Why do whiners blame high gas prices on people who have nothing to do with establishing gas prices?
453991
the oil company reported an all time high profit over 84 million, it is not supply and demand,the irs gave oil companies millions of dollars in tax breaks this year, how many millions of dollars in tax breaks did the working poor or the working middle class recieve, it is who has the highly payed lobbyist , who makes the biggest political contributions and who's interests are being looked after by the current administration which coincidentally includes some oil company investors there is nothing free about this type of democracy
652528
Yes, gas prices are horrible. No, I will not tell you where I live.
390170
They raise prices by restricting supply. They try to maximize their income without driving their customers to alternate fuels or into a depression. Either would reduce their income.
657469
They will tell you about the war, gas, and all that. There idiots. You can piss them off with this too http://www.bizzyblog.com/?p=760
963372
NO all of that comes from people who have a need to whine about something and be treated better because they are of a different racial background.  The people who accuse whites of being racist and greedy are the actual racists and are hypocrites.
464151
It's not the oil thats so high. It's Cheney. He's being like any other republican. GREEDY. I'm saying this cause I am one. He's the reason gas is so high.
901494
They would rather raise all taxes, not just gas taxes!\n\n\n\n\nThey are for themselves, not the "little people"!
223519
Have you checked the fuel prices lately?  I think people are looking for an alternative fuel source because of the rising prices of gas.  Not only that, this whole gas exploration thing creates such a power play in the world and even causes wars and embargoes.
341269
Hey! It's not all about the American People it's all about this green stuff they call money. \n\nThey always have some dumb butt lame excuse for raising the prices. \n\nMy joke is this!! OH MY GOSH!! OH MY GOSH!! President Bush let a fart, it may very well put a hole in the ozone layer lets raise the gas prices, it will take more people off of the streets and reduce air pollution. that's how stupid it's getting to be\n\nOkay..now that I am here...Gunther...get me the soap box lil man LOL!!!!! He's a good cat. LOL\n\nYou know this gas price thing is killing our economy. I just watched the news tonight. People are limiting their driving. They are limiting their entertainment and other things so that they can conserve gas so that they can get to work to earn money so that they can keep STUPID BUTT GASOLINE IN THEIR TANKS!! That is going to drive prices up everywhere because people are not shopping as often, they aren't going to other places as often and in order to keep business rolling grocery prices will jump the cost of entertainment will jump\n\nHELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ANYONE OUT THERE??? Holy smokes. The almighty buck is killing the American people. We are being smothered by it. We are being smothered by the greed of the government. \n\nAs far as Bush goes. Don't know . Don't know. I just don't. I think he needs to step in and put a stop to this! It's really getting to be out of hand. I believe that many things are going to happen. The crime rate will go up people are going to start siphoning gas tanks\n\nIt's going to be really really pretty out there. \n\nOkay, I am off the soapbox now. Come here Gunther..put it back where you got it from and come get your treat. LOL!! \n\nOkay, I had to add a stupid corny humorous twist to it ;)
461481
It's called capitalism.  Supply and demand.  Those who have it sell it for as high a price as they can get.  Those who need it have to shop around for the lowest price they can.  Eventually, the gas gets so expensive people will have to walk or ride bikes.  Then fewer people buy it, and the price goes down.  In socialist countries, they put a $2 tax on it to encourage people to walk.\n\nBlowing people up starts wars.  People die.  Doesn't work out well in the long run.
714339
Haha no they don't, and even if you showed them proof they wouldnt believe it.  They would just blame the person and say it's their fault for being born poor, not working hard enough, whatever.\n\nEdit- Some of the answers on here are unbelievable.  "Educate yourself"  "We are as strong as men and can get a great job if need be"  Educate yourself?  Have any of these people been to the hood lately?  Or to a rural school?  Kids from there don't get coaching to take the SATs, their test scores arent as high as the kids of these parents on here...if they go to a college where SATs arent accepted then they are bringing down the quality of education...plus if you take out a loan you have to pay it back for the rest of your life at mafia interest rates...hard to deal with when the price of gas is what it is and everything going up but our salaries...People on here dont' seem to realize that the cost of welfare is MINIMAL compared to what we are paying for our MILITARY.  I wish people would WAKE UP.  If we cut that budget in half we would have money for schools to make them better, smaller classrooms, better teachers...safer playgrounds and neighborhoods...maybe we could take care of the ignorance and we wont have some baby's mamas with three kids by the time they are 21...let some of the SNOBS walk in their shoes for awhile, with little opportunity to get out of the cycle they are in...no, they would just rather complain and *****about people who dont' know any better anyway.  JERKS!!!
547595
I have to agree, they want everything yet they won't do anything to EARN it, just because they got hit the hardest doesn't mean they get to ride for free forever. But think about it.... the majority of people who are whining are the same ones who lived off the government prior to the storms, they are used to getting cash, food, housing etc every month for free, so why would they stop expecting everything for free now?
403467
you probably can put the blame on the greed of the country's\ncorporate policy's of wringing everything they can out of the average workers income.starting with the oil companies who by the way are experiencing windfall profits while charging the average person the highest gasoline prices ever.the average person then has to take out more and more money out of your bank and put less and less into it.and by the way those gas prices are reflected in everything you buy.its no wonder then that anybody can survive.only when greed is done away with will people go back to putting money back in your bank.do you think that's going to happen?
406369
The 2 topics aren't related.  Take a class on Economics sometime to understand why gas prices are the way they are.
300860
no gas prices should go higher!!\n\nthen maybe fat a**es will stop driving their big fat SUV's, take a bus\nand other technologies will be developed\n\nthe gov't did not create the "gas problem" people being lazy did
1173170
Why do you think the gas prices suddenly went sky high?  There is NO shortage....no lines, plenty  of gas....but they get MORE TAXES with higher gas prices.   Government's answer to paying for war.
833759
I can answer him. I blame Bush partly for the high gas prices because for the most part he is giving his friends in the oil industry big tax breaks every year. As a republican his belief is if you give more tax breaks to the rich more jobs will be created and prices of things will be kept down. But has it? No. I don't think he cares that the gas prices are high. It just means more money for his friends. Exxon makes 79000 dollars a minute. That is outrageous. Though it is not exactly Bush's job to fix the outlandish prices and profits, it would be nice if it really was a concern. What has Bush done to help this crisis?