Old gas pumps can't handle ever-rising prices

[Todd]

Tailkinker wrote:

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.

WHAT? That's not the way the U.S. works.. Lets go Bomb Venezuela and turn it into an american province.. Make Hugo Chavez drive the oil trucks or run the pumping station for us.

[Big balls]

When GW took office oil was $35 a barrell, Now it's $126?? Thanks to all you that where scared into voting him in for a second turm because we are safe from the terrorist. lol GW & his buddy Dick are ruining this country.

[Whiskey Charlie]

Rick of Lake Havasu City wrote:

Now the cost will have to go up to pay to change the pumps...
"OH" my sore back...

I was thinking of a lower part of the anatomy ...

[Tailkinker]

Big balls wrote:

When GW took office oil was $35 a barrell, Now it's $126?? Thanks to all you that where scared into voting him in for a second turm because we are safe from the terrorist. lol GW & his buddy Dick are ruining this country.

What? I thought you people said we went to war for cheap oil? Now you say he made the oil more expensive, which is it?

[NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS]

mayo420 wrote:

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.

Forgive me if I don't shed a tear for SUV owners who can't get rid of their status symbols, sucks to be them!
What does that symbol say now "I've got this big honkin' SUV that I can't afford now, or ever really could I was just trying to impress my neighbors and friends, that I can't unload!"

[NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS]

CRUSH THE SUV's AND RE-USE THE METAL FOR SOMETHING WORTHWHILE!!!!

[Todd Schuster]

Ah, the old fashioned gas pump. The good old days just like the manual typewriter & rotary phones. Sadly a thing of the past gone forever. Just like 1.50 gallon gas, gone for good. It can only get worse & it probably will. tahnks for bringing back memory lane without the digital numbers.

[Barry Halfwhite]

Guess we'll just have to cap it at $3.99...
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OiL WELL!

[Teddy]

Bush can't count past 399!

[Lil Ticked]

Tailkinker wrote:

<quoted text>What? I thought you people said we went to war for cheap oil? Now you say he made the oil more expensive, which is it?

It is both, oil was sposed to be cheaper but greedy bus-turds made it higher. you really think that they have legit reasons for prices to be this high other than greed. and that GW wont release the reserve oil because lower prices is less money in his pocket. Do you even drive? or are you just mental?

[Lil Ticked]

NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS wrote:

CRUSH THE SUV's AND RE-USE THE METAL FOR SOMETHING WORTHWHILE!!!!

yeah like homes for the poor lil wild animals that cant find jobs to support their families. Teeny Tiny bird houses. dang it I am tired of these birds getting all the breaks. and those so called endangered species, get a job , or decorate my wall.

[Lil Ticked]

Todd wrote:

<quoted text>
WHAT? That's not the way the U.S. works.. Lets go Bomb Venezuela and turn it into an american province.. Make Hugo Chavez drive the oil trucks or run the pumping station for us.

woohoo you gotit buddy.

[Tailkinker]

Lil Ticked wrote:

<quoted text>
It is both, oil was sposed to be cheaper but greedy bus-turds made it higher. you really think that they have legit reasons for prices to be this high other than greed. and that GW wont release the reserve oil because lower prices is less money in his pocket. Do you even drive? or are you just mental?

If we release all the reserves they wouldn't bring the price down for long. Thats not a solution its a bandaid. I am not disputing that greed has something to do with it. But tell me, don't you think the oil under anwar is a bit cheaper then the oil under the middle east, venezuala, canada, or wherever the heck else we get it? How about the oil leaking up off the coast of Florida, California, the oil shale in Utah, the oil we found in Dakota.... Its all HERE. So instead of hollaring at each other, we need to hollar at Washington, to get our own oil thank you. Those unused oil resources are good paying jobs waiting to happen. Also if the oil companies were drilling here they couldn't raise the price every time some shiek sneezes. And we could tell OLPEC to kiss our american touchees. Sorry dude you can blame Bush (God knows he's done us no favors) But it is the fault of both the left and the right. The right wont let us regulate the oil companies, and the left wont let us drill here. So call me what you want, atleast I'm no d*** koolaid drinker.

[Greven]

Big balls wrote:

When GW took office oil was $35 a barrell, Now it's $126?? Thanks to all you that where scared into voting him in for a second turm because we are safe from the terrorist. lol GW & his buddy Dick are ruining this country.

Those to cant do crap without congress aprovel
Lets talk about gas hikes the largest hike amount has been with a Democrat house and Senate. Why is that because the dems are a bunch of tree hugging
loons and the republican hopeful is no better there all jokes (Bush Obama Hillary McCain) are all the same crap just different wrapper. America needs to wake up and throw all the bums out before it is to late. and believe me you don't have all of the time in the world to do it

[Jammer]

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.

This country does not have the oil refineries we need to make the oil gas. 100's have been shut down in the late 20 years and no new ones build. a few have added some capacity but need more badly

[bowser]

Tailkinker wrote:

<quoted text>What? I thought you people said we went to war for cheap oil? Now you say he made the oil more expensive, which is it?

actually McCain said we went to war for oil.....

I feel that we went to war to have a presence in the middle east to intidmidate countries like Iran and Iraq (more than intimidate) into keeping their oil trades in the US dollar instead of the Euro, I feel we went to Iraq to strengthen the dollar, and to put pressure on OPEC.

[In Real Time]

mayo420 wrote:

Americans are conserving at an alarming rate.

The more they conserve the worse it is going to get. The less they spend only means the profit margin goes down so they raise prices to compensate. It is like a utility going on a mass conservation campaign for the purpose of driving down monthly revenue on that utility bill so that they can complain in order to raise prices later.

If Americans splurged, demand is up so they raise prices.

We are GOUGED EITHER WAY.

Look at how many people are off the road or cut their gas consumption dramatically but big oil still records record profits.

Less people driving and buying but fewer drivers are paying more and more.

People have no money and are shutting out the lights so that mean big electric is going to be raising prices.

It is a disease eating itself from the inside out.

[In Real Time]

Don't worry, Bush can bail them all out with a Pump Stipend.

Better yet, make big oil foot the bill for it.

[Hijacked Journalism]

I have a friend who is a Senator. He told me the story of an acrimonious meeting toward the end of 1992, when the 12 members of the Senate Special Committee on POW/MIA Affairs were finishing up their report. It featured a hot debate over how to deal with former U.S. Marine Bobby Garwood, a former POW who'd been an accused defector.

The question was whether Garwood should be included in the report along with all the other POWs and MIAs, or if he had diminished his status and therefore only merited inclusion in the report's attachments. Half the room thought he was a traitor, a deserter who knew about POWs held after the war but didn't do anything about it, and McCain fell into that camp. The other half -- which included Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa -- thought that Garwood had been unfairly blamed.

"Bobby Garwood is a traitor, and I and a whole bunch of other POWs got beat because of him," the hot-headed McCain argued, according to a senator present during the debate.

Then Grassley started screaming. "Chuck has a temper, too," the senator relates. "So McCain started shouting back."

Grassley got in McCain's face, and the two pit bulls started barking at each other while the other senators in the room sat back and watched. The pair got so close to one another that the senator who tells me the story -- aware that because of war injuries, McCain's arms don't fully extend -- was convinced McCain "was going to drive the top of his head into Grassley's nose. I was convinced that bone fragments were going to go into Chuck's brain, and I was sitting there and was about to witness a murder."

McCain suddenly stood up. But instead of a head-butting homicide, he delivered a crushing blow of words.

"You know, senator," McCain said, seething, "I thought your problem was that you don't listen. But that's not it at all. Your problem is that you're a fucking jerk and if my arms could extend, I would kick your fucking ass, you bastard".

[Hijacked Journalism]

wtf?