Katrina and Gas Prices?? (off topic)

[Anonymous]

I'm with Modelcar on this one. If all I have to do is pay more at the pump than so be it. I still have my home, my car, my family, and my life is ever so normal. I don't want to hear people complaining about gas prices when they still have a car to drive! I'm thankful all I have to worry about is high gas prices. Sure the higher fuel prices lead to higher prices everywhere else, but BIG DEAL! Just take a moment and watch the news and put yourself in the shoes of the people down there. I did that and I burst into tears, I sure wouldn't know where to start after all that. No House, No Car, No Job, No ANYTHING!!! Ok, time to take a deep breath.... But seriously be happy all you have to worry about is paying more. AND.... it's not like we haven't seen higher gas prices coming. Europe and Japan, etc pay way more than we do for gas. I think it will push for alternative fuel source development and implementation much more quickly than it has been going. [soapbox][soapbox][soapbox][:-^]

[Anonymous]

As I understand it, losing New Orleans and surrounding refineries and pipelines directly affects the East and MidWest. The Rockies and West have independent refineries and pipelines so Katrina isn’t the cause of shortages and or price gouging in Portola.

[Anonymous]

QUOTE: Originally posted by CSXrules4eva

Ok I've got to ask this question to my fellow fourm members since every were I go (now) and every one I meet has been complaing about gas prices going up because of Katrina.

Yesterday I headed up to Portola Railroad Museum to catch the UP 1983, and that steam engine thingy, 3985. I stopped to top off at the Safeway gas station, which is part of the Safeway Super Market, the price was $2.889 spent 6 hours at Portola and came home, again I stopped off at Safeway to fill up, they had jacked the price to
$3.399. Between 10:00 AM and 5:30 PM the price jumped 51 cents a gallon. The clerk told me that they had not received a delivery between those times. Needless to say, I went down the street and paid $2.89 a gallon!

GW Bush said that we should not buy gasoline if we don't need it. Because of that I'm thinking about not chasing the 3985 down the Feather River Canyon tomorrow.

Jim

[csmith9474]

HMMWV gets blown up in Iraq, gas up .50 cents per gallon. Tornado in Kansas, gas up .30 per gallon. Coal train derails, Gas up .60 cents per gallon. The petrol companies just stated not too long ago that gas prices are not due to crude shortages, but refinery capacity. How many refineries were lost in the storm?

[csmith9474]

Looking for any excuse!!!!![V][:O][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!][:(!]

[Anonymous]

The gas goes up like that because we are all sheep, and the oil companies know it.
Remember all those oil refineries that got closed down during the clinton years? Well, that is comming back to bite us now.

Thank the tree huggers for at least a portion of this. The enviro concerns closed down a great deal of what would be competition,.. if the refineries were still around today.

[Modelcar]

Everyone should realize we're in never, never land right now with massive disaster disrupting our way of life and down in the diaster area much worse than that....a matter of life and death. So, we're going to see conditions at the gas pump, and in other areas that are completely not normal and won't be for some time....We'll have to rely on our local, state and federal people to do what can be done to get us through and out of this tragedy. We all need to conserve and have a bit of patience each day and in some cases help where we can....Now a campaign of donations is starting to help fund this massive operation and many of us can help by doing our part there too....

[Anonymous]

yes, 20 cents would have been nice. here in georgia, gas jumped to up to 6 dollars a gallon. The govoner i heard said the price wasent allowed to go past 4.99 which it was in many places. Today, gas is 3.49 average. its horrible.

[CopCarSS]

Law of supply and demand. The supply of gasoline has been hampered, and even with higher gas prices, demand doesn't seem to be going away. I'm already seeing a plethora of RV's on the road for the Labor Day weekend. Until Americans figure out that unless demand goes down, prices will remain high.

It's a shame that the market is driven by yuppies who think taking their Hummers, Excursions and Suburbans "off-roading" means driving on a gravel road. My Caprice may not be the best at gas mileage, but I can still get 25 mpg on the highway if I'm really nice.

Of course, I decided that it might be fun to bike to the Colorado Rail Museum this labor day weekend. I take the bus to school. If every American did little things like that, we could lower demand, even with the gas guzzling SUV's that never leave the pavement while transporting 1.3 children.

[CSXrules4eva]

Ok I've got to ask this question to my fellow fourm members since every were I go (now) and every one I meet has been complaing about gas prices going up because of Katrina.

Just the other day I was told by one of my co-workers that because of Katrina the oil companies have decided to jump the prices up by 20 cents for insurance reasons. I thought this was a little outragious considering the fact that 20 cents is a huge figure when you add it to how many people in the world will be paying for fuel. Even raseing it five cents is a big jump. So my question here is why would they decide to raise the prices 20 cents because of Katrina?? At this rate they will raise the prices an additional 10 cents because a twister came through the gulf coast or something that rediculous (spelling). Just yesterday I paid 20 bucks for only 6.2 gals of gas, thats a rip off.