Gas Prices on the Rise Again

[allingeneral]

As we all know, the price of oil is seldom reflected in the price of gas at the pump. The oil companys can adjust their refining output to raise the price of gas anytime they feel the need. I'm not in favor of a lot of government regulation, but there should be something that can be done to prevent these greedy bastards from robbing us all summer long

Let's invade Iraq! Then we can regulate oil prices as we see fit! but no...we're to nice (or stupid) to go that far with it... Instead, we just take over, put all the oil fires out and hand the oil wells back over to the crazies who controlled it before we started.

[OakRidgeStars]

How about we crank up the domestic oil production instead of buying it from our enemies?. When the SHTF in the middle east, we're all going to be riding our bicycles to work. Why is it that other countries can drill for oil on land and sea without causing any environmental damage, but we can't?. I guess it's for the same reasons that we haven't opened a nuclear power plant in this country since the 1979 accident at Three Mile Island.
Wind and solar power are great, but neither will fill the tank in my ten year old pickup truck.

[alby]

As we all know, the price of oil is seldom reflected in the price of gas at the pump. The oil companys can adjust their refining output to raise the price of gas anytime they feel the need. I'm not in favor of a lot of government regulation, but there should be something that can be done to prevent these greedy bastards from robbing us all summer long

You are 100% correct on that perspective. There is a glut of oil around the world, but since refining
production is the bottleneck, prices aren't falling to rock bottom levels.

[Bob]

The gas prices finally dropped 10 cents a gallon out here, now 1.89 a gallon in Brookneal. Thats what my wife told me I haven't been to town today, I was a bad boy and didn't go to church.

They must have changed prices saturday, it's about time.

[OakRidgeStars]

Time to dust off this old thread. The price at the pump has reached $2/gal in the Hampton Roads area. Where will it stop this summer?

[goodoleboy]

I've seen it as high as $2.09 in the Manassas area, and as low as $1.98 or so.

[allingeneral]

After the $4.00+ per gallon fiasco, I don't even pay attention anymore. I know my truck has to be filled up and I fill it up and pay the ransom accordingly.

[Bob]

In the Brookneal area it's going from a $1.99 to $2.09 today depending on the gas station.

[Moccasin]

C'mon, Memorial Day and then summer break is coming. Did you really think gas prices would go down? Note that the oil companies haven't received any bail out money yet. You know they'll be wanting some of that money too. How else to get it then to raise prices?