Comments on: How should we lower gas prices?

By: Ralph, johnstown new york

Ralph, johnstown new york — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 00:58:21 +0000

The only way to change the gas prices is to start making some serious changes to our system its broke and its inflation. goverment says make changes and never does cars in the 70’s got more mileage it can be done they dont want it done. Quit talking about it and do it new energy has been available for a long time.

By: anon, beaver island, mi

anon, beaver island, mi — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:35:10 +0000

Now it is a year later and beaver island is paying $5.20 per gallon. and by the way we can’t just stop buying it there, it’s the only station here.

By: Eric Bailey. Pemberville, Ohio

Eric Bailey. Pemberville, Ohio — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:09:33 +0000

Stop buying gas from a certain company for along period of time then that company will lower their prices because they dont want to go out of buisness. It’s a fairly easy thing to do it just takes time and support from the people at large. It’s like addressing a grievence my grievence is the outragously high gas prices stop buying a companies gas and they will lower their prices.

By: Mo Brooks, Calhoun, GA

Mo Brooks, Calhoun, GA — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:57:52 +0000

Get out of Iraq is right!! Bush has come up with every reason under the sun why the reason of oil continues to go up. The American people are not as stupid as Bush gives us credit to be. He has done nothing to help the American people. If he wants to fight a losing battle in Iraq, send him and Chaney over with guns. Of course Chaney would probably shoot his foot off before he even got to Iraq. Also, what about the millions of illegals that are in our Country using up our benefits and products. It will take our Country a long time to pull out of the sink hole that the Bush Administration has put us in. What is he trying to do, take us back to horse and buggy. Well, who could even afford that at this point? There is no reason that we should be paying over $4.00 a gallon for gas, and then he oil companies throw it in our face the profitt they are making off us. The President must hate the Republican Party, because he has done everything possible to turn the American’s against them.

By: Joe Cresca Mayville WI

Joe Cresca Mayville WI — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:23:00 +0000

There is alot of good ideas out there….1. alternative fuels…not corn…someone made the comment “we have so much corn in the united states lets make that into fuel”…NO…Food prices would increase dramatically. 2. tax the people you buy ginormus suvs..what a lame brain concept. what would that do? crash the automoble industry. how bout we tax the conglomerates that post billions in profits..they lie we pay and the governments are in on it. in the 1960’s gm made a carberautor that got an average of 70mpg…a carb?..we have fuel injection now which is way more economical…the big wigs buy the patenets hide them away tell the public it cant be done and expect us to pay more…it all comes down to money. I like the idea of a boycot but just seems impossible. we need more research on hydrogen. we start researching and start building refueling areas. well thats all for now.

By: Brian, Little Falls, MN

Brian, Little Falls, MN — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:14:34 +0000

As the dollar goes down due to war spending and oil demand continues to be high due to Americans buying large gas inefficient SUV’s oil will continue to rise in price. Demand, War, War, and excess government spending (War), will continue to drive the price of oil up and the dollar down.

By: mike. wooster, ohio

mike. wooster, ohio — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 05:50:05 +0000

What a load of libtard crap. tax tax tax. Just ignore the libtard hippies and start drilling.

By: Jamie Kansas City, MO

Jamie Kansas City, MO — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 00:19:56 +0000

You discuss how economics work in a free market economy and then talk about government intervention by means of a carbon tax? Do you think we will come up with these alternative energy sources overnight? So let’s forget about the economy in the mean time. If gas is $4 or $5 dollars a gallon as you’re suggesting, whom do you think that effects first? Lower and middle class, By the way, do you have a 401k? I bet you’re one of those evil shareholders reaping the benefits of those oil companies.

By: Vinu, San Jose,CA

Vinu, San Jose,CA — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:21:10 +0000

Want lower gas prices? Get out of Iraq!
The US military is probably the world’s largest consumer of oil especially in war time.
When we stop burning $12 billion a month on the war, the US dollar might stop plummetting too. That should bring down crude prices.

By: Jim Knopp, Bear, DE

Jim Knopp, Bear, DE — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 15:48:17 +0000

A part of the problem with price increases is that an increase in raw goods benefits everyone along the supply chain right out to the pump. Ordinary accounting allocates costs and makes target profit derived from percentages based on costs. So each stage of suppliers benefit from their raw costs rising.
You don’t really think Exxon got record profits by having world’s best management razoring all costs, do you? A large part came a windfall profit created by the cost accounting methods.
The solution will make accounts howl. It’s simply to make profit a fixed offset to costs. In that way the inflation is not passed along to the next supply phase.

By: Mary Steele Yorktown VA

Mary Steele Yorktown VA — Wed, 13 Jun 2007 02:32:55 +0000

Take away the windfall tax to oil companies and give half of it back “at the pumps” and the rest as grants for new energy projects.

By: Zach P. Phoenix, AZ

Zach P. Phoenix, AZ — Mon, 28 May 2007 10:47:52 +0000

Tax the idiots that choose to buy the ginourmous SUVs and Trucks… They are hard to see around and pollute my beautiful planet.

By: Bob, St. Petersburg, FL

Bob, St. Petersburg, FL — Sun, 27 May 2007 14:38:03 +0000

A European style gas tax??? Any politician who votes for it ought to be 'tarred and feathered'. We need to stop this insanity of having different blends for a specific part of the country. A refinery that produces a specific blend which suddenly encounters production problems (either by accident or design) will cause a fuel shortage, resulting in higher prices. It is simply the law of 'supply and demand'. I blame the environmentalists for part of the current refinery problems in that rabid objections to past attempts to add refinery capacity were staunchly opposed and eventually withdrawn. Now we pay the price for that stupidity. And NO, I do not own stock in an oil company. Oil companies should be expected to invest some of their excessive profits in upgrading their existing refineries, many of which are past 30 years old. It is obvious to the causal observer that the oil companies have NO INCENTIVE to behave differently; they are benefiting from their previous shortsightedness. I also firmly believe that the automakers are firmly in bed with the oil companies. Face it, WHY would the automakers produce a vehicle that gets superior mileage; if their 'friends' at the oil companies would see the corresponding loss in revenue. Of course, the automakers excuse is that 'consumer demand' dictates what they make. (consumer demand, my ass!) Doesn't one hand like to wash another. There was one post that made a lot of sense; a 'gas guzzler' tax. If you want a Hummer, then you can expect to pay for it. All of this reminds me of a 'National Lampoon Radio Hour' program that aired back during the 70's. In it, the announcer for "Monolithic Oil" promises the listeners that at Monolithic Oil, consumers will pay and pay, and pay, and pay. Boy, did they get it right. And today, we are getting screwed, and screwed, and screwed, and screwed. Time to wake up America!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 27 May 2007 04:15:14 +0000

this wold be ok if not for the fact that we would be handing over more of our money to the federal government or state governments to waste and we would still be in the same position 20 years from now.

By: Michael, Utica, MI

Michael, Utica, MI — Mon, 21 May 2007 19:57:31 +0000

We are trying to tackle something that in the long run doesn’t have an effective solution. We should be pushing very strong for other alternatives that have been proven to be effective like hydrogen vehicles, but because there is so may parties involved in the oil business it’s in their best interest to keep delaying these alternatives that are beneficial for our world.

By: Tay, Badin, NC

Tay, Badin, NC — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:51:07 +0000

Increasing the tax and telling people to use public/mass transport doesn’t help the large group of us that live in rural areas and have no option other than our own car. My husband is a rural mail carrier – he has to use his own car, pay for his fuel. We already spend more on his fuel than our house payment each month. We don’t hop into our cars and just drive around for the fun of it. What are we supposed to do???

By: Catherine McCarthy, Maspeth, NY

Catherine McCarthy, Maspeth, NY — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:48:49 +0000

$1.00 gallon more tax? I think it’s time to go back top basics and stop feeding these Goliaths.
Buy a bicycle, walk, take mass transit.
Stay home and read a good book, take up knitting, shoot hoops by the garage.
Anything but move that vehicle out of the driveway.
Let’s hit the big oil Behemoths in the wallet.
Exxon-Mobil posted BILLIONS in profits the first quarter! Whay don’t they take som of those profits and fix the refinerys or open more?
An increase in gas taxes and the prices themselves are just ordinary everyday THEFT.

By: Robby Seattle, Wa

Robby Seattle, Wa — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:47:59 +0000

We need to push more alternatives and use our resources, we have so much corn in this country, why not turn it to fuel. If we had a small carbon tax we could use the revenues from that to develop clean energy, more solar, wind, and fuel cell power. Requiring more efficient cars, our cars can’t be driven in China because they pollute to much, Inconvinient Truth. That is pathetic. And last but not least, get this guy who has all his money in oil out of the presidency.

By: Mike Mannion, Clifton Park NY

Mike Mannion, Clifton Park NY — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:18:20 +0000

Let gas hit $4 dollars with the hope it would compel people to buy more economical vehicals and thereby offset the cost increase while at the sametime, provide a more efficient use of a finite resource.

By: L Smith, Chicago, IL

L Smith, Chicago, IL — Mon, 21 May 2007 16:09:03 +0000

The first option is completely ridiculous! The only thing that would happen here is that the price would have to go up and still not come down.

For families that have jobs that require a truck and lots of driving – setting limits per family or getting a smaller car just doesn’t work.

One thing that I see as an issue often seems like they blame the US facilities that have to create so many different blends to meet the different regulations that are set on a state-by-state basis. This makes the facilities have to run inefficiently. Maybe we need to just have a national law instead so our facilities can make just one blend.

All-in-all, there isn’t just one answer to this question. We all have to cut back on excess use (including buying bigger vehicles than we need just because they are a status symbol), we need to drill for more domestic sources of oil, we need to look into alternative fuels, we need to make cars with MPG in mind again(like in the 1980s), we need to set common standards across the country, and the big oil companies have to lower their prices even if it cuts down on some of their record profits.