OT: Gas Prices, Seen this on PCH Options

[jim_hoyland]

Was wondering why so many cars were at this station in Sunset Beach this am

[PlantMan]

I am a believer that our low prices here is actually the US's way of sticking it to the Middle East, primarily ISIS, Iran, etc for all the crap going on there. Less money to make from expensive oil and one other reason that the US's chief export is again oil. Flood the market with as much oil as you can.
I am also a big believer that we should use up everyone else's oil before using ours.
...but again I am just a landscape architect and not a politician.
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I am a believer that our low prices here is actually the US's way of sticking it to the Middle East, primarily ISIS, Iran, etc for all the crap going on there. Less money to make from expensive oil and one other reason that the US's chief export is again oil. Flood the market with as much oil as you can.
I am also a big believer that we should use up everyone else's oil before using ours.
...but again I am just a landscape architect and not a politician.
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If the U.S. really wanted to stick it to other countries we would have mandated laws and funded alternatives to gasoline powered engines. About 100 years ago 1/3 of cars were gas. 1/3 were steam, and 1/3 were gas powered. But, when this was happening the likes of oil magnets and monopolies were all the rage. Guess who won out? It wasn't the guys who control water... wait, no one controlled water back then because it was ludicrous, but they sell water today don't they. As for running out of oil, we will all be dust before that happens. The shortages are fiction of market manipulation as someone else mentioned. They are actually sticking it to us right now. The effect this will have is that the oil sand companies here and in Canada will cease operation. They need oil to be at a certain price point to operate in the black. What effect due you think all this will have in Canada and here in the oil related business and all other ancillary businesses? The same effect it had with mortgages and banking in 2008 and beyond if they do it long enough. Take the money that you are saving on gas and whatever else and save it, because you will need it later when you lose your non-oil related job. This is the other shoe dropping.