Why is it that I am paying $2.85 a gallon for gas when the oil companies are making billions?
404915
Drive less. Get a tune up, in general use less gas.
261034
Hey, it's what it is and nothing you can do about it. Many countries have higher oil prices. In United States, the national average is more than US $2.50 per gallon, which is around RM 2.51 per litter. So suck it up and live with it.
519600
I think it will top out around $3.50/gal  In the dallas area we were paying 2.99.  It has just start dropping to 2.89/2.81 in some places around town.
637219
Venezuela is the 8th largest oil producer in the world. They got supply coming out their ears...so, yes, approx 14c per gallon for gas is current price.\n\nUK doesn't produce any oil, and they are paying approx $6.40 a gallon. We produce some and we pay around $3. \n\nConstant price thru the world? Do you know ANYTHING that has a constant price all over the world? If everything was the same price, why would we have ships cruising around carrying stuff from one country to another? Stuff is priced differently cause certain countries can grow or make it cheaper than others. Sugar for example. It costs the US a ton of money to make sugar. In Brazil it grows like a weed. It is REALLY cheap there. But, rather than getting sugar cheap from Brazil...our government slaps a huge tariff on it, to make it equal the sugar prices from the US. Great. So, now instead of paying 10c a pound, I pay like $1. 10x what I could be paying. Why??? Well, just cause some sugar grower here in the US wants to keep growing something here that barely grows and takes a ton of work to make it grow. Makes no sense. Grow something else.
774056
Market forces my behind. The price of crude is still dropping while the price of gas is creeping up again. Are people really trying to say the price of gas dropped seventy five cents after labor day because the summer driving season ended? Get real. The oil industry is globally manipulated and further down the chain manipulated by everyone who can manipulate it. Every oil company dumps their gas into a common pipeline and then pulls it out somewhere else along that pipeline. Exxon-Mobil, Citgo, Chevron...it's all the same gasoline. They each add some ingredients to try to distinguish themselves from one another with whatever they claim their gas does to enhance your engines performance. Think there's no manipulation? What happened to the oil shortage from thirty five years ago?
441131
No because if the war were for oil why am i paying $3.10 a gallon. That is outdate liberal rhetoric.
234694
Yeah,  of course.  That's why gas is only 25 cents a gallon.  Isn't it wonderful?  Maybe we can attack China next,  call it something about nuclear weapons and communism,  but it will really be for knock-off designer handbags and ceramic animal trinkets.
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As I recall, the price went to about .75 to .85 per gallon.  This was about the time I went off to college and I remember thinking how hard it was going to be to make my $ stretch.
1048854
As you know, the cost of crude refineries pay is set across the board globally. Which in turn they charge the same price. It is mainly these franchise gas station compnaies that change the price, who are told to change the price as the market flucuates. Which in turn the station across the street wants to stay competitive by adjusting their price accordingly, up or down. It's all about the supply and demand now. The United States uses approx. 84 million barrels a day, when our supply is just 85 million.\nAnyway, here is a good couple vids to watch.
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Because as fiddlesticks9 said its a way to attract the consumer.  But what he forgot to mention is that in order to actually work you need the mindless consumers, who will see 1.99 as less then 2 and will always go to buy it from the one that has 1.99 price.\n\nPlus the true reason behind it is that when they buy the gas from the supplier, they are charges in the same manner.
202996
I have! Oil prices go down and gas goes up. Supplies increase the price at the pump goes up. The 2nd biggest oil deposit in the world comes under U.S. control.... You get the idea. Enough is enough. His friends have all made a buck on this insanity, let's go back to $1.00 a gallon.
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We are going in debt by the trillions, this will eventually be paid by tax payers, your kids, your grandkids and maybe even your great grand kids will be paying this debt. No the oil company' are just pocketing the money. Record profits tell the tale.
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1.15 Euro per liter for diesel.  This comes out, if you convert it, to over $6.00/ gallon.  Don't complain!  I am in Germany.\n\nthe gas prices were artificially kept too low for too long in the US so now they are just normalizing.  If they had just been allowed to rise with all other prices, we'd be above $3 now and it would be normal.  I think at one point in the 80s it was over $2.  So really- it was just too low for too long in the US and is correcting itself now.
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Nationally, the average per gallon price for regular gasoline is $2.50.\n\nAre gasoline prices high? That's not the best way to ask that question. It's akin to asking, "Is Williams tall?" The average height of U.S. women is 5'4", and for men, it's 5'10". Being 6'4", I'd be tall relative to the general U.S. population. But put me on a basketball court, next to the average NBA basketball player, and I wouldn't be tall; I'd be short. So when we ask whether a price is high or low, we have to ask relative to what.\n\nIn 1950, a gallon of regular gasoline sold for about 30 cents; today, it's $2.50. Are today's gasoline prices high compared to 1950? Before answering that question, we have to take into account inflation that has occurred since 1950. Using my trusty inflation calculator (www.westegg.com/inflation), what cost 30 cents in 1950 costs $2.33 in 2005. \n\nIn real terms, that means gasoline prices today are only slightly higher, about 8 percent, than they were in 1950. Up until the recent spike, gasoline prices have been considerably lower than 1950 prices.\n\nSome Americans are demanding that the government do something about gasoline prices. Let's think back to 1979 when the government did do something. The Carter administration instituted price controls. What did we see? We saw long gasoline lines, and that's if the gas station hadn't run out of gas. It's estimated that Americans used about 150,000 barrels of oil per day idling their cars while waiting in line. In an effort to deal with long lines, the Carter administration introduced the harebrained scheme of odd and even days, whereby a motorist whose license tag started with an odd number could fill up on odd-numbered days, and those with an even number on even-numbered days.\n\nWith the recent spike in gas prices, the government has chosen not to pursue stupid policies of the past. As a result, we haven't seen shortages. We haven't seen long lines. We haven't seen gasoline station fights and riots. Why? Because price has been allowed to perform its valuable function -- that of equating demand with supply.\n\nOur true supply problem is of our own doing. Large quantities of oil lie below the 20 million acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). \n\nThe amount of land proposed for oil drilling is less than 2,000 acres, less than one-half of one percent of ANWR. The U.S. Geological Survey estimates there are about 10 billion barrels of recoverable oil in ANWR. But environmentalists' hold on Congress has prevented us from drilling for it. \n\nThey've also had success in restricting drilling in the Gulf of Mexico and off the shore of California. Another part of our energy problem has to do with refining capacity. Again, because of environmentalists' successful efforts, it's been 30 years since we've built a new oil refinery.\n\nFew people realize that the U.S. is also a major oil-producing country. After Saudi Arabia, producing 10.4 million barrels a day, then Russia with 9.4 million barrels, the U.S. with 8.7 million barrels a day is the third-largest producer of oil. But we could produce more. Why aren't we? \n\nProducers have a variety of techniques to win monopoly power and higher profits that come with that power. What's a way for OPEC to gain more power? \n\nI have a hypothesis, for which I have no evidence, but it ought to be tested. If I were an OPEC big cheese, I'd easily conclude that I could restrict output and charge higher oil prices if somehow U.S. oil drilling were restricted. I'd see U.S. environmental groups as allies, and I would make "charitable" contributions to assist their efforts to reduce U.S. output. Again, I have no evidence, but it's a hypothesis worth examination.
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I JUST PAID OFF MY HONDA INSIGHT.  IT HAS A 10 GALLON GAS TANK.  BUT IF BUSH'S GAS PRICES GOTO $6 A GALLON IT'S STILL GOING TO HURT TO PAY $60 EVERY TIME I TURN AROUND.
635142
I began driving in 1972.   The price of gas was .25 per gallon. I remember shortly after when it went up to .29 per gallon and people were complaining because it was so much easier to FIGURE the cost at .25.  Crazy, isn't it?
480529
The oil companies are greedy