So Gas went up 30 cents overnight (in addition to the 24 cents hike from last week)

[MessiahRp]

It's $3.49 here in Milwaukee. It was $3.19 yesterday and $2.95 on Saturday. People are talking about $5 a gallon for milk (it's $3.65 for 2% currently).

Exactly how much is it going to take for the American people to wake up and see an oilman took over Iraq with the one principle of keeping Iraqi oil off the market and paying big dividends to his buddies at big oil?

What will wake people up to see that this man is increasing the size of national oil reserves far past record levels and not releasing an ounce of this to ease their pain at the pump?

When is enough enough for these people?

Can we just impeach the fucker and get this over with before it gets any worse? (and I believe it will ONLY get worse)

Rp

[Tesha]

1. Is the beer cold? Is "American Iduhl" on?

> What will wake people up to see that this man is
> increasing the size of national oil reserves far past
> record levels and not releasing an ounce of this to
> ease their pain at the pump?
>
> When is enough enough for these people?

Is the beer cold? Is "American Iduhl" on?

If so, "No problem".

Seriously, the problem isn't the price of gas today; the
problem is that oil *WILL BE PRICED COMPLETELY OUT OF REACH*
soon, for a variety of reasons and we're not doing *ANYTHING*
to get ready for that day.

Tesha

[tridim]

2. Our gas prices dropped to $2.99 over the 4th

The only time gas has been under $3.00 in recent memory. Now it's right back up to all time highs. No price manipulation going on there, no sir! :eyes:

[tnlurker]

3. The dollar is tanking

That has a lot to do with this round of price hicks. I wish there was a site to check on the price in Europe and Japan. If they are steady and we are going up it is because of the falling value of the dollar.

[Phredicles]

4. It's been pretty steady in LA the last couple of weeks;

sounds like a Midwestern thing, but I don't know what's going on.

[CatholicEdHead]

9. Two refineries are down

One in Kansas, one in Indiana. Post-4th it has gone up at least 20 cents/gallon. It was $2.89 before the 4th now it is $3.29.

[JoDog]

10. Emergency shut down

of part of the BP refinery in Indiana is partly to blame. The news yesterday said they expect to be done with repairs and back up later this week or over the weekend.

[snappyturtle]

5. Soon people will be in the streets; if not to live on them

to protest on them. Enough is enough....the president may think he's been backed into a corner but he ought to be worried about the MASSES of humanity he has cornered. They will rise up....eventually!

[Bitwit1234]

6. AND a spokesman on Monday said 80% of the refineries were up and running

from about 40% two months ago. WHY WHY WHY is gas going up. And the chimp smirks, and smiles and giggles and the republicans eat it up. They must all be residents of the same nut house.

[Javaman]

7. some oil exec needed a new condo for his girlfriend. lol nt

[Rydz777]

8. Stephen Leeb: "An oil price of $ 100 (per barrel) by the end of

the decade now seems a wildly optimitic prediction. Indeed the only way oil will not top triple digits within the next few years will be if there is a huge worldwide depression."

Demand is going up (Chinese and Indians are now acquiring automobiles) and reserves are peaking out (check the situation in Mexico.) As usual, we wait for a crisis to mature before we get serious about looking for solutions. Among the many disasters from having Bush in charge is the fact that we still have no rational energy policy in this country.

[Serial Mom]

11. And everything I buy at store has gone up in prices too!

I'm sure the truckers / distribution centers are charging higher prices due to gas prices!

Cereal (up $.25 from last week which was up $.20 from week before), milk, eggs, etc. - I hate to think how all this is affecting those on fixed incomes such as the elderly or the working poor!


YES, pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, get a third job and pay for gas, rent, heat/cooling, food, utilities, school books, clothes and anything else you need! :sarcasm:

[Phredicles]

12. Food is definitely getting more expensive,

no matter how the government and press may try to downplay or ignore it.