varmithunter's Blog

SUPPLY AND DEMAND...that what sets the prices..you must be employed by exxon....

If I refused to buy gas, how would I get to work? Ride the bus? Don't buses go through a ton of fuel?

I think we are kind of stuck in the situation we are in and I doubt the average American can do anything about it, aside from maybe buying a hybrid or something.

this is deja vu blogging , somebody last year called for a national one day gas boycott

I think that lasted about .5 nano seconds , in others words , it lasted untill the first person's gas gauge went to E , then they went straight to the gas station , hoping they wouldn't run out of gas on the trip ( you , know what a hassel it is to run out of gas with no gas can ? ) and fill'er up , please ( and the oil company didn't lose a .9 cent )

For a million and one reasons, a boycott will not hurt anyone except the "mom and pop" businesses, which is exactly the wrong people to hurt.

As long as the liberals continue to make up reasons why we shouldn't drill for our OWN oil, the OPEC countries will continue to laugh all the way to the bank.

If the U.S. made a concerted effort on just ONE project - such as ANWR - the OPEC price would head on down.....But we won't do it. We'd rather make up junk science and have Al Gore peddle it like a snake-oil salesman to the entire world.

Hello Hillsboro and Keller - I'd really have to agree that our failure to push the ANWR project into reality is certainly damaging to our ability to supply this country with affordable oil and petro products. OPEC has decided that they will not increase oil production and we have seen that China and India are continually increasing in oil consumption - so we can certainly expect the price per barrel to steadily increase. The really bad part is that the situation will not improve ( i.e. ANWR drilling) as I personally foresee Barack Obama becoming our next president and I do not see any partisan shift in the upcoming Congressional elections either. Yep, were screwed.

Varmithunter, the bad part is that the proposals are already in place that would provide for environmentally safe oil drilling in ANWR, yet the environmentalist religion sees no use in listening to proposals which could greatly boost our economy while meeting the requirements of wildlife management. This is a subject that I would have gone on and on about at one point in time (and ask some of the longtime bloggers here - I would have gone on and on about it), but I'll stop short by saying that politically driven agendas that tend to hurt Americans are usually always recognized, but the damage is usually done before the voters make a stand.

I notice that some blame libs and dems for the price of fuel. I'm curious, what was the price per gallon before Bush?

I don't believe that anyone said that libs or dems set OPEC crude oil pricing, I'll go back and check though....

Without any uncertainty, dems and libs have conducted a well orchestrated effort to limit new oil drilling in the U.S., and have further limited continued advancements in "useful" energy development, such as increasing production in nuclear and clean coal power, by imposing agenda driven taxation and also proposing cap and trade initiatives for the sake of prohibiting new development. The dems and libs certainly have not set the pricing of oil or petro products, but they have no worthwhile plan to combat the issue with a realistic model that will meet the demand of American consumers.

Varmithunter, while I don't know specifically what you deliver for whom, I do know of the increased surcharges and various pricing increases that have resulted from fuel pricing. You see these pricing increases in virtually all markets - from construction, HVAC & electrical, to long haul trucking, to the retail grocery sector, etc. (I believe we have all seen the dramatic price increases in grocery items). With that said, the fuel prices do not just hurt Americans at the pump, and eventually something is going to have to give. One thing though, if your business flounders because of fuel prices, you are guaranteed that your customers will eventually pay one of your competitors the increased difference in fuel costs that they are not paying you when industry wide price increases finally become customary in your particular field. It seems to be the unfortunate practice of just holding out one more day, and then one more day, and so on - as I'm sure that you have been doing for some time. I'm sorry for the hardship that you've been feeling.

Actually, a boycott would drive prices up!

Better check the facts here.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp