Topic: The insane gas prices are due to the oil companies finally admitting its time to switch over.
Anonymous A started this discussion 3 years ago #105,556
Think about it. The oil companies never wanted people driving electric cars before because they still have plenty of gasoline to sell, but when that gasoline and oil are finally depleting the prices are rising. It's simply supply and demand. The demand is high and the supply is low. So these companies hike the price to encourage people to buy Priuses and Teslas. It's all a ploy to get people driving electric cars so they could switch over themselves and charge an arm and a leg for electricity.
Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 45 minutes later[^] [v] #1,186,169
Phone in your votes now: Is this a Catherine thread?
Anonymous B double-posted this 3 years ago, 16 seconds later, 45 minutes after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,170
I think it is
Dr. Whom !q73styMLC. joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 23 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,175
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 15 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,180
lucky !DTWvtyGegw joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,182
Shove a dildo in my ass and then fuck off fuck you
Green !StaYqkzUPc joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 8 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,186
@OP
Oil companies only have humanities best interests at heart.
@previous (lucky !DTWvtyGegw)
Lol, calm down Catherine
Oil companies only have humanities best interests at heart.
@previous (lucky !DTWvtyGegw)
Lol, calm down Catherine
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 33 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,195
@previous (Green !StaYqkzUPc)
I'm pretty sure oil companies only care about profits and they realize that once the oil runs dry there is no more money to be made from gasoline. Which is why they're trying to squeeze the last bit of juice out of that cash cow before it goes bye bye. California likely cannot fully support everyone driving electric cars since this would only add more shit to the pile of problems they're experiencing besides the homeless problem, housing crisis, and other things. Having to charge for electricity from both the chargers and at home would likely increase people's power bills tenfold. There is an easy solution to their problems because all they have to do is construct more power plants. I'm sure any kind would do at this point and you'd probably have just enough fossil fuels to get wind turbines and solar plants going if that is what they're after. But no, California politicians would rather sink money in stupid bullshit projects like a bullet train that they had no intentions on actually building and been harboring money since 2008. Also, whose Catherine? I thought I was Catherine in this thread? Lucky is Catherine? I don't know who Catherine is anymore!
I'm pretty sure oil companies only care about profits and they realize that once the oil runs dry there is no more money to be made from gasoline. Which is why they're trying to squeeze the last bit of juice out of that cash cow before it goes bye bye. California likely cannot fully support everyone driving electric cars since this would only add more shit to the pile of problems they're experiencing besides the homeless problem, housing crisis, and other things. Having to charge for electricity from both the chargers and at home would likely increase people's power bills tenfold. There is an easy solution to their problems because all they have to do is construct more power plants. I'm sure any kind would do at this point and you'd probably have just enough fossil fuels to get wind turbines and solar plants going if that is what they're after. But no, California politicians would rather sink money in stupid bullshit projects like a bullet train that they had no intentions on actually building and been harboring money since 2008. Also, whose Catherine? I thought I was Catherine in this thread? Lucky is Catherine? I don't know who Catherine is anymore!
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 5 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,198
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 38 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,213
Dr. Whom !q73styMLC. replied with this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,214
Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,215
@1,186,195 (A)
> I'm pretty sure oil companies only care about profits and they realize that once the oil runs dry there is no more money to be made from gasoline. Which is why they're trying to squeeze the last bit of juice out of that cash cow before it goes bye bye. California likely cannot fully support everyone driving electric cars since this would only add more shit to the pile of problems they're experiencing besides the homeless problem, housing crisis, and other things. Having to charge for electricity from both the chargers and at home would likely increase people's power bills tenfold. There is an easy solution to their problems because all they have to do is construct more power plants. I'm sure any kind would do at this point and you'd probably have just enough fossil fuels to get wind turbines and solar plants going if that is what they're after. But no, California politicians would rather sink money in stupid bullshit projects like a bullet train that they had no intentions on actually building and been harboring money since 2008. Also, whose Catherine? I thought I was Catherine in this thread? Lucky is Catherine? I don't know who Catherine is anymore!
Is this what your boomer parents are talking about this week?
> I'm pretty sure oil companies only care about profits and they realize that once the oil runs dry there is no more money to be made from gasoline. Which is why they're trying to squeeze the last bit of juice out of that cash cow before it goes bye bye. California likely cannot fully support everyone driving electric cars since this would only add more shit to the pile of problems they're experiencing besides the homeless problem, housing crisis, and other things. Having to charge for electricity from both the chargers and at home would likely increase people's power bills tenfold. There is an easy solution to their problems because all they have to do is construct more power plants. I'm sure any kind would do at this point and you'd probably have just enough fossil fuels to get wind turbines and solar plants going if that is what they're after. But no, California politicians would rather sink money in stupid bullshit projects like a bullet train that they had no intentions on actually building and been harboring money since 2008. Also, whose Catherine? I thought I was Catherine in this thread? Lucky is Catherine? I don't know who Catherine is anymore!
Is this what your boomer parents are talking about this week?
Dr. Whom !q73styMLC. replied with this 3 years ago, 15 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,216
> Everyone is CatherineKook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 3 years ago, 6 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,218
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 11 minutes later, 3 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,219
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 3 years ago, 42 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,221
@1,186,213 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
Now! Do you really think the cost won’t sky rocket if gasoline powered vehicles were off the road entirely?
Now! Do you really think the cost won’t sky rocket if gasoline powered vehicles were off the road entirely?
Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 10 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,223
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,224
@1,186,221 (A)
But you worded it in a different way. You typed it like charging your electric vehicle would make your personal electricity bill sky rocket
Did you actually mean that power companies will charge more?
Tbh you're a bad communicator
But you worded it in a different way. You typed it like charging your electric vehicle would make your personal electricity bill sky rocket
Did you actually mean that power companies will charge more?
Tbh you're a bad communicator
Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 18 minutes later, 4 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,225
the average american household's electricity usage is only 1/4th of the energy that is required to drive around their gasoline powered cars.
600 gallons of gasoline per year to drive one car 😂🤣
600 gallons of gasoline per year to drive one car 😂🤣
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 3 years ago, 18 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,228
Dead !Pool..v42s joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 40 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,238
@1,186,213 (Kook !!rcSrAtaAC)
The main barrier for most people I talk to is initial cost, idk if southern Oregon is just full of broke bitches, but I also see a lot of hybrids and a full on electric comes and gets propane every few weeks
The main barrier for most people I talk to is initial cost, idk if southern Oregon is just full of broke bitches, but I also see a lot of hybrids and a full on electric comes and gets propane every few weeks
Anonymous J joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 46 seconds later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,239
USAmericans really drive 500 yards to the McDrivethrough (pronounced as one word)!
Dead !Pool..v42s replied with this 3 years ago, 31 seconds later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,240
@op it's just capitalism at its finest, I know the government doesn't run things well, but if our government controlled our countries oil it could theoretically be cheaper
Anonymous K joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 4 minutes later, 5 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,241
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 3 years ago, 37 minutes later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,245
@1,186,238 (Dead !Pool..v42s)
I understand that part, but op thinks the actual charging is expensive
I understand that part, but op thinks the actual charging is expensive
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC double-posted this 3 years ago, 16 seconds later, 6 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,246
Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 10 hours later, 16 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,277
@1,186,240 (Dead !Pool..v42s)
How would it be cheaper? When the price of oil was in the negatives in 2020, as-in "you get paid to take this oil", why didn't your precious government step in as a buyer of that oil? It was cheaper than free!!
How would it be cheaper? When the price of oil was in the negatives in 2020, as-in "you get paid to take this oil", why didn't your precious government step in as a buyer of that oil? It was cheaper than free!!
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Dead !Pool..v42s replied with this 3 years ago, 1 hour later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,281
@previous (B)
Because the oil companies aren't ran by the government? And the way things are set up, our government couldn't just buy oil for commercial consumption?
Because the oil companies aren't ran by the government? And the way things are set up, our government couldn't just buy oil for commercial consumption?
Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 18 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,282
@previous (Dead !Pool..v42s)
What? Your federal government is set up to buy cheap oil in order to release it when prices get "too high". Now explain why that government refused to buy the glut of cheap oil that was so plentiful that the price went negative
What? Your federal government is set up to buy cheap oil in order to release it when prices get "too high". Now explain why that government refused to buy the glut of cheap oil that was so plentiful that the price went negative
Dead !Pool..v42s replied with this 3 years ago, 18 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,283
@previous (B)
It seems like it kept getting tagged onto coronavirus related stuff in Congress.
Its set up for mostly crude oil, not actual gasoline, also.
Do you know that there are millions of barrels being released from the US reserve? And that we've been selling out of our reserve since 2015?
It seems like it kept getting tagged onto coronavirus related stuff in Congress.
Its set up for mostly crude oil, not actual gasoline, also.
Do you know that there are millions of barrels being released from the US reserve? And that we've been selling out of our reserve since 2015?
Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 14 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,284
@previous (Dead !Pool..v42s)
> Do you know that there are millions of barrels being released from the US reserve? And that we've been selling out of our reserve since 2015?
So there was plenty of room in the strategic oil reserve and they still didn't stock up in 2020 when the prices went negative... Seems shady, right?
> Do you know that there are millions of barrels being released from the US reserve? And that we've been selling out of our reserve since 2015?
So there was plenty of room in the strategic oil reserve and they still didn't stock up in 2020 when the prices went negative... Seems shady, right?
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Anonymous B double-posted this 3 years ago, 3 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,285
@1,186,283 (Dead !Pool..v42s)
> Its set up for mostly crude oil, not actual gasoline, also.
What, you mean the refineries are actual performing work that adds value to the material inputs? Are you sure? On the TV, J Biden keeps saying it's hoarding and price gouging
> Its set up for mostly crude oil, not actual gasoline, also.
What, you mean the refineries are actual performing work that adds value to the material inputs? Are you sure? On the TV, J Biden keeps saying it's hoarding and price gouging
Dead !Pool..v42s replied with this 3 years ago, 2 seconds later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,286
@1,186,284 (B)
Well, you skipped over my observation in the previous post, so I take this as the end of our discussion. Thanks.
Well, you skipped over my observation in the previous post, so I take this as the end of our discussion. Thanks.
Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 45 seconds later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,287
@previous (Dead !Pool..v42s)
stop being like this, you'll notice my second reply came in before your whiny dismissal
stop being like this, you'll notice my second reply came in before your whiny dismissal
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Anonymous H replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,288
Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,289
@previous (H)
Cool, good answer. And exactly why "the government" shouldn't be given the power to enact controls on the energy markets
Cool, good answer. And exactly why "the government" shouldn't be given the power to enact controls on the energy markets
Anonymous H replied with this 3 years ago, 14 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,291
@previous (B)
Corporations only care about profits, which is why they should not control the energy market.
Corporations only care about profits, which is why they should not control the energy market.
Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 11 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,292
@previous (H)
They don't control the market, they are participants. Pack that in your pipe and smoke it
They don't control the market, they are participants. Pack that in your pipe and smoke it
Anonymous H replied with this 3 years ago, 22 seconds later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,293
Anonymous B replied with this 3 years ago, 2 minutes later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,295
@previous (H)
And I suppose you wouldn't call all the goofy energy market controls in place in California "manipulation"... wait, isnt it worse than manipulation, since it's coercion by violence?
And I suppose you wouldn't call all the goofy energy market controls in place in California "manipulation"... wait, isnt it worse than manipulation, since it's coercion by violence?
Anonymous B double-posted this 3 years ago, 41 seconds later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,296
inb4 "you can't perform violence against a corporation"
Anonymous B triple-posted this 3 years ago, 1 minute later, 19 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,297
everyone get ready to DuckDuckGo what compromises a corporation
boof joined in and replied with this 3 years ago, 38 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,298
they should build stuff closer together so you don't have to drive to it so much
Anonymous H replied with this 3 years ago, 6 minutes later, 20 hours after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,299
Kook !!rcSrAtaAC replied with this 3 years ago, 21 hours later, 1 day after the original post[^] [v] #1,186,394
Why did Op abandon this topic?