It's been hovering at 3 bucks a gallon for the last month here.

Honestly, these high prices are really pissing me off.

there's nothing i love more than pulling up next to a hummer or a ford subdivision in the gas station. what a bunch of asshats. Unpatriotic asshats at that - keeping our dependency on foreign oil. I would support a tax on vehicles that was inversely proportional to its avg gasolie consumption.

The infrastructure in Iraq is so fucked up it'll probably take more money to repair than it'll ever save us.

Us Texas just broke 2 dollars.

I've got a Bike
You can ride it if You Like
It's got a Bell, Basket, Lots of Things to Make It Look Good
I'd Give It to You if I Could
But I Borrowed It

Pink Floyd
'Bike'
Piper at the Gates of Dawn

'there's nothing i love more than pulling up next to a hummer or a ford subdivision in the gas station. what a bunch of asshats. Unpatriotic asshats at that - keeping our dependency on foreign oil. I would support a tax on vehicles that was inversely proportional to its avg gasolie consumption.'

Dude, you just sound like a bitter Yugo owner. Our dependence on foreign oil could be curbed by newer technologies, but I don't see it being developed rapidly enough. My next car will be a crappy hybrid only if it has decent safety features...no, I don't drive a Humvee.

They make $1000/year.

That's about $2.75 per day.

Seems to me $.05/gallon is great, but if you fill your 15 gallon tank, you've just spent a third of your daily wages on gas.

That may be a good average for some, but I spend a hell of a lot less than that even with crappy prices percentage-wise. They *are* going to be screwed when the US taxpayer isn't artificially deflating their prices...which means they won't like us after we leave, either. Wow. This was a great idea. Fuck.

'Our dependence on foreign oil could be curbed by newer technologies'

Only if we start making it economically advantageous to make and own the newer technologies. (ie, tax incentive?). Its about changing priorities.

hybrids are getting there - there was an article in sunday la times about nissan being so far behind the ball in hybrid technology - they also talked about diesel being a very efficient alternative. (http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-nissan7jun07,1,5229080.story?coll=la-headlines-business):

'Q: One fuel-efficient alternative is the hybrid, the gas-electric-powered vehicles that are catching on in California. Nissan plans to sell an Altima Hybrid in the U.S. in 2006. But you've been slow to get into the game and are licensing Toyota's hybrid technology rather than developing your own. Why?

A: The struggle for us is to make sure we continue to be a leader in technology development while remaining profitable. From a financial perspective, the hybrid at this point is not nearly as profitable [because of modest sales] and doesn't create nearly the value for shareholders, employees and stakeholders in the company that our other products do.'

So, nissan feels it needs some financial incentive. How about a big fat gas-guzzler tax?

My bitterness lies more in the mindless crap auto makers have been pushing on us for the past ten years. they've shown a complete lack of creativity and innovation because, i believe, the american public is not demanding it. we are happy with mediocracy.

there's no reason for our oil prices other than OPEC deeming it so.

Don't get too pissed about it. Turkmenistan pays about 3 cents per gallon, and we're not subsidizing their gas.

Okay Guys I have read through all of your opinions on this topic but no one mentioned the OBVIOUS fact that the Iraqis are able to and can pay .05 a gallon for their oil/gas because it is THEIR OIL AND GAS it comes out of their land! So the big bad ass USA went over there and raped and pillaged their country; many men and women lost their lives and in the end we are still paying out the ass for this life giving commodity. So we are pissed because they get their gas cheaper? What makes the US so fucking special that we can go into other countries at a whim or by bad CIA info and take the fuck over in the name of GOD and Democracy? We have no right to bitch about the fact they are getting their gas cheaper. We should be bitching about the fact there is an asshat running our country and until he is OUT, it is only going to get worse. Our high gas prices are HIS fault and not one else’s!

Dear Dumbskull, please take note at which eHarmonic wrote about salaries..... ok? thanks. The cost is all relative

Isn't it all relative? Your dead Iraqi may just be a hunting trophy to some. Their $.05/gallon gas may be an African Niger's next mud hut. Perspective people, perspective.

Jacked up Oil prices are a sham / scam and always have been. A better question to ask oneself is why does it say 'New World Order' in Latin on the back of U.S. $1 and dimes ???

Because a WCW fan got in there and put it on them.

Wow, 14 comments, on not one 'Blood 4 Oil' screed. I am sincerely impressed.

Dumbskull took a half-hearted stab at it, but I fear she lacks the heart....or factual information....or something.

mineralGod: If you were wearing your Tinfoil Hat properly, you wouldn't even have notice that. I suggest you make the neccessary adjustments.

tin foil hats LOL I was talking about wrestling.

HAHA you LOL'd!!!1

I am to tired and I just don't care

YOU BROTHER! YOU'RE GONNA BE THE ONE THAT PAYS $2 - $3 A GALLOON, CAUSE WATCHA GONNA DUUUUU WHEN HOLLYWOOD AND ALL HIS NEW WORLD ORDERANS RUN WILD ON YEWWWWW!

:D

Do you use different dimes than the rest of us do? The back of my dimes say 'E Pluribus Unum'.

Also the latin seclorum does NOT translate into 'World' but to 'Ages'. The phrase 'novus ordo seclorum' can never be translated, by one who knows latin, into 'New World Order', but rather into 'New Order of the Ages' or possibly 'New Age of Order', which fairly describes the intent of the fledgling democracy of the time after recovering from dictatorship. Citizens having more rights that the government? That was unheard of at the time, and was a completey new social order. America WAS the 'New Order'.

Sorry about that rant, it wasn't even about the main topic.

'The motto inscribed beneath the pyramid in the Great Seal of America is 'Novus Ordo Seclorum' which is Latin for 'New Order of the Ages', and synonymous with the 'New World Order'. The momentous decision to print the Great Seal on the dollar bill was taken in the 1930s by the government minister Henry Agard Wallace (1888-1965), who later became Vice-President of the United States, second in command to President Roosevelt, from 1940 to 1944.

Henry Wallace literally believed that America was chosen by God to lead the world in establishing the New World Order. In his biography of this prominent American politician, D. McDonald wrote that: 'Just as Wallace thinks of America as the nation destined by God to lead the world, so Wallace thinks of himself as a Messiah, an instrument through whom God will guide America onward and upward.'4 Wallace was a prominent Freemason, and he made no attempt to conceal the extent of his true beliefs when in 1934 he wrote, almost with prophetic religious fervour, about the profound esoteric significance of the Great Seal: '

As far as the dime goes that is supposudly the 'torch or illumination' or torch of the illuminati.