Is anyone else getting angry about gas prices?

for higher crude prices.

I cut out driving beyond my commute when prices got to $1.23. Do much more shopping research on the net and group errands to save gas. My car sits at least one day per week and goes nowhere. I bought a gas sipper for commuting and try to drive it as intelligently as possible. Recycle, instituted a plastic saving measure at my workplace (saved the company about $32K per year on plastic trash bags).

I am angry about them and doing what I can do.

more if this gets any worse.

They may associate increases with events but that's just bullshit. It's a conscious choice they make to get away with gouging us for as much as they can. If they actually raised prices because of need (to cover rising expenses), then their profits would have remained steady over the years. But instead, their profits have sky-rocketed at the same time they squeal about having to raise prices.

These reports are bullshit, pure and simple.

They have all sorts of reasons why prices go up but when these issues resolve, why doesn't it go back down?

Oil company profits are the major reason the economy tanked, above all other reasons. High gas prices mean everything costs more.

Drop gas back to under $2 and watch our economy boom. It would put extra cash in everyone's pockets and increase company profits indiscriminately across the board.

You will also watch people rush back out to buy more gas-guzzling trucks and SUVs, drive far more than they need to, and use public transportation less. Congestion and greenhouse gas emissions go up, and oil reserves drop faster. Lower gas prices are not all gravy.

It is a poorly constructed conspiracy theory; nothing more.

hit 14,000. They live in a convoluted lifestyle with little interaction with the real world. Putting energy/ oil into speculation over the Enron debacle way back in Bush years is one of the real reasons for the inflated price of oil. I'm not sure if its a good thing food and energy is good to speculate on in these times. If u let Wall St gamble over everyday needs, then the rest of the work suffers when they speculate high and the market goes high with a payday. If Wall St could gamble on sports teams, the boys wouldn't hop on a private jet to go gamble and golf in the desert in Nevada.

honestly? Gasoline prices should be higher. Americans pay the lowest price for fuel of any developed country as it is. It should probably be around $5 a gallon with the increase coming from taxes that fund sustainable development and oil alternatives.

Once in a while, a spark of sanity makes an appearance. Thank you, Spider Jerusalem! Five-dollar-a-gallon gasoline would force folks to consider hybrids, electrics, lower speed limits, drive planning and other measures of conservation. And the attendant tax revenue would be a boon to job creation in the alternative fuel industry. Here in Texas, the moronic legislature INCREASED the speed limit on the Interstate highways.

We're sucking this planet dry like it's a Slurpee at a 7/11 and dumping the shit left over into the water and air all around us. We're literally changing the climate of an entire planet.

Am I pissed gas prices are going up? Nope, it's to be expected. Anyone who's been paying attention for the past decade should have figured out that you can't expect to maintain infinite growth when your economy is built upon finite resources.