Mayomichael3 07:57:59 PM May 15 2008

I think the oil company's are ripping us off and driving us into a recesion. Theres always an excuse why the price of oil goes up. It's pretty simple what they do, the oil companys raise the price of gas way up, and then lower it a little to make us feel we are getting a deal when really they have raised the price to where they really wanted it to be.

JAMES9995 02:39:08 PM May 15 2008

When I was stationed overseas, USAF, in 1972, Europe, a strong dollar meant an excellent exchange rate, when the dollar was week, such as with low interest rates, the exchange rate sucked. Aslo, gas was 1.50 a liter! Do the math! In 1969 gas was 25 cents a gallon in the USA.

Eustt 01:56:49 PM May 15 2008

6 BUCKS A GALLON BY THE END OF THE SUMMER....HAS STOPPED ANYONE FROM DRIVING ? DIDN'T THINK SO...

Chrisdrach 01:45:30 PM May 15 2008

just shut up and pay and we'll bleed the raghe**d's oil fields dry.

DMALCHOW 01:36:17 PM May 15 2008

For Sean62965 – So what if it takes ten years, when Clinton veto the bill to allowing drilling in ANWR, it would be coming on line by your timeline. What you do not understand is that we are UNABLE to drill on 85 percent of our known reserves.

By the USA making a strong commitment to a domestic oil drilling program couple with a strategy plan to develop other sources of energy that are affordable to the American people this would send a clear message to the futures market around the world. These actions would help to stabilizing gasoline prices, strengthening the US Dollar and increase our security here at home and for our troops. Plus the $340 billion that we spent on foreign oil last year would be kept in the US economy which would go a long way in creating new jobs

Harmon14883 01:33:00 PM May 15 2008

I can't wait for petrol to increase to $9.00 at the pump. Then I'll think I'm back in France, on holiday, driving my Citroen 2CV.

Jetncat 01:25:51 PM May 15 2008

Psycsorcerer1 01:15:13 PM May 15 2008

Report This! Jencat please look into your monetary system history to see why oil is so high. Plus look into the futuremoney trends of the world. Before NAFTA we were the Strongest financle center of the world after we have continuosly fallen. We are the United States not the rest of the world.
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To put it simply that was then this is NOW. AND NOW OUR FINANCIALS ARE NOT DOING SO GOOD WITH OUR NATIONAL DEBT AND TRADE DEFICITS. I AM NOT SURE HOW NAFTA FITS IN BUT FROM EVERYTHING I DID READ IT IS PURELY TO STAY COMPETETIVE AGAIN IN THIS WORLD MARKET. IF WE DON'T KEEP UP AND COMPETE WE ARE DONE

Psycsorcerer1 01:22:56 PM May 15 2008

Do any of you know what the Carlyle Group is? tha is were all your money is going through shared efforts of the Binladins and the Bushes

Sean62965 01:20:26 PM May 15 2008

Yeah, all this seemed to happen when "w" decided he wanted to be president of ONLY the big corporations. Outsourcing has been going on faste than ever. This is the funnel up economy.
Oil was $20.02 in Jan 02. The housing bubble began in 01, when the regulation put into place was removed or significantly lessened.

Psycsorcerer1 01:15:13 PM May 15 2008

Report This! Jencat please look into your monetary system history to see why oil is so high. Plus look into the futuremoney trends of the world. Before NAFTA we were the Strongest financle center of the world after we have continuosly fallen. We are the United States not the rest of the world.

Psycsorcerer1 01:17:22 PM May 15 2008

Another person to thank for all of this is Henry Kissinger