Old gas pumps can't handle ever-rising prices

Mom-and-pop service stations are running into a problem as gasoline marches toward $4 a gallon: Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials.

[Jon]

Thousands of old-fashioned pumps can't register more than $3.99 on their spinning mechanical dials.
That is too funny

[Chaos]

Bush gas price increases are even worse than Carter's and Bush didn't even have an embargo to blame.

[KLS77]

lol.. maybe that should tell them something!!! gas shouldnt be that much or they need to get with the times!! personaly I go with gas shouldnt be that much..lol..

[the real henry]

Chaos wrote:

Bush gas price increases are even worse than Carter's and Bush didn't even have an embargo to blame.

Yeah... Bush.

[mayo420]

Americans are conserving at an alarming rate. Lights are being switched off. Used car dealers are refusing to accept SUV trade-ins, no market and they have too many in stock.(by the way, what happened to- "the price of gas means squat when it comes to the safety of my family"? A couple dollars and in the Mini Cooper they go, uh-huh)

Have you been on the freeways lately? 18 wheelers doing 55, the fast lane clogged with people doing 60! Airlines slowing down 8 minutes on a four hour flight!

Holy freakin' smokes! Do you know what this could mean? Gulp. Life might move a little slower in the future. Sorry, I wish I could find the catastrophic evil in all this, but nope, don't see it.

[Rick of Lake Havasu City]

Now the cost will have to go up to pay to change the pumps...

"OH" my sore back...

[CCCitizen]

Most of our oil comes from Canada not from some frickin Arab place thousands of miles away. I say we take them bacon eating, eh'loving, French speaking, yehaws out and keep it for ourselves. They are playin Haliburton with us and I say enough is enough.. GIVE US YOUR OIL!!!

[oil owner]

i was raised in Oklahoma and own shares in several oil wells... I remember in the late 70's oil companies drilled thousands of wells because of the oil shortage in the early 70's... this was to insure we had enough oil incase this happened again. all these wells were capped and sealed. the active wells I have are not producing more than they were 2 years ago. Why not uncapp the existing wells (yes there is oil down there or the wells would have been abandonded). and use the oil we have at home? and increase production of the wells in use today.(the current wells only run about 4-5 hours a day). my relatives, who deliver crude from these wells are facing lay offs because the production has fallen to record lows.

[ointment]

Well, although I am still not qualified for the age of driving, I hope when I become qualified, there will be something like solar panel car. Of course, I am taking about the car that can really be used, not some solar energy car we have today, which can be broken and can run out of energy easily.

[Bill R]

Chaos wrote:

Bush gas price increases are even worse than Carter's and Bush didn't even have an embargo to blame.

Sad. No newspapers or cable news where you live.
Google, for God's sake. Do something, but don't
remain in the dark forever.

[Scutter]

Has it occurred to anyone that the basic economic truth of the matter may indeed be that supply can no longer meet demand? Welcome to the brave new world of post-peak oil. Get used to it.

[Lil Ticked]

WooHoo raise those prices higher! Cuz then when other people can't afford to go to work it will open up more jobs for us people who didn't go out and buy suv's just to be cool. HA HA HA JERKS!
You Poor people are screwed.( oh crap I am poor too) DANG IT!

[Leria]

Scutter wrote:

Has it occurred to anyone that the basic economic truth of the matter may indeed be that supply can no longer meet demand? Welcome to the brave new world of post-peak oil. Get used to it.

WE HAVE NO REACHED PEAK OIL! In fact, some people 'in the know' say that we will not reach peak oil until sometime NEXT century.
For goodness sakes: we are finding more oil everywhere we look. Even in places where the 'common wisdom' was that there was no oil to find!

Frankly, the only reason these prices have gone up so much: oil speculation and price-fixing by the oil companies.
Even some people I have talked with who WORKED for the oil companies recently, said that is where the price increases are coming from.
Simply time to BAN speculation on anything.... at all. No more oil speculation, no more power speculation, no more speculation at all.

[Donna Atlanta GA]

Lil Ticked wrote:

WooHoo raise those prices higher! Cuz then when other people can't afford to go to work it will open up more jobs for us people who didn't go out and buy suv's just to be cool. HA HA HA JERKS!
You Poor people are screwed.( oh crap I am poor too) DANG IT!

Yeah, and then when more people can't afford to go to work they won't be able to buy products and services and companies will go out of business. WooHoo!

[TOM REGAN]

...gas should NOT be more than $3.99 per gallon and that should be LAW...let's start another WAR and nationalize all the oil company's.

[liketolearnmore]

Speculation and the fact that we have not built a new refinery in this country in 30 years.
In Michigan the state sales tax that is used to repair roads is also tied to a gallon of gas, so soon that tax will have to go up because people are driving less.
The American Auto Makers could have seen this coming and built smaller vehicles but they decided to import them from Korea, Japan and Mexico. The President could have also mandated that by this summer all new vehicles come with a flex engine + hybrid technologies.. Don't ever forget who is in charge of Big Oil in this country!!!!!

[just had lunch]

bubba and darlene need to either get new pumps, or, charge by the quart.

[KLS77]

oil owner wrote:

i was raised in Oklahoma and own shares in several oil wells... I remember in the late 70's oil companies drilled thousands of wells because of the oil shortage in the early 70's... this was to insure we had enough oil incase this happened again. all these wells were capped and sealed. the active wells I have are not producing more than they were 2 years ago. Why not uncapp the existing wells (yes there is oil down there or the wells would have been abandonded). and use the oil we have at home? and increase production of the wells in use today.(the current wells only run about 4-5 hours a day). my relatives, who deliver crude from these wells are facing lay offs because the production has fallen to record lows.

AMEN!!!!!!

[Lil Ticked]

Donna Atlanta GA wrote:

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Yeah, and then when more people can't afford to go to work they won't be able to buy products and services and companies will go out of business. WooHoo!

then it is nothing but riots and chaos ... Yippee ding dong doo!

[Tailkinker]

Look, we need to drill here in america. Fact is if we drilled and refined our own oil, we could hold the oil companies up to a higher standard when it comes to the environmental impact. Second, oil prices would not fluctuate as much because international termoil would not cause fluctuations in the supply.

Also we need to control the speculators who benefit from increasing crude oil prices.

We also need to show washington we mean business by throwing all the bums out, no matter what party they are. After all the democrat house and senate promised two years ago that they had a plan to bring the prices down and they haven't delivered. And the republicans darn well haven't helped either.

Its not just one party's fault, its an epidemic in Washington. Niether party can stop chucking mud at the other one long enough to get a darn thing done, and we are helping by buying the lies and finger pointing instead of holding them up to a higher standard. Instead of glorifying on party and demonizing the other we out to get together on a "no incumbent" campaign. By keeping us divided Washington escapes being held responcible for the messes their partisan mudfights.