Oil prices is why everything in our economy is going up right now. One word...Shipping. There are freight charges involved somewhere down the line in every single thing we do, period. Gas prices go up, shipping companies raise their rates. This gets passed to the company that requries something to be shipped. What does that company do with it...logical, they pass it on to the consumer in the form of increased retail prices. You pay for freight in some form or another, even when you walk into a retail outlet and purchase straight off the shelf. Gas prices are affecting every single facet of our lives right now, and not just in the form of higher gas prices.

My friggin favorite items at Jamba Juice has gone up almost a $1 out of my pocket in the past 8 months...That's a 30% increase. Heck, gas hasn't even gone up that much in the past 8 months!!

 

When bush moved into the Whithouse a barrel of oil was 47.00 dollars.

 

Nope - I just looked it up, oil in January 2001 was about 28 bucks.

 

Aghh the good ol days when gas and wemen were cheap Well atleast the gas was cheap

 

Funny how most companies profits (margins to)are down dramatically due to higher fuel cost but its ok for big oils profit margins to remain the same (I doubt thats true but I'm to lazy to prove it) according to the Bu****es. Bush the Big oil Texas man has raped us all...

 

Why should they make less money? The only "logic", and I'm giving you some credit by even calling it that, your providing is that if one suffer all should suffer with them. You know might want to grab a brochure on China as communism seems to fit in with your ideals. Let's play a game, pretend your head of Shell. You are going to drop your profits, hurt your shareholders and throw money away because you feel bad for the American people? Yeah, sure you would buddy

 

The head of Shell could care less about Americans - he's in the Netherlands.

 

you can't understand how the dumbocrats did that? How about passing a law a couple years ago so we can't drill new oil wells off the coast of America? How about the environmentalists pressuring the government to make it so hard to build a refinery? Now you tell me.. how did bush make the price of a barrel of crude oil so high? Almost forgot one... the government taxes the crap out of gas. And they are a business that doesn't make anything but problems!!

 

They tax it a lot less than most countries do. Ask someone in the UK how much gas is there, and how much of that is tax. They are paying the same $105 a barrel there as we do!

 

Because other's have it worse does not mean we have it good.

 

Show me any country except a member of OPEC that has it better, please.

 

So because the europeans tax it more, we should feel lucky here? Sorry, we are the world leaders. I don't follow europe. Taxes are evil. It is our money. The government is taking the stance that it is there money and they give us some in the form of tax rebates and such. We need to stop that thinking. As I said, the government is not a business, they don't make a profit, and they are very inefficiant in programs they handle, and they have no business taking our money for much more than national defense.

 

Chris, unfortunately your libertarian views and principles are unworkable, due to all the citizens we have these days that don't KNOW anything other than being on the dole. Survival of the fittest is a politically incorrect concept.

 

Maybe if you jump up and down and fuss and cry a little bit more... NAAA, I'm still going to tell you to go read up on your so called facts and then repost your complaints in the "GENERAL DISCUSSION FORUM". Taxes aren't the reason oil is so much. Have you heard about the actual value of the dollar lately? This is why a barrel of crude costs so much in American currency.

Go back and read the OP question. Are you contributing anything at all?

I use Castrol blend 5w20. I use it in everything I have, and, have used motorcraft oil in the past and have had no ill effects with it.

 

I've changed from motor craft.. to rp.. to moto craft... 93000 no probs...