07-18-2008, 01:57 PM
I agree that gas prices are high... I also agree that it's NOT the gas stations/stores that are gouging us. They are making very little on each tank of fuel we buy. A better question is what the hell are the people we put into office are doing with the taxes per gallon? Basically, I feel that the large companies are just gouging the consumer while they still can. "Alternative fuels" or whatever the media/candidates want to call it is inevitable. They're just gouging us while they can. When we're not longer buying oil (at least in the quantities that we are now), they won't have the income that they have now, and will just live on the money they're making now. That's just my feeling, and not based on facts or studies.
Now this is where I piss alot of people off with my thoughts on gas prices. Who cares?! It's nothing more than a political "issue" for us all to dwell on. Yeah, I look at the total when I'm filling up and recite "Wow. That sucks. I remember when...", but we're all paying the same... and I'm sure that we all pay for other things in our daily lives where the price isn't stable. We've been spoiled with gas prices being so low for most of our lives, and now that it's risen 30% in a year, we're all up in arms. We're still driving just as much, or more, than we were 20 years ago when the price of fuel was less that a dollar per gallon. If you were running a business, where your prices were so low, that you could raise your prices at this rate, and demand would still outpace your prices, wouldn't you raise your price?! WTF? The problem is US... The people. Not "the government". Costs of doing business is going up, prices will then go up, and salaries will also have to go up. That's how our economy has been built and been running for 230+ years.
We've got more serious issues in the Country/World than gas prices. For one... Our neighbors (literally) are getting killed everyday overseas and here we are bitching about how much is took to fill up our trucks.
Sorry to piss on everyone's fire. Let the flaming of JayT begin.
JayT
Now this is where I piss alot of people off with my thoughts on gas prices. Who cares?! It's nothing more than a political "issue" for us all to dwell on. Yeah, I look at the total when I'm filling up and recite "Wow. That sucks. I remember when...", but we're all paying the same... and I'm sure that we all pay for other things in our daily lives where the price isn't stable. We've been spoiled with gas prices being so low for most of our lives, and now that it's risen 30% in a year, we're all up in arms. We're still driving just as much, or more, than we were 20 years ago when the price of fuel was less that a dollar per gallon. If you were running a business, where your prices were so low, that you could raise your prices at this rate, and demand would still outpace your prices, wouldn't you raise your price?! WTF? The problem is US... The people. Not "the government". Costs of doing business is going up, prices will then go up, and salaries will also have to go up. That's how our economy has been built and been running for 230+ years.
We've got more serious issues in the Country/World than gas prices. For one... Our neighbors (literally) are getting killed everyday overseas and here we are bitching about how much is took to fill up our trucks.
Sorry to piss on everyone's fire. Let the flaming of JayT begin.
JayT