Will higher gas prices help America or hurt it?

[Dr. Blutarsky]

I have my own company providing exercise equipment service and delivery within a 1.5 hr radius here in FL. I need a big truck. I can't really raise my rates too much or I lose customers. Big business (oil) always fucks over the small business guy.

[SLCPUNK]

I have my own company providing exercise equipment service and delivery within a 1.5 hr radius here in FL. I need a big truck. I can't really raise my rates too much or I lose customers. Big business (oil) always fucks over the small business guy.

Dodge Diesels are supposed to be pretty good.

[pilferk]

Hey you should move to England we pay $7.50 for a Gallon of Petrol it costs me $155 to fill my car from empty, my choice due to me driving a Gas Guzzler at 10MPG so im sorry but i have no sympathy for you guys, id love to pay $4 a Gallon

I'd gladly pay $7.50 per gallon if that price picked up the costs of my families health care, higher eductation, etc.

But I have to pay for all that stuff in ADDITION to the higher gas price.

[Cornell]

Personally I hope it only goes higher.

Why?

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Hey you should move to England we pay $7.50 for a Gallon of Petrol it costs me $155 to fill my car from empty, my choice due to me driving a Gas Guzzler at 10MPG so im sorry but i have no sympathy for you guys, id love to pay $4 a Gallon

I'd gladly pay $7.50 per gallon if that price picked up the costs of my families health care, higher eductation, etc.

But I have to pay for all that stuff in ADDITION to the higher gas price.

So true!  higher education repayment is a noose around my neck.   I actually began biking to work a few days this month, I only live a couple of miles away so it's not too bad.  I dont know if I can completely substitute for the car though, sometimes I need to take a laptop, books and crap.  A car has its purpose 

what's strange is I seem to remember a bigger hoopla in the news about approaching the $3/gal mark, but now that we're moving onto $4, it's just more grumbling rather than alarm like last time.

[Bodhi]

I think we should just take all of Iraq's oil...isnt that the reason we went there in the first place?!?! where is all of this oil?

[SLCPUNK]

I think we should just take all of Iraq's oil...isnt that the reason we went there in the first place?!?! where is all of this oil?

Well, as it turns out, it appears Iraq has double the oil we once thought it to have, second on to Saudi Arabia.

[Bodhi]

I think we should just take all of Iraq's oil...isnt that the reason we went there in the first place?!?! where is all of this oil?

Well, as it turns out, it appears Iraq has double the oil we once thought it to have, second on to Saudi Arabia.

exactly...so lets just take theirs...security is so bad over there its not like they are going to be able to stop us...

[GNRreunioneventually]

I think we should just take all of Iraq's oil...isnt that the reason we went there in the first place?!?! where is all of this oil?

Well, as it turns out, it appears Iraq has double the oil we once thought it to have, second on to Saudi Arabia.

exactly...so lets just take theirs...security is so bad over there its not like they are going to be able to stop us...

KILL'EM ALL

if we drop a nuke on them that'll destroy the oil won't it

[Krispy Kreme]

Personally I hope it only goes higher.

That is exactly  right. America uses too much and needs to change the vehicles  it  drives, the way it uses energy (become more efficient), and end its profligate use of oil by developing alternative  sources of energy, and  by that I mean renewable sources. The US uses 24% of the world's oil every year. People will respond to prices. And if you feel the pain, buy some stock in Exxon  or a mutual fund that invests  in energy companies, so at least you make some money back.

[GeorgeSteele]

Anything that hastens the transition to renewable forms of energy is a good thing.  As China continues to grow into an economic superpower and increase its demand for oil, the prices will keep on rising.

[mrlee]

Anything that hastens the transition to renewable forms of energy is a good thing.  As China continues to grow into an economic superpower and increase its demand for oil, the prices will keep on rising.

china can suck my dick, god damn communist polluting ass of a country.