Govt Predicts Gas Could Hit $4 Per Gallon This Summer

I saw an interesting post re: discounted/free heating oil being provided to America's poor by Venezuela, via Citgo Oil. Meanwhile, George Bush continues to cut heating fuel subsidies from his budget, and has vetoed Congressional attempts to increase his slashed appropriations for these subsidies.

http://www.citgo.com/CommunityInvolvement/HeatingOil.jsp
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The CITGO-Venezuela Heating Oil Program will provide an estimated 112 million gallons of fuel this winter to be distributed in more than 224,000 households and 250 social service providers in 23 states. These totals include the CITGO-Venezuela Tribal Heating Oil Program.

The program, being implemented in partnership with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and Citizens Energy Corporation...

In 2005 as energy prices soared in the wake of Hurricane's Katrina and Rita, a group of United States Senators sent a letter to all the major oil companies asking them to share 10% of their record profits with families in need.

Each year, Citizens Energy Corporation asks all of the major oil companies and each OPEC nation to partner with us to help poor people survive tough winters in the face of rising energy costs.

Despite pleas for help from U.S. Senators and Citizens Energy, for the last three years, only CITGO Petroleum has risen to the challenge and worked with Citizens Energy to help the most vulnerable families in our society.

$3.38 as of yesterday here in New Mexico, not much farther to go. Sure would have liked to have been a fly on the wall during Cheney's Secret Energy Meetings.

THE 2000 CAMPAIGN: THE TEXAS GOVERNOR; Bush Would Use Power of Persuasion to Raise Oil Supply

Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude.

''I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply,'' Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, told reporters here today. ''Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.''

Implicit in his comments was a criticism of the Clinton administration as failing to take advantage of the good will that the United States built with Kuwait and Saudi Arabia during the Persian Gulf war in 1991. Also implicit was that as the son of the president who built the coalition that drove the Iraqis out of Kuwait, Mr. Bush would be able to establish ties on a personal level that would persuade oil-producing nations that they owed the United States something in return.

He went on to suggest, as he did in answer to other questions, that voters should simply trust him.


Man did we get screwed

Really going out on a limb with that prediction, eh?

Guess I know where my rebate is going... to Saudi Arabia, so they can fund terrorists.

Maybe such high prices will finally make all Americans realize the need to make major cuts in their use of gasoline and oil products as well as encourage a major effort for conservation. We may need to recall that WWII idea 'Is this trip necessary?'

The "government" has been saying that a lot this year.
Seems like *maybe* the "government" would like to make that happen.

I think we should be totally realistic: prices of $8 to $12 a gallon will occur ... until the entire transportation-based economy of the United States of America grinds to a screeching halt and its entire economy plunges into the blackest Depression that it has ever known ...

... while the rest of the world ... moves on.

Let's be perfectly frank here: the United States of America handed control of its country to a gang of criminals that the rest of the world community is all-too familiar with. (Perhaps the USA got away from two World Wars scot-free, but the French are still cleaning up poison-gas shells from World War One and the "demineurs" will be doing so for the next hundred years.)

The entire world watched as these wannabe heirs to the 1920's British installed a puppet government, handed them a piece of cock-and-bull "legislation" (available, of course, on the Internet...) and said, "sign here." All of the undeveloped oil resources of Iraq would thereby be signed-away ... to companies, not to nations!

Tell me, what do you do in response? A military response will get you vaporized. But ... an economic one?

It's brilliant, and totally effective. And you don't have to fire a shot.

Think about it.

I'm surprised California drivers are so accepting of the high gas prices. They are about 50 cents higher than the national average. Maybe it's time to get rid of the special gasoline blend requirements for California. Amend the federal and state EPA laws. Many California drivers are hurting financially and can no longer afford to be gouged by an uncompetitive gasoline market. The California gasoline market has been effectively walled off from the rest of the country by the special blend requirements.

I HOPE THE HIGHEST PRICES HIT THE RED STATES FIRST.

At this rate we will be in depression two maybe three wars by the end of Bush's term and his daddy said he would never amount to anything. Guess dad was wrong, George has turned out to be something.
Low life oil scum sucking,ignoring terrorist attack warning, lying war starting, army breaking,economy bashing, uncaring if people are freezing, vacation taking while cities drowning, oil company supporting, rich tax giving, oil reserve holding, english language destroying, Dancing, singing, joke telling while troops are dying, bigger terrorist than Bin Laden, worst person ever, biggest traitor to hold the highest office...

Now you know why some eat their young to bad Barbra didn't the world would have been a much better place.

the reportage of things costing more instead of the dollar, deliberately weakened by public enemy number 1 (the federal reserve bankers), buying less, pisses me off: controlled, corrupt media ploy.

Apparently people of influence don't drive much. Truckers do. They could stop this exploitation is one day. A shortage of latee's at Starbuck's will ruffle the right feathers. Empty grocery stores would make world-wide headlines.

Want to stop this 'get ready' talk right now? Start talking about a GENERAL STRIKE. Support American truck drivers. The PEOPLE have the power!

Gas is already $3.55 per gallon here, I think it will go over $4 this summer.