What can we do about high gas prices???

There is less profit margin on oil/gas than many other industries. Speculation on oil futures contracts, spurred on by concerns over production not being able to meet demand, is what really drives the price up a lot.

Here is another idea...Write your Congressmen and demand they get rid of the tax on gas.

The Federal Goverment makes more money taxing gas (gross), than the oil companies do!

More refineries are needed. 25 years of not building any new ones because of enviro-whacko lawsuits needs to stop.

Open up ANWAR, start drilling off Florida, California, anywhere we think there is oil, lets have at it!

What can you do about high gas prices?

1) Invest in oil companies. Might as well share in the profit.

2) Buy a car that gets good gas mileage. Unless you run a hunting lodge or ski every weekend in the Winter, do you really need that V-8 Expedition in your drive way?

3) Drive less, bike more when and where practical.

Actually production would do a lot to decrease the price. Anytime the gap between production and supply gets really small, people get nervous and oil prices per barrel start to climb

A good way to decrease price of oil/gas is conservation too. A worldwide decrease of 10 percent in consumption would probably yield 20 percent or more price drop.

I'll weigh in on this since I have a family member who works for Exxon. I can tell you the only words that scare oil and gas companies are "solar power". This is the only way to hit the oil companies. And to make you even more upset Exxon ownes a few ideas that can draw power from the sun on cloudy days and process this energy then store for use at night. I can only laugh cause solar power is the only re-newable energy source. Our only hope for free energy.

Everybody can cut back some. I know people that could easily cut back by 50-75%, I know that most people cant cut that much because of work. We could all shop for the cheapest gas and buy from there.

Gas Buddy

If we buy from the cheapest station, the others will have to drop their prices even if it is only a few cents at the time.

First of all, Exxon and Mobil are the same company. Secondly, gas prices are controlled by supply and demand.

Unfortunately, supply is controlled by folks who are at best ambivalent about our nation and when it comes to demand, most of us are willing to dig deeper instead of driving less. We also have to factor in the burgeoning economies of India and China.

Driving less might not put much of a dent in gas prices, but it would limit the money any individual spends on gas, but that's not really what people want to hear.



[edit on 2007/4/26 by GradyPhilpott]

In my opinion I believe 'free energy' will be coming soon and the 'energy companies' are getting the most they can while they can.

I think that people (the vatican, the UN, etc.) talking about ET diplomacy and such means that we might be on the verge of a technology breakthrough.

Just my two Ameros.

[edit on 26-4-2007 by Spoodily]

I thought someone was going to say just use alternative fuels to hurt the oil companies. Of course I doubt the oil companies would even notice too much unless everyone was doing it. The good news is that the higher the price of gasoline goes up, the more economical alternative fuels become.

I checked out a pdf file from last year on alternative fuels. It appears that natural gas and electric vehicles were much cheaper to operate than using regular gasoline. However I believe I read earlier somewhere that electric cars have a very high car cost that may more than offset any savings in gas. Of course this could change. The problem with both alternatives is not being able to resupply the fuel when traveling across the country.
To see the comparisons
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I first found the article reading Popular Mechanics here
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Instead of following chain letters, I suggest saving all you can here and there and save your money to buy a vehicle that can use alternative fuel. I'd make sure to get local politicians or businessmen to support alternative fuel stations as well if they aren't already. The best thing about high gas prices is that they are encouraging alternative fuels via economics.

Tell Europe, China, and other countries to stop buying oil, then demand would be less.

Originally posted by firepilot
There is less profit margin on oil/gas than many other industries. Speculation on oil futures contracts, spurred on by concerns over production not being able to meet demand, is what really drives the price up a lot.

The individual store owners have the small profit-margins, a few pennies a gallon profit. But I think it is fair to say that the oil industry doesn't suffer from less of a profit margin than other industries. After all just last year they were making record profits ... tne company made more PROFIT during one quarter than any other company in the history of the US (including inflation adjustments).

I don't mind paying the $3.40 a gallon I'm currently paying ... if there really is a supply issue or raising costs for the oil industries. But when I'm paying $1.20 extra a gallon and then hear that the companies are making records profit then I rightly feel like there has been some price gouging.

They realize that they can keep inching the price up and we'll continue to pay ... we have no options. Most of America doesn't have adequate public transportation. It takes me 25 minutes to drive to work ... if I wanted to take the bus it would take me 2 1/2 hours each way ... so 50 minutes or 5 hours ... easy choice.

youtube "Water Car"
I found seven different people that run cars on pure water.
You do not need a hydrogen fillup station
they are lying to you all...AND KILLING THE PLANET.
electolosis with high frequency current.
all you need, or ever needed is water.

Originally posted by junglelord
youtube "Water Car"
I found seven different people that run cars on pure water.
You do not need a hydrogen fillup station
they are lying to you all...AND KILLING THE PLANET.
electolosis with high frequency current.
all you need, or ever needed is water.

And electricity. Where do you get the electricity from?

Ultimately, the gas crisis will have to be solved by people like you and me. We cannot rely on oil companies and the politicians on their pay roll to solve the problem. We also cannot rely on other people to shoulder the burden.

To solve the oil problem, *YOU* have to limit your fuel consumption. *YOU* have to drive a smaller, fuel efficient car rather than some gas guzzling SUV or truck. *YOU* have to walk more, and drive less. *YOU* have to use public transportation or ride a bike. Remember, *YOU* are not so precious and so important that *YOU* can drive around in your SUV running your silly little errands chauferring your kids around while the rest of us make the required life style changes.

Unfortunately, these suggestions will fall on deaf ears. The sign of a society in decline is that its members are unwilling to prevent itself from killing itself. We will continue to wastefully consume oil until it kills us.

If everyone wanted to save some money on gas, most people could by simply driving slower and not accelerating or stopping fast unless they needed to. However when doing so, they should be driving in the right lane (here in the US). When a driver does this in the left lane, they are an accident waiting to happen as they cause several impatient drivers behind them to gun their engines trying to get around them at the first possible opportunity.

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want to cut dependence on gas and oil? every person has to cut their own use.

My husband was laid off last month. I have 3 boys, 22, 19, and 9. I work full time. This morning I went grocery shopping and to get gas. Usually for groceries I will spend $180-$225 every other week with a few pick ups during the week. Today I spent over $365 (on the same items I usually buy) and spent $4.17 on gas. I filled the tank half way, to save $$. I came home and could not believe what this world has come too. Please, if anyone has any ideas, I would be happy to get involved w/congress and try and stop this!!! I don't know how people are getting by each day.
Why can't America take the average spent on gas of each state and charge everyone the same??? I truly believe that our government needs to be involved.

The reason they can keep increasing prices is because we have no options available. It's gasoline or bust!


Every one of us needs to put serious thought into what we can do for ourselves to eliminate the need for gasoline to live our lives. Whether you want to convert your car to electric, or if you have a farm you can set up a still and create your own ethanol, or do some research into other fuel types and energy technologies.


The short answer is that the government and the oil companies will NEVER EVER LET GO OF THEIR PROFITS.


For them this is just another step along a road that goes only 1-way.

What if some rich guys got together to sell gasoline to everyone at no more than a dollar?

Of course, they'd lose tremendously, but if word got out about their cheap gasoline - EVERYONE would flock to their place of business.

They'd have to have their own source, though...

Sorry, chain emails won't work. As soon as I see a list of recipients, I delete. As soon as I see a request to forward, I delete. As do most people.

Besides, all Exxon-Mobil has to do is drop their prices a cent or two and it's end game. Once the resistance is broken, they can bring the price right back up. Not to mention their are other products from crude oil, diesel fuel, motor oil, plastic... you're talking about hitting one fraction of the profit market, nowhere near all of it.

The oil companies are reporting record profits because they are selling more fuel than before. The actual profit margin of 8% is dismally low. It's less than what the government gets in federal fuel tax for doing nothing; at least Exxon-Mobil provides a product. Yet the 'gas-tax holiday' proposed by Hillary and McCain will save the average American a grand total of $28 over the course of an entire summer. That's not a whole lot of relief, people.

If you want to 'fix' the problem, then there is a way, but it involves Washington DC. First, tax subsidies to oil companies should be stopped cold, unless the companies involved use American oil to produce American fuel at similar profit levels as they now make. ALL blending subsidies should be stopped immediately, as well as all subsidies that involve the transport of oil or fuel across national boundaries. We must also allow drilling where oil is, places such as the Caribbean coast off Florida, the Pacific coast, ANWAR, and pretty much everywhere else we find usable oil reserves. We also have to finally allow refineries to be built in the USA, without environmental costs that make them unprofitable.

Second, speculation on American fuel supplies mus be stopped completely. This is another bubble, created by people who produce nothing, but who make excessive amounts of money for producing nothing. They have, through collective manipulation of markets, caused the housing bust, the stock market boom (which will bust, make no mistake about that), the gold bubble (which will also burst, just not as bad as stocks), and now the oil bubble. This time, they are damaging national security by causing us to pay double what it should otherwise cost for a gallon of fuel, in a nation where fuel is the major driving force behind the economy. Unrestrained environmentalism has allowed them to succeed so greatly by making it economically impossible to produce fuel in the USA. And our government has done nothing more than try and appease lobbyists by creating a mass of regulations and taxes coupled with credits and exceptions that a NY lawyer would have a hard time figuring out.

And finally, we have to cut governmental spending, now! Our dollar is becoming worth less than the paper it is printed on, because anyone with half a brain cell can see there is no way we can ever repay the debt we have already rung up. When your Senator votes for $100,000 fior a new biking trail, kick him out rather than applauding him. He just drove your gas prices up. $1,000,000 for a road that goes to the middle of a forest so you can drive in it? Same thing, kick him out. $10,000,000 to research the mating habits of the South American tse-tse fly? Send him out with a landslide vote for taking your gas bill up another $0.50 a gallon.

It's simple really - we have destroyed ourselves by worrying about rats and birds and pretty pictures of barren wastelands while allowing personal agendas and politicians and greedy corporate interests to run wild behind the scenes. If you want to live in a cave without lights, running water, or heat, keep on with the status quo, keep listening to those idiots in the MSM. If not, you'd better change your ideas about how the world really works. We're running out of time faster than we're running out of money.

TheRedneck