travelnman wrote:
Gas is on its way up again. They drop it to get the gas hogs sold then when things look sold they allow it to rise again. Check this out over the years,
they need to reduce the size of those unsold pickups that get 15mpg. Watch if unsold vehicles pile up on the lots you will see gas come down. Wish it was not so. This way we all share in the manufacturers costs and keep the plants open. Tricky but looking around my neighborhood it looks like it is working again.
The oil producers, including OPEC and others countries, do manipulate prices to keep volume at a comfortable level for them but as you go on to observe "looking around my neighborhood it looks like it is working again." This basically means that we do our part in the cycle. I could not even begin to tell you how many statements I have seen online by people that seem to have disdain for fuel economy. Anytime anyone suggests buying a truck that is not overkill for what they need people jump all over them telling them to buy a bigger, more fuel hungry truck. The only people that we can control is ourselves and when our actions contribute to a bad outcome we need to correct ourselves before trying to blame others. And certainly don't act surprised that history is repeating itself again.
By the way, the only reason that fuel got down to $2/gal was that OPEC lost control for a while. Sometimes the market changes faster than they can adust their production. Once you have suck several billion $ into drilling wells and building refineries it is hard to just shut everything off. The best thing that we can do is keep producing oil here. Even if we can't fully control the price we can at least enjoy the good jobs and wealth that have stayed in this country instead of going overseas, often to people that want to kill us.
