The only way these email solutions might work is if they were written in Chinese and circulated overseas. Increased Asian consumption is the main reason supply and demand has forced higher prices. It isn't going to end either, China has announced they have built a oil storage system similar to the US's strategic petroleum reserve and is going to start filling it. This will effectively eat up all of the excess worldwide production.
Conservation is the best thing an individual can do at this point if they want to lighten the load on their wallet.

Another email solution

My underwear cost me $2.25 a gallon today. Yours probably cost more. And if not your underwear, your shirt, your pen, or that mug you’re drinking your coffee out of.

There’s only so much available oil, you see. And there’s this law of supply and demand thing that says when China needs more oil, my gas prices go up. And when China produces more goods, it needs more oil. So hustle on down to your local Walmart and buy all those things that are not made in the U.S.A. because we still have some labor and environmental standards that would make those products “too expensive” for us consumers. You’ll pay the store less than you would if the products were made here. And you can find some way of forgetting that you’re putting our workers out of jobs by buying these overseas goods. But you’ll pay more for those products when you consider everything.

Of course there are solutions to this problem. One would be to lower our minimum wage to around 50 cents an hour and do away with all our environmental laws. Then industries within the country would be on a level playing field with the Chinas of the world. Of course, this would percolate upward so you’d be paid proportionately less than you are now. You may not like it, but it’s a solution. Want to tilt the balance in our favor? Reinstitute slavery. Hmmmm…..you may not like that one either.

Another solution would be to demand that workers around the world get paid fairly and foreign governments have reasonable environmental standards. I’ve heard that there are provisions in every trade deal that require this. But they’re not enforced. That might be the way to go. We haven’t gone that way because people right here in the good old U.S. of A. haven’t demanded it. And they haven’t demanded it because they’re not aware of the problem. But now you are. Remember it. Spread the word.

Next time you fill up the tank, think of your underwear.

 

Everybody that wants horse come on out to Wyoming, we have got plenty (actually too many) and "we" citizens of the good ole U.S.A. own them!




BLM- please reduce the herd size, France is hungry.

 

One word for those that expect gas prices to fall soon.

Bohica.

They got it, you need it, end of story. None of the little boycots or don't buy todays or anything else is going to work. And it ain't over yet. Society (us) is too dependent on our luxuries and it takes fuel to make them, fuel to transport them, and fuel for you to go get them or have them delivered.

(and no I don't like it either)

 

i got the horse buggies for ya's

 

2.43 a gallon hear, if you look you can get it at 2.39. Diesel is finally cheaper... at this moment.

 

The one that makes me mad though are the dealer that are taking advantage of the situation. The local truck stop convenience store owner has four or five stores around the state. The local store has the fuel in Leeds Alabama at 2.19 a gallon, the same owner has one in Pelham Alabama which is more upscale of an area, the price is 2.09 a gallon. The both stations fill from the same tankers, his, and fill from the same pipeline. The taxes are the same so he just charges more here due to less competition.

I really feel sorrry for the gas and fuel dealers, they just are not making any money....

 

How many people do you know that use 10gal. a day of the items listed above? Thats my perspective.

 

Filled up today at $2.399 a gallon.
Station owner is manning the counter since he can't keep employee's for this reason:

He bought his last tanker load at $2.38 a gallon.
He is making a whopping $.01 cent per gallon profit.

This is a Chevron.

Phillips station 2 blocks north is selling at $2.319 per gallon, so he's already losing customers to them.

No idea how much the last Phillips tanker load cost them, but they have to be losing money.


phox

 

That's a very good point. I was just trying to bring a little humor to a bad situation but very good point.

 

Another way to look at it though is how many of those other items took as much processing and transportation to make it into your vehicle?
Think about it, crude is pumped from several thousand feet deep in the ground, piped to a port, loaded on a tanker, hauled across the ocean, refined then piped or trucked to the filling station. Seems like it should be more expensive after all that.

The $21/gallon Evian water is in a 4¢ plastic bottle that they filled up in the back room of the 7-11

 

I beg to differ.... a company just built a huge plant with some deep wells here, and are tapping out the water supply. I was surprised to see the state refuse to allow them to double their size and production last year. This year, they just signed an agreement with another town to lease the municiple wells in exchange for fixing up a couple things around town. This is temporary until another plant is built. And they wonder why the great lakes levels are down so much. Much less all the extra truck traffic in the area.

 

I've done my part. I have not had my truck for FIVE WEEKS! Plus I had just filled it up.

Did I help?

 

It doesn't matter if OPEC cranks every well & pipeline wide open and provides a gazillion barrels a day.
Prices are set by Futures Traders not Sheiks.
And those gazillion barrels are just so much ballast until they're refined into fuels, and there hasn't been any expansion in refining capabilities in several years.
As a matter of fact several have been shut down.