OMG Oil went up $5.00 a barrel today ! Were in REAL DEEP DOO-DOO !!!!!

  This is the biggest increase in history for 1 day and they say it is going to hit $150 a barrell.  People,  were in real trouble with this gas situation big time.

   It will be no joke,  $5.00 a gallon for us will be here real soon !   Food prices will go $$$$$$$ even alot more than they are now. Gas here is OVER $4.00 a gal today.

     This is what happens when we have to depend on the Middle East for all of it.  Plus China and India are buying every drop they can and stockpiling.  This country had better wise up real fast and do something.  There is NOW NO WAY the U.S. can keep up with demand.  The enviromental wacko's have really screwed this country royal with no new refineries or drilling.

                                              Cassiebabe

It's been $4.039 for over a week here in WV...

 The enviromental wacko's have really screwed this country royal with no new refineries or drilling.

can we build one next door to you?

the problem is we won't kick the oil habit 

On the radio today some "expert" said $200 a barrell is not out of the question.....

I think we are all going to know what a "depression" is very soon...

What will it be 5 years from now????  People are now quitting their jobs because they cannot afford even to get to work....

Wait until the "chain reaction" comes along.. how it affects everything else in our life.....  Even restaruants are charging extra for things/items that used to be included in your meal....I have noticed the last 6 months that the coffee cups are allot narrower in restaurants and not as tall....

People that have had garage sales in our area in the last month said it has been so slow....even in Wisconsin....less people going out garage saleing.

This country is in a big mess....

RRPININ,

    EXCUSE ME !!!!!!!!!  I now live with in 10 miles of 2 of them.  CHEVRON and SHELL !!!!!! and YES they can build another one.  Like I said this is NO  JOKE.  Were in real trouble with NO END in sight. 

 People who drive the gas hogs will really be crying and if they ration,  these same people will be HITCHING a ride. 

   The other day I was driving (my Honda) past the school where all the mommy's were picking up their kids.  I counted 13 !!!!! full size SUV's.  When I'am at Costco filling up my car for $60 they are spending $110.00 and I just laugh.

  Oh and American Lines today announced they will be charging $15.00 EACH bag to be checked in,  so people will cut down on luggage they bring, and this will cut down fuel needed !

                                     Cassiebabe

So you guys haven't been watching the executives from Shell Oil on TV testifing to all our brain dead people up there in Washington? They have been trying to get new refinerys going for 30 years. China and India have been doing what we should be doing.

 Russia doesn't care about the 25,000 polar bears we share either, they will drill on their side, we can watch them bring up the oil.

The enviornmental lobby needs to be stopped.

rrpinin:

The enviromental wacko's have really screwed this country royal with no new refineries or drilling.

Flunked Economics 101, eh?

Look, we consume 3x the amount of crude oil as the next country, and there not a whiff of economizing or conservation. So lets look at our incredibly inept and bombastic leader, whose failed policies gave resulted in systematically -- why, its almost like it was *cough-cough* planned -- driving oil prices higher.

To wit; his incessant saber-rattling with Iran raises concerns of war and more disruption of oil supplies, which in turn prompts speculators -- freely running ENRON-esque scams to raise prices in an unregulated market... seen the speculative futures prices today... still think all will be peachy if only you had a brand new refinery? Even if a hundred new oilfield were tapped in Alaska et al, Big Oil sells to the highest bidder -- that's how they earned the last quarter's  $34 BILLION profit -- they're under no obligation to sell oil here. You do know the US exported 268 million barrels of oil last year... got that?

Oh, and did I mention that the dollar dropped again today because this country is in a recession and the global investors are bailing out like rats leaving a sinking ship! Even the Saudis said as much when Bush went begging to them last week, pleading to rev up production so he could take credit for bringing down the price. Their reaction was pretty much that he should stop undermining the value of our own dollar before asking other countries to take a financial hit on oil. Sharp cookies, them sheiks, they got our guy by the short hairs and they're laughing all the way to the bank.

Its a hugely more complex problem than can be solved by your simplistic rejoinder.

well January 22, 2001 gas was $1.45.9 a gallon....so who do we blame???

We have two "gas hogs". Well, one is diesel. A 1987 GMC Blazer that gets about 16 mpg and a 1984 Surburban diesel that gets about 23 mpg. There are three (main) reasons we keep driving these "guzzlers". #1 They're paid for. #2 Because they're paid for, we only have to carry basic liabilty insurance...there old and ugly but sturdy! #3 We complain about the price of fuel, but it's easier to come up with the $$$ to fill the tank than to take out a mortgage on a fuel effecient vehicle that would also cost a fortune to be repaired (or more likely replaced) if it were involved in even a slight accident.

It is really scary......I don't know how I'm going to heat my house this coming fall/winter.  I have oil heat and have NO CHOICE, except to use electric space heaters & have my pipes freeze.  I am really really worried. 

I did trade in my gas guzzling SUV for a car very good on gas mileage. It's just going to stink if we get snow in the winter. 

We just get by now, so, I am very worried about gas, heat & putting food on the table.

Rolling the blame on down to the little people and expecting this problem to be solved by them choosing more gas effecient transport is just pointless. Until the government takes control of the problem, nothing that you or I do is truely going to make a difference.  

All the oil executives were asked what their bonuses were....only one answered....the others didn't know....give me a break...

 DH asks why the Americans don't boycott one brand of gasoline station like they did in the 70's....It worked.....Maybe a different situation now...

But if everyone banded together.....it is worth a try....

zakons:

But if everyone banded together.....it is worth a try....

Don't hold your breath; the last time that happened was in 1775.

Because there are so many interconnected issues that are affecting the entire country, this is a national crisis. As such, it must be addressed by the Federal Government, which has sold out to the major corporate players who are pulling the financial strings.

For the fifth time since 2001, Congress raised the debt limit, increasing it to record $9.815 trillion... that’s $9,815,000,000,000.00, which works out to about $30,000 for every man woman and child. Best batten down the hatches and prepare for the worst... its coming.

zakons:

All the oil executives were asked what their bonuses were....only one answered....the others didn't know....give me a break...

 DH asks why the Americans don't boycott one brand of gasoline station like they did in the 70's....It worked.....Maybe a different situation now...

But if everyone banded together.....it is worth a try....

I have asked the same question many times...fact is we've become "sheeple". No matter what is thrown at us, we may grumble, but we accept. Shrug our shoulders and say "oh well". NOBODY sticks together anymore...in the 70's we had "ballz"...now we can't smoke, we can't drink, you can't hold your newborn baby in your arms on the way home from the hospital...in fact you "baby has to be in a car seat until they reach 4 ft. tall or 80 lbs.! Kids have to wear helmets when they ride their bikes, you have to be strapped in a vehicle like you're driving in Nascar! And yet we have people in the service risking their lives every day for "freedom". Not ours, somebody elses who doesn't even know the dam difference!

I'll step down from my soapbox for now..."we" will never band together as long as there are people with enough money in their bank accounts to think that "tightening the budget" means going out to dinner one less night a week, buying ribey instead of t-bone or buying *gasp* "plus" gas instead of premium