Why are Gas prices so high?

[wtp]

How do you blame oil prices on Bush? Bush isn't making money off of this if he was we would know. You don't become president to make money. We get more oil from Mexico and Canada then we do the middle east.

The prices are higher because they simple can charge more. No one is going to stop buying gas.

 

[Xtern]

bush is an oil man!

 

[Dark Zero]

The prices are just going to keep going up until somebody figures out how to mass market a renewable-energy using car.

 

[Xtern]

they have dark its called hybrids

 

[Kashmir]

Simple. We're running out of supply.

Supply and demand; The bases of our economy.

 

[Belac]

1st: We voted bush in
2nd: He invaded iraq (One of the leading gas suppliers)
3rd: The dumbasses voted him in again
4th: Now we have to deal with their stupid move.

 

[Cymru]

I always hear Canadians and Americans complaining that prices go up like 1-10 cents more. Many European places sell for way more, and I never hear it get mentioned.

 

[OxyMind]

Gas prices are high because the demand for gas is so high. The demand for gas is so high because the population in the U.S is very large, and rising.

 

[Tgump]

I always hear Canadians and Americans complaining that prices go up like 1-10 cents more. Many European places sell for way more, and I never hear it get mentioned.

That's because America sees pretty much anything uninvolved with it useless and dull. So any American going to Europe would be considered dumb because without personal study, he would know nothing about it. Same goes with European gas prices.

 

[A_S_A]

The answer is in my previous post, stop saying the same thing over and over again.

 

[dam prayer noobs]

If you are mad about the gas prices going up, wait till 2011 and buy a Chevy Volt:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgTcdfkihE4

 

[blackdragon69697]

Scam the american people? You do realize the oil companies only make a 5 cent profit per gallon of gas sold, right? Think about that: If the price of oil didn't change and the companies decided to sell gas at only 5 cents cheaper, they'd be making 0 profit.

Bs, that make alot more than that do a little research.

 

[Damien0124]

But if you call the gasprices in the US high, you should come to Europe, in Holland we pay appox. € 1,50 per liter, that's ~$ 2,35 per liter (4,55 liter = 1 gallon)
so we pay ~$ 10,60 per gallon, that's a bit more than the US

 

[Bodyman69]

becuase pakis are ch33p

 

[Y0u_G0t_Pwn3d]

How do you blame oil prices on Bush? Bush isn't making money off of this if he was we would know. You don't become president to make money. We get more oil from Mexico and Canada then we do the middle east.

The prices are higher because they simple can charge more. No one is going to stop buying gas.

This is where you are wrong.... Bush has millions invested in the oil business, bigger the profits more networth and such is gained by the stock holders.....

He is draining the last bit of money out of america he can before he has to evacuate office...

 

[E.T]

We need enough bombs to blow places up lyk iraq for instance....Bush told me so...

 

[Swan]

There is only ever a limited supply of petroleum to go around. Use your head.

 

[qaz cav]

People will pay high amounts for gas, because there is no other alternative. You need a car in most cases to get from place to place. If people will actually pay for the ridiculously high priced gas, then prices go up.

 

[Lol I am Atomi c]

I think the real question here is, why do Americans insist on calling petrol, something that is in LIQUID form, "gas"?

It's like renaming cordial to "solid".

"Oh man I'm going to go drink some solid, I'm so thirsty."

 

[Swan]

I think the real question here is, why do Americans insist on calling petrol, something that is in LIQUID form, "gas"?

It's like renaming cordial to "solid".

"Oh man I'm going to go drink some solid, I'm so thirsty."

Answer: Gas is short for Gasoline.

However, I still call it Petrol/Petroleum.