I did a little search and found that when Mr Bush and Cheney took office a barrel of oil was at $22.00,eight years later (a war in place,in an oil country)
barrel of oil today $107.00
Regular unleaded $1.25 in san diego, today $3.75.
It is a free country and I love it but sometimes you have to stop and think about who is getting richer ripping you off.

 

sharkair.... just a little heads up on the venenzuela deal....they have no sway on opec....most of their oil production is domestic.... in the last 20 years their socialst government has been very deliberate about keeping forign intrests out of their country.....in the late 90's a large large amount of oil was discovered there.....basically they got lucky......just the kinda lucky we could be if enviromentalist would stop freaking out about the baby seals in alaska and let us explore there...... weve been drilling in the gulf of mexico for years and had little if no impact on the ecosystem.....we could easily do the same in alaska and off the coast of california......so whats it gonna be??? i 1 in 1000 chance that we acidently kill a few baby seals, or we all lose our jobs......personally ive done enough hunting in my life to really not think tiwice about that choice.....guess its all about priorities


PS... if you think that the president of the united states lines his own pockets with the high price of oil you really need to do some research outside of what you read on the internet...... to directly answer and respond to the previous comment by papacharlie....... papa your right on....when bush took office oil was cheaper.....the main reason that it was cheaper is that the worlds largest consumer of oil (the united states) had a large domestic surplus of oil.....thus driving the world market for oil down..... this surplus of oil came from the clinton administration.... clinton sold off much of the united states strategic reserve of oil off to the civilian market...thus flooding the market and making oil cheaper to the consumer.....if your not an economist this sounds like a great idea.....sell the oil gas price goes down...everyone is happy.....but in reality this is a poor selfish decision because the government and the military must have a strategic stockpile of oil for national security reasons.....now we have to buy all that oil back at a higher price per barell which = even more unessacary government spending and debt= poor economy

 

Let me start this off by saying that if anyone in this world loves the environment it is me. All of my hobbies have something to do with the environment and I do as much as I can to help make our earth a better place to live. If it where not for clean waters my favorite hobby of fishing would go down the drain, and hunting #2 on my list would probally end up the same way somehow.
BUT let me say this, if we want to reduce the $ of oil and stop making other countrys rich than we need to start doing one very important thing, stop buying their oil and start pumping our own out of the oil rich country that we have ourselves. We have tons of oil in Alaska, the coast of Florida (my home by the way), Texas, California, Oklahoma, and everywhere else in this country. Why are none of the countrys that we buy oil from worried about their environment? When they first built the Alaskan pipeline, environmentalist where worried to daeth that it was going to affect the caribou migration, but you know what they are seen jumping over the pipeline to get where they need to go. I am not a believer in evolution but I am a believer that things adapt on this planet and learn to live with changes. With the technology that oil companys have today when researching drilling sites and actually drilling the effect on the environment is almost nothing besides draining that area of some oil, which I dont believe is neccesary for the earth to have inside of it for everything to continue functioning.
People we need to wake up and allow drilling and more pumping from our own soils, this is the only way we are going to solve this problem, which is now starting to become a bigger national security issue than any terrorist.

 

Why don't you zip your "porky mouth" and go back to flight training, if you are doing that at all. I have my doubts. Don't start yapping about things you do not understand and start insulting other people. Yeah it is every Americans business to find out why there is such a huge gap between the average working Joe's income versus Oil Corporations CEOs. Even in Europe, CEOs running one of the world's largest corporations do not make this kind of salaries and bonus.

 

So why don't you take issue with CEO's in other industries......telecom, software, transportation, media, finance. I mean all of these industries (and more) have CEO's making salaries with the same gap you are complaining about. If you want to "yap" about others not understanding at least make a good argument by complaining about every CEO out there because I hate to tell you bro, they all make millions more than the average working Joe. Thats WHY they make millions, because they didn't settle for being an average working Joe. If you have such a problem with it I suggest you go to an Ivy League type school, get an MBA or PhD and throw your hat in the fray. Until then you just sound like sour grapes when someone posts a well thought out response.

 

You call someone who writes "porky mouth" a well thought out response.
Get a life pal. I am well aware of how much CEOs of other corporations make, but they are not running oil companies. This thread, in case you have not noticed, is about oil. You don't know how to read do you? Merely pointing out huge salary discrepancies between Corporate managers and the average working Joe is not being a sour grape. I am not the only one on this thread who feels this way.

By the way, I do have a degree from an Ivy League University. How about you? For your information, only a handful of corporate CEOs are Ivy League graduates. Are you even a college graduate? I doubt it.

Some of us, believe it or not, are airline pilots not to chase the money but because we love to fly.

 

Papacharlie, gas price in California has topped $5 a gallon. It was in the news yesterday. They are predicting $6 to $8 a gallon by this summer.

 

It was the idea behind the response, not the porky mouth comment and I'm not your "pal". Yes I am well aware there are others on here with your same sentiments, they just don't sound like a whiney little kid in their responses.
Oh and yes I have a degree from an Ivy League school and I am currently at a 121 carrier. Nice try.

 

Yes, it is. Let's stop sniping at each other and continue to focus on how rising oil prices affect the industry. Thanks!

 

I doubt it. Anyone who can think for themselves wouldn't continue to embarass himself like you are doing now. I know subtle nuances escapes you. "pal" I used is not the term you are thinking about. I was being polite instead of calling you for what you really are. You certainly do not write well. "they just don't sound like a whiney little kids?" I guess you are right. They do NOT sound like whiney little kids because they are not, where as you do sound like a sour grape.