OT: Gas Prices, Screwed over and over and over Options

[N14]

Put 50 litres (13.2US Gal.) in last night and paid a tad over $65............somehow I think we're getting ripped off out here (IMG:style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

Where's the best place to buy gas?????

[carreraguy]

Get used to it everyone.
I'm trying not to be political here but nothing is going to happen until the US weans itself from oil and the stranglehold the mideast has on everyone. Getting their hands off our throats is not going to happen until we get a cheaper source of energy (i.e. nuclear power plants all over the country) and getting from the current situation to then is going to be VERY rough on the US economy in general - thus the status quo. Bottom line, we dug the hole and now we have to live with it (and I admit, I'm one of the guys with the shovel).

[tdgray]

Get used to it everyone.
I'm trying not to be political here but nothing is going to happen until the US weans itself from oil and the stranglehold the mideast has on everyone. Getting their hands off our throats is not going to happen until we get a cheaper source of energy

After reading through some of the comments I have only one thing to add.

You guys really need to READ up on the subject and quit listening to the media hype. This is a complex issue and the media really only wants two things... scare you about it and tell you who is to blame for it.

As for the mid-east.... do you even know where we get the bulk majority of our oil (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I'll give you a hint... they aren't in the mideast.

DO YOUR HOMEWORK before going off half cocked people.

[carreraguy]

Get used to it everyone.
I'm trying not to be political here but nothing is going to happen until the US weans itself from oil and the stranglehold the mideast has on everyone. Getting their hands off our throats is not going to happen until we get a cheaper source of energy

After reading through some of the comments I have only one thing to add.

You guys really need to READ up on the subject and quit listening to the media hype. This is a complex issue and the media really only wants two things... scare you about it and tell you who is to blame for it.

As for the mid-east.... do you even know where we get the bulk majority of our oil (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

I'll give you a hint... they aren't in the mideast.

DO YOUR HOMEWORK before going off half cocked people.

I stand corrected; I guess I do too much listening and not enough reading.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petrole...ent/import.html

Now if we could only get each of those illegal aliens to bring a barrel of crude with them when they cross the border we'll be in great shape! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

The basic problem still is that we are hooked on oil and its going to be very painful on everyone to break the habit (if ever) because we did not have the will to do the right thing years ago because of environmentalists, oil and automotive lobbies and plain old insider politics. Very complex indeed with no easy answer.