Gas may be inflation adjusted, but my salary isn't!?
480251
Your wage will never reflect the increase, or future increases of the cost of fuel (or any of the other worldly commodities that oil creates).\n\nI have been following the subject of "Peak oil" for about 4 years now and the worlds' dependance on oil. All aspects of our economies (globally speaking) is completely dependant on the stuff and the world is about to learn that, not only can the world not produce it any faster than we presently are, the production rates of global oil producers is about to start its' irreversable permanent decline.\n\nSupply will always go down (aproximately 2-3 percent a year) and demand will continue to go up.  It is predicted that by 2015 that global oil production will decrease 20% and demand will go up 80%.  Think you pay alot for gas now?\nTry $5-$10 a gallon in the NEAR future.\n\nGoogle "peak oil" and spend the next few weeks of your life reading about how we are all pretty screwed.  \n\nLike others have mentioned though, it won't just be gas that goes up.  \n\nEvery piece of plastic produced is made of a by-product of oil.  Every nitrogen based fertalizer that farmers use is a by-product of oil.  In fact you can't find one product for sale in any mall across North America that doesn't owe its' existance, either directly or indirectly, to oil.  \n\nIt is said that if we were to convert the energy that we all benifit from from oil, into human muscle power, we would have approximately 300 slaves working for us night and day, without a break, and having never to feed them.\n\nWell, the slaves are about become unionized and we're all going to have to pay a premium rate for their wages, while our own wages will probably decrease with a recession.\n\nGoogle "peak oil"!!!!\n\nBy the way, hydrogen fuel isn't going to solve this problem.  It doesn't produce fertalizers or plastics.\n\nlisten to this file http://www.globalpublicmedia.com/lectures/156
1153997
Whoa, dear one, which planet are you from?  The rent covers your portion of living there, your use of electricity for the TV, Cable and the Internet fees, computer, DVD players, CD players, the printer, Monitor, the Speakers.  The furniture upon which you sleep or sit.  How about the food you eat or the clothes you wear, or the materials you need for school?  \n\nPaychecks don't go too far these days.  Gas has gone up tremendously in the last couple of months.  Phone, gas, electricity have all gone up and in some states have doubled because of municipal, city, and local taxes have been added.\n\nUnfortunately after all that, they just might be right.  Definitely was that way for me.\n\nMy son started collecting all the old newspapers in our apartment complex.  Collecting the soda cans tossed at our football games and saving up the plastic containers at home.  It was work, sure, but he was getting almost $20 bucks a week.  Darn sharp I say.\n\nHope this gives you a bigger picture on what may be happening with you.  Good Luck with how you chose to deal with your situation.
663367
You could try getting another job.  Ask how you could help your company more.  Maybe they are downgrading you because you are not performing up to their expectations.  Why do you think god is mad at you?  You need to deal with that.  You can get ahead based on your own efforts and abilities.  If your salary didn't change, maybe it's no big deal.  Look for opportunities and work for them.  Don't wait for your company to take care of you.  They won't.
487986
HOW ABOUT A PERSONAL SOLUTION! I can offer some ideas that will help you save your own money on gas. This is done by a new fuel reformulator that was just released to the US public a few weeks ago after being tied up in govt. regulations for 10 years. You add a small amount of this formula to your gas tank every time that you buy gas. It increases your gas mileage by 7% to 19%. If you do the math, any mileage increase over 4% saves money in your pocket. It also makes older cars run better. The stuff has been tested by FOX News and NBC News affiliates. Check it out at http://www.saveongasoline.com/viabruce . Make sure you click on the MOVIES Tab to see the news reports. You can also get paid for sharing this news with others. Use the money that you make to buy a new hybrid car. Got more questions? boatclub@go.com Subject: = save gas
390885
i try to consolidate my errands, and i don't accelerate quickly anymore- it burns up to 1/3 more gas every hundred miles. on a job related level, i'm a server in a restaurant and i can definitely tell you where other people are cutting back!! tips are way below average.
1109609
You know the cost of gas/petrol isn't really made as high as it is by the cost per barrell. The oil companies like Exxon, Esso, Chevron, etc. charge a lot more for their gas then the price per barrell.  If you do some research into it you'll see that the oil companies are making a huge profit on their product. Oil/petrol doesn't have to be as expensive as it is and they can still make a profit.\n\nTo answer your question though, I would say yes:\n\n"To date there has not been an obvious negative impact on the economy because of the price of oil. It is partly for that reason that the Federal Reserve is continuing to raise interest rates to help tame inflation."\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_of_Oil_and_The_Economy\n\nIt's very strange. The cost of oil is raised to huge prices by Exxon, Chevron, etc. which raises interest rates, which hurts the economy. Why?
889362
IMO, I don't think you were wrong. I think it's very nice of you to split the loss the way you did. The fact that they still had a job after this should have made the guy greatful. I mean, even McDonald'sould fire you if your draw comes up $20 or more short. Good grief, if someone does a "gas and go" at your station while your working it comes out of your paycheck..you're a nice boss! I'm not sure if anyone here can tell you what you should do, but I think you were as nice as any employee could have hoped for. Sorry about what happened to you.
363434
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.
433722
Reg; $0.12 to $0.29 from 1921 to 1934\nReg: $0.32 to $0.39 from 1935 to 1940\nReg: $0.41 to $0.52 from 1941 to 1945\nReg: $0.62 to $0.73 From 1946 to 1960\n\nthose are written facts from the dates of years given !\n2005 to 2006 up to date $2.58 to $3.25 by May 15th 2006\nby then end of the year Reg: gas will climb to $3.69 to $3.99 per Gallon and the your wages will stay the same because If you are making less than $10.00 per hour on your job you'll feel the pinch even worse, because you're working less than Mc Donald wages there by then, welcome to poverty !  Thanks President Bush !
802409
Yes dear.  You spent the money.  If you objected to the increase you should have called and had them lower it or not spend the money.
722705
My guess is that the price of gas keeps going up because we are still willing to pay it..  even though we should all just buy bicyles.  Second hand ones can't be more than $100.  Probably not that much.  Anyways, we need the gas so we pay high prices for it.  Sort of like food.  We need it, so we pay whatever the supplier says the price should be.  Here's a thought,  how about all of us who b*tch about the price of gas, go get on welfare so we can afford to buy the gas. Hey it might happen.   Just insist that you are mentally unstable.  Which of course, has to be true because society totally sucks.
817261
Earnings growth is declining, except that is, for the city bankers who are expecting bonus growth this year of 25%.\n\nThe influx of migrants from the Eastern European states is having it"s effect. They are prepared to work for a lower wage and this has a "knock on" effect. They are also prepared to sleep 3/4 to a room in cheap bed & breakfasts.\n\nInflation is at 2.5%, which is 0.5% above the target, so gordon will try to keep wage demands as low as possible.\n\nIt would be nice if, Gas - Electricity - Council Tax,etc. only increased by 2.5%, but no, these charges have gone through the roof.\n\nI read a report about a month ago, that Gas was so plentyful, that the importers were "paying" the distributors to take it off their hands. Did prices come down? Not on your life.\n\nAnyway, back to the subject, I think we should do as other countries are doing, and restrict the number of immigrant to fill only the jobs that are vacant.\n\nYou won"t get a job in America unless it can"t be filled by an American citizen. We should have a similar scheme.\n\nPut the onnus on employers to "prove" that they have tried everything possible to fill the vacancy using the indiginous population.\n\nWages going down, bills going up, more and more people getting into debt. It"s all going to explode soon.
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?
183877
What makes you so sure there is price gouging going on? You pay less for gas than almost every major industrialized nation in the world, but you complain about the price as you pump gas into your guzzling SUV. Sit back and realize how good you have it, because just about every European out there would love the opportunity to buy gas at 2.50 or even 3.00 a gallon ... they would consider it a bargin, not a price gouge.
491113
There is none, if inflation had followed suit with everything else clothes, food, building supplies etc.It would be over 3 dollars a gallon.The problem is people actually give idiots like micheal moore and al fraken credibility, its uncanny!!!!They have both been proven to be liars.One of the biggest reasons gas prices increase is simply speculative theory!! we went to war for humanitarian reasons, those people want us there they were under dictatorship. clinton sent soliders into Bosnia in 98 and knowone had a problem with that, it was for humanitarian reasons or so we thought.The real problem a lot of people have with this is the time its taking but you cant put a time frame on something like this.
482166
If you really want to wow your teacher, look up the standard answer to this question.  It involves the number of hours worked and how much square feet of housing you can afford.  Over the long haul, you seem to get a lot more for your money.\n\nI personally just can't believe it, but all the math says it is very true.  I tend to think that the price of a home has gone up in terms of hours worked over the past few years.  Nobody I know is getting a 20% pay raise every year and they certainly are not spending 20% less in gas.  But interest rates are low, so you would think that would have an effect on the payment.  Ask your math teacher (cite it as an "interview" in your paper) if there is some miracle of finance that reduces your payment in spite of a 20% increase in what you borrow.  The answer is, "NO!"  If the price of a home goes up 20%, your payment will go up 20%, all else being equal.  A good thing to research would be how has a house payment changed over time.  But see, everything else changes too (like the value of a dollar, interest rates, what kind of house you get) so this is actually a very difficult thing to track.\n\nI think for these kinds of papers, though, you want to pick a side of the debate and stick to just that side.
438516
It is ridiculous,  and I am scared about it.  The gas prices drive up the prices of all other products because, the products have to be driven to the stores in trucks run with gasoline.  So, not only do we end up paying more for gas, but for everything else as well.\nNow, I suppose for the upper and probably mid-level middle class this isn't that huge of a deal, but if you are mostly paycheck to paycheck, like my family, this can really hurt.\nOf course the rich get richer....that's just the way it goes.\nAnd what bugs me is that there isn't even a good reason for this gas spike...it is just speculation in the market driving up the price....\nWhere is our president when we need him?  He is NOT here for the majority of citizens in this country.  He has an agenda that goes against helping his own country, and that is pathetic.