If You Drive - Read This!

The price of gas isn't bothering me much, since the price of gas started going up, I don't really go anywhere. The price of kerosene is bothering me. I haven't checked lately, but I know it's over three dollars a gallon. I burn roughly about 500 gallons every winter. If my tank was inside the house, I could burn fuel oil, it's a little cheaper. When the temp goes below 20 degrees F, fuel oil gels. Plus I'd have to change the nozzle on my furnace if I were to switch to fuel oil. I wish I could find an alternative to burning fossil fuels to heat my home. Using electricity to heat the place is more expensive than oil. The price of oil went down today. One can only hope.

Ok...then I want names. Names of the individuals who investigate "Price Gouging", and names of firms who violated these laws and got caught. If there has never been any firms or entities caught in the act, then get 'rid of all the people who work there and claw back their wages for deriliction of duties or malfeasance! NAMES are essential if we want to TRY and hold them accountable. Lets expose these crooks in time for election.

You guys probably don't want to hear this, but the main reason prices are going up is because we're just now entering the second wave of cheap peak oil. The first round came from 2005-2008. We're nearly a decade into the "bumpy plateau" before things get really bad. The government will blame it on anything (like Katrina) to keep off the real issue, because if the average person could wrap his head around what's coming, it would instantly collapse the world economies from panic/speculation.

To give you a glimpse of the power behind the cheap peak oil waves, just recall that what broke the taxpayers in the end wasn't only a combination of malpractice and unethical policies in the financial departments, but this was exasperated by the rising energy crisis. The spending spree gave rise to high energy demands, which made prices skyrocket in the face of stagnated supplies. The idealistic infinite growth paradigm model began to crush in the light of realistic finite resource expansion.

rising demand + weak growth in supplies = rising prices

rising prices + troublesome economic policies = recession

recession = lowered demand = lower prices

time plays through ... repeat the cycle

So now the economy has ever so slightly recovered here in the U.S. , and other developing countries like India and China are increasing their energy demands. Remember, over 1/3 people to walk this earth do so in one of those two countries.. So we're about to go through another wave.

This is why alternative energy is being so heavily funded in the last few years again. Algae oil was researched decades ago, but it lost financial backing for further development because the energy crisis of the early 70's was settled out, prices fell ... making algae oil unprofitable with the then current tech. Algae oil is the thing to invest in. Find the best company that's about to go into mass production, and dump some funds into it. You'll be rich within the decade.

Here n Canada, i find it ironic that we are paying 1,10, to 135 for a liter of regulat gas...that amounts to 5.00 $ canadian per gallon. imp.
This is still 4.00 for an american gallon with our $ at near par.
How can we export gas to you guys for less than what we pay at the pump, and still cover the shipping?
It goes to show that the price is all the traffic will bear and it varies with the areas economics...
gas is more expensive in Vancouver where the bulk of the vehicles are, and cheaper in the hinterlands where the economies are suffering.
this is with added trucking prices too!
It is decided in some office somewhere by some comprehensive formula based on the total economic picture, just how much the fuel suppliers can gouge the people for fuel before the system calves...they then adjust prices accordingly IMHO.
Why else can the disparities be explained?
Sell gas cheaper where the market is farther from production and smaller than whats closer?
how do they do that?

wow $3.00 a gallon thats amazingly cheap lol
Where i am...the UK its gone back up to £1.23 a LITRE...so about £5.58 ($8.80) a gallon

i dont think its even neccessary to open an economics text to explain this. GREED pretty much does it. all the supply v demand talk is just there to hide the fact that the reason gas is $3 instead of $2 is... because $3 is MORE than $2. if you can fix prices however you want and your customer is helpless and is basically forced to afford whatever price you decide you want, all thats left to do is camoflage your greed somehow so you dont look like a bad guy. youre telling me that when gas jumps a quarter the thursday before any big holiday travel weekend its because of the Saudis or OPEC? please. so transparent. if they could somehow charge you for the air you breathe, you would see the exact same 'market conditions' and the exact same price gouging. we should be on our knees thanking Exxon its not $5 a gallon...yet.

sigh if you REALLY want to know why fuel is so expensive in europe - look at the fuel duty simples