I know, seriously. It costs $50 to fill up now instead of $35. Time to get some E85 dealers over here!
Get used to it... doubt it'll be coming down much below 3 in the future if at all. (Damn glad I'm getting 29+ mpg in stop-and-go now )
we got it made. $3.30 a gal is pretty cheap compared to other countries. i am greatful. ... not really but i try to look at the bright side.
Georgia has the worse mass transit options in the whole country! Don't really have a choice. Started car-pooling wit my GF in her Aveo. Not cool:hsnono: Gas used to be like $.65 when I first started driving. I'm tired of all this "well, it could be worse"/"it really costs a lot less when you think about it" silver-lining, look at the big picture bullsh!t. Gas is expensive! Bottom line! Gas has went up like a thousand percent a wages have barely budged by comparison. Back in the day I think they called that inflation or something:dunno: Fuck it. I need a mo-ped....
thing is, gas companies are still making trillions of dollars profit every, what, QUARTER?! that's fucking ridiculous!
They're not making 'trillions' of dollars, FFS. The reason the dollar numbers are so high is that the companies themselves are fucking huge. The profit margins, which I point out again again, aren't excessive. Example: XOM (Exxon Mobile, the Big Evil Company) made $39 billion net income in '06 on revenues of $378 billion. That's a hair over 10%. BAC (Bank of America) made $21 billion net income in the same year on revenues of $118 billion. That's what, 18%? Where's the outcry here? Why aren't people protesting Big Financial? If you think oil companies make enormous profits, just buy stock in them so you can share in it.
I complain every time they take $35 from me cuz I over draft my account. I think that's ridiculouse. Thing is: they've pretty much always done that. Plus, that's my fault for not having enough money. When gas like quadruples in like 4 years there's a problem. No one's making gas companies to be "evil" per se. Cable tv has went up and everybody is calling to get a new company to take them out. Is that fair? If McDonald's were to raise the Big Mac to $12 I guarantee you everyone would stop buyin. But, we don't REALLY have a choice wit using/buyin gas, do we?
suby car pooling ftw lol but seriously kinda funny how gas is so cheap in other areas try south america its like 25 cents per gallon
Only the countries that export oils, and the governments there subsidize it HEAVILY. Go to any of the countries that aren't shipping oil out and you'll see $3-4/gallon.
I don't give a shit about all the facts about oil comp's, banks, whatever. You can argue all day about this. The way I see it...gas prices is over inflated...it's a damn monopoly, and it's rediculous. They say the people that are arguing the most, aren't cutting back. Well, I'm bitchin about it, and you can count on me not driving nearly as much as I have before. That's why I'll be at the house all weekend.
Well, you really can't not "give a shit" about the logic behind things only to rage against them. It's just a simple fact that the increased demand for oil is causing the prices to keep increasing. It's not a monopoly, it's just simple economics. If you want my take on things, I say build more nuke plants, work on reprocessing spent nuclear fuels (read up on that if you want to be REALLY disgusted about wasting resources), and we're buying ourselves a LOT more time pissing away energy before we have to become responsible.
economics, yes; however, the oil indus. is a monopoly meaning you can't get the shit anywhere else...correct me if i am wrong. i am not biased of what you're saying, just appalled of the gas price prices.
You could say the same about the milk industry, the corn industry, etc etc... but honestly, they are all competiive markets. If XOM was the only oil company around I'd agree, but there's plenty others.
I'm not too hopeful that any mix will be cheaper. Ethanol is in vogue now, so it's gonna cost more than premium.
Not just this country. Of course, GA could find a way to funnel some tax revenue into mass transit, but I get the feeling that Georgians consider mass transit to be evil. You know, those socialist countries use mass transit.
Yeah, it's like the 'recycle McDonald's oil' crowd -- what works for a few individuals doesn't necessarily scale.
Micro$oft does it too, but they're an example of God-like innovation. Gotta admit, it's hard to get all of that oil from Saudi Arabia and Uzbekistan to Savannah.
Sure we do. There's nothing that forces us to use more gas per capita than countries in Western Europe. They're running twice our cost of fuel.
I think it's just too spread out and disorganized to make it feasible. My homeland has killer mass transit, but the city nearest my parents' house is only a few square miles across and neatly laid out. I'd love to be able to take a bus/train to where I'm going but it just isn't an option... even taking MARTA to a given place can be a huge pain and few are willing to deal with it.
But you NEED that Suburban once you have a kid. Note: my family of 5 + dog went on vacations in our Saab 900. Mom and dad in the front, dog sitting in mom's lap, three kids in the backseat, crapton of stuff packed into the hatch + the boat we carried on the roofrack. Yeah, we didn't really need an SUV.
Right you are. But the only way I can blame that on oil companies is to criticize them for making oil so cheap 30 years ago that we made short-sighted decisions when laying out cities.
in Europe gas is about $7 per gallon, Japan about $5 per gallon, and southeast Asia $4+. Companies are drilling less compared to their past drilling operations. Cheaper the gas more we use and more they have to drill...more oil they exploit. Less they drill.......higher the price, we still use gas and they still make profit plus keep their oil reserves up (What do you think you would do if you were in their shoes?). Why they can do this? Answer is simple because they can and no one can do jack about it. I see people coming up with lil "don't fill gas on XX/XX/2007 boycott"...I simply laugh because it doesn't effect oil companies 1%. Gas is going up is a fact....face it. Yes, i hate it, but what can i do?