The average price at the pump is about $2.05.
I know near Chicago it's about $2.15 and increasing.

Here's another article to go along with the topic.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7201322/

You have succeded in owning the entire "active forums" board. Are we indulging for any particular reason???

YYYEEEEEEAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHHH !!!!!

We are on the lucky end... But is still TOO much... Gas in my area is $1.95

"I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies"

The Atheist Bible(My website)

I'm in Seattle for today and it's as high as $2.26 for regular unleaded and $2.46 for premium. But what ever we do don't let them drill for oil in that barren wasteland in Alaska called ANWAR.

Looks like the Bush policy of PRIVATIZATION is the reason gas prices are so high.

The industry-favoured plan was pushed aside by a secret plan, drafted just before the invasion in 2003, which called for the sell-off of all of Iraq's oil fields. The new plan was crafted by neo-conservatives intent on using Iraq's oil to destroy the Opec cartel through massive increases in production above Opec quotas.

The sell-off was given the green light in a secret meeting in London headed by Ahmed Chalabi shortly after the US entered Baghdad, according to Robert Ebel.

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Mr Aljibury, once Ronald Reagan's "back-channel" to Saddam, claims that plans to sell off Iraq's oil, pushed by the US-installed Governing Council in 2003, helped instigate the insurgency and attacks on US and British occupying forces.

"Insurgents used this, saying, 'Look, you're losing your country, you're losing your resources to a bunch of wealthy billionaires who want to take you over and make your life miserable,'" said Mr Aljibury from his home near San Francisco.

"We saw an increase in the bombing of oil facilities, pipelines, built on the premise that privatisation is coming."
Privatisation blocked by industry

Philip Carroll, the former CEO of Shell Oil USA who took control of Iraq's oil production for the US Government a month after the invasion, stalled the sell-off scheme.

Mr Carroll told us he made it clear to Paul Bremer, the US occupation chief who arrived in Iraq in May 2003, that: "There was to be no privatisation of Iraqi oil resources or facilities while I was involved."

Ariel Cohen, of the neo-conservative Heritage Foundation, told Newsnight that an opportunity had been missed to privatise Iraq's oil fields.

He advocated the plan as a means to help the US defeat Opec, and said America should have gone ahead with what he called a "no-brainer" decision.

Mr Carroll hit back, telling Newsnight, "I would agree with that statement. To privatize would be a no-brainer. It would only be thought about by someone with no brain."

Entire article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/4354269.stm

War does not determine who is right, war determine who is left.

http://www.kget.com/news/state/story.aspx?content_id=29D62E75-4F2D-4C87-...

Gas prices hit record highs and are expected to rise

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Prices at the pump have jumped to record levels -- and are expected to keep rising for the foreseeable future.

Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg says the average retail price for grades of gasoline increased 12-point-74 cents to two dollars, 13 cents per gallon in the two-week period ending Friday.

What a great way to win the votes of the fence straddlers,quasi democrats and environmentalists. Jack the price up even more and most everyone raised on the teats of Detroit will agree, ANWR is a desolate place and needs to be exploited, Jack it up even more and even democrats will be voting repuglican and replacing progressive talk with war mongering.

We need our gas hogs to help establish our egos, out sense of freedom. Ahhh the open road, an advertising dream of some past life on wheel, is indelible meme. Only a severe climate change will knock some sense into us.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/03/21/ap/business/mainD88V3VT80.shtm...
(AP) Crude futures stayed flat in Asia on Monday, hugging a record closing price from last week as traders speculated that rising global demand will not be met despite increased output assurances from oil cartel OPEC.

Light, sweet crude for April delivery was up three cents in after-hours electronic trading to $56.75 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange midmorning in Asia. The benchmark commodity surged 32 cents to close at $56.72 per barrel Friday.

Heating oil for April rose marginally to $1.5783 per gallon Monday.

Prices have risen by about a third this year, fueled by a late cold snap across the world's largest energy consumer, the United States. They also have been underpinned by a weak dollar and rising global demand at a time when there is very little excess supply available

http://www.chronwatch.com/content/contentDisplay.asp?aid=13634&catcode=1...

http://www.thecarconnection.com/index.asp?n=156,175&sid=175&article=8315

STOP BUYING 'ARAB GAS'...

EXXON/MOBIL
CHEVRON
SHELL

START BUYING 'OTHER' RESOURCED GAS:

SUNOCO
HESS
CITGO

Unless you drive a hybrid?

The United Emirates (Dubai) is the independent and free portion of Saudi Arabia. --(I use to work for Mobil Oil/Middle East Dept--back in the 90's)..I'm glad I left this 'thankless job'...and went on to bigger and greater things.

Companies like SunoCo, AmoCo, CITgo, HESS,; are not purchasing 'millions of barrels' from Arab Oil Co's --even though the gas pump price is still the same at the gas station (due to pressure and oil companies jacking up the price//(competition)...it does make a difference.

---Gas tax dollars all go to the same place; but where your 'refinery and reserves ' are located is what makes the difference.

OPEC is not driving the 'high cost of gas' right now ; its companies like Exxon/Mobil and all the top oil companies through out the world that have 'oil reserves' sitting in Arab countries and remote locations outside the U.S.

Its mostly due to high 'deficits' and 'high cost' of 'oil reserves'. The U.S. doesn't have 'oil reserves' (substantial enough)'..therefore; the higher cost is similar to import costs.

The Bush administration should be doing something about the 'price gouging'..(Nixon) 1972 -- and the late (Reagan) late 80's.

http://www.kbtv4.tv/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=8193
Gas prices in Jefferson rising
http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/0322gas-suv22-ON.html
Arizona Republic SUV sales endangered
Rising prices of gasoline across the U.S. are raising vital questions in Detroit: Will prices keep going up? And if they do, will that prompt Americans to accelerate their shift away from the auto industry's cash cows, big sport-utility vehicles?
http://www.freep.com/money/business/gas22e_20050322.htm
Gas prices hit record in state

Worldwide demand increases
March 22, 2005

BY ALEJANDRO BODIPO-MEMBA
FREE PRESS BUSINESS WRITER

Michigan motorists are paying the most ever for gasoline at the pump, and there is no end in sight.

The reasons prices continue to escalate range from political tensions in key oil-producing nations to increased demand from China and India. At the center of the debate, most industry experts say, is exponential growth of worldwide demand for oil.

http://www.crmbuyer.com/story/Inflation-at-Wholesale-Level-Up-in-Februar... (customer relationship management)
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Inflation-at-Wholesale-Level-Up-in-Fe... (same article)
The energy price increase was led by a 5.2 percent spike in gasoline prices, the biggest increase since a 12.8 percent rise last October. Liquefied petroleum gas, used to heat homes, and home heating oil also showed increases in February.

http://www3.cjad.com/content/cp_article.asp?id=/global_feeds/CanadianPre...
Oil prices hit record levels last week, raising new worries that a fresh round of surging energy prices could trigger a breakout of inflation in other areas. The government reported on Monday that gasoline pump prices have risen by more than 10 per cent in the past month to an average of $2.11 a gallon countrywide.
http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=604985
The energy price increase was led by a 5.2 percent spike in gasoline prices, the biggest increase since a 12.8 percent rise last October. Liquefied petroleum gas, used to heat homes, and home heating oil also showed increases in February.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-gas22mar22,1,4363219.story?coll=la...
High-cost oil sent California's average gasoline price to $2.312 a gallon and pushed the U.S. average to a record $2.109 for a gallon of self-serve regular gasoline, the Energy Department said Monday.

Drivers in California paid 2.5 cents a gallon more on average than they did a week ago, while the average U.S. retail price rose 5.3 cents, according to the weekly gas station survey by the Energy Information Administration, the Energy Department's statistical arm.

California's gas average is 22.9 cents higher than at this time last year but is still 9 cents short of the all-time high set in October. The U.S. average is up 36.6 cents from a year ago.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/22/markets/markets_newyork/index.htm
Stocks, bonds sink

Market tumbles after Federal Reserve raises rates as expected but cautions about inflation.

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Stocks and Treasury bond prices slumped Tuesday after the Fed raised short-term interest rates by a quarter-percentage point, as expected, but signaled that its rate-hiking campaign was unlikely to stop any time soon.

For more on the Fed announcement, click here.

The Dow Jones industrial average (down 94.88 to 10,470.51, Charts) fell 0.9 percent and the broader Standard & Poor's 500 (down 12.07 to 1,171.71, Charts) index fell 1 percent, both closing at more than seven-week lows.

The Nasdaq composite (down 18.17 to 1,989.34, Charts) lost 0.9 percent, closing at a new 2005 low.

"With equity markets closing at their lows of the day Tuesday, the likelihood is that trading may get off to weak start on Wednesday morning," Michael Sheldon, chief market strategist at Spencer Clarke wrote in a late-afternoon note on Tuesday.

Treasury prices tumbled Tuesday after the Fed announcement. The slide in prices raised the yield on the 10-year note to 4.62 percent -- the highest in eight months -- from 4.52 percent late Monday. Bond prices and yields move in opposite directions.
http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/22/news/fortune500/alcoa.reut/index.htm
ALCOA cuts 2000 jobs
Gasoline: up 19.7 percent in the past 12 months
Gasoline rose 17 cents a gallon over the four weeks through March 21, bringing the average price for regular unleaded around the country to $2.07. No let up seems near. On March 8, the Department of Energy released its revised price projections for petroleum upward another $2; it now says oil will average $48.70 a barrel for the first quarter of 2005.

Gasoline at the pump costs Americans 19.7 percent more than a year ago. If that percentage holds for the year, it means an added expenditure for the average motorist (who burns about 550 gallons of gas annually, according to AAA) of about $188 in 2005.

Trucking costs: up 6.4 percent
With fuel so costly, the cost of trucking goods has followed; the government's Bureau of Labor Statistics says that they climbed 6.4 percent from January 2004 to January 2005.

International flights: up 10.5 percent
High crude oil prices have also contributed to rising air fares. The cost of scheduled air travel was up only slightly for the year, but it jumped from the late fall of 2004 to early 2005 when crude prices took off, rising 10.5 percent form November to January on international flights and 3.7 percent from September to January for domestic flights.

Construction materials: up 9.4 percent
The combination of natural disasters and a home-building boom combined to reduce supplies and produce substantially higher building materials costs. Four separate hurricanes made landfalls in Florida and other states last storm season and destroyed or damaged thousands of residences, putting extra demand on the supply of building materials.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/03/21/pf/pricestrendinghigher/index.htm

Aha. So its dropping because Bush has large stockpiles of oil.
I mean Abrams tanks can go on uranium. But what about the other vehicles in Iraq? Despite, there was a hard winter in the US. So why are there large stockpiles?
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/BUSINESS/03/22/oil.wedprice.ap/index.html
SINGAPORE, (AP) -- Crude futures fell in Asia on Wednesday for a second day as traders sold to reap profits ahead of a key U.S. petroleum stocks report.

Light, sweet crude stood at $55.32 per barrel in after-hours trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange midmorning in Asia -- a drop of $0.71 from its overnight close. The benchmark commodity declined nearly $1.50 to sit at $56.03 in its New York floor session on Tuesday.

Heating oil also fell Wednesday to $1.5325 per gallon (3.8 liters).

Oil is about 50 percent more expensive than a year ago but still well below the inflation-adjusted peak above $90 a barrel set in 1980. Prices have risen by about a third so far this year, fueled by a late cold snap across the world's largest energy consumer, the United States.

Later Wednesday, the U.S. Energy Department was expected to release its weekly supply report, and bullish details could send prices upward again.

In an interview with a Russian paper, the former chief of the Soviet Foreign Intelligence Service Leonid Shebarshin said the United States is trying to establish a monopolizing control of the world's richest oil reserves using the pretext of it fighting "international terrorism".

http://www.aljazeera.com/me.asp?service_ID=7422

This is convincing of the reason 'Iraq' was invaded ---I don't believe Bush cared if Iraq was a 'bare desert' without 'black gold'.--its all about the 'oil'...

BTW; 10 U.S. military bases are already being built throughout Iraq.--Halliburton (largest non-bid) contractor has been drilling in Iraq for the past (10) years.

I'm delivering pizzas now while I go to college and its really starting to cut into my pay. Even with a Escort it costs me twenty dollars to work a full shift. I know truckers are a very conservative group, I wonder how much the owner-operaters are singing his praises now.