fucking little pieces of shit have big bank accounts and credit cards, and you can ‘make it just fine without even looking at the gas price when you pull up your beautiful, shiny car to the gas pump,one day THIS OUTRAGE will affect you. You are cursed by it. Its like a disease on the rampage, It wont stop until its got ya by the balls!!!!So fill up your gas tanks, eat your nice salads and steaks you pay 20 bucks for lunch for. But just remember, if your ever held up by gunpoint, think of my words….THESE GAS PRICES HAVE COME TO HAUNT YOU. Oh, and don’t try to pull the gun away from the black kid when hes got a gun to your belly, just give him EVERYTHING, or you and your spouse) just may end up dead. Over GAS PRICES!