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Old 04-30-2008 | 07:36 PM
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Didn't know where to put this.... but CNN just did a news story on Ga$ going to $7 per gallon by 2012.

$7 per gallon gas by 2012
Old 04-30-2008 | 07:49 PM
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That wouldn't suprise me at all, considering the way gas has been going up. One minute gas in my area is set, then with 24 hours it has jumped 6 or 7 cents. Sometimes it will even jump close to 10 cents, its absolute bullshit. And every day when you check out the news its has to do with some hostiles in Africa, or some refinery thats not pumping, or more bullshit. Worst part is we haven't had any severe hurricanes in a while in South Fl. But got forbid another one hits gas is going to jump even more, and then we will just get the run around then some more useless excuses on why it jumped.
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Old 04-30-2008 | 07:51 PM
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Default Strategic Petroleum Reserve=no answer

Stopping the flow of oil to the Strategic Petroleum Reserve could be a mistake!!!!

US goverment is only paying $27.73 per barrel for oil going into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.(60,000 barrels per day)

Strategic Petroleum Reserve is not the answer.
Old 04-30-2008 | 07:53 PM
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Nothing we really can do about it.
Old 04-30-2008 | 08:53 PM
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Nothing we really can do about it.
Drive less and cross your fingers that people who don't actually need trucks, crossovers or SUVs abandon them en masse.
Old 04-30-2008 | 09:20 PM
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pretty soon we wont be able able to drive is what I go to say
Old 04-30-2008 | 09:40 PM
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7 dollars sure that could easily happen. All I hope for is that all these electric cars start coming out. All small cars switch to that then the demand will have to go down which will send prices back down too. Hell I would be just happy to be paying 3 bucks and have it stay there. What suck most about it is the fact that you just don't know what they will be. It blows and we are all screwed if things don't change. Common switch grass!!!
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...that explains it all...
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I say Tap Alaska
Old 04-30-2008 | 11:10 PM
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no worries, we'll all be even crazier by 2012 and wont care anymore....
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It will finally force us to get off of foreign oil, Thank God!!! Why give nearly a billion US dollars every day to ppl that hate us? We can get off of this stuff and be self sufficient on our own fuels (including oil). Spend that one billion a day on energy Americans make. Can you imagine the good jobs (that would not be going anywhere) that wind, sun, and nuclear power could make? It would be a boom for our economy.

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big deal.. we'll have a bunch of other automotive options to choose from in 4 years imo.

i was just watching future cars on discovery..... we'll be fine
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What about that massive oil field they found in the dakotas? Supposed to be the equivalent to the one they found in saudi arabia in 1939. This was just recently, if thats true I highly doubt it will get that high.
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Episode 38.

http://www.usgs.gov/corecast/

The Bakken.
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I know i'll be parking my truck and car for a GEO
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Holy christ! They finally invented time travel and someone went ahead in the future and found this out for us!? Friggen kudos to them!

I recall two years ago gas was suppose to already be at $5 a gallon by this time... or is that this summer it is going to happen? Or did it already happen but we all fell asleep and missed it and they dropped back already?

Aren't these analyst the same ones that all said crap like "John Kerry will win by a landslide!" Than after the fact there is the crap of "oh we left out a small miscalculation..."
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Let's just hope they are wrong.
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I hope it hits 15 dollars a gallon.. so we can be the #1 nation with the #1 highest gas prices.. Land of the free, and i love and thank God for the position im in in the US, but these Gas prices are stupid.... It will get to the point (unless a alternative) these cars wont be around but just for those who make $$...

Actually.. i need to add something.. I drove my 01 SS procharged m6 back to school this week.. I couldnt believe with 660 crank hp, and 543 rwhp- i got 26.89 mpg.. So take that 7 dollars per gallon!! lol

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Originally Posted by CamaroRacing12
I say Tap Alaska
Originally Posted by Viscious
What about that massive oil field they found in the dakotas? Supposed to be the equivalent to the one they found in saudi arabia in 1939. This was just recently, if thats true I highly doubt it will get that high.
yes but we must make sure to do it after we have used all of the oil in the middle east first. then, we build giant walls around our country and share with no one. or we finally bomb russia and claim it our own! call it USSA! lol.
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Originally Posted by bigblock4-speed
Actually.. i need to add something.. I drove my 01 SS procharged m6 back to school this week.. I couldnt believe with 660 crank hp, and 543 rwhp- i got 26.89 mpg.. So take that 7 dollars per gallon!! lol
and wtf!??! what psi are you running???
sounds really effecient. i wouldnt mind doing something like that!


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