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.
Biff, you are blaming the victims. The people who caused the crisis are the oil companies and the car companies, not the consumers. The consumers bought what they were told to by the industries. We’d already have solar power and battery cars if those industries hadn’t crushed their development. So, yes, a subsidy to help consumers buy gas until the industries can be forced to find new solutions. With all due whatever, your condescending urban elite crap won’t get anyone anywhere.
shillstoner, we’re definitely on different wavelengths. Subsidized gas? The “poor schmucks” have been paying very low prices for gas for over half a century and it’s now led us to an energy crisis. That’s CRISIS! It’s our fault for buying the gas guzzlers, moving to suburbia, not pressuring enough the government to find solutions, not reducing our own carbon footprints, etc. etc.
You really think oil companies are going to put themselves out of business by working on finding a feasible replacement for the product they’re selling us? Open letter to Exxon Mobil, please find a cleaner, cheaper product for us to buy since we can’t seem to incent anyone else to do it…
Please see the movies referenced above if you think the car companies and oil companies have any interest in changing the status quo.
Biff, read the comments above–yours included–and there is a definite “let them eat cake” holier-than-thou attitude about the poor schmucks who need cars and are affected by high gas prices. My point is that we are all affected, Higher gas prices may be a “catalyst for action” but at what cost and to how many people? Rather than making the average schmuck suffer, why not subsidize the cost of gas (when it is unaffordable) and force the oil companies and car companies to find working alternatives.
shillstoner, you have no reason to assume we missed that. It’s obvious we’re all affected by high gas prices in many ways. But that is not the point. The point is there will be no gas left, if not in our lifetime, than certainly in the next generation’s lifetime at current consumption levels. The higher prices on everything else you mentioned might just be another catalyst for action. The argument to keep gas prices low so we don’t have to pay more for food, clothing, etc. is like arguing we should keep chopping down trees in the rainforest or else lumberjack jobs will be lost. Or we should drill in protected areas of Alaska to provide Americans with jobs and allow us to consume more oil.
Sorry, but the “high gas prices is good” people are missing the fact that the high prices over the summer dramatically increased the price of food, clothing, construction, transportation–just about everything for absolutely everyone. You seem to think that the price of gas only affects people who drive, but it practically bankrupted many business and charities right here in the city. We like to think we aren’t affected because we don’t drive, but the truth is that city residents are totally dependent on gas.
And, yes dibs is correct–the price of gas is only down because the demand for it has crashed due to the crashing economy.
It’s only cheap because of the economy!!!!
Thank God for low gas prices at this moment. As bad as the economy is, can you imagine what it would be like if gas were $4.50 per gallon? Long term cheap gas is not a good thing, but short term it is a blessing.
Some people have to drive, but one can make intelligent choices about what one chooses to drive. Escalades, Tahoes, Hummers, Yukons, etc., are disgusting vehicles that should never have been allowed to drop thru the ‘light truck’ loophole. And now the geniuses that designed these vehicles are sucking up to Congress right now looking for billions of your money.
I agree that high oil prices will be a catalyst to finding alternative sources. Alternative sources have to be found but it can and should be done without punishing people. Everyone who drives isn’t an inconsiderate, non-earth loving boob. Truck drivers are working transporting things we need and providing for their families. Access-a-Ride, charities and other foundations that use vans and mini-buses everyday don’t have the option of taking mass transit – their people need to be in a created controlled environment. Suggesting these people and others like them have to suffer needlessy by paying artificially sustained high prices as an incentive is insensitive and dangerous. Who are we to decide who gets to go broke.