[YeOldeCurmudgeon]

The longer we are so dependent on fossil fuels, the longer they will continue to tyrannize our economy.

[coconutmama]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

Just came across two gas receipts-one was from 11/9/20-exactly a year ago. The price was $2.20 The second receipt is from 1/22/21. The price was $2.36. Last week it was $3.25. Up 48% in the past year and 38% since January. Glad I am getting about 50 mpg with the golf cart!!

Prices are moderating, as they do after a major event such as a hurricane or pandemic. We paid $3.09 yesterday.

[irishwonone]

Originally Posted by EdFNJ

No, blame it on the pandemic and the fact OPEC was literally giving oil away for 18 months.

EDIT: Removed a quote & reference in this reply to a now removed post making that part of my reply moot.

Are you kidding?? My gosh we were the number 1 producer in the world and OPEC had nothing to do with it. Elections have consequences.

[Ptmckiou]

You don’t gain independence by continuing to rely on Stone Age technology. When we stop using fossil fuels so much, thereby utilizing more modern technology, OPEC will no longer rule our lives. Fossil fuels have gone their way with the model-T. Time to advance.

[wsachs]

Where does Enbridge oil go?

In short, much of the oil transported through Line 5 originates in western Canada, is shipped through Michigan and the Great Lakes, and refined in Canada for markets back in Canada and overseas. We won't miss anything.

[mikemalloy]

How can fossil fuels be "stone age technology" and windmills are some modern marvel?

[Blackbird45]

Most of us living here in the Village are old enough to have seen this scenario play out before.
Prices go up or go down for a number of reasons, the weather, supply demands, a foreign supplier doesn't like us anymore and there is just general inflation.
Even if you're not a global warming believer, if there is an alternative to the pump, we should jump on it.
I think we would all be better off in the long run.

[timcarnicom]

OPEC prices were low because we were energy independent. Now that biden has ended that and we have to buy it from them again they are gouging us.

[toeser]

Originally Posted by Ptmckiou

You don’t gain independence by continuing to rely on Stone Age technology. When we stop using fossil fuels so much, thereby utilizing more modern technology, OPEC will no longer rule our lives. Fossil fuels have gone their way with the model-T. Time to advance.

But advance with what? Anyone with the least bit of scientific background knows full well solar and wind will only help. They cannot even come close to reliably meeting all of this country's energy needs.

If we hope to completely remove ourselves from fossil fuels (aviation?) we have to have new and massive power sources like nuclear and we need to be building new power plants TODAY. Some of that $1.2 trillion in infrastructure money should be going to research thorium nuclear or nuclear fusion. We cannot merely cut off today's source of energy, we have to have functional plans to replace it.

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

Just came across two gas receipts-one was from 11/9/20-exactly a year ago. The price was $2.20 The second receipt is from 1/22/21. The price was $2.36. Last week it was $3.25. Up 48% in the past year and 38% since January. Glad I am getting about 50 mpg with the golf cart!!

The prices a year ago were artificially depressed because of fewer people driving during the pandemic. The prices were so low that a lot of shale oil producers shut up shop because they weren’t making a profit. Then that pipeline was hacked, and there was massive flooding near Houston and in Louisiana that interfered with refineries and with pipelines and trucking, and people began driving again, so prices went up. That’s how petroleum prices work. They have been much higher in the past (see charts), and they will be much higher in the future (see Europe). I drive a Prius, so my monthly cost for gas has only gone from $25 to $35. No big deal.

[Blackbird45]

Originally Posted by toeser

But advance with what? Anyone with the least bit of scientific background knows full well solar and wind will only help. They cannot even come close to reliably meeting all of this country's energy needs.

If we hope to completely remove ourselves from fossil fuels (aviation?) we have to have new and massive power sources like nuclear and we need to be building new power plants TODAY. Some of that $1.2 trillion in infrastructure money should be going to research thorium nuclear or nuclear fusion. We cannot merely cut off today's source of energy, we have to have functional plans to replace it.

We have to find an alternative, solar, wind, nuclear, a mouse on a treadmill, it doesn't matter. We have to sever the ties to this dependence on oil. Not in my life time, but sooner or later it's going to run out anyway.

[Proveone]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

Just came across two gas receipts-one was from 11/9/20-exactly a year ago. The price was $2.20 The second receipt is from 1/22/21. The price was $2.36. Last week it was $3.25. Up 48% in the past year and 38% since January. Glad I am getting about 50 mpg with the golf cart!!

An Electric cart and car would be better!

[Bay Kid]

We all know the cause of the price increase. Now what are we going to do about change?

[Andyb]

On purpose so you will buy an electric vehicle?

[Two Bills]

Originally Posted by Topspinmo

Gas has always been high in England to support the Queen

Nothing to do with Queen.
She is self funding from Royal Estate profits.

.....and she would beat you at pool as well!