All fueled up

A friend of mine just got back from around Kuwait, he told me gas was .30 a gallon, .30 a gallon people, we are paying $3.45 a gallon or more, whats wrong with this picture here. I'll tell ya whats wrong, we are being taken to the cleaners here and people are just laughing about it. Boycott Exxon/Mobile, whatever it takes we have got to see some relief from this. What people are failing to realise is I think, fuel prices go up, everything else has to go up to compensate for it. I know people who were going paycheck to paycheck when gas was $1.30 a gallon. I'm hearing of people who had to quit their jobs cause they couldn't afford to drive to them.
Ind. truckers are going out, what next? People we have to do something here. I read a article a few minutes ago about saving gas and $80.00 fill ups, folks if my trucks are dry its well over $100.00 and $130.00 on the diesel truck.
People can't afford that, not everyone in this country makes the mega money. Us poor folks out here are being raped and last time I heard, that was crime.

I want to know what the heck happened to The United States of America? this used to be the land of opportunity, the land of the free and the home of the brave. One thing I know of for sure, we are more like Nazi Germany and Communist Russia all the time. What next, are we going to have to show papers everytime we go across state lines.
I'll tell ya this I'm not to proud to be called an American anymore

The oil traders have alot to do with the record prices as There is no world shortage of oil.

Bush is buying alot of oil and putting it in the strategic reserves which is not all bad but if he would stop buying oil for a month the price would come down.

After watching the oil exeutives testify I also have boycotted Exxon/Mobile.

Our Govt. and Wall Street have alot to do with it.The weak dollar and speculation have added as much as $30-40 per barrel to the price.

Food and fuel prices have almost doubled in the past couple of years but wages sure havent.Something will give one of these days.

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Rod

Work harder.... WHERE? Jobs are leaving our area, our county unemployment rate jumped 1% last month. This month another factory with 200+ employees lost their contract and another with 300+ have locked their employees out because they wouldn't accept a 38% pay cut. Heard that company's pulling out equip. to take out of the country. So... who's gonna pay to keep our system going? Chinese? When's enough ENOUGH?

In fact, I call for the government to remain silent and unmotivated. We as the American people can think for ourselves and govt. meddling is similar to a feudal monarchy.

With the bickering of two donkeys and one old fart of a conservative, you must take a look at the present condition of the government and realize that voting will accomplish NOTHING.

People complain that president Bush has done nothing, which, I agree, he has done nothing - that's the best thing for the government to do - just get off our a$$es.

It's the housing blow up, folks who bought too big a house & over inflated housing costs on money they couldn't afford to repay.

This has sunk our ecconomy, dollar is now very low compared to other currencies in the world.

So, _anything_ we import is going to cost a whole lot.

And other countries have not seen the same rise in proce that we have. So their purchasing power is much better than ours.

They can afford to buy more grains, more crude oil, more steel.....

We can't.

It was greedy people in the housing market that had the most to do with it. Wrecked the ecconomy for all of us.

'Doing something' about high oil prices will not fix this problem, not one thing. It would only make matters worse.

We need to fix our ecconomy, and prices will take care of themselves. And no matter how we do it, it will involve some pain. Hope the govt has good policies that make it as brief as possible, and that they don't try to overcorrect fuel prices, etc.

That would end as a disaster for all of us.

--->Paul

Gas in Europe is over $8.00/gallon, China and India are using more all the time. And Al Gore is running around telling everyone we're still using too much.

If you want to make a difference, conserve energy. Turn the thermostat down in the winter, turn off the AC in the summer. Get a smaller car, replace the drafty windows in your house.

Also buy American made products. A big part of the price increase is the weak dollar, quit sending them overseas.

Gas will most likely never go back under $3.00 a gallon again and will probably go over $4.00 before it is all over. Then they will come up with another reason to raise it again in about a year or so. I like most of this country am having to deplete my savings to stay on top. When are the wages going to increase with the price of everything else.

Join me friends and get on your knees and ask God to take this country back. As for the big wigs and others that think this is something to be laughed at: "Your sin will find you out, if not in this life, then surely in death".

For the last two weeks they have failed to include in the weekly oil report of how many refrineys are running. It peaked about 89.7% back in Jan, then slowely fell off as people quit buying so much gas.

Three weeks ago there was only 82.5% running or a drop of 7.2% in the oil companys making gasoline.

Following that logic, then if we quit buying even more gas, then they'll just keep shutting the refinerys down to keep the price higher.

I think at some point then there will be a shortage of gas to buy, not because there isn't any oil to refrine, but because there making "repairs" or "upgrades" and can't put the refriney back on-line. So are they then just slapping our hands because we cut down on our usage of gas???

T_Bone

Bob