$2.50/gal gas in LA

[FR Wilk]

[SoCal Driver]

fifty cents is going to mid west corn growers for the usless ethonal additive.

[ronin]

time to tap Alaska!

[Buddy]

Yes, and us midwest corn growers sure thank you alot. We just LIVE to take advantage of left coast people.

Would you like a little cheese with that whine?

[UconnTim97]

Wow, and I was complaining about $1.65 over here...

[Porsche-O-Phile]

I guess we need to go invade Iran next, huh?

[jts924s]

Originally posted by SoCal Driver
fifty cents is going to mid west corn growers for the usless ethonal additive.

We have the useless ethanol additive and our prices run around $1.60! Maybe the Governator has slipped in a little budget-balancer without telling anyone.

[jts924s]

Originally posted by ronin
time to tap Alaska!

Won't bring the price down. Domestic production costs averages around $10 a barrel, with Alaska being on the high end. Production from ANWR will cost much more. Saudi production is estimated to cost them around 80 cents a barrel. They can profit in any market, where domestic production only makes economic sense when the price per barrel is high. May as well drain their resources first.

[SoCal Driver]

Originally posted by jts924s
We have the useless ethanol additive and our prices run around $1.60! Maybe the Governator has slipped in a little budget-balancer without telling anyone.

They are talking about increasing the state gasoline excise tax.

Things here are really going to get tense when the $18 billion bond bail out is defeated at the polls come March.

[SoCal Driver]

Originally posted by Buddy
Yes, and us midwest corn growers sure thank you alot. We just LIVE to take advantage of left coast people.

Would you like a little cheese with that whine?

Not only left coast but many states across the US too. Ethanol is another corporate welfare scam fostered by envira-whackos and ADM.

Brie please!

So how do you steer a bull?

[ronin]

Originally posted by jts924s
Won't bring the price down. Domestic production costs averages around $10 a barrel, with Alaska being on the high end. Production from ANWR will cost much more. Saudi production is estimated to cost them around 80 cents a barrel. They can profit in any market, where domestic production only makes economic sense when the price per barrel is high. May as well drain their resources first.

o.k. then whatsay we disband OPEC and make the oil industry truly free-market

[MikeCT]

I say get used to the rising prices. Oil is a non-renewable resource. The price is always going to go up.

[SoCal Driver]

Originally posted by MikeCT
I say get used to the rising prices. Oil is a non-renewable resource. The price is always going to go up.

Not necessarily. Geologists are finding that old capped off wells are "refilling". Seems that a lot of what constitutes oil is primal methane from the formation of the solar system. This was captured when the earth formed and is constantly creeping toward the surface.

[ronin]

Originally posted by FR Wilk
Good idea Ronin. Take a shovel and drive north. Then take a left to Alaska. We'll be up there later to help, trust us.

oh really? and let you reap the benefits after I already did all the hard work?? get your own shovel!

[ronin]

LMAO

[serge944]

i paid 2.25 for 91 octane at shell this weekend

gas prices are insane.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Maybe there's still some natural creation of fossil fuels going on but no chance the rate even remotely approaches that of human consumption. No way. Negligible, if at all. Doesn't make any logical sense. Besides, the oil companies would have made that argument long ago if this were true (or probably even if it isn't and they thought the public was stupid enough to buy it).

[serge944]

whats the 0-60?

[Gordon Rankin]

I understand that 6 of the 11 refineries that supply the west are currently out of commission for unknown reasons??? Also the costs of shipping fuel on the ships are costing the oil companies 4 times what they did two years ago.. What doesnt make sense is the oil companies provide their own ships and charge the parent company for shipping?? So they charge themselves more now that before..Sure makes a lot of sense..Sounds like Enron..

[MikeCT]

Originally posted by SoCal Driver
Not necessarily. Geologists are finding that old capped off wells are "refilling". Seems that a lot of what constitutes oil is primal methane from the formation of the solar system. This was captured when the earth formed and is constantly creeping toward the surface.

and the lumber companies claim that cutting down the rain forest is a good thing for the environment.