MAD as h ell

In 1955 I could buy a gallon of gas for .259 (25.9 cents per gallon) and a hamburger for .15.

Today, that hamburger is $2.50. Gas at that ratio would be (hang on to your skivvies) $4.25 per gallon.

Geez it's quiet!!!!! !!!!! !!!!! !!!!!

Just calling a spade a spade.

txblu

They just want a place to rant and this is it. The problem is that we (they) aren't used to fuel being this high as it has pretty much remained constant in price while everything else has gone up. Had it kept pace I doubt that anyone would have said anything.

What they may have overlooked is the fact that the contents of that $2.50 hamburger CAME FROM THE FARM. (They'll come back with.....well the farmer didn't get any....and on and on.)

Mark

Part of the reason for that is you can get fresh strawberries to Toronto from California in 3 days on a truck.

Supply and demand is working. The result you see is what happens when the tree huggers and Greenpeace Groupies keep us from building refineries or going after what oil we have under our control. It is also working on the world scale as China's purchases on the world market have increased 30% in the last 14 months and I doubt that once they get used to using, they will stop buying to let us buy it instead.

My power company will buy self generated power whether from solar panels or windmill. However, czarist government codes will not let me put up a windmill and I have a wonderful place for one. No one can put up such a thing if the neighbor, who is most likely a new move in from california, can see it. They just wouldn't be able to handle the strain.

And, In my little town of about 30,000 in the area, it seems like everyone who works downtown(south) lives in the north and the people who live in the south part work in the north. Last winter in the Phoenix valley they had a broken gas line. Then it was understood that this one city uses about 8 million gallons of gasoline a day!!! I alway marvel and wonder, "where are all these people going?".

I think the gas pumps should go back to the old style that you had to pump the gas up into the glass tank and then let it drain into your vehicle. That way, people would understand what 20 gallons is. I don't think 90% of the people have any idea what the volume is that passes through the fuel hose into their vehicles cause they never see it.

I think it's wonderful to live in a country where a 95 pound blonde can own and drive a 4 wheel drive, 4 door long bed with a 250 HP diesel on 32 inch tires and a lift kit, and on the weekends she and her husband can hook onto their 30 foot speedboat with two 454 chev outboards and 300 gallon fuel capacity and drive 300 miles to the lake and in two days burn off that 300 gallon of boat gas and then go home.

Just some thoughts.

Besides, just who do you think you're helping? The small farmer? Wrong. Most mass corn producers today are huge agri-businesses no better or worse than big oil/gas companies.

You think hydrogen is explosive? Just what do you think is in your car now? Water? Think of the Pinto and the GM pickups. Blowing smoke in a fit of passion is ok to the uneducated but you obviously have a computer. Do some research.

--->Paul

Want a shock, look at the price of a gallon of bottled water or the cost of a gallon of premium ice cream.

Around here the price of gas can go up 20 or more cents per gallon in one day, because a pipe broke 10 minutes ago!! How can a pipe breaking today make the gas go up 20 or 30 cents "a gallon" when THAT gas was already delivered to the station????? ? Doesn't it make sense that the gas AFTER the break would be the higher priced gas IF IT SHOULD GO UP AT ALL!!!!

That's just plain crooked, and only "one" of the many crooked things that they do!!

Robert

Perhaps if we all contacted our governmental representatives, we could get them to outlaw all those darned American made vehicles.

Maybe we could even go so far as to outlaw the big three auto makers. Yeah, that ought to do it.

The hi ways and by-ways of this land were most certainly designed for only our cheap, foreign-made, imported units.

Yep, you're right, it just seems like the right thing to do.

Allan

I have an American made Chevy that gets over 25 mpg all the time, i don't drive the HD pu unless i need to.

Robert

Allan

Ryan

7 out of 10 wells came up dry or in existing veins and of the 3 that hit, 2 had too much sulfer to clean up and sell at the current price so they were capped.

The only thing that saved us then was the Alaska hit.

We've had 30 years warning at least and I am as guilty as anyone about doing nothing.

Cannot blame the Arabs - they are only doing what US companies would do in the same situation.

Jerry

As for gas prices in eroupe, take all the TAX those folks pay on there fuel off, and what's left is a price for gas similar to us!!

Many countries are paying 2/3's of there fuel price in added tax to the fuel!

Robert