$5 gas by 2012 ?

I don`t like paying just like anybody else but there isn't a shortage, its all fear & speculation. As I always say follow the money, big oil isn't doing too shabby right now, wish I could of got a big tax break to invest in futures. Hearing everyone that wanted this crying does take away some of the pain, only difference with me is I always did try & keep my driving down to a minimum. Good thing & bad thing about living where I do we have to drive a good distance for everything so you learn quick.

There is more then big business evil high profits in the high gas prices. Check it out.

http://townhall.com/columnists/victorda ... rices_good

samhill wrote:I don`t like paying just like anybody else but there isn't a shortage, its all fear & speculation. As I always say follow the money, big oil isn't doing too shabby right now, wish I could of got a big tax break to invest in futures. Hearing everyone that wanted this crying does take away some of the pain, only difference with me is I always did try & keep my driving down to a minimum. Good thing & bad thing about living where I do we have to drive a good distance for everything so you learn quick.

No there is no shortage. In part it is because you and I and millions of others have cut back a bit on our usage. If there were price controls there would be a shortage within days as usage went up. If big oil made zero profit the price of gas would be very few penny's cheaper.

Show me the money. http://www.latestnewzonline.com/higher- ... 43896.html

samhill wrote:Show me the money. http://www.latestnewzonline.com/higher- ... 43896.html

You can't use the Exxon figures because it includes to many things not having to do with oil. you can use the Royal Dutch figure of 6 billion in profit if you knew how much oil they sold by dividing the profit into the gallons sold. We don't have that figure in the article. Exxon claims to make 3 cents a gallon.

I claim to be 6'3" and build like a brick outhouse but that don't make it so.

It just seems kinda odd that everytime the price at the pump shoots up the oil Co.s have record profits , I`m not a CPA or even close but I can see a pattern there.

If you are working on a fixed percentage mark up then of course you will make more if the price is higher.

I think OPEC which is a cartel, is responsible for the high prices far more than the oil company's.

The lower value of the dollar also plays an important part.

The lower value of the dollar plays the ONLY part.

Supply and demand haven't changed.

But Helicopter Ben is printing money ad infinitum and people are trying to put it someplace to protect their futures.

Oil, gold, silver, corn, cotton and tangible THING is going to go through the roof.

Weimar here we come....

I remember when a Canadian Dollar would only fetch you about $0.62 worth of goods in the USA, but now a Canadian Dollar will fetch you $1.05 worth of goods in the USA. That shows the degree of devastation that the US Dollar has experienced in the past roughly 20-25 years.

Franco, think about your posts, in one you say that Exxon claims to only make 3 cents/gal, lets assume that is the average profit. Then you say there is no shortage because you & I & everyone else is driving less, if this is true & they are selling less at the same markup their profit would be less. We also get the bulk of our oil from Canada which is not a cartel country, its the Co.s & speculators that are driving the price up plain & simple.

samhill wrote:Franco, think about your posts, in one you say that Exxon claims to only make 3 cents/gal, lets assume that is the average profit. Then you say there is no shortage because you & I & everyone else is driving less, if this is true & they are selling less at the same markup their profit would be less. We also get the bulk of our oil from Canada which is not a cartel country, its the Co.s & speculators that are driving the price up plain & simple.

Samhill is RIGHT ON, the speculators are the ones driving the price up on fuel which try as we might our circumstances right now won't change that. Our vehicles run on gas, not hydrogen or oxygen or water. It is no longer a matter of supply and demand it is a matter of how much can the speculators get out of the populous!! This is one area the govt. should not have deregulated. Now we are at Wall streets mercy and greed is a very powerful thing!

Why aren't cars converted to natural gas and promoted by our government?

traderfjp wrote:Why aren't cars converted to natural gas and promoted by our government?

Why spend trillions on unending wars in the Middle East and instead give us all a setup like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBdscL8hqN4

Oh that's right, I forgot, we live in a country where the government goes to the highest bidder and that ain't us.

samhill wrote:Franco, think about your posts, in one you say that Exxon claims to only make 3 cents/gal, lets assume that is the average profit. Then you say there is no shortage because you & I & everyone else is driving less, if this is true & they are selling less at the same markup their profit would be less. We also get the bulk of our oil from Canada which is not a cartel country, its the Co.s & speculators that are driving the price up plain & simple.

Their profit was made on other things in addition to oil. They are not selling less. Conservation has helped to prevent a shortage and further price increases. I also do not know if that figure of 3 cents is true.

Oil is a world market no matter which country it comes from. If we used only domestic oil the price would be the same but the money would not be shipped out.

I was under the impression that the last spike in oil was in fact contributed to by speculation in the futures market. If so our government has seen fit to ignore it. It also has done nothing to increase supply which certainly would lower prices. Comments by the president seem to indicate he wants high energy prices. When his re election is in danger he will probably get moving.