CHEAP GAS!

[BillyDoc]

We KILLED for it, so WHERE IS IT?

We turned ourselves into international pariahs for it. We became war criminals for it. Torturers even.

All you Bush voters lurking out there, WHERE THE HELL IS MY CHEAP GAS! I HAVE DAMN WELL PAID FOR IT IN BLOOD, TREASURE, AND HONOR AND I WANT IT!

(Thanks to Dave M. for this idea. I'm going to be asking every right-wing nut case I can find this question.)

[Bluzmann57]

1. Great point!

I've asked myself and others the same question. $2.30/gallon isn't even close to being cheap gas. Alas, the rich get richer and the middle class disappears in the nonstop war on workers. Welcome to DU by the way.

[tubbacheez]

2. You need to be more specific: CHEAP FOR WHOM???

Just because gasoline is expensive for you and me does not automatically imply that it was expensive for everyone in the supply chain.

[BillyDoc]

5. Does this explain

the record profits all the oil companies are making?

[tubbacheez]

8. It well could.

Various economists I've read have guessed that the American public will gripe about gas prices above $2/gallon, and loudly at that, but we will pay whatever price for gasoline up to about $8/gallon before price starts to make significant changes in the American lifestyle.

So what really is there (other than conscience) to prevent oil companies from working us toward $6 or $7 per gallon?



On the cost side, we have no idea how cheap or expensive oil really is for them. Sure, there's a published market rate for a barrel of oil. But who's selling that oil on the market? In Iraq, the 2nd largest oil reserve in the world, the sellers are U.S. companies.

The Iraqi refineries aren't online yet, but the Iraqi oil wells sure are.

[jojo54]

3. yes, we did kill for it

and 1550 + of us died for it.

[pstans]

4. Better look into...

the BFEE's wallets and you will find the money in there.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Not too long ago

Guy James had a guest on his show that was an expert in all the oil/gas field. Basically he was saying it's because of the oil companies that the prices are so high. They're the one's who's setting the standard and everything. Does anybody who listen to Mr. James' show remember the air date of this?

[Speck Tater]

7. In the 1950's a gallon of gas

cost the same as a paperback novel. Today that novel os 6 or 7 bucks and gas is about a third of that.

In the 1950's it took about 5 regular size candy bars to buy a gallaon of gas. Today it takes only 4 of them.

In the 1950's the price of a house would buy 24,000 gallons of gas. Today that same house would buy three times as much gas as that.

Relative to just about everything else in the world, gas is still incredibly cheap. In fact, across the board, measured by average prices and wages, gas now costs about 1/3 of what it cost in the 1950's.

When we hit $6 per gallon the cost of gas will be right back where it was in the 1950's.

[natrat]

9. get it straight-we killed for oil company profits

[unhappycamper]

10. damn, i'm getting old. got my first car in 1961 - it was a 55 chevy

we had gas wars every few months when the price would go from $0.18 to $0.12 per gallon. that makes a difference when you put a whole dollar in the tank.