The U.S. average price for a gallon of regular gasoline topped $4 for the first time, a survey issued today by the travel group AAA showed.
AAA’s survey showed a national average price of $4.005 per gallon, up from $3.67 a month ago and $3.10 a year ago.
Average national gasoline prices had stabilized last week before Thursday and Friday’s spike of U.S. crude oil futures by $16 to a record above $139 a barrel. Friday’s one-day gain of $10.75 for crude oil was the biggest daily gain in history, and Thursday’s gain was the second biggest.
Kinda makes the weekend, doesn’t it?
http://tinyurl.com/6bsqq3
check out the Shell at the bottom… 4.999
[Please use TinyUrl.com for overly long URLs. – ed.]
#22 MS
Thanks for the links.
I have no doubt that climate change is a part of the earth’s natural cycle. However, to date no one has been able to prove that man has the power to destroy the earth, especially with C02.
I myself can’t prove or disprove the theory, but the one thing I can do is observe. What I see is a lot of people selfishly taking advantage of this “crisis” as a way to line their pockets and acquire undeserved power and influence.
I also see the nations economy and freedoms being destroyed over what-if, maybe, and could be. It would be a shame to lose it all over an emotional attachment to a false theory.
The West didn’t learn from the oil crisis in the 70s, so here we are again at the mercy of the oil barons. Will people learn this time? Will we see more people
1) driving hybrid cars?
2) driving electric cars?
3) using manual lawn mowers?
4) using electric lawn mowers?
5) utilize mass transportation?
6) walking instead of driving?
7) biking instead of driving?
>>What I see is a lot of people selfishly taking
>>advantage of this “crisis” as a way to line their
>>pockets
People “selfishly lining their pockets” are the environmentalists?
You’re kidding, right?
I assume that your specialty is proctology, Doc, and you’re practicing “physician, heal thyself”. Your head sure seems to be waaaaaay up your ass.
Let me get this straight. Exxon/Mobile HAS to sell there oil to us (USA) at the open world market price. So we must pay them over $4.00 a gallon. On a news show they said 80% of the cost goes for the oil, 13% for refining, ans 7% goes to profit to the gas station. A tank load of gasoline is now about $40,000 to the gas station.
In Saudi Arabia gas is about 50 cents a gallon. And they still sell there oil to EVERYONE ELSE at market price.
Why do the oil company’s in the US screw us more?
Exxon can sell us the the oil at a fair price and screw other countries.
Exxon should think of all the toner they will save on all the extra 000000’s.
# 34 MM
Touch a nerve there did I Mister Mustard. Been lining the old pockets have we?
>>Touch a nerve there did I Mister Mustard.
>>Been lining the old pockets have we?
Hoo yeah! I’m rolling in dough from taking mass transit and riding my bicycle. Every time I go by a gas station, I think about how I’m laughing all the way to the bank.
Ya really got me there, Doc.
Now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, you weren’t seriously suggesting that environmentalists (rather than oil barons) are the ones profiting off of this debacle, were you? Huh? Were you? Huh?
Here in Toronto, gas runs about $1.34 Cdn per litre. That works out to about $5.20 US per U.S. gallon.
Quit your complaining you wimps.
#38 MM
Actually I was thinking more along the line of politicians. But it’s good to know that you think it’s the environmentalists that are profiting.
>>Actually I was thinking more along the line
>>of politicians.
Why, Doc? Do you think I’m a politician?
>>But it’s good to know that you think it’s
>>the environmentalists that are profiting.
Tee hee! Hardy har har! Titter titter titter! You must be enrolled in Bobbo’s advanced logic seminar. You make absolutely no sense. What’s next, you babbling about “I ben doing him tuna fish sandwichs” and random comments about Mission Miracle and Cuban eye surgery? Sheesh.
#37 Uncle Patso
You make some great points.
It seems we lost the battle soon after politicians invented ways to legally rob the citizens. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel when you can throw a person in jail or financially ruin them if they refuse to pay or complain too much.
#41 MM
You do have a certain style I find quite amusing but no I would not insult you by calling you a politician. I save that only for the sleaziest of creatures.
We need a combination of conservation via higher MPG AND drilling. Just watching CNN, we (as a country) use twenty million barrels a day…..we produce five.
If that isn’t a reason to drill I don’t know what is. But at this point, I will take any answer that doesn’t equate to $4 gas!
#44–Barr==what we need is new technology to get off oil. Conservation and drilling could only delay all the same problems for all the same reasons AFTER polluting the earth.
Find a cure, not a bandaide.
#45 – bobbo
That’s the only viable way out of this mess.
>>I will take any answer that doesn’t
>>equate to $4 gas!
Unless your answer involves mass transit, bikes, and walking shoes, you better get ready for a deafening silence.
Screw $7.50 gas by Christmas; I’ll be we see $7.50 gas long before Labor Day.
The era of the Humpers and the Naggravators is over, I’m afraid.
Congress keeps pulling the big oil execs in a yelling at them for a good photo op. This makes the folks at home happy without them actually doing anything…
Now, with record profits isn’t is about time for congress to remove all of the special programs they put in place to re-direct or money to the oil exec’s pockets??
They won’t because they want the campaign donations and lobby jobs for themselves and their friends and family.
#32 – Dr Dodd,
… to date no one has been able to prove that man has the power to destroy the earth, especially with C02.
And you base this on your reading of a wide variety of peer reviewed publications, I take it? Do you happen to have a link to one or two peer reviewed articles suggesting that our GHGs are not in fact causing global warming?
I myself can’t prove or disprove the theory, but the one thing I can do is observe. What I see is a lot of people selfishly taking advantage of this “crisis” as a way to line their pockets and acquire undeserved power and influence.
I’m sorry, do you see ExxonMobil as a bunch of environmentalists? Who are these incredibly wealthy environmentalist corporate executives of whom you speak? I can’t name one.
I also see the nations economy and freedoms being destroyed over what-if, maybe, and could be. It would be a shame to lose it all over an emotional attachment to a false theory.
Actually, renewable energy often creates whole new economies and gives far more to local organizations and corporations rather than to corporate giants. There’s lots of money to be made in renewable energy. So, what economy do you see being destroyed? Whom do you see losing freedom? Care to cite a source or two?
Here’s an article new to me that happens to be about revitalizing the economy of Houston through renewable energy.
http://tinyurl.com/6yjgz8
on Vancouver Island it’s 1.40 a litre, which is 5.30 for a US gallon. And we are net exporters of oil. Of course we pay higher taxes than Americans do. Get ready for 5.30 gas too.
You want to own a Hummer? If it gets 10 mpg it will cost you 53 cents a mile to drive here….
#40 – Dr Dodd,
Actually I was thinking more along the line of politicians. But it’s good to know that you think it’s the environmentalists that are profiting.
Wow Dr. Dodd, you really fail to know how to make a point or understand what someone else is saying.
I’d like it if you could list for me that subset of Fortune 500 corporations that are making their fortunes through environmentalism. Then, list for me the world’s billionaires that made their money on environmentalism.
If we are to survive, these lists will have to become real. However, right now, I think you’ll find that the number is zero.
#42 – Dr Dodd,
It seems we lost the battle soon after politicians invented ways to legally rob the citizens. It’s like shooting fish in a barrel when you can throw a person in jail or financially ruin them if they refuse to pay or complain too much.
Unfortunately, we seem to be completely unable to do the same to the corporations you love so much. ExxonMobil has not yet paid dime one of the five billion dollars that the court ordered them to pay 19 years ago for the clean up of Valdez. Nor has Valdez been cleaned up yet. Turn over a rock in the area to smell a gas station.
http://tinyurl.com/39j9rz
#45 – bobbo,
Actually, we definitely need clean energy and lots of it. However, given where we are today, we can get a tremendous amount of much cheaper “energy” simply by conservation than we can by renewable energy.
In fact, if you compare the cost of technologies that save energy or even just behavioral changes like not leaving one’s TV on 24×7 or simple power strips to really turn off appliances like stereos, TVs, etc instead of having them suck power just sitting there waiting for you to hit the power button. It’s called vampire power and is 5% of the power on the grid today.
So, new renewable energy sources are great and far more cost effective than fossil fuels when externalities are included in the equation. However, you’ll never find a power source more efficient than just using less power in the first place.
Try things like heating to 68 degrees in winter and cooling to 78 degrees in summer, instead of the other way around as many people and most offices do.
#44 – Robert Barr,
I don’t see watching CNN as worth destroying the ANWR. Nor will it help us in the long term since our SUVs will burn the entire ANWR’s worth of oil in a year.
>>Try things like heating to 68 degrees in
>>winter and cooling to 78 degrees in summer
How about wearing a cardigan sweater in the winter? I think that, 100 years from now, history will recognize that Jimmy Carter was a much better president than the gainsayers give him credit for being.
The guy did some darned good stuff.
High gas prices may be a good thing. But didn’t the Bush family pick up some privatized pipelines for pennies on the dollar in the 1990s? And isn’t what the pipeline companies are paid, tied in some way (and I’m talking a direct relationship, not an inverse one) to the price at the end of the pipe? I just repeated what a bright guy told me today.
The Bush – Bin Laden connection makes sense, and GW (or his puppeteers) are way smarter than you thought. They’re laughing all the way to the bank.
Fools!, There has been a plan ALL ALONG to foil Peak Oil! Installing coal burning steam engines in all those Hummers and SUV’s! That’s why they were so BIG! It’s to allow room for the boiler and firebox when you do the conversion! American Ingenuity at work I tell ya!
#52–Scott==to expound on the obvious, let me continue: I did not say conservation was not a good thing, it is. It is just not a solution and as I posted, conservation of oil while staying on oil, only delays all the same problems for all the same reasons.
I’m encouraging a “paradigm shift” for those that think drilling in ANWR or anywhere else is any real answer at all===it isn’t.
Delaying death from oil by a few months or even years is still death from oil. If we had a moon shot for energy independence it would be with renewables==not with deep drilling techniques or “new sources” of oil. Looking for that only gives the atavists a further excuse to flap their nonsense.
This whole run up on gas prices smacks of dejavu of the California electricity crises of 2001. Remember when Enron artificially restricted supplies to California in order to jack up the price?
This smacks of the exact same thing. There is no real reason for the rapid run up in price except for speculation and market manipulation. True, there are some large scale factors at play, primarily the falling US dollar and the increase of demand from other nations. But our demand has dropped. And the high prices are also reducing demand in other countries too.
Well, this sure feels like the same thing again.
<The Democrats had the solution two years ago:
Monday, April 24, 2006
Washington, D.C. – House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Bush’s, Speaker Hastert’s, and the Republican Congress’ empty rhetoric on gas prices. Key facts on the Majority’s failure to address gas prices follows Pelosi’s statement.
“With record gas prices, record CEO pay packages, and record oil company profits, Speaker Hastert and the Majority Congress continue to give the American people empty rhetoric rather than join Democrats who are working to lower gas prices now.
“Democrats have a commonsense plan to help bring down skyrocketing gas prices by cracking down on price gouging, rolling back the billions of dollars in taxpayer subsidies, tax breaks and royalty relief given to big oil and gas companies, and increasing production of alternative fuels.”
Hey Nancy, the price of gasoline has increased 60% since you made your boast. So where is your “commonsense plan” to reduce gas prices.
#54 – Mister Mustard,
How about wearing a cardigan sweater in the winter?
I prefer wearing old soda bottles personally (polartec fleece). I agree though. In my apartment, we disconnected the wire to the fan in the heater. For some stupid reason, the building heater/air conditioning units in most Manhattan apartments do not work by convection, but instead have a fan.
The hot water circulates through the unit regardless of the fan. Disconnect the fan, save power. It doesn’t heat the apartment quite as well. On really cold days, it probably only gets us to 64 or so. Hence, fleece, which we have anyway. We’re still comfortable, just a bit bundled up.
I don’t tend to recommend that on the web because wackos that get their environmental
propagandainformation from ExxonMobil press releases will tend to think that I’m a nut job who thinks everyone must shiver in dark homes in winter and sweat to death in summer.Instead, what we really need is incremental change, not radical change on the part of most people. A simple change of mind set away from the ideology of consumerism would be huge. And, we’d have better quality of life for not being stuck on the must-make-more-money-to-buy-more-stuff-that-will-end-up-as-landfill-in-my-closets treadmill.