Our President {Mr.Bush} doesn't have a say in the oil Congress control it, and he's not an idiot he sometimes like any one else makes not so smart decisions. No, I don't agree with everything he saids.

clpo13: Ask your congress person, cause congress is the one that want let us drill over here on our own land.

And that is all I have to say about that.

i think the gas is up so much right now because we're kind of in the middle of a transition. everybody's talking about going green, and are trying to do it but at the same time we're still depending on foreign oil & our president is a bumbling idiot so that doesn't help anything either
& we've gotten greedy. more suvs. and the hybrid cars that hare out there are so expensive that only celebrities can really afford them.

Rugar, think about this. If the United States had access to enough oil to be completely independent of other nations, why would we be paying $100 a gallon for foreign oil? Access to ANWR will not make us independent of OPEC.

ok EG if China and place like that are starting to buy cars and stuff then why don't we cut off our oil supply to them and drill oil for ourselves in our own country, cause we have enough oil over here to supply all of America?

One reason once again is cause of the eco-friendly people. The ones that say it's wrong to kill animals to eat them. I mean I'm against people who just kill the animals just to kill them.
And those light bulbs that are suppose to save you so much money a year don't. Only if you use them 4 hours a day and if they bust or burn out you have to waste money by having to call the EPA to come and clean the mess up from where it busted or to throw them away the right way.
So, I waste more money on trying to save the environment.
A real good idea.

I don't think Anwar Sadat would be happy if we decided to drill in him for oil.

And woe be the day that anyone slightly protective of the environment is considered a wacko. If it's wrong to want to preserve natural habitats and wildlife from the bulldozer of progress, I don't ever want to be right.

...wow, that was corny.

Wrong, rugar. That should be your new nickname. Wrong.


Gas prices are going up because people in large developing countries like China are starting to make enough money to buy cars. You take a non-renewable resource like gas, and hundreds of millions more consumers start using that resource over a short period of time, the price of said resource will rise. Pure and simple.

Take your angry closed conservative mind elsewhere.

One reason gas prices are so high is cause eco-friendly wackos have the oil companies putting 10% Ethanol in the gas and so that is also why the price of food goes up. Because they would rather us use our food to power our cars.
And also cause Congress want let us build in Anwar or Anwr which ever way you say it.Congress wants to blam the Oil Company and everyone else, but because they want to bow down to the eco wackos it goes up. Cause cars are harmful to the non-existing Global Warming.
So, there that is why gas is going up.
Write you Congress and tell them you want them to drill in Anwar and stop blaming everyone one else for there probablems.

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Originally posted by Holliewood:
Yeah, gas prices are 3.49 here, I didn't think I would ever see it go that high. Luckily, we have Giant Eagle, so every time you spend $50 towards groceries, you get 20 cents off per gallon. Every bit counts

Hey, that's pretty darn awsome!!!

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Originally posted by dinero_2:
Why are Gas prices So High In America...

Duh,the people who carry the gas,only take the advantage and just go when they want to go!There is a lot of gas But it's supply and demand!When people come to the conclusion,that they can't afford it,then the gas will definately be rollen!!!!

Yeah, gas prices are 3.49 here, I didn't think I would ever see it go that high. Luckily, we have Giant Eagle, so every time you spend $50 towards groceries, you get 20 cents off per gallon. Every bit counts

you know it's bad when I only go to albertsons because they have a 3 cent discount

Know what amazes me? Gas prices are going through the roof and yet the oil industry are making record highs, and recently many people are getting HUGE bonuses to there nifty check.
And gas prices here are about $2.97 (regular).

$3.50 per gallon where I live. It's been steadily climbing for months now. It constantly amazes me how the national average is as low as $3 per gallon, since it's always been higher where I live. Of course, that's probably because of Washington's gas tax...

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Hopefully when I go to the MI/OH border this weekend, gas will be cheaper and I can fill up.

Eh, don't count on it. Not that I live on the MI/OH border, but gas in Ohio by me has been 3.19 for over two weeks. I remember I filled up my car one day and it was 2.99 and I got really pissed off, and then the next day it was 3.19 and it hasn't changed since. Really put things in perspective lol...But I'm really sick of it being so expensive. It's been long enough. What happened to a couple months ago when it was almost 1.99?

It's been fluctuating between $3.059 and $3.259 where I am (metro Detroit). Hopefully when I go to the MI/OH border this weekend, gas will be cheaper and I can fill up.

My mom was upset because I told her that her and my dad could go to the boat early and I would take my sister to her vocal recital and we could meet them down there...but I would expect payment of $10 to make up for the amount of gas I'd be using.

$3 a gallon where I am

What is the gas price in america?

Gas prices are so high, because fossil fuels are becoming harder to find and get a hold of. Also I think that some people are only thinking of themselves and being greedy.

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In order to use the ethanol special parts have to be put in the cars (since its an alcahol its very corrosive) and the compression ratios are so different.

Well, actually, most of the cars built in the past 10 or more years have engines that can support ethanol. Also, ethanol is slowly being mixed in our gasoline, I think its 5%, I'm not sure. I'd look up all the official information but I really should be writing a paper right now
But I think this explains what is going on right now: http://www.ethanol.org/index.php?id=34&parentid=8

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But Hydrogen is hard to make, and the way that it's made produces a bunch of carbon that's free to wander and make some CO2...

Hydrogen fuel cell powered cars arent creating hydrogen, they're breaking it down. and the cars arnt powered on water either, they create water. The process starts by filling the tank up, Hydrogen is very impratical to store, it only has one valence electron and is therefore unstable, it also is a Gas (not liquid) so they store it as ethanol because it has an OH molecule in it. Now it is sent to somthing similar to a catalayic converter and those atoms are seperated and the oxygen lingers the Hydrogen rushes into the fuels cell and then combines with two oxygen molecules, this combining creates the electricity needed to power the motor in thosse cars. Now you have H20 which exits out of the car. Currently the fuel source is very inefficint, due to the converter wasting 1 in every 3 hydrogegen Atoms for later recombining and then the fuel cell wastes more which fail to combine with the oxygen then you have the weight of the car and the weakness of the electic motor which pull you at about 30 miles per hour (about the speed I hold on level road with my bicycle) you're looking at about 30% fuel efficiency rather than an ethanol powered car's 57% (and those put out enough power to be comparable to a modern Honda Civic 175 ft-lb of torque and 150 horses aint bad for alcahol)