Gas Price Forecast Grim: $4 a Gallon This Summer - News Story -...

Gasoline prices could top $4 a gallon this summer, with prices expected to average $3.54 over the summer months, and a peak, monthly average of more than $3.60 in June, predicts a new report by the federal ...

[gjmoore]

I know what the gas prices are in my area of MD and that is PG county. I was on the eastern shore Saturday and after leaving Kent Island all I saw on route 50 was 3.59 and even 3.58 except at a Shell station near Easton. Just why is that??? My daughter lives in Trappe (right outside of Easton) and she had not paid more than $3.59 so why is the average for MD 3.75?

[This is BS]

I don't understand this whole thing. Why are we paying so much for gas. how can gas go up 10 cents overnight??? Can someone tell me that. Why are we giving the big oil companies BILLIONS in tax breaks plus they are making RECORD profits. I thing the government does not want to do anything to these big oil companies, because all the politicins are personnelly invested with them, The companies make record earnings, the stock holders and investers make record earning. That can be the only answer to this SH**!!!! I f we have so much oil right here in our own back yard, lets use it and tell OPEC to F*** OFF. Why can places like Kuwait, Irag and Iran sell there gas at 60 cents a gallon and we can't. Please someone explain this simple math problem to me. I s it not all the same oil that is made into gasoline. Or is the price of gas all the BULLSH** taxes that our government and states charge us, is that the real price of gas in this country, the profit the states and government makes off of US!!!

[Pat]

Monroe CT, $4.06

[Speeders are Murderers]

And yet the idiot american just accepts this. He should be demanding speed limits be lowered to 55 like in the 70s and combine it with very stiff penalties for offenders. That would save gas and by making highways safer, prevent thousands of highway deaths each year thus saving us lots of money too.

But american sheep have been brainwashed into believing they have a right to drive fast and the morons can't see beyond that.

[This is BS]

Speeders are Murderers wrote:

And yet the idiot american just accepts this. He should be demanding speed limits be lowered to 55 like in the 70s and combine it with very stiff penalties for offenders. That would save gas and by making highways safer, prevent thousands of highway deaths each year thus saving us lots of money too.
But american sheep have been brainwashed into believing they have a right to drive fast and the morons can't see beyond that.

You are not correct, My gas miles go up at 70 vise 55 according to my computer on my car. and as far as speed kills you are full of sh**. Look at the roads in Germany where there is no speed limits, there deaths ratio is so much less then ours, why ?? because people over there can drive. Over here, all we have are a punch of idiot drivers. This has to be the worst country to drive in. I have been to many many countries in my life time and by far this is the worst for drivers. So don't say speed kills, NO people KILL....BAD DRIVERS !!!!!

[American Voter]

It's now up to $3.74 in West Kentucky for regular. I will have to cut my food budget again for my husband to make it to work. It's down to $75 a week as it is.

[Bob]

Speeders are Murderers wrote:

And yet the idiot american just accepts this. He should be demanding speed limits be lowered to 55 like in the 70s and combine it with very stiff penalties for offenders. That would save gas and by making highways safer, prevent thousands of highway deaths each year thus saving us lots of money too.
But american sheep have been brainwashed into believing they have a right to drive fast and the morons can't see beyond that.

Going back to 55 MPH would same lives, gas and money.What are you? Some kind of Liberal Democrat?

Welcome to the club.

[Gas Strike]

Speeders are Murderers wrote:

And yet the idiot american just accepts this. He should be demanding speed limits be lowered to 55 like in the 70s and combine it with very stiff penalties for offenders. That would save gas and by making highways safer, prevent thousands of highway deaths each year thus saving us lots of money too.
But american sheep have been brainwashed into believing they have a right to drive fast and the morons can't see beyond that.

how stupid, before we do something like that which would do very little if any, lets put penalties on Car Manufacturers to make cars as fuel effecient as they do in other parts of the world. its time we also buy cars which are now more fuel efficient if a Big Dodge getting 10 miles per gallon is replaced by a Small Subcompact getting 35 or more a gallon then you would save alot more then going 55mph.
also drive a moped in the summer months they get on avg 100-120 miles per gallon

[GWB]

Isn't $4/gallon just what Dick Cheney ordered?

[jeffokcity]

OIL is at as of today(5-21-08)$140 a barrow and NO end in sight and could go by June to over $150:

Gas is going up and most citys East and West coast see well over $4 gal unl and today will see a jump of over $.30 a gal putting gas at $5 a gal in most big citys!

As one said on FOX News......USA can see $5 gal most of the summer if not higher!

[Pat]

$4.19 is average in Monroe, CT.

[Yuppy Patrol]

Gas Strike wrote:

<quoted text>
how stupid, before we do something like that which would do very little if any, lets put penalties on Car Manufacturers to make cars as fuel effecient as they do in other parts of the world. its time we also buy cars which are now more fuel efficient if a Big Dodge getting 10 miles per gallon is replaced by a Small Subcompact getting 35 or more a gallon then you would save alot more then going 55mph.
also drive a moped in the summer months they get on avg 100-120 miles per gallon

Yeah, that's the answer. When you have a leak in your roof do you cut out your ceiling and floor so it doesn't get wet or do you fix your roof?

[freddy dojankets]

to "This is BS" -- a place like kuwait can sell gas at 90 cents per gallon (which is what it is there) because the country is sitting on a lake of oil. in other words, the government there can easily afford to subsidize the price of gas. think about it - that place pumps about 2.5 million barrels of oil per day. PER DAY! now, at an even modest 50 dollars per barrel, that means that 125 million dollars PER DAY is rolling into that place on oil alone!! again, PER DAY! to put that in perspective, consider that there are only a million kuwaitis...imagine a place like indianapolis (which has about a million people) raking in 125 million dollars per day! imagine the kind of idle, frivolous, consume-but-don't-earn-it lifestyle that EACH and EVERY ONE of those folks in indy could maintain if the city gov't there had that kind of budget....

the point here is that places like kuwait can WAY afford to offer dirt cheap gas at subsized prices because they have shloads of oil, PER CITIZEN, in the ground - kind of like if i owned a gigantic gold mine...i could sell plenty to the world at 800 dollars per ounce, live like an emperor, and still well afford to give the stuff away to my family.

also, on another point - we have to realize that our hard-earned dough is not, for the most part, going to oil companies. so where is it going, we ask. simple, as alluded to above - it's going towards funding the welfare system in places like kuwait, where kuwaitis do almost no work, retire after 15 years at on a 30-hour work week (if that), and get all kinds of other subsidies from their (kuwaiti) government.(the work in places like kuwait is mostly performed by foreign labor - both blue and white collar.) in general terms, the same thing applies in places like UAE, Qatar, Saudia Arabia, etc -- the oil companies (chevron, exxon, etc) get a small, "allowable" cut of the profits, and these gulf countries pocket the rest, using much of it to fund an average gulf citizen's idle, conspicuously-consumptive but otherwise do-nothing lifestyle. so that's where our money is mostly going. you're subsidizing a cradle-to-grave, do-nothing, produce-nothing lifestyle for your average kuwaiti (or saudi or whichever) joe. if you ever get the chance, go to one of those countries, and you'll see what i'm talking about in about thirty seconds. absolutely eye-opening and it will irreversibly change your view of the whole oil topic.

[This is BS]

freddy dojankets wrote:

to "This is BS" -- a place like kuwait can sell gas at 90 cents per gallon (which is what it is there) because the country is sitting on a lake of oil. in other words, the government there can easily afford to subsidize the price of gas. think about it - that place pumps about 2.5 million barrels of oil per day. PER DAY! now, at an even modest 50 dollars per barrel, that means that 125 million dollars PER DAY is rolling into that place on oil alone!! again, PER DAY! to put that in perspective, consider that there are only a million kuwaitis...imagine a place like indianapolis (which has about a million people) raking in 125 million dollars per day! imagine the kind of idle, frivolous, consume-but-don't-earn-it lifestyle that EACH and EVERY ONE of those folks in indy could maintain if the city gov't there had that kind of budget....
the point here is that places like kuwait can WAY afford to offer dirt cheap gas at subsized prices because they have shloads of oil, PER CITIZEN, in the ground - kind of like if i owned a gigantic gold mine...i could sell plenty to the world at 800 dollars per ounce, live like an emperor, and still well afford to give the stuff away to my family.
also, on another point - we have to realize that our hard-earned dough is not, for the most part, going to oil companies. so where is it going, we ask. simple, as alluded to above - it's going towards funding the welfare system in places like kuwait, where kuwaitis do almost no work, retire after 15 years at on a 30-hour work week (if that), and get all kinds of other subsidies from their (kuwaiti) government.(the work in places like kuwait is mostly performed by foreign labor - both blue and white collar.) in general terms, the same thing applies in places like UAE, Qatar, Saudia Arabia, etc -- the oil companies (chevron, exxon, etc) get a small, "allowable" cut of the profits, and these gulf countries pocket the rest, using much of it to fund an average gulf citizen's idle, conspicuously-consumptive but otherwise do-nothing lifestyle. so that's where our money is mostly going. you're subsidizing a cradle-to-grave, do-nothing, produce-nothing lifestyle for your average kuwaiti (or saudi or whichever) joe. if you ever get the chance, go to one of those countries, and you'll see what i'm talking about in about thirty seconds. absolutely eye-opening and it will irreversibly change your view of the whole oil topic.

So if that is the case, why don't we pump our own oil over here, and in the mean time research other forms of energy. WE should have about a good 20 years of oil right under our feet to use, then we can tell OPEC to FU** OFF

[SJM_]

Speeders are Murderers wrote:

And yet the idiot american just accepts this. He should be demanding speed limits be lowered to 55 like in the 70s and combine it with very stiff penalties for offenders. That would save gas and by making highways safer, prevent thousands of highway deaths each year thus saving us lots of money too.
But american sheep have been brainwashed into believing they have a right to drive fast and the morons can't see beyond that.

What's your problem with Americans?

[freddy dojankets]

This is BS wrote:

<quoted text>So if that is the case, why don't we pump our own oil over here, and in the mean time research other forms of energy. WE should have about a good 20 years of oil right under our feet to use, then we can tell OPEC to FU** OFF

Because 20 years isn't much, and we probably couldn't develop an economically viable form of alternative energy in that time...and then we'd be tapped out in the event that a REAL emergency came along (four dollars per gallon, or even five or six, doesn't qualify as an emergency.)