Gas Prices

In the UK in my area, the cheapest when we arrived 4 years ago was £1.17 per litre. Now it's £1.47. Not too bad a rise, but irritating. Perhaps they'll have made a good, working electric car when I'm old enough to drive.
 
Fridge said:
Hopefully electric car technology will advance enough so that electric cars become a viable option in the near future.
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Doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon or ever. Oil Companies want to stay in power so they will try to undermine the Electric Car Companies from becoming popular even though we already have cars being developed that save on gas mileage like Hybrids.

Part of the problem is that If we stop relying on Saudi Arabia for oil, they will get mad at us unless we share new electric car technology with them and everyone else in the world, plus it'd be unjust to keep it to just the United States anyway.

It's sad that corporate greed is ruining our everyday lifestyles.
 
Card Slinger J said:
Part of the problem is that If we stop relying on Saudi Arabia for oil, they will get mad at us unless we share new electric car technology with them and everyone else in the world, plus it'd be unjust to keep it to just the United States anyway.
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How would the US keep it to theirselves? The US isn't the only country that has technology of hybrid/electric cars. Europe, Australia, China, Japan etc. do also have hybrid cars. I know Japan at least already mass produces them. Most buses in Europe are hybrid for example, and I see enough hybrid cars (enough to be sure that hybrid cars don't exist in the US alone). Since the gas prices in Europe aren't that high, we don't have to rely that much on hybrid/electric (yet).
 
I'm feeling kinda lucky right now. In the town I'm living in gas is around $4.29 a gallon, but luckily for me, I live a block away from work and a grocery store, so I don't really have to shell out for gas money unless I'm going somewhere a sizable distance from me, lol.
 
Right now gas is $3.83 where, not as bad as some places. But it's really killing us(my family) because my dad, my brother, and me are going to college, and it's a 20-30 min. drive there. But this fall, I'll be taking online classes and if everyone works out, I'll be moving with my brother to where there's more businesses.
 
Card Slinger J said:
Fridge said:
Hopefully electric car technology will advance enough so that electric cars become a viable option in the near future.
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Doesn't look like it will happen anytime soon or ever. Oil Companies want to stay in power so they will try to undermine the Electric Car Companies from becoming popular even though we already have cars being developed that save on gas mileage like Hybrids.

Part of the problem is that If we stop relying on Saudi Arabia for oil, they will get mad at us unless we share new electric car technology with them and everyone else in the world, plus it'd be unjust to keep it to just the United States anyway.

It's sad that corporate greed is ruining our everyday lifestyles.
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actually, the gas companies pay the companies designing these to not release them
 
the problem stems further than iol companiies, their lobbyists, and the opec nations. Tbh, the opec nations don't really make that much off of crude. Remember when oil hit $120 a barrel, just cuz?.. Well, the opec nations received between $17 and $19 a barrel. Where did the extra hundred go?? Prospectors. They "buy" some oil by saying they want this much at this price, then they go back and forth between other prospectors. Then at the end of the day, they finally pay everyone. Essentially, the reason why the gas companies are making such ludicrus amounts of money compared to the opec nations is the prospectors. If you paid really close attention to the OPEC debates soon after gas plummitted to like $1.75 a gallon, they said that they don't want oil on the open market as a rescourse, but as a product. That they themselves will set a price of $18 a barrel for. Anything below $14 a barrel and their economy crumbles. And even if they get greedy @ $20 a barrel, the rest of the world will have 80 cent gas again.

the airline industry tried to get them banned from wallstreet, but then their grants were threatened to be taken away, so they stopped pushing for the removal of prospectors.

also, who else is disgusted by a hybrid only getting 32mpg? I think it's made by infinity.. And the toyota hybrid, used to get 60 mpg when it first came out. Now they get like 42. If that is not a clear sign that oil companies are in control of America's auto industry, I dunno what is. Glad VW is bringing the turbo diesels back to the USA.
 
The prices are swaying back and forth. It gains .15$ and drops .15$, hopefully Libyan problems are being solved.
 
See what the companies were doing (in the US) when the price of gas started falling a while back, is they were fixing the price- they deliberately made gas easier to buy so that people would use the resource and there would be less of it, and when something is rare, the price goes up. With the unrest in the "Middle East", the companies are now able to charge higher rates and have it be justified even more.
 
Well, hopefully this is all about to change. I hear that (don't quote me on this) Ta Ta Motors over in India (at least I think it was India) created a car that is designed to completely run on pressurized air. The problem with that is it can't be used on long trips, because it gets only about 300 miles to the tank, or whatever holds the air, and takes about 7-8 hours to completely fill it. It is possible to fill it in about 40 minutes, but you need "air" stations for that. It will take time, money, and plenty of other stuff to get this thing mass produced and get the resources available to make it available for daily use. I also hear that they will be relativly cheap to buy, too. And, because it doesn't run on gas, it will be cheaper to maintain than gas-running cars.

I have a feeling that oil companies are going to ruin this for us somehow.
 
Yeah some analysts predicted that the price of gas in the Southern United States will drop 50 cents by summer. I don't believe it but if so, I hope that it will transfer over to other places too.
 
Usually, I try to preserve where i go, to reduce the amount I use. Public Transportation isn't bad, but can't get you to a specific place, or at a specific time. Luckily for me, it's only around $3.50 a gallon. In Chicago, though it's quite close to $7.00, glad I'm not there. =l
 
public transportation in california stinks. If I took a combination of busses and trains to get to states/ regionals, it would have taken 5 and a half hours. Each way. It only took 40 minutes driving.
 
Pokemon said:
In Chicago, though it's quite close to $7.00, glad I'm not there. =l
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Who told you that one?! :p Right now I'm filling up at a bit over $4 a gallon. In premier locations (right off LSD or at the Oases), it's closer to $5, but not at or over. It has been rising, and Chicago gas is some of the most expensive in the country, but we're not that bad! There are estimates saying that we might hit $6 in peak summer traveling times, but it's just speculation for the moment.

That said, I do bike and use public transit when possible. Rather than driving up to the convention this weekend, I'm taking the Metra and the Blue Line. Just wish the suburbs had better public transportation, but not much you can do about it.

Obligatory old-person post: I used to get gas for under a dollar a gallon when I first started driving. :D
 
I bought gas for .56 a gallon and I remember gas being .19 a gallon.
 
I just recently got my license, which means I am going to have to start buying gas. Not looking forward to it. And where I work, it is about a 30 minute drive. Yay.
But I did read somewhere that Spain was developing an alternative fuel source from algae. Lets see if I can find the article...

Can't find the exact one, but here is one talking about making a fuel source from algae
http://articles.cnn.com/2008-04-01/tech/algae.oil_1_algae-research-fossil-fuels-nrel?_s=PM:TECH
 
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