PAIN in the GAS: US Average Price for Gas Hits $3.22

[zakerace]

I remember this turmoil so vividly. We never though gas prices would ever go back to normal, and envisioned it even going well beyond $10. Thankfully, the price of gas per barrel dropped(or whatever the hell happened), or we might be paying $15+ dollars by now.

I guess you could say that is one thing bush did right, even if he didn't really do anything directly to effect it.

[ripariparipa]

THAT IS CHEAP!!!!!!!!

USA: Current Avg. $1.659 Per Gallon

Finland: Current Avg. $6.028 Per Gallon

[dropC44]

I would walk, but my Job is 4 miles away from my house and my School is ten miles away.

[sstitanic]

stop your moaning fool here in the uk we pay in us dollars 8.20 per us gallon

[upercalm]

america the greedy

[sdavidson15]

rumor is the russians found and are building a oil pump. the oil they found is the same size of middle easts oil field. the russians field is massive ,and the middle east knows about this construction.so they are taking while there taking is good. once russian open up. the price will fall just as fast as it got high

[Mychaels]

Yes Americans?? WE have to fix this problem ourselves! Use cotton made reusable bags for you're groceries. Plastic is made from oil. Lets use more glass bottles. They are made from sand. We have plenty of that. Glass is reusable. Watch you're prices at the grocery store. Ride bikes. Walk. Ride mopeds. The time is now. We have to do this!!

[Bearkiller777]

why I switched to bus commuting instead of driving saves buttloads of money everyday fare prices will ALWAYS be cheaper than gas prices thank God. I really don't care public transit is constantly overcrowded and stuff......it's well worth it

[costofcommuting]

Great video. It's funny - most people buy cheaper houses that are 30 miles away from work, but spend what they "save" - on gas & wear/tear on their cars.

[tintin20001967]

Get out and walk you fat yanks. Stop eating too, you pigs.

[sophiegromit]

Don't drive!!! Telecommute, order goods via 'Amazon', and stay indoors and have wild lustful sex, instead of going on vacations!!!

[jamesr197307]

Screw Americans and drivers! They have been pampered WAY TOO LONG! Stop the vacations and driving big vehicles! Take the bus, or walk, or bike. But that's too hard, so pay up the ass and shut up about it. No matter what the gas prices are, Americans want to drive. Nothing will change. Period.

[alanhowitzer]

...and the gas tax should be $3/gallon. That money will go to investments supporting non automotive transport such as bicycling, railways, and subways.

[sophiegromit]

How much was gas when the inept criminal elitist Bush entered office?? Bush is the WORST PREZ EVER! Rednecks and yahoos voted him in, not educated, knowledgeable Americans, of which there are fewer and fewer these days!

[alanhowitzer]

Higher gas prices are the solution to our oil addiction. $3.22 is too low. Let it be $10 a gallon.

[sophiegromit]

'alanhowitzer', you're a SICK sonofabitch! You should drop dead.

[Puzzoozoo]

Us British are paying $9 a gallon now, and today the price of petrol went up again. A liter of Petrol in now £1.02, and a liter of Diesel is now £1.07, and that is only at the supermarket pumps. At BP garages it's even higher.

[emforty2]

at least you guys have some form of functional public transportation..

here in the U.S. were still in the stone age w/ regards to avail/functionality of public transpo...were so behind in that respect..

and people are still thinking cars[hybrids/hydrogen/etc] as the solution

ha ha....cars are so obsolete!! the freeway is not even moving now!!

[Puzzoozoo]

Public transport here in Britain is shite, and fare levels are disgusting, I hardly ever use the bus, and can't even remember the last time I went on a train. And 97% of our manufactured goods and raw materials are transported by road.

[shadowlesswalls]

i heard you get more miles for your money though... in the US they didn't bother with fuel economy much at all... darn greedy gas people

[Puzzoozoo]

Depends what you are comparing like with like with. A Porche does as many mpg here in England as it does in...California. BTW petrol and diesel at my6 local BP garage has gone up again, it's now £1.06 a liter for petrol and £.1.11 for diesel, which works out around £5 a gallon or $10 a gallon more or less.

[shadowlesswalls]

well.. more compact cars? heh.. we dont have lil cars here or not yet.. i heard in canada they made some electric ones.. but they are illegal in canada oddly..i guess cause they dont have a problem with gas.

[Puzzoozoo]

Well a Yaris diesel here does 63mpg on average-my older brother has one-so I guess it does 63mpg in Canada as well. And as for not driving 'lil cars' with the price of oil stedy at $100 + a barrel, and with Hubbards Peak fast approaching, you'll all have to start switching, or use the bus. :-)

[entrepreneur41]

I Love America, and I Adore the American people, but it Really makes me laugh when they moan about Gas prices, we pay about $8 a gallon here in England, if they were paying that, then they would have something to Moan about.

I still LOVE you America....The BEST country on EARTH!!

Neil in England.

[stanbernadino]

I really like driving my SUV but something has got to be done about the energy situation. Oil companies are obviously price gouging everybody, I would gladly run my SUV off ethanol (sold to me by a small company, NOT ExxonMobile) if it was reasonably priced. Who gives a rip if the government subsidizes ethanol, do you have any idea how much the gov't subsidizes the Oil companies?!

[TS011969]

In England we pay $8.50 for a gallon!

[oliverweymouth]

No, I will not 'shut up' as you put it; I can do whatever I would like. Nice insult by the way, and excellent grammar.

[OLDROB2005]

thanks professor

[AlpineRoute]

Theres almost no hope in North America (Canadians are just as bad) they would rather sit on their asses every moring in a gas guzzling queue to get a (piss weak) coffee from the drive in than get out and walk into the 'resturants' where there in NEVER a queue. Every day I get a coffee and a pastry from the same place, I walk in straight to the counter get my order in a quarter of the time, honestly if these people cant work this out theres almost no hope.

[republicofwhitey]

In ireland prices are far high for petrol.

this is pushing some people to use cars powered by rape seed oil

[oliverweymouth]

By the way, could you try and construct coherent and punctuated sentences next time; it is difficult to eke the point of the sentence out when it appears as a single homogenous mass of words.

[oliverweymouth]

Rolls Royce, Ferrari, Lamborghini, Bentley, Aston Martin, Alfa Romeo, Porsche, and countless other car manufacturers are far cooler than almost all American cars. Incidentally, European cars can actually go around a bend at speed without making a fool of themselves.

[entrepreneur41]

I have been to America many times, they have some Lovely cars that people in UK just Don't see. You don't get to see them unless you go spend some time in America.

America has some Top Class Designers!

The UK has some of the most BORING cars on earth, I hate them, they are just So Boring!!

Neil in England.

[Puzzoozoo]

These 'lovely cars' can't handle tricky things like corners.

[Puzzoozoo]

Neil, you are wrong.

[oliverweymouth]

Capitalism, and exploiting resources, are absolutley no excuse to pollute the entire world with inefficient vehicles, and other shoddy products to suit the average American's whim. Mustangs and other American cars may be cool to you, but you will find very few of them outside North America, whilst European and East Asian cars are exported everywhere.

[oliverweymouth]

Charlesmartinez1, what is your problem? Why all the name-calling? Big certainly does not imply comfort. A jumbo jet is 76 metres long, yet the vast majority are certainly not very comfortable. Cheap Citroens, and expensive Rolls Royces even more so, are renowned for their comfort, yet you don't see any 2.5 metre wide Citroens lollowing around. Comfort is related to quality of workmanship and use of material, not size.

[7halffloppy]

this is a great video. Thank you, whoever you people are.

[oliverweymouth]

..."how about more drilling and building some more refineries asshole."... That is an absolutely ridiculous statement. You think that the only way to decrease America's apparently exorbitant prices is by drilling for more oil? If we all thought like that we would have used up all our resources by now.

[charlesmartinez1]

resources get with the program you liberals we have made great discoveries of oil fields in the last five years one off the coast of calif that is said to be larger than all of saudia arabias deposits stop watching an inconveniate lie , and know that the oil companys record billions profit is because they can't invest it in drilling or research for more oil.

[OLDROB2005]

tell me where do you buy your drugs from.because

whatever your smoking i want some.

[oliverweymouth]

Why are you swearing? Incidentally, I am not fat. I am 60 kilograms (132 pounds to Americans). And who said you had authority on what is cool? Have you seen some of the ugly American cars? The reason European cars are small is because our roads are small - they've been that way for many hundreds of years, and because most people realise that big does not necessarily imply comfort or luxury.

[charlesmartinez1]

i'll try not to swear your euro contries are built on small but the us is not. and yes gig does imply comfort don't fool yourself , and yes a mustang gt is alot cooler than what ive seen come out of europe ,any questions???

[killerbred69]

well maybe us (liberals) think its time to change our bad habits, nasty disposition,greedy thoughts,and help save our planet by using less gas,or maybe even driving a fuel efficient one,but most like those fat cars to fit their big fat greasy butt in

[oliverweymouth]

In Europe, our cars have a thing called ''efficiency''. European car manufacturers can producefar more brakehorse power out of a 2 litre engine than those gas guzzling American cars can produce out of 3 or 4 litre engine. Perhaps the U.S.A. should make their cars more fuel efficient before moaning about fuel prices. If Europe had only to pay 63 eurocents (43 pence) for a litre of fuel, we would all be twice as better off than we are now.

[charlesmartinez1]

yeah and could you squeeze your fat ass euro blimp into an economy hybrid????

[killerbred69]

Yes,,these oil companies have us over a barrel and hanging by a rope,,Lets wake up and find alternate fuel sources now,,

[dnbwhynot]

What americans still pay under 1 dollar for a liter of fuel?! And they complain?!!! In Belgium the price per liter ( US gallon= 3,785 liter)is about 1 euro and a half (1 euro= 1,25 dollars) maybe you really should stop driving SUV's. Whats the point of driving those things anyway?!

[charlesmartinez1]

because they are cool. and roomy and comfortable not like a mini cooper tuna can asshole

[dnbwhynot]

For one I think the old skool mini coopers are cool. Second you can buy a mini van that uses less fuel then an SUV. Destroy the planet because it's cool?! No reason to call names. Amazingly americans are suprised that the rest of the world thinks they're stupid...dumbass

[greyflcn]

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[OcalaFlorida]

people complain about high gas prices but do ZERO to change their driving habits, pedal to the metal everywhere they go, racing each other to the next red light. Driving massive suv's, sucking go juice thru a funnel. Hurry up and wait and pay extra to do it.

LOWER THE SPEEDLIMIT BACK TO 55!

[greyflcn]

Well, if you took the yearly subsidy for ethanol $7.1 billion.

And then spread that across the 4.6 billion gallons of ethanol we make.

As compared to 146 billion gallons of gasoline.

Then cut that down to only 70% of the mileage of gasoline.

Per equivalent gallon of gasoline, we're paying a total cost of $6.75/gallon for Ethanol.

[jrubin22]

The impeachment hearings need to start soon if this country is to have hope for the future. The rest of the world can't live w/ the most powerful military in the world being run by dogmatic idealogues w/ no regard for our Constitution. The Constitution is NOT pre-9/11 thinking!!!

[oliverweymouth]

The U.S.A worried that petroleum costs on average $3.22 a U.S. Gallon? That works out at $0.85 a litre, which is only GB£0.43 (43 pence)a litre. In the United Kingdom, we have been paying more than double that for decades (96 pence per litre today). That is $7.20 per U.S. Gallon! One would not moan before you know what the situation is like in other countries.

[Sagitarius54]

You have to pay for that diamond hat the queen wears!

[MatChengUK]

mabey if they paid UK petrol prices will tehy stop using SUV's and mabey realise how good it is for only £0.43 a litre...

[charlesmartinez1]

maybe us americans like our tahoes and suburbans dumbass. and don't think it's cool to drive a cooper mini retard car.

[nikaimaging]

You're foolish martinez and your attitude is the exact source of our problems (both economic and social) here in America. Materialism and greed. Sad.

[charlesmartinez1]

i wouldn't call it materialism and greed its called capitalism thats what this country was founded on and runs on. don't punish people for doing good. if i want to spend my money on a hummer thats my bussiness.

[dysphonix]

Capitalism is not a license to take a shit on the environment and the rest of the world. Enough people will have enough and we will make sure to outlaw or force to change vehicles like hummers in the not so distant future. Ignoramus.

[dsecurman1]

they have us right over one of their barrels sticking it to us....

[Retired7Politician]

LOWER TAXES !

[dentalomental]

duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu­uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude..

vote another Reich-Wing, GOP'er prez & nothing will change.

BTW, "neoconservatives" like bush, cheney, guiliani, remmy, fred thompson..

The philosophy of "neoconservatives" is small government, letting "natural" market behaviors

DICTATE change.

[dentalomental]

paaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaals..

Crude Oil establishes the min. price on gasoline.

Crude Oil "FUTURES" are based on "SPECULATION"..

Price of GAS is, too, based on SPECULATION.

we have to protect gas from terrorist, so we'll transport it by HUMMERS, duh!.. National Average goes from $3.05 to $5.05 over night.

[Sagitarius54]

I would say lets make our leaders subject to the bills they pass in our name! Like did you vote to let oil companies make 72b. profit. Why are they allowed! We need to make the supreme court tell us why politicians can have free healthcare,pensions and vote there self a raise and not all of us! They want you to live in 1970 econemy, While they and there corp. buddies live like kings.

[rockymoso]

America needs oil to survive and people in this country would keep driving no matter what!..so,no cure for that!

[madisonhack]

Nationalize oil! If water was as relatively expensive as oil is, there would be no question about. Use the laws of eminent domain as they should be used...take the shit away from them. It doesn't belong to them (oil companies) anyway. If not for our huge military budget and forces worldwide, gas would be twice what it is now. We already subsidize them, so screw them all the way and just fucking take it away. Done deal.

[clone0001]

I'm 23 years old. I don't have a driver's licence. I don't have a car. How many of you that support this video can claim the same?

[yo1dude1man]

Yes, no doubt, we Americans brought this on ourselves, but our primary concern is the obvious Price Gouging by the Oil Industry & lack of Government action. Add 1+1 we suspect US politicians & Oil CEOs are together in bed. Bringing higher economic standards fixes one problem. Taking back our elected officals from Corporate money is another that still needs to be address.

[tintin20001967]

Get out of your cars you fat sod's and walk to work and the shops, you lazey FAT pigs!

[tintin20001967]

Now the fat yank's will have to have small cars or thay could go and take iraq's.....???

[Puzzoozoo]

Like Tata's. :-D

[hstwofive]

Quit whining. Wait 'til Al Gore puts a "Carbon Offset" tax to combat Global Warming.

(This message brought to you by the Tree Huggers International.)

[jonashipping]

Oh my god, so you have to PAY for petrol now?? You Americans are aware that you are still only paying a bit over a third of what we are paying in Europe for petrol. (In northern Europe a gallon of gasoline costs $7.50-8) Perhaps you should reconsider driving your mega sized SUV's everywhere and start thinking a bit economical.

[browncmp]

$3.22? Where the hell is that at? Ive been paying 3.50 for weeks now.

[Shinygummi]

You could consider buying smaller, less wasteful, energy saving cars. Or consider building leisure or work facilties in places where they are easily accesible by foot or public transport. Could be good for the environment..

[jimisback]

Or you could do both. That would really be good.

[jimisback]

Lets drill for oil off the coast of Fla and Va. We haven't built a new refinery in 30 years.

[oldfrank]

big brother keeps telling us that we are cool with paying 4-5 bucks a gallon, dont you belive it! get angry america and stop being sheep!

[investortownhall]

The oil rich middle-east countries and oil companies thank you Mr. President for your invasion of IRAQ.

[investortownhall]

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will on Friday release selected portions of pre-war intelligence in which the CIA warned the administration of the risk and consequences of a conflict in the Middle East.

Among other things, the 40-page Senate report reveals that two intelligence assessments before the war accurately predicted that toppling Saddam could lead to a dangerous period of internal violence and provide a boost to terrorists. But those warnings were ignored.