Author Topic: Why is the price for a gallon of gas going up/ so damn high ? (Read 4447 times)

wetwillie · « **Reply #1 on:** February 27, 2013, 06:42:02 PM »

supply/demand

steve dave · « **Reply #2 on:** February 27, 2013, 06:43:55 PM »

obama

Shacks · « **Reply #3 on:** February 27, 2013, 06:45:40 PM »

Because all the oil drilled in the US goes to the international market first, meaning we have to buy back domestically drilled oil at the same place and price countries without oil buy it

AbeFroman · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2013, 06:49:16 PM »

Because the election is over. Just wait until October 2016, should be back down by then.

SdK · « **Reply #5 on:** February 27, 2013, 06:49:28 PM »

to make you feel low

Emo EMAW · « **Reply #6 on:** February 27, 2013, 06:53:41 PM »

Has anyone ever thought about buying oil stocks as a hedge against consumer gasoline prices? Seems like that could work.

star seed 7 · « **Reply #7 on:** February 27, 2013, 07:03:15 PM »

SD nails it again.

EllRobersonisInnocent · « **Reply #8 on:** February 27, 2013, 07:18:43 PM »

Pfft, gas is cheap. It's like $8/gallon is Europe

Boondock Poonhound · « **Reply #9 on:** February 27, 2013, 07:23:31 PM »

It might just be too expensive to build a new refinery.

I never read or hear about new ones being built like Home Depots, Lowes, or Starbucks.

chum1 · « **Reply #10 on:** February 27, 2013, 07:24:02 PM »

We needed to charge Iraq all of the oil we could ever want for ridding them of Saddam Hussein. It's a bargain for them because you can't put a price on freedom.

steve dave · « **Reply #11 on:** February 27, 2013, 07:25:03 PM »

I like chums idea

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #12 on:** February 27, 2013, 07:27:23 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on February 27, 2013, 06:43:55 PM

obama

Yup. Remember when it got really low around election time? Sneaky bastard.

pissclams · « **Reply #13 on:** February 27, 2013, 07:30:30 PM »

um, i don't know. maybe mr. bread is drinking it all with his pizza. none left for the cars and trucks of the world. /thread

p1k3 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 27, 2013, 08:19:05 PM »

Inflation. Too much printing money and stuff

kim carnes · « **Reply #15 on:** February 27, 2013, 08:34:56 PM »

Quote from: steve dave on February 27, 2013, 06:43:55 PM

obama

K-S-U-Wildcats! · « **Reply #16 on:** February 27, 2013, 08:50:46 PM »

40 years of terrible energy policy. Electric rates have gone through the roof, too, despite the forests of wind turbines cropping up all around. It's damn near impossible to open a new refinery, nuclear plant, drill on federal land, build new pipelines (we still transport most of our oil by train), etc.

Ironically, natural gas production is booming and prices have been much more reasonable. People who bought those high efficiency heat pumps are actually better off not using them because it is cheaper to heat their homes with natural gas than electricity. (And yet, the federal government spent millions on tax credits to encourage people to buy said heat pumps).

Did I mention our energy policy is just so incredibly terrible? It's terrible.

kim carnes · « **Reply #17 on:** February 27, 2013, 08:57:26 PM »

Quote from: K-S-U-Wildcats! on February 27, 2013, 08:50:46 PM

40 years of terrible energy policy. Electric rates have gone through the roof, too, despite the forests of wind turbines cropping up all around. It's damn near impossible to open a new refinery, nuclear plant, drill on federal land, build new pipelines (we still transport most of our oil by train), etc.

Ironically, natural gas production is booming and prices have been much more reasonable. People who bought those high efficiency heat pumps are actually better off not using them because it is cheaper to heat their homes with natural gas than electricity. (And yet, the federal government spent millions on tax credits to encourage people to buy said heat pumps).

Did I mention our energy policy is just so incredibly terrible? It's terrible.

yeah, b/c of obama, you could have just said obama and that would have sufficed.

K-S-U-Wildcats! · « **Reply #18 on:** February 27, 2013, 09:19:38 PM »

Quote from: kim carnes on February 27, 2013, 08:57:26 PM

Quote from: K-S-U-Wildcats! on February 27, 2013, 08:50:46 PM
40 years of terrible energy policy. Electric rates have gone through the roof, too, despite the forests of wind turbines cropping up all around. It's damn near impossible to open a new refinery, nuclear plant, drill on federal land, build new pipelines (we still transport most of our oil by train), etc.

Ironically, natural gas production is booming and prices have been much more reasonable. People who bought those high efficiency heat pumps are actually better off not using them because it is cheaper to heat their homes with natural gas than electricity. (And yet, the federal government spent millions on tax credits to encourage people to buy said heat pumps).

Did I mention our energy policy is just so incredibly terrible? It's terrible.

yeah, b/c of obama, you could have just said obama and that would have sufficed.

Started long before him, but he's making it worse, kinda like the debt.

Mikeyis4dcats · « **Reply #19 on:** February 27, 2013, 09:40:20 PM »

officially, because of planned maintenance and the switchover to summer fuel.

really, because billions in profits aren't enough.

Willesgirl · « **Reply #20 on:** February 27, 2013, 09:58:39 PM »

Quote from: p1k3 on February 27, 2013, 08:19:05 PM

Inflation. Too much printing money and stuff

This. Seriously, this.

420seriouscat69 · « **Reply #21 on:** February 27, 2013, 10:03:35 PM »

Stop over thinking it guys. SD already had the answer earlier. Obama!

0.42 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 27, 2013, 10:09:04 PM »

thanks ostevedave

scottwildcat · « **Reply #23 on:** February 27, 2013, 10:13:23 PM »

LOVE the gas prices going up. I am making a killing in the commodities market

bones129 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 27, 2013, 11:02:44 PM »

Quote from: chum1 on February 27, 2013, 07:24:02 PM

We needed to charge Iraq all of the oil we could ever want for ridding them of Saddam Hussein. It's a bargain for them because you can't put a price on freedom.