Comments on: Five Dollars A Gallon

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:46:18 +0000

Newt can forget about the $2.50/gallon. The price won’t fall below $3.50 unless we go socialist and nationalize the refineries. The oil conglomerates like that price point, and will adjust to keep it there. With Britain over $8/gallon, they are going to export, not keep it in the US. It’s a global market.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 17:45:06 +0000

Yes, Bryan, an “accident”. Just like the “accident” where most of California’s power plants shut down for “maintenance” at the time of the rolling blackouts, nothing to do with using that as an excuse to hike electricity rates by 500%, nosiree…

– Badtux the WASF Penguin

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 05:47:42 +0000

I understand that there was an accident at the refinery that supplies most of California’s fuel, so your prices spiked early.

Hugo Chavez [Citgo] sells it to me for $3.59/gallon this week, which is a nickel more than last week.

By: cookie jill

cookie jill — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:19:05 +0000

We’re paying over $4.00 a gallon here in Santa Barbara, home of the 1969 oil spill.

By: Bryan

Bryan — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:15:23 +0000

You will be paying 5.1245/gallon, of course that’s £5.1245 which $8.0336/gallon. OTOH,, you get public transportation with the heavy taxes, while we ‘bridges to nowhere’. Since I rarely drove when I was in Europe, as it wasn’t really necessary, I didn’t worry about the petrol prices. In the US you need a car outside of a few urban areas. In addition to the price of gas, you have all of the costs associated with vehicle ownership, and there is no alternative in most areas.

Yeah, OWL, they have been changing the price every other day around here, but it hasn’t gone below $3.50 a gallon in months. If the refiners can get almost 50% more in Europe, they will sell to Europe.

By: oldwhitelady

oldwhitelady — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 00:41:53 +0000

Geez, that is annoying! The gas stations around here couldn’t make up their mind, and kept lowering then upping the price of gas. Finally, they upped it and are leaving it there. I would really like to see it lowered again. I guess we all would…except the people making the bucks off it.

By: jams o donnell

jams o donnell — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 21:38:49 +0000

I wold love $5 a gallon petrol!