Gas fluctuated around 1.25 a gallon for about 20 years while Iran and Iraq were at war with each other. Just goes to show how black market gas keeps the prices down.
I read somewhere that gas prices are actually low when you figure in the huge pile O’ new money Obama has diluted the old dollars with. Figures.
If we have doubled the debt since 2008 we have halved the value of the original dollars. The way they calculate inflation does not include energy costs.
Cheap money from the Fed has caused the dollar’s buying power to plummet in the world market, causing the retail price of gasoline to jump and Frank J.’s random thoughts to dwindle to one unfunny one. We can only hope it will cause the deforestation of the hippie’s dumb monkey faces next.
ANWR: Could provide 10% of US oil consumption from a drilling pad 4 sq. miles large in a deserted area larger than 10 US states Keystone: Could provide 5% of US oil consumption plus thousands of jobs Marcellus Shale: Recoverable reserves totalling 2 years of US natural gas consumption Gulf Drilling Moratorium: A reduction of production equivalent to 3% of US production Obama EPA Coal Policy (MACT): 28 gigawatt reduction in electric generation equivalent to 9% US coal generating capacity New Discoveries that Won’t Be Drilled: North Dakota (1 mil bbl/day), Julia reserves in the Gulf (1 billion bbl reserves), Mid Atlantic offshore reserves, California offshore reserves…
Workin’ in the fillin’ station – too many tasks.
Wipe the windows – check the tires – check the oil – Dollar Gas!
Too much monkey business. Too much monkey business.
Don’t want your botheration, get away, leave me.
. . . Chuck Berry, 1956
#9 bshave: indeed. Working on a couple of projects now with companies moving to commercial-scale diesel from natural gas. Rip the methane up into CO and H2 (syngas), link ’em back together over a catalyst in long chains to get naphtha, gasoline, diesel. Natural gas is cheap these days, and the diesel you get is by definition zero sulfur. Faster, please, as Dr Reynolds might say.
Newest independent study (from a university) says: Fracking poses no greater risk than conventional drilling with respect to groundwater or aquifer contamination.
Liberals inhabit the land of Moronica where the small group who wants the US to use less energy scares the remainder with baseless claims of environmental danger.
Conservatives would do well to point that out instead of getting dragged into the non-winnable debate about potential environmental impacts.
The algae are a fanTASTIC idea… and guess who’s funding the research? BIG OIL! Guess what else? It works great on small scale, but it’s not ready yet for large scale. Saying algae is the answer now is like slapping a patch of duck (duct?) tape on the Titanic and saying you’ve patched up the hole.
What? I only had one thought and it wasn’t even funny? What a gyp!
Not to mention your use of the word “gyp” is an intolerable hate crime against the Gypsies, or Romani as they are more (politically) correctly named. HATER!!1!
Seriously, aren’t we stealing from future generations if we start converting algae to oil? I think we should let it die, sink to the ocean floor, and change itself over millions of years, like we’ve always done. If we start using up all the algae there won’t be anything left for the children…of our children…of our children…of our children…of our chillllllllldrennnnnnn…
If you thought I was being serious with the alge remark I appologize for leaving out the sarcasam tags…the sad part is that Obama was serious when HE was talking about that “solution”. I think it is funny, in a sad way, that he claims that the conservative’s answer to the oil problem is drill, drill, drill and that just isn’t a solution but trying to find a way to make alge into gasoline is….even sadder is that people believe him….once we have that alge into gasoline solved we can tackle straw into gold.
I was discussing the Seventies with my child one day, and the subject of the “oil crisis” came up. She asked what it was, and I replied, “That was when the price of gas went up to 40 cents a gallon, and everyone freaked right the hell out.”
@#4: MFL, you finally got the spirit of this blog, so glad that you could get with the swing of things, thank you for the laugh! (or were you always satirical and I just didn’t “get” it with the “Mourning in America” comments about the Obama Administration?)
“Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it is that these faults are absent. Are we without the fault because we have the opposite virtue? Or are we without the fault because we have the opposite fault?”
― G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered
Obama promised us higher energy prices, and he’s delivering!
Lowering the oceans and healing the planet he can do – but $2.50 gas is really hard, darn it!
Gas fluctuated around 1.25 a gallon for about 20 years while Iran and Iraq were at war with each other. Just goes to show how black market gas keeps the prices down.
I read somewhere that gas prices are actually low when you figure in the huge pile O’ new money Obama has diluted the old dollars with. Figures.
If we have doubled the debt since 2008 we have halved the value of the original dollars. The way they calculate inflation does not include energy costs.
FrankJ:
Your wrote “What? I only had one thought and it wasn’t even funny? What a gyp!”
Don’t feel bad. Usually you have several thoughts and none of them are funny. In this case, less is more.
Best Regards,
Monkey Faced Liberal
Cheap money from the Fed has caused the dollar’s buying power to plummet in the world market, causing the retail price of gasoline to jump and Frank J.’s random thoughts to dwindle to one unfunny one. We can only hope it will cause the deforestation of the hippie’s dumb monkey faces next.
Oops — hippies’. You know what I meant.
Mxymaster is right
it is not gas that is high
it is the dollar that is low
not about the hippies though.
I like my shaggy dumb monkey face
ANWR: Could provide 10% of US oil consumption from a drilling pad 4 sq. miles large in a deserted area larger than 10 US states
Keystone: Could provide 5% of US oil consumption plus thousands of jobs
Marcellus Shale: Recoverable reserves totalling 2 years of US natural gas consumption
Gulf Drilling Moratorium: A reduction of production equivalent to 3% of US production
Obama EPA Coal Policy (MACT): 28 gigawatt reduction in electric generation equivalent to 9% US coal generating capacity
New Discoveries that Won’t Be Drilled: North Dakota (1 mil bbl/day), Julia reserves in the Gulf (1 billion bbl reserves), Mid Atlantic offshore reserves, California offshore reserves…
And so on. Loose money or anti-energy: J’Accuse!
Workin’ in the fillin’ station – too many tasks.
Wipe the windows – check the tires – check the oil – Dollar Gas!
Too much monkey business. Too much monkey business.
Don’t want your botheration, get away, leave me.
. . . Chuck Berry, 1956
#9 bshave: indeed. Working on a couple of projects now with companies moving to commercial-scale diesel from natural gas. Rip the methane up into CO and H2 (syngas), link ’em back together over a catalyst in long chains to get naphtha, gasoline, diesel. Natural gas is cheap these days, and the diesel you get is by definition zero sulfur. Faster, please, as Dr Reynolds might say.
@DontPlayRockyTop: Wow. Diesel from natural gas. Cool beans. Heck, magic beans.
Newest independent study (from a university) says: Fracking poses no greater risk than conventional drilling with respect to groundwater or aquifer contamination.
Liberals inhabit the land of Moronica where the small group who wants the US to use less energy scares the remainder with baseless claims of environmental danger.
Conservatives would do well to point that out instead of getting dragged into the non-winnable debate about potential environmental impacts.
I have a saying for #4: “Go blow your stench.”
I feel bad that you’re not even getting a golf clap for that. So…golf clap.
Just wait until they get that gasoline from alge thing working.
The algae are a fanTASTIC idea… and guess who’s funding the research? BIG OIL! Guess what else? It works great on small scale, but it’s not ready yet for large scale. Saying algae is the answer now is like slapping a patch of duck (duct?) tape on the Titanic and saying you’ve patched up the hole.
LIBERAL MEDIA:
$3.00 per gallon gas under Bush = awful president, must be voted out or impeached.
$5.00 per gallon gas under Obama = why would anyone be upset?
Liberals don’t do decimal points, besides algae = Al G. = Al Gore = algae and $250 a gallon gas if we want to save the planet.
The girl in the Snorgtees ad is making my mouth water!
Not to mention your use of the word “gyp” is an intolerable hate crime against the Gypsies, or Romani as they are more (politically) correctly named. HATER!!1!
Seriously, aren’t we stealing from future generations if we start converting algae to oil? I think we should let it die, sink to the ocean floor, and change itself over millions of years, like we’ve always done. If we start using up all the algae there won’t be anything left for the children…of our children…of our children…of our children…of our chillllllllldrennnnnnn…
They’re supposed to be funny?
Wait, $2.50 a gallon gas wasn’t meant to be funny?
I had a thought once and sasquatch’s husband taxed it to death.
When does Ron Paul!!111! accept the nomination?
So do rumney and silky pony share the same barber?
I heard silky pony was to sick to be prosecuted, which surprises me since he’s white.
If you thought I was being serious with the alge remark I appologize for leaving out the sarcasam tags…the sad part is that Obama was serious when HE was talking about that “solution”. I think it is funny, in a sad way, that he claims that the conservative’s answer to the oil problem is drill, drill, drill and that just isn’t a solution but trying to find a way to make alge into gasoline is….even sadder is that people believe him….once we have that alge into gasoline solved we can tackle straw into gold.
I was discussing the Seventies with my child one day, and the subject of the “oil crisis” came up. She asked what it was, and I replied, “That was when the price of gas went up to 40 cents a gallon, and everyone freaked right the hell out.”
No worries, Marc. I was on the same page as you. I brought it up to emphasize your point.
@#4: MFL, you finally got the spirit of this blog, so glad that you could get with the swing of things, thank you for the laugh! (or were you always satirical and I just didn’t “get” it with the “Mourning in America” comments about the Obama Administration?)
“Before we congratulate ourselves upon the absence of certain faults from our nation or society, we ought to ask ourselves why it is that these faults are absent. Are we without the fault because we have the opposite virtue? Or are we without the fault because we have the opposite fault?”
― G.K. Chesterton, All Things Considered