Oil prices: Are people really that stupid?

People cry about oil prices, but think back in the 60's and 70's when cars got 5-15 mpg. Some cars would make it up to 20-30 mpg, and the cost of a gallon of gas was under a dollar, but the economy, cost of living, and price tags were lower. When was it actually cheaper?








Then: at a dollar per gallon to go 60 miles would cost between 4-5 dollars.


Now: at 2.50 per gallon to go 60 miles WOW! 4-5 dollars!!!! With a higher minimum wage even!!





Now we have cars that can get up to 80 mpg... If you're one of these people who still have a car that get 5-15 mpg you're the problem! Not the US! Get a better job and buy a better car! I know alot of people under 23 who pays for their own 30 mpg+ cars. My mommy and daddy aren鈥檛 rich, but I have a car that gets a good 40 mpg that I paid for myself while I鈥檓 in college!





I'm tired of people pointing fingers at politics because of oil prices. It's called inflation! Should we complain about the high cost of milk and it's less and less qualityOil prices: Are people really that stupid?
I think you are right, kudos to you !Oil prices: Are people really that stupid?
Common Sense and the Free Market under control of supply and Demand..., But ignorance is blind...nice speech. Report Abuse

Planned obsolescence (Not sure if I spelled that right) is a design made to specifically brake down material parts faster than they should or have too. Car companies Oil companies, even hospitals and Big pharmacy love this. I was talking with a German engineer who swore to me that we already had the technology to create a care that got 300 mpg. Yes 300 miles per gallon. He said that people were so conditioned to believe whatever they where told that they could not see the obvious. He pointed out to me that we can send a man on the moon, THE MOON. If we can do this making better cars is child's play. However there would be a major decrease in money and the economy if no one had to repair their car's or at least rarely had to. By the way, at best you will find maybe 35 mpg with the best of Toyota's. What care do you own? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.
Well it is politics. It is people getting rich. I do believe in a more economical car that doesn't burn as much. However i don't mind paying 10 a gallon if it will get us off the dependance of it. No one car pools, No one wants to clean their car up and get rid of excess weight. Mini vans with children things that look like rolling romper rooms, Cowboy wanna be's who have to have a 3 ton car because their pennis is small. you get the pic. Its politics.
im tired of your ignorant remakrs fool. this whole thing is crap and so are you
you have no foot to stand on let alone lack a TON of information.





first off.....cars on average in the 70's got 19mpg.....and cars today get the same 19mpg.





there is no such thing as a car that gets 80mpg and if you REALLY believe the sticker on your car and you believe you get 40mpg...then you keep living that fantasy. See most already know that those stickers lie and all auto makers lie on what the true gas mileage is.





take the time for at least 3 complete tank ups, track your miles, price you paid, etc and figure it out for yourself. I will bet that it won't be over 32mpg if you are lucky. and all these friends of yours that drive 30+ mpg cars....again....do the same math and you'll realize that these cars are only getting about 22 mpg....gee....3 mpg more than the avg from 70's and today.





the problem is you have taken at face value the info that is fed to you instead of actually doing some homework to find out the real truth.





and I am sure you are one that believes its okay to be in iraq to build this new secret oil pipeline that Cheney wants at the cost of thousands of our boys and over 150,000 INNOCENT iraqi's. why are they doing this? cause they realize the coast along texas and new orleans isn't gonna be able to be used soon due to wet lands disappearing. this is where all the oil companies are now. iraq is nothing but a new home base for them, that is the whole goal.





so why not take it a step farther and get off your so called high horse and actually get rid of the gas car and start walking...specially if you are in college. if all college kids alone ditched their cars and walked on campus like they should.....gas would drop down to around $1.15 per gallon. its the same reason why gas dropped almost 80 cents after summer was over....it wasn't cause there is an increase in demand in summer but all the high school kids our just driving around doing nothing...that wastes gas and in turn drives the price up. when they go back to school every fall, the price drops right in line with them.





let alone why should we still be on gas cars anyways? are you telling me that college kids can't come up with a new way of transportation or a new fuel source? my age group of mid 30's has a ton of ideas but the youth is who is suppose ot do the changes. so where is your generation at? off complaining and bitching instead of actually doing something.
There's no sense in me complaining, it looks like you have all the answers! Can you name the cars that got 5-15 MPG? I lived then and I can't...did you just make up these figures to get your point across? Owned. Check again.
Touche'
Sure you can buy a hybrid that gets 60mpg for about $50,000 on up. It would take many years to pay that of even if gas was cheaper. Before paying off your car it would break down too lol.
Hi Laura B didn't think I would recognize you did you ? how can I ever forget?
Is that really you, NONAME?





I really do like you-even if you don't like me!


BTW I happen to agree with you.
STOP DRIVING





People who drive EVERYWHERE THEY GO, ONE PERSON PER CAR -





YOU ARE ALL THE PROBLEM








And it isn't the COST of gas my friends, it's the fact the WORLD IS RUNNING OUT OF FOSSIL FUELS IN OUR LIFETIME!





So everyone who drives is contributing to the problem. Everyone who uses plastics is the problem. Everyone who eats NON-LOCAL, NON-ORGANIC food is the problem!
This is the dumbest argument I have ever seen. To say that gas prices have nothing to do with politics is asinine. Foreign and domestic policy has everything to do with politics. I suppose you are one of those people who think that we shouldn't go to war to protect freedom and democracy and to help other oppressed societies in other countries. How can you sit there and say that rising gas prices are merely caused by inflation when Exxon Mobil made the number one spot in the top most profitable companies in fortune 500? If inflation was the problem then this wouldn't be the case. What makes me mad is when people sit there and complain about things, but don't take an active role in trying to change it. Let's boycott the black gold distributors and then I bet you'll see the cost of gas start going down.
I didn't read your whole question, but I can say yes, people are stupid.
shutup, get a life.
Good job with the logic and the milk analogy. I agree with you on both points but here are those who are suffering because of high energy costs..





How about the rising cost of a cup of coffee, Starbucks and the like are raking in tons of money.
In 1967, I got a new Datsun. It held 10 gallons of gas. On the hwy it got 23 mi/gallon; range...230 miles. When the car was almost empty..like running on fumes, the cost of a fill up might have cost me as much as $3.00.


Now I'm tooling around in a 1995 Hyundai. The car gets 44mi/gallon hwy with a range of over 400 miles. (11 gallon tank). How much does it cost to fill it up at todays prices?


According to people in the know,there is no oil shortage,and oil doesn't come from dead dinosaurs. It is all politics and greed.
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Would your name by chance be Laura B - - -?





Darryl S.
Get a life girl!!if you are so rich that you can't feel the pain of others,than you need to zip it ok??
It's always George W.'s Fault :)
You are right.
you're right about those who complain about oil prices. Gas is CHEAP. Some of the cheapest in the world. And- that's the problem- it's so cheap that all the alternatives are just a little more expensive. If gas were taxed more heavily (it's been at 18.5 cents/gallon for over 20 years) people would be motivated to use less of it... and auto companies would build the products that people wanted to buy.





With gas so cheap... of course we're all driving 300hp SUVs! that's only about $1500 per year on gas... less than we spend at Starbucks.





As for 80mpg cars only one year away... well- I haven't seen that yet.
Unfortunately, they are that stupid. Most people using cars today(in the U.S.) have grown up to believe they have a right to cheap gas, not even remotely understanding the price our country(and other countries) have to pay to make this so.
What cars make 80 mpg? We got better mileage out of cars back in the early 80's then we do today.





You have some nerve telling people to go out and get better jobs. They just aren't out there, spoiled much? Besides, wheres the question? Or were you just looking to insult?





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';Now we have cars that can get up to 80 mpg';





';Next Gen. cars are being looked at to have 80 mpg. Next Gen is next year!';





Which is it, you can't have it both ways. I'll believe it when I see it. And if it ever happens, it won't be available to the middle class for quite some time.

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