Gasoline prices pose problems for Obama

I find it interesting that americans are more bothered by fuel prices than federal debt. The federal debt is 50 000 per head or 200 000 for a family of four. No one could possibly spend that much on fuel.

Americans really need to get out of their giant trucks. People in Europe think you are compensating for something. In Europe penis and truck size are negatively correlated. I haven't been in a car for weeks, about 10% of my friends on cars. We don't suffer from it one bit.
 
Gas is a commodity on the stock market. While the government does tax it, it is the investors that control the price.

@ Cutlass

There is plenty of oil here. The reason we do not refine our own gas, is related to cost/effeciency. The market for the most part keeps it around 85 to 95 dollars a barrel. This is just under the cost if we do it ourselves. If the market keeps it at $110+ dollars consistently, then it would allow us to refine our own oil since we could then do it cheaper. If anything the government needs to step in and get the oil companies involved in the Gulf crises to speed up the repayment of the people effected to get that money back into the economy since said companies are now seeing increased profits.

@al

The majority of americans with said luxury vehicles have the money to "blow" and it rarely effects them. Cost of food rises. Public transportation is effected. People who rely on gas for their jobs do not pay their mortgages...... The biggest problem is that Americans have "trusted" credit for so long including the guberment, that now the credit is gone, they are feeling the pinch.
 
Nationalize the oil industry.
There's your control.
Wouldn't that mean the CIA would then have to try to overthrow the US government and install a puppet dictatorship after trying to assassinate Obama and his key advisors? Or does that just apply to democratically-elected foreign governments?
 
It's quite typical of ignorant people to apply all of their problems in life to someone else despite the fact they may have had nothing to do with it.

Basically anything that goes wrong in the U.S, whoever is president at the time will take the blame even if he had nothing to do with it through his policies or inaction.
 
Wouldn't that mean the CIA would then have to try to overthrow the US government and install a puppet dictatorship after trying to assassinate Obama and his key advisors? Or does that just apply to democratically-elected foreign governments?

What makes you think they didn't already do that ?:mischief:
Just compare campaign Obama and President Obama and it's a distinct possibility that President Obama is a clone or a robot.
 
Gas is a commodity on the stock market. While the government does tax it, it is the investors that control the price.

@ Cutlass

There is plenty of oil here. The reason we do not refine our own gas, is related to cost/effeciency. The market for the most part keeps it around 85 to 95 dollars a barrel. This is just under the cost if we do it ourselves. If the market keeps it at $110+ dollars consistently, then it would allow us to refine our own oil since we could then do it cheaper. If anything the government needs to step in and get the oil companies involved in the Gulf crises to speed up the repayment of the people effected to get that money back into the economy since said companies are now seeing increased profits.

@al

The majority of americans with said luxury vehicles have the money to "blow" and it rarely effects them. Cost of food rises. Public transportation is effected. People who rely on gas for their jobs do not pay their mortgages...... The biggest problem is that Americans have "trusted" credit for so long including the guberment, that now the credit is gone, they are feeling the pinch.


I'm not following your argument. Most oil is refined nationally or regionally to where it is used. It is too expensive to do otherwise. While refining capacity is something of an issue, that does not address the fact that we could not, in the US, produce as much raw crude as we use. There just isn't that much in existence.
 
There is plenty of oil here. The reason we do not refine our own gas, is related to cost/effeciency. The market for the most part keeps it around 85 to 95 dollars a barrel. This is just under the cost if we do it ourselves. If the market keeps it at $110+ dollars consistently, then it would allow us to refine our own oil since we could then do it cheaper. If anything the government needs to step in and get the oil companies involved in the Gulf crises to speed up the repayment of the people effected to get that money back into the economy since said companies are now seeing increased profits.
Solution about relying on a finite ressource : drill more so that it's exhausted sooner !

Well, yes, I can see it totally working in the long term.
 
Necessary? :confused:
Yes, necessary. They need to commute to work to be able to make the money needed to live and pay for the fuel needed for that commute, you know.
 
People don't like paying taxes either, you know. Liking something really has nothing to do with it.
 
People don't like paying taxes either, you know. Liking something really has nothing to do with it.
The problem is that people are barely making ends meet as it is. Now take away even more? People just won't be able to sustain it.
 
I would recommend bicycles and public buses if cars are unaffordable. If there isn't a proper public transport system, the state ought to implement one.

Salus populi est suprema lex. "The good of the people is the supreme law."
 
If there isn't a proper public transport system, the state ought to implement one.

Salus populi est suprema lex. "The good of the people is the supreme law."

b-b-b=but that's soshalizzim!
 
Once said by the known socialist and Communist sympathiser, Marcus Tullius Cicero. He was reportedly a friend of Karl Marx too.
 
I would recommend bicycles and public buses if cars are unaffordable. If there isn't a proper public transport system, the state ought to implement one.

Salus populi est suprema lex. "The good of the people is the supreme law."

b-b-b=but that's soshalizzim!

It is probably unpractical and limits peoples freedom of choice also.
 
Public transport is impractical? Frankly, if you don't have the money to run a car yourself, you have to live with walking, (ab)using friends and using public transport.
 
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