Closing Bell: Gassing it Up in Brooklyn
It’s practically free! Go out and drive around in circles! The NY Daily News reported today that the cheapest gas in the city is right here in the borough of Kings. “Brooklyn had the lowest gas prices in the city for 17 out of the 30 days from mid-October to mid-November, even though the average…
It’s practically free! Go out and drive around in circles! The NY Daily News reported today that the cheapest gas in the city is right here in the borough of Kings. “Brooklyn had the lowest gas prices in the city for 17 out of the 30 days from mid-October to mid-November, even though the average prices from Aug. 18 to Nov. 18 were the same in Brooklyn and Queens: $3.38 per gallon,” they write. Last week, you could catch a gallon for $2.19 in Williamsburg.
Photo by peechaspeechas.
“BRG, yes, because you are a sociologist who roots for low gas prices and drives a gas guzzling Cadillac and has no concrete solutions, we should all be listening to you.”
– Biff, don’t judge ME and my choice of vechile. I drive a 10 year old Caddy. WHY?? Because I don’t want to buy a new car and contribute to the over production of automobiles that are filling up landfills. Before this car feel into our laps (we’ve only had it for one year), we were looking at hybrids.
You’re way out of line on this one. I’m not judging you and how you live our lifestyle.
Tell me, how do you heat your home? Are you burning logs in the fireplace? or is your gas fired boiler kicking in.
Back off!!
“Let’s make gas 25 cents a gallon, as I suggested above and keep partying until we run out of gas, have no alternatives and then scratch our heads like monkeys asking what happened?”
– 25 cents a gallon is purely absurd. You can’t find a better solution. How about realizing that we need to find a solution NOW purely for the sake of neccessity. I agree we shouldn’t wait to scratch our asses. That’s why, I don’t think the price of Gas should have a bearing on jump starting a solution.
“Let’s tell the big oil companies to come up with something different to sell us because they’ll listen.”
– Yes, let’s tell them, and tell them repeadetly until they do listen.
“Let’s tell the car companies to build electric cars because they’ve been listening.”
– Again, let’s tell them.
“Let’s tell people not to build bigger houses because they haven’t been doing it for decades.”
– Okay, you’re taking on alot of causes here, Biff.
“Let’s tell people not to buy big cars and switch to the more efficient, smaller ones in Europe, because they’ve been doing that.”
– Yes, Biff, I agree, let’s tell them. Now you’re getting it. We need to change people’s views (not by raising prices on Gas), but by letting them know about all the social issues afflicting the planet. Through media, propoganda, marketing, it can be acheived.
“The consolation to all of this is you and shill are so clearly in the minority in this thread in your opinion on this. You too can keep on going…the blind leading the blind…”
– We are the sound of reason for the average person. I’m sure more would like to speak up, but are bullied by your overpowering insistence of letting the working people carry the costs of finding a solution to this problem.
billyboomer, thank you for another voice of reason! It’s nice to see when someone gets it.
BRG, yes, because you are a sociologist who roots for low gas prices and drives a gas guzzling Cadillac and has no concrete solutions, we should all be listening to you.
Let’s make gas 25 cents a gallon, as I suggested above and keep partying until we run out of gas, have no alternatives and then scratch our heads like monkeys asking what happened?
Let’s tell the big oil companies to come up with something different to sell us because they’ll listen.
Let’s tell the car companies to build electric cars because they’ve been listening.
Let’s tell people not to build bigger houses because they haven’t been doing it for decades.
Let’s tell people not to buy big cars and switch to the more efficient, smaller ones in Europe, because they’ve been doing that.
The consolation to all of this is you and shill are so clearly in the minority in this thread in your opinion on this. You too can keep on going…the blind leading the blind…
Raise the gas tax. Gas should be expensive. And if you have a gas guzzler pooh pooh on you. I don’t really care. Maybe next time you will buy a real car instead of some crap SUV.
Biff, you obviously don’t understand society as a whole, or the mindset of the masses. You’re looking at it from a completely economical standpoint, try looking at it from a sociological view.
Shill…please keep going, I’m with you on this one. I’d love to really join this conversation, but have no energy to engage a person who is blinded into believing that PEOPLE SHOULD PAY MORE TO FILL UP THEIR CARS, SO AUTOMAKERS AND THE GOV’T FINALLY REALIZE THEY NEED TO FIND ALTERNATIVES.
“because the industries spent trillions of dollars to convince people that that is what they needed.”
And people are obviously so stupid that they couldn’t think for themselves and felt forced to buy the gas guzzlers. Just like they’re forced to buy big homes and forced to not recycle and forced to run up credit card debt and have no free will or ability to think on their own.
Obviously you’re the condescending one here.
You are indeed taking the blame away from those that caused it and placing it on the victims. Why are people consuming more and more, because they all just woke up one morning and said ‘gee I want a bigger one!’? No, because the industries spent trillions of dollars to convince people that that is what they needed. And now everyone does need gas to survive, even today’s sheep who are convinced that what they need is an all glass condo in Williamsburg. So, again, subsidize the gas and force–yes force–the industries to create solutions.
And last thing, I am absolutely not taking the blame away from oil companies and car companies and suburban developers and urban planners. I agree with you that they are the most guilty parties. That is exactly the point of the movies I posted. But they are not going to change or be pressured to change until the public stops celebrating every time the price of gas drops and starts considering ways to limit their consumption and pressures the government to pass laws and provide incentives to make a change. Oil and car companies have no reason to change in a way that will cost them or cut into revenues (not that the American car companies are making anything, which is their own fault).
shill, get a grip. People were “victimized” into buying their giant SUVs and minivans and McMansions? Look at the average home size now compared to the 50s, then the 60s and so on. The “victims” are consuming more and more. You can mislabel this urban elitism and ignore the problem if you like. Keep rooting for low gas prices. Let’s fully subsidize it and give the gas away? Too extreme? Ok, let’s subsidize it partially and fix the price at 25 cents per gallon. What would happen shill? Wanna hazard a guess? Bye bye oil by 2015 or sooner.