Has anyones gas prices been going down a TON lately?

[delatlanta1281]

I'm not reading seven pages of bickering to ask this question... so here it goes:
Anyone seen what is going on in Alberta Ca?

[Lair]

You're free to believe anything you want to believe.

Huge coincidence? Fine. Market driven? (Except for last year), fine. Don't want to think that there's collusion between the oil companies and the 'traders'? Fine.

I know what I believe.

[Ryan Stewart]

Ohsnap! Opec isnt going to lower quotas!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5333640.stm

Go Lebanon! Iran will play ball and we have excess oil!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/5260166.stm

OMFG its all Bush's fault China is developing and Americans drive trucks that get 8mpg, the bastard!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4922172.stm

Thank god Bush turned the hurricane east!

http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/29/commentary/sivy/sivy.moneymag/index.htm

That and thank Bush for going snorkeling in the gulf and finding 15billion more barrels. That man sure gets around!

[AdironRider]

Now you're just trying to hurt my feelings. ;)

I can quote reams of material claiming any and all manner of crap, but that doesn't make it true.

FACT: Record prices.

FACT: Record profits.

FACT: Oil administration in the White House.

Like I said previously - I don't care what you think or what you believe. We are taking it up the ass.

You can chalk it up to whatever makes you feel best while you're taking it up the ass.

Youve said the same reply like ten times man, it doesnt change the way markets work. The demand for fossil fuels is worldwide. China wastes 5x the energy as the United States. Not to mention that the oil market revolves around a world price. If oil were reaching record price highs here in America, every tanker in the world would change course and try and catch the market. Obviously this is not the case. Oil prices change the same here as they do in France, or Libya, or China, as the graphs Stewie posted illustrate clearly. Debunk these arguments if you really think otherwise, dont just spit "Im old and I know Im right, Bush is ruining everything" bullshit. Anyone with a brain can see right through you.

[Ryan Stewart]

OPEC just said they are afraid to pull down quotas because they dont want to piss consumers off and Iran has said they are ready to sit down and talk.

Look for oil to keep falling.

[Lair]

Now you're just trying to hurt my feelings. ;)

I can quote reams of material claiming any and all manner of crap, but that doesn't make it true.

FACT: Record prices.

FACT: Record profits.

FACT: Oil administration in the White House.

Like I said previously - I don't care what you think or what you believe. We are taking it up the ass.

You can chalk it up to whatever makes you feel best while you're taking it up the ass.

[Ryan Stewart]

Show where they pulled the strings. Show where they have affected policies in every other nation in the world to see their trends match ours almost exactly, show evidence of illegal price fixing. There are select examples like those stations gouging after Katrina (who were prosecuted) and the reduction in output because of the pointless war but even that one actaully only affects the buying habits on the futures market.

I showed evidence that the actual wholesale futures market set the prices and not the oil companies to debunk your myth that the oil companies were the forces behind these prices.

Not attributable to market forces? If you continue to buy it, guess what, it IS attributable to market forces. Supply and demand, if the demand is there they can continue to charge the high prices up to the point where the demand slides. Its called maximizing profits, its done all the way from a fucking backery on the corner to MNCs.

You dont expect the owner of a packed restaurant to lower his prices because he is making TOO MUCH MONEY. If you think that you are really and idiot. He is going to keep charging the high prices until his popularity fades, then he will discount. Its why there exists high-end restaurants. Fuck, its why business exists in the first place.

The only way Bush could be to blame is if he was sending little messages into your easily manipulated brain forcing you to go buy gas and drive your car all over the fucking place. Youd better get back in your basement with your foil hat to prevent it.

Until then buy a fucking bike. Your age and experience doesnt mean jack shit since you are just some ignorant, scared, fool.

Fuck this, I am done. I dont even know why I started in with you. You are obviously some dunce so buried in his conspiracy theory that he is only going to accept that Bush is the allmighty controlling the universe behind closed doors.

[Lair]

A hell of a lot more reliable sources than some guy who has nothing on the internet. You claim to be old and want that to make me think you are intellegent but you argue just like some idiot college freshman. You call someone brainwashed and yet you want to see some sort of bullshit theory with no facts whatsoever to back it up.

Ive stated where my facts are from, you can call them part of a conspiracy if you want but unless you are an idiot just spouting bullshit you actually have to come up with something that opposes them. Hell I even threw up an article from NPR, very liberal.

Thankfully people like you, those who have no idea whats going on, cant organize anything more serious than a protest or candlelight vigil so there is no danger of you running this country.

I have record high prices and record profiits for ANY industry in the history of mankind to back up my claims. I also have an administration that's tied to the oil industry in 17 different ways and is in bed with every energy and pharmaceutical company in the country.

Furthermore, I couldn't care less if you choose to keep your head in the sand and lube up for your president and his cronies.

Makes no difference to me. I'm not buying it, and I don't give a shit if you think it's attributable to 'market forces'.

My age and experience allow me to recognize a fucking when I see one.

We've been taking a fucking for 5.5 years. ;)

[808BMW]

Did you guys fix your prices? You probably had artificially low prices when we were spiking and yours wont go down until it recovers from the artificial ceiling.

Nope, they tried that at the start of the year and got over it by feb. :P

As soon as the mainland started rising, we were rising day to day to keep up. Then prices fall and nobody lowers theirs.

[Vedubin01]

A hell of a lot more reliable sources than some guy who has nothing on the internet. You claim to be old and want that to make me think you are intellegent but you argue just like some idiot college freshman. You call someone brainwashed and yet you want to see some sort of bullshit theory with no facts whatsoever to back it up.

Ive stated where my facts are from, you can call them part of a conspiracy if you want but unless you are an idiot just spouting bullshit you actually have to come up with something that opposes them. Hell I even threw up an article from NPR, very liberal.

Thankfully people like you, those who have no idea whats going on, cant organize anything more serious than a protest or candlelight vigil so there is no danger of you running this country.

:ohsnap:

[Ryan Stewart]

Damn you all for your cheap gas, damn you!

Did you guys fix your prices? You probably had artificially low prices when we were spiking and yours wont go down until it recovers from the artificial ceiling.

[Ryan Stewart]

Who feeds you your 'facts'? :)

A hell of a lot more reliable sources than some guy who has nothing on the internet. You claim to be old and want that to make me think you are intellegent but you argue just like some idiot college freshman. You call someone brainwashed and yet you want to see some sort of bullshit theory with no facts whatsoever to back it up.

Ive stated where my facts are from, you can call them part of a conspiracy if you want but unless you are an idiot just spouting bullshit you actually have to come up with something that opposes them. Hell I even threw up an article from NPR, very liberal.

Thankfully people like you, those who have no idea whats going on, cant organize anything more serious than a protest or candlelight vigil so there is no danger of you running this country.

[Lair]

if so, please chock the wheels on your power chair. id hate to see you roll away from your computer screen. i get great enjoyment reading posts from uninformed liberals.

Ditto for me from brainwashed conservatives.

Thanks for the chair tips.

[blunttech]

Bush will have to find someone else to retire with after Pat Robertson has Chavez assassinated.

PS. . .I'm probably old enough to be your father.

if so, please chock the wheels on your power chair. id hate to see you roll away from your computer screen. i get great enjoyment reading posts from uninformed liberals.

[Lair]

And yet you have done nothing but make statements insinuating things you cant back up with any facts.

Who feeds you your 'facts'? :)