We’re Not Interested In Lowering Gas Prices

JSG wrote:

PrintSmith wrote:

BearMtnHIB wrote:

Gas at $4 a gallon is still cheap. We pay that for a cup of Starbucks coffee.

You liberals keep posting about the cost to drive a car- you may not realize that this is the least of which to be worried about- it's the cost of everything else you should be worried about- because everything goes up when the cost of energy goes up.

Just so. The cost of getting groceries from the fields to the local supermarket goes up. The cost of growing and harvesting that food goes up. The cost of getting the clothing on your backs to the stores goes up.

The cost of everything goes up, regardless. Some people don't understand this and expect the price of gas to remain steady. It's supply and demand.

It goes up every year through the summer and declines in the Fall. This year, the tinfoil hats will likely claim the declining gas prices in the Fall are the result of the upcoming election, even though the cycle happens every year.

Maybe if we'd quit exporting refined gasoline, and keep it at home, we'd have more supply.

Well... maybe if the administration would stop shutting down home-grown energy sources...

PITTSBURGH — GenOn Energy Inc. plans to close five of its older coal-fired power plants in Pennsylvania over the next four years.

The company, based in Houston, said Wednesday that tough new environmental rules make it unprofitable to operate the plants, which generate a total of 3,140 megawatts of electricity. The plants are in Portland, Shawville, Titus, New Castle and Elrama. Two plants in Ohio and one in New Jersey will also be closed. The company said the timeframes are subject to further review based on market conditions. The Sierra Club said in a statement that closing the plants will prevent about 179 premature deaths, 300 heart attacks and 2,800 asthma attacks each year.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162- ... -to-close/

At least the President is keeping this promise...

Obama: We’ll bankrupt any new coal plants
POSTED AT 10:40 AM ON NOVEMBER 2, 2008 BY ED MORRISSEY

The folks at Naked Emperor News have unearthed another interesting nugget from a Barack Obama interview from months ago. In January 2008, Obama spoke about his approach to global warming and cap-and-trade systems, and he had a warning for anyone foolish enough to invest in coal:

"So, if somebody wants to build a coal plant, they can — it’s just that it will bankrupt them, because they are going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that’s being emitted."

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/02/o ... al-plants/

Jerks.

I don't really have a problem with the price of gas. I don't have any personal gas reserves and a bunch of US companies are all over most towns willing to sell me this liquid for only about $4-5 a gallon, with this liquid I can make about 114,000 BTUs (or about the head from 114,000 matches) I can drive from 10-60 miles with this fluid (depending on how much I put in my rig) and could heat my house for over a day in the middle of the worst south park winter. The amount I spend on fuel annually would exceed most American's family income and I don't have an issue paying someone a market price for something that I don't own that I want to own. I don't see what people are complaining about....is this one of those issues that people make up so that we think the two major parties are different?

popcorn eater wrote: I don't really have a problem with the price of gas. I don't have any personal gas reserves and a bunch of US companies are all over most towns willing to sell me this liquid for only about $4-5 a gallon, with this liquid I can make about 114,000 BTUs (or about the head from 114,000 matches) I can drive from 10-60 miles with this fluid (depending on how much I put in my rig) and could heat my house for over a day in the middle of the worst south park winter. The amount I spend on fuel annually would exceed most American's family income and I don't have an issue paying someone a market price for something that I don't own that I want to own. I don't see what people are complaining about....is this one of those issues that people make up so that we think the two major parties are different?

Er... some people may not have the funds you do to afford what ever amount of gas they need. Just saying. You may want to think about that?

GOPtwin,

people don't need gas, they want it.

You may want to think about that?

People need food, water and some warmth, the rest is fluff and you best earn it. People don't even get food, water and warmth by right, why the heck would we debate govt influence to lower gas prices....oh the "conservative" wants the govt to influence prices...does not sound very conservative to me.

People need to learn what they really need, but it is CO, so here we talk about wants as needs and then the bigger issue, who else we can get to pay for it. Wahooo, I'm a conservative, when it suits me.

So the current administration's solution is to force those who can afford to drive swap out their current gas burning cars for $40K hybrids as the price of everything goes up? Is it just me or does it seem that if everything costs more the average Joe will have less cash to spend on everything, therefore making the likelihood of being able to secure a loan for a hybrid car unlikely.

Ever wonder how many gallons of fuel it takes to plant and harvest a crop? How about how much fuel it takes to process that crop and transport the raw crop to a processor? Load those finished goods on to yet another truck to distribute them and what happens to the retail price of the finished product? If you can buy it in a retail store it probably was delivered on a truck that burns diesel and that truck had to travel over a significant number of mile to pick it up and drop it off.

What is the real goal of this administration? To bankrupt the lower and middle class? Promote and fund alternative energy companies that are destined to fail horribly? Tax and spend until a US Dollar is worth less than an Indian Rupee?

Passing up the chance to create jobs and increase domestic energy by shutting down the keystone pipeline is very telling.

popcorn eater wrote: I don't really have a problem with the price of gas. I don't have any personal gas reserves and a bunch of US companies are all over most towns willing to sell me this liquid for only about $4-5 a gallon, with this liquid I can make about 114,000 BTUs (or about the head from 114,000 matches) I can drive from 10-60 miles with this fluid (depending on how much I put in my rig) and could heat my house for over a day in the middle of the worst south park winter. The amount I spend on fuel annually would exceed most American's family income and I don't have an issue paying someone a market price for something that I don't own that I want to own. I don't see what people are complaining about....is this one of those issues that people make up so that we think the two major parties are different?

You may not, but Colorado towns who will lose tourist revenue because downstream people choose to have staycations this summer instead of paying $6 for gas to visit the Rockies do.

$6 gas? Where did you get that from? Fear monger much?

I thought I read Colorado tourism benefits from staycations.

Since our gas is lower than the rest of the country, I'm betting we'll attract vacationers who drive.

JSG wrote: $6 gas? Where did you get that from? Fear monger much?

I thought I read Colorado tourism benefits from staycations.

Since our gas is lower than the rest of the country, I'm betting we'll attract vacationers who drive.

You could be correct, but if gasoline does hit $6, I think out of state tourism to Colorado will go down. And even people in Denver won't visit the mountains as often.

Enjoy low rocky mtn prices while they last. They are going up in June when the OK-TX pipeline reverses flow.

We are lucky now but it is only temporary.