I'm dazed & confused - WHY do The Evil Oil Companies & The Evil Republicans keep lowering the price of gas?
825130
gas and oil prices are determined by supply and demand on the world market.  Neither oil companies nor republicans control prices. Only thing they could do is build more refineries, which would result in greater supplies of gasoline, which would reduce prices further.  Liberals don't like refineries, because they think they cause pollution  and are beholden to the environmental lobbyists.  Oil companies don't build refineries, because they can't with govt approval and they're making big profits as things are, so there's no incentive to build them.
368718
Some of the prices are artificially inflated. \n\nHowever, gas prices in the US are still lower than in most countries. Go to Germany or England and pay the equivilant we pay per gallon for a liter. \n\nI do think that many of the companies are taking advantage of teh recoupment of defense oil reserves and the war against terror in order to boost their profits.\n\nOn a final note, though, the war in Iraq was not about oil. If it were, we would be getting oil from Iraq. We are not, yet at least. Much of what excess Iraq is producing is going towards paying their reparations to many countries.
304729
The environmentalists and congress are to be blamed. The environmentalists won't let us drill offshore, every time the oil companies try they take them to court, they fight every effort to drill in ANWAR. The stupid republicans don't have the guts to stand up for it. Then we can't build new refineries because some treehugger is worried about a tree slug or some other worthless animal. When oil prices were low it was to expensive for oil companies to invest in new equipment, now that oil prices are up they are starting to re-invest, but it will take time.\n\nOh one other thing is all these stupid blends in this country that is mandated by the government that really don't do anything. Then forcing the oil companies to waste time on ethanol doesn't help either.\n\nWhile some local stations collude on what they are going to charge. (I have been in a gas station when another station has called to ask what they are charging that day).
1129648
no, they have sold their soul to the highest bidder. In California Republicans just paid $5 million to hold on to one seat there.\nRepublicans love SUvs and they love war. They love killing, why would anyone think they love the good Mother earth. Chemicals and  pollution make Republicans lots of money, that is what they love.\nBTW, this is a good Republican, as always they have no facts and their is no truth in what they say. Corporations wrote the energy policy and the prescription drug plan. Corporations donate heavy to Republicans, this is fact, look it up. Corporastions just paid $5 million for one seat in Congress in California, they will get it back from Republicans in payoffs.\nExample "To think that Conservatives are slaves to Corporations is just simply PURE ignorance, or Pure stupidity. I tend to think the 2nd is more and more true."
461013
the gas companies have greedy businessmen behind them milking this for all it's worth.  they are lying to the public, and making record profits!!!  its disgusting.  no one in this government will take a stand on this.  i think that they don't want to bite the hand that feeds them(money)!!!
1062509
Look who's running the country...a bunch of oil freaks.  Everytime the price of oil goes up they are cashing in!  They don't want to come up with alternative fuel sources because there is no money in that for them.
339725
Dems understand supply and demand. But they also understand that most Americans are woefully undereducated and willfully ignorant on economics.\n\nThey also understand that they can demagogue an issue, in confederacy with the main-stream media, to paint a false picture of what is going on. This is so they can regain power. They do not care what they have to say, what they have to do, or who they have to harm to get that power.\n\nSo right now their big evil enemy is the oil industry. Oh my God, they are making record profits! Knowledgeable people know that the oil companies are not gouging, not making evil greedy profits. Most of them don't even get 10% return on sales profit margin.\n\nAs for record profits! or prices! Let's look at other records! People are making record wages! paying record taxes! their homes are at record values! bread and milk are at record prices! \n\nAnd the American public (mostly taught by members of the ultra-leftist teachers unions in public schools) are too ignorant to recognize the truth.\n\nThe GOP has been little better on this subject, especially with the President launching an investigation. He knows better. He needed to speak truth against the lies and puffery, instead of conceding to the false political rhetoric of his enemies.
576765
The gas prices can be helped if the pricks at exxon and all the other fuel manufacture's would lower the price.  They only reported a 50% increase in profit last year.  Yea I say they could do something about it!!!1
388664
Your immature, an idiot, and you are lying.  3 oil companies my ass.  Maybe what you meant is all 3 members of your family all work at the same gas station...big difference you idiot.\n\nIF ANYONE BELIEVES THIS IDIOT, CLICK HIS USERNAMES AND LOOK AT ALL THE RIDICULOUS QUESTIONS HE HAS ALREADY ASKED!  He just goes around and asks stupid question to try an piss people off!
379795
This is just another plan by government to make people more dependent on government.  Why don't they eliminate the $0.50 tax on gas if they were really looking out for the price of gas?\n\nThe goal of this plan is so Senator A and Representative B can say that they were behind a plan to give you $100 even while voting down tax and spending cuts.\n\nAnd people who want a Windfall profits tax don't understand supply and demand.  It is the job of company's to make money and create jobs.  Shell makes 8 cents a gallon the government makes 50 who is the criminal!
420003
You hit the nail on the head.  The Republicans think we are all stupid.  What I find really great is all the ideas the Republicans are coming up with now, the Democrates proposed years ago.  Remember when the Republicans laughed at Jimmy Carter for wanting Americans to conserve and use alternative fuels.  If we listed to Carter and did something about oil back then we wouldn't be in the mess we are now.  We wouldn't be fighting for control of the oil in Iraq and we wouldn't have such a high deficit in our tresuary now.  Republicans are so short sighted and not really too intelligent.  They see money and forget about using any common sense.  They believe the rest of America will get excited over $100 like they would.
553164
Finally someone who gets it. Republican party is the big corporation party. Their constituency is big business at the expense of the rest of us. With the huge profits the oil companies make it seems senseless to pay them subsidies. The man in white house is a Texas man, the big oil state and people wonder why gas prices are rising as they are.
901494
They would rather raise all taxes, not just gas taxes!\n\n\n\n\nThey are for themselves, not the "little people"!
1073078
Its not a Democrat-Republican thing at all..its a "Money-Power-Control" thing..and as such...Republicans-In-Office are more obvious about what it is theyre chasing..and why. This current fiasco were now involved with has one inevitable outcome...that the Bush cronies will be co-owners in a large chunk of Mideast Oil reserves......it was not for nothing that after the Kuwait confluct his father instigated...Daddy Bush went to check his oil platforms [the family owns a few in the gulf there]..so..its your basic "Robber-Baron" mentality..with greed-against-human-life in the forefront..and theyre all getting VERY VERY rich on all of this too.\n\nBush is the sons of an oil man..he is also an oil man...Cheney is an oil man...Condalessa had an oil tanker names after her before she made the White House...so..what do we have here...OIL..OIL..OIL..AND your ALL  paying 3 bucks a gallon right now...so...what is it you think about your own question now??
222036
I can't speak for Pat Robertson but now I'm mad. How do they get to spend only 12 cents a gallon for gas and we pay $2.50 per gallon?
486093
What are you talking about?\n\nGas prices are high because the world (specificly the USA) haven't been researching or building an alternative fuel source infrastructure. Our politicians, both Rep & Dems are bought and paid for by the oil companies, the wealthiest lobby there is.\n\nWhat has that got to do with partisan politics? Have you been asleep?
1165074
Well with the look at gas prices rising every year...   Yeah I know sad..  I would say yes\n\nExxon Mobil  these money grabbing corporation is not going anywhere. Even if we change to a differnt kind of fuel... They will still be using oil... for the next couple of hundered years...\n\nI pray that judgment comes before... that happens..