House passes bill to sue OPEC over oil prices

[biggiy05]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080520/...ngress_opec_dc


This should be interesting. Sadly I don't see gas prices going down from it. Gas prices keep climbing and climbing.

[Gerudo]

i got gas for my dad last night and spent 60 bucks on about 14 gallons or so, and that was with the 10cent card promotion at country fair. i hope gas prices go down. shit, 3 bucks a gallon even sounds reasonable right now.

everytime i go to the pump, i say "this is just pathetic". we ARE at the mercy of OPEC, as the article says. its bullshit.

[phattonez]

This is what happens when you build cities that are so spread out that you don't really have a choice but to own a car. City planners killed us with this design.

As for this bill, this is what happens when you don't elect representatives who know anything about economics.

[rock_nog]

I suspect it's not so much that politicians don't know that as it is that "Yeah, on the oil front we're frickin' screwed," just doesn't isn't a terribly effective campaign slogan. People won't accept that the they can't just keep driving their big-ass SUVs down the driveway to check the mail, and politicians keep coming up with new ways to distract the public from the fact that without a major infrastructure overhaul, there's not a damn thing we can do about oil prices.

[biggiy05]

The Government is just as guilty as the oil companies. They can do more to help lower prices but they won't. How many times have gas prices been mentioned during the presidental campaign? How many times has anyone said even a word about a plan to lower prices.

[phattonez]

People won't accept that the they can't just keep driving their big-ass SUVs down the driveway to check the mail, and politicians keep coming up with new ways to distract the public from the fact that without a major infrastructure overhaul, there's not a damn thing we can do about oil prices.

Which is exactly why public transit has seen a tremendous jump in ridership . The people would support it if it were offered. Instead, more freeways are just jammed down our throats while we're here with our hands tied behind our backs because of what city planners have done to our cities.

EDIT: Biggiy, the government has said a lot about lowering oil prices, but it's not gonna happen. The presidential candidates have talked about eliminating gas taxes during the summer, but it's a ridiculous idea. It would promote our car culture at a point when we know it's dying, would save the average family about $20, and mean the loss of billions in government revenue. There's really nothing that the government can do about the oil prices unless we want to give up our ideas on free market economies. My idea would be to raise gas taxes right now when people are finding alternatives so that we can fund new infrastructure that will get us off of our crippling oil dependence (and hopefully onto a nuclear power dependence :)).

[Master Ghaleon]

I hope this is the right step to settle down the increase of gas.

[Gerudo]

City planners killed us with this design.[/img]

i really doubt that city planners concieved that gas prices would come to about 4 bucks a gallon.

[ZTC]

If the House and Senate would actually allow drilling for oil, new refineries to be built, and new nuclear plants to be built; gas prices wouldn't be that bad then. Damn hippies.

[phattonez]

i really doubt that city planners concieved that gas prices would come to about 4 bucks a gallon.

Suburban design was never sustainable, even without high gas prices. We're seeing the problem now. People living out in the suburbs are completely dependent on gas since there is no viable public transit alternatives out there.