[tcaudilllg]

I never thought it would get this high. $2.50 everywhere. It is a serious headache for me. Terrible. Five bucks for a gallon of gas? Something isn't right....

This seems to me like an excellent argument for socialized energy. Through socialization, producers and manufacturers alike could be forced/goaded/whatever into producing fuel that is assembled from a variety of sources.

Competing with China for gas is a lose-lose situation. Something must be done.

[janus]

You do realize that gas is just expensive, right? They're not just marking it up because they can.

[tcaudilllg]

Yes I realize that. However, they are doing nothing to make it less expensive. They are in power. Those in power have an obligation to act.

[Verious]

I think something like this could be a reasonable solution in the future:
http://www.energybulletin.net/4942.html

[RuneLancer]

[janus]

[biggerUniverse]

This is something I watch closely. The short story is that rich nations screwed themselves.

The long story is less complex: rich states are greedy bastards dragged around by rich companies that have little or no foresight.

EDIT: oh, yeah, and they are marking it up because they can. Has the price of a quart of motor oil sky rocketed? Hmm... didn't think so. And don't give me the "becuase it's little, sweet crude" BS.
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[Sirocco]

Everything will work itself out eventually. There will come a tipping point where petrol is no longer economically viable, at which point people and corporations will be forced to both explore and embrace alternative energy sources. Right now we have a few fledgling ideas but no magic bullet. Hydrogen, biodiesel, solar etc still have a long way to go before they are truly viable on a global scale.

A gallon of gas is still cheaper than a gallon of milk, which is (for the most part) domestically produced. Now that's something to ponder.

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[Rainer Deyke]

I know that if I had control of the world's supply of gasoline, I wouldn't sell any of it for less than a billion dollars a gallon. Automobiles are a disease. They stink, they pollute, they're noisy, and they kill thousands of people every year. Everybody needs one because our cities are designed that way, and our cities are designed that way because everybody has one. Take away the gasoline, and maybe we'll start to see a return to sanity. Either that or total chaos. I'm fine with either possibility.

[janus]

[Mandrake]

[tcaudilllg]

[js71]

I don't know if this is true, but I've heard from a few people who live in Europe that we have it easy as far as gas prices go compared to what they generally are there. I'm not sure if this applies to most of Europe or just the 'main' areas, and like I said I've just heard it from a few friends who live there, so don't take my word for it. :p

I usually just walk or take the bus where I need to go if I can't get there via other methods; though that probably has a lot to do with me being far too lazy to get my learner's liscense though, heh. But it's not bad. Sometimes I'd rather walk places than take the bus or get a ride.

[tcaudilllg]

Gas was $2.70 a gallon for regular unleaded down the street yesterday. That's about even with the price of milk at Walmart, I think.

[Sirocco]

Possibly pedantic note:

Gas in my area currently stands at $2.49 per gallon for unleaded, and whole vitamin-D enriched milk stands at $3.53 per gallon at the local Uber Wal-Mart.

This is also a major jump for milk, which has been around $2.25-2.50 a gallon for the past decade.

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