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Post by Venom65437 on Sept 19, 2006 17:05:20 GMT
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Post by Ubereil on Sept 19, 2006 17:36:10 GMT
Geeze, it's one of the whorst kept secrets there is that we'll run out of oil pretty soon if we don't do anything, and prices DROP? Yeah, that's the answer!
Übereil
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Post by Venom65437 on Sept 19, 2006 17:42:55 GMT
Well, we really should be doing a lot of work on alternative energy sources.... and it didn't say it would get that low, just that it could. Oil companies have made money hand over fist, we deserve a break from all the price gouging....
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Post by peterh on Sept 19, 2006 18:11:55 GMT
I'll blow you some gas for free
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Post by Alrik on Sept 19, 2006 18:39:55 GMT
What's so exciting about this ? We here in Germany are currently paying around 1.30 Euros per Liter gasoline (what we simply call "Benzin") !
And every year around Eastern they raise the prices because of the many, many Germans that want to go out on a short trip for a few days !
Currently, energy companies get millions or even billions of profits ans STILL raise the prices !
Insurance companies also gain Millions and even Billions of profits and STILL fire employees !
So, with having that in mind, I'm not at all surpriosed about that article.
Capitalism has conquered it all. An author of an article even called that "economical fascism".
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Post by Tsel on Sept 19, 2006 18:56:15 GMT
The following comments are from the best I can remember. The numbers are not exact. In the States, California specifically, when Ford was our president in the early 1970’s, gas was only .43 cents a gallon. Carter became president then this whole all-to-do BS on gas happened and it jumped as high as $1.78 per gallon. When the fuel BS finally quit the price dropped down to .65 cents per gallon. Then from the early 1980’s to 2001 gas finally reached $1.35 a gallon. Then from 2001 to 2006 gas is now $3.07 a gallon. Talk about some serious BS going on. From 1980 to 2001 - .65 cents per gallon to $1.35 per gallon That is a .70 cents increase in 21 years. Then from 2001 $1.35 per gallon to $3.07 per gallon That is a $2.72 dollar increase in 5 frikkin years!!!! Yeah, they’re bending us over alright.
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Post by Ubereil on Sept 19, 2006 19:02:21 GMT
And they STILL havn't made a proper try on going over to BIO-ethanol (or something). We gotta change sometimes, so we better do it while we still can do it smoothlly.
Übereil
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Post by Galadriel on Sept 19, 2006 19:03:31 GMT
I'll blow you some gas for free As usual, Pete offers his kind help and no one even cares about it ... But Pete, if you don't mind, go blow that outside will you? It's getting kinda smelly in here... ;D
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Post by peterh on Sept 19, 2006 19:05:34 GMT
I'll blow you some gas for free As usual, Pete offers his kind help and no one even cares about it ... But Pete, if you don't mind, go blow that outside will you? It's getting kinda smelly in here... ;DIt's getting smelly because Venom forgot to flush the toilet after that egg eat-a-thon ;D
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Post by Venom65437 on Sept 20, 2006 1:43:02 GMT
<~~~~~ Doesn't poop.
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Post by philster on Sept 20, 2006 3:39:33 GMT
Yeah, prices are starting to drop around here - I think gas prices are actually the lowest here out of any state in the US right now. I know my wallet wasn't complaining much at all.
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Post by Venom65437 on Sept 20, 2006 4:19:58 GMT
Gas keeps going down where I live about every other day. I plan to push my car into the gas station if this trend keeps up.
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Post by Alrik on Sept 20, 2006 20:47:21 GMT
I often see pictures of massive roads in the US.
Don't they have bicycle ways there ?
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Post by Venom65437 on Sept 20, 2006 20:56:58 GMT
Yes Alrik, but a lot of places are way too far apart to even consider biking too, especially with all the nuts driving the U.S. if things were in biking distance for me, I'd get one.
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Post by Alrik on Sept 20, 2006 21:22:32 GMT
Okay, I see.
I'm used to go by bike about 5 Kilometres into the main town, that's no problem, for m,e, especially since we have quite well built bicycle ways (I had almost said "roads"). Not as good as in de Nederlande, but sometimes almost (varying very strongly from town to town; one of the best towns in that respect is the university town of Münster).
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Post by Galadriel on Sept 21, 2006 15:26:24 GMT
I'm used to go biking for 40 to 50 km these days, no sweat at all. Lucky we ahve nice bike roads here in Belgium, no wonder we invented the bike races ;D
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Post by Tsel on Sept 21, 2006 15:35:11 GMT
I often see pictures of massive roads in the US. Don't they have bicycle ways there ? Not many bike paths and the bike paths that are here are mainly in the Cities. Traffic is typically very bad in the States hence those big wide roads you've seen. Picture this: 6 lanes of Highway on both sides. 6 on the left and 6 more on the right. Now picture 30 miles of those lanes bumper to bumper stop and go traffic. The traffic being, Cars, Trucks, Motor homes, and Motorcycles. That’s what the I-5 is like every single day in San Diego, California. There’s no way they could safely have a Bicycle lane on that Freeway / Highway. Most of our Highways are like that.
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Post by Glance A'Lot on Sept 26, 2006 8:15:20 GMT
My late father used to determine which mode of travel to use by a good ol'American tradition (as he called it ): If it's longer than your car - drive! {Of course, when I was young, American cars were very long - by European standards - Imagine little Glance, a five year old, skinny (those were the times!) boy running around daddy's big, black, '59 DeSoto - it was an exhausting trip, as was climbing on its roof and sliding down the trunk - that hurt my rear end though, not the sliding, but the parental consequences of it.}
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Post by janggut on Sept 26, 2006 9:28:12 GMT
*imagines Glance as a five year old, skinny boy playing around his daddy's intercontinental*
funny how that one conjures up a memory of mine being a skinny boy of age below 12. my dad used to own an Opel Kaddet (65 or 67? can't recall?). i always imagined it as the Batmobile (reminiscent of that 60's Batman show ;D).
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Post by Lews on Oct 2, 2006 5:40:07 GMT
Won't happen. Oil Companies will keep taking the huge ammounts of money. people obviously pay for it, so why not?
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