Gas prices are a function of the market of supply and demand, and the market hates anarchy. The government has little control over them.

Not voting? Quite the contrary. Not voting makes little difference (unless you live in Florida.) The US was founded on Revolution. So stir the pot and try to get as many folks as possible to vote. Revolt. Rise up. Send W back to Texas where he will have to pay for his own gas and fill up his own tank. (This is not intended to be a political statement, merely an illustration of the power of voting, rather than not voting.)

it doesnt make a bit of difference whether you dont buy gas on a certain day anyway. the stations buy there gas once a month or so, depending on tank size and usage, and often arent affiliated with the refinery they purchase from. so unless we dont buy gas for at least 2 months, they wouldnt take notice anyway. now if we all bought bikes, or in case of my neighbor, attach a team of mules to an old truck and go to town... it was hilarious..he wrote a sign on the back that said "dont laugh, your next" we wont amount to anything by not buying gas on one certain day. by the way the "gas shortage of the 70,s" was a farce invented by the gas companies to raise the price. there are old oil field hands that will tell you about how they would drill, hit oil and cap the well off. and also they were pumping crude back down from reserves at that same time. and the orders came from the top

Gas prices are pure supply and demand. If you want lower prices, use less. Sell your SUV. In reply to Mr Nutt: There is a slight amount of truth in your tale. When the Arab oil embargo hit, the impact would have been only to the East coast, as the Western states were not importing OPEC oil. Congress did not want people on the East coast paying $4.00 per gallon while people in the West continued to pay 29 cents. If they had of let the market correct the situation, there would have been pipelines laid across the coutry in record time. Congress in its infinite wisdom, however, created the Entitlements act. In one of the great examples of Orwellian newspeak, the Entitlements act 'entitled' domestic producers to pay into a fund to balance the price between domestic and imported oil. Thus, if a domestic producer was bringing oil out of the ground for $5.00/barrel, they were 'entitled' to pay $10.00/barrel to an importer paying OPEC $25.00/barrel to even the price. Not being total idiots, domestic producers closed and capped every well they were legally able to. Congress allowed 'new' oil to move at OPEC prices. Sooo . . . if a producer capped a well, they could drill a new well horizontally into the same pool and get market price for the 'new' oil. The upshot of all this was that Congress made the domestic producers subsidize OPEC and allowed OPEC to put the price anywhere they wanted without regard to market demand. Anyone can make a mistake. It takes Congress to really screw things up.

Oil prices in the US are a perfect example of "supply and demand" working EXACTLY as it should:

Rising demand and/or dwindling supply equals rising prices; increased supply and/or reduced demand equals lower prices.

This isn't the case in some other countries where fuel and/or energy prices are manipulated by heavy taxation. We in the US pay among the lowest taxes on fuel in the world, even with the occaisional price spike. Some suggest we can have consistent fuel prices if we're willing to pay $6 per gallon; personally, I don't trust government to lower taxes to stabilze prices.

If we want lower fuel prices we need to conserve, to buy lighter, more efficient cars, to reexamine our other energy uses.

WHAT, you think our votes actually count??? Oh dont be so naive, I can see the recount already. Not to mention absolutly no effect on gas prices.

Fuel prices in the US are too cheap. They could not be any cheaper except by government subsidies. They are too cheap in Europe too, but not by such a huge amount as in the US. The US consumes way too much fossil fuels in vehicles, resulting in damage for everybody.

The sooner the US realises it has to cut back on wasteful fossil fuel usage, and put up prices significantly, the better.

See page 65 of this document to see where the US actually stands in relation to fuel prices.

gasoline is cheap. right now, its sitting a $1.34 per liter. i dont complain much. i only get upset when i go in to pay for gas, and someone in front of me is complaining of how expensive gas is, when theyre buying a $2 bottle of water.

stupid

I thing the only way to get out of this is trying to make more money by working smart instead hard.ciao