Thread: Gas 3.50 a gallon?!?!?!

IMO, it's not even that bad yet. All we can really do is adapt like we have been doing.

I say bring on the ten dollar gas. Bring it on tomorrow.

Force the issue right fricking now.

Let innovation push the petro cartel into irrelevance and bring on the days when our children have to complain about sending food to the middle east instead of troops.

Originally Posted by Muqtar SGT_Clintok

I say bring on the ten dollar gas. Bring it on tomorrow.

Force the issue right fricking now.

Let innovation push the petro cartel into irrelevance and bring on the days when our children have to complain about sending food to the middle east instead of troops.

So you would punish people with low incomes (hell even middle class at 10 dollars a barrel) just so we could theoretically find the magic fuel to replace oil faster... How nice of you. Looks like you really don't care about anybody else besides yourself and your personal agenda.

What happens if innovation takes 10,15 or 20 years until we find something that truly replaces OIL? In the mean time lets just not drill for oil and hope they will hurry up?? Thats ridiculous.

I would love to find something to replace oil tomorrow if we could, that would be fantastic but I for one will not jump for joy for 10.00 a gallon like you.

Un-Believable

If we would just start drilling off the coast of flordia and california, the oil prices would fall dramaticly but people are too worried about messing up the coast. Right now china is drilling into our reserve off the coast of flordia so how come we're not? With the technology we have to today i doubt that it would ruin the coastlines. Also my instructor at the technical college said that if everyone didn't buy gas from exxon mobile for two days that it would drive down the cost of gas because they would be loosing millions and millions of dollars.

Gas $3.50 a gallon? Where? I want some of that cheap gas!!!

The point of my post is that now is as good of a time as any to face the issue.

I want to see the issue turn into a crisis as soon as possible. I want the same attention devoted to energy that we saw during the SARS outbreak.

What are you wishing for? OPEC lowering the price of Oil? Do you really think the price is going to fall or even stabilize?

I personally have no idea about what will replace petro, I don't need to. There are people a hell of a lot smarter than me worrying about it. The problem is that these people don't have the proper backing or motivation because the petro situation is a low intensity crisis that is semi-tolerable at this time.

What do you think will motivate this country to force itself to move forward? What do you think OPEC will do to the price of a barrel of oil once we figure out how to cut our consumption in 1/2 ?? They will double the price on day 1. The stupid little game we have been playing with OPEC will never end, it will only evolve, keeping your money in their pocket.

I want this country to be forced to abandon OPEC. It will take a crisis to push this issue to critical mass.

If it takes linking the oil issue to national security then so be it. Ban lawsuits on oil drilling to fulfil this country in the interim, building new refineries as a matter of national security, nuclear plants for grid enery, whatever it takes.

What's your plan?

If you think this country won't suffer under the thumb of OPEC, you are wrong. Both outlooks incorporate suffering. I just want to get it over with sooner than later.

Originally Posted by Consultant

In one post you wish us to have 10 dollar a gallon gas, then you say we need to get out from under OPEC...im confused...

My last post was pretty straight forward.

"I want this country to be forced to abandon OPEC. It will take a crisis to push this issue to critical mass"

The crisis being 10 dollar gas.

I agree with you both on drilling here, building refineries here, and I also advocate nuclear energy.
Problem is that all those issues get tied up in courts or blocked at some other level. A crisis that is linked to nation security/survival would enable this country to bypass the courts. Nothing else will.

Of course I dont want to pay 10$ for a gallon, who does ? I just think it will take an escalation of this magnatude to push the issue to a head right now.

It takes Chemo to beat cancer.

When I first got my drivers license back in 1987 gas was $0.95 a gallon... I should have stock piled then eh?