Gas in Michigan now $4.249 a Gallon!! Why??

[Mad Scientist]

It isn't like driving is a right protected by the Constitution....good enough for Abe Lincoln, good enough for America!!

Actually, it is and the Supreme Court has ruled so:

Schactman v Dulles, 96 App D.C. 287, 293.

"Undoubtedly the Right of locomotion, the Right to remove from one place to another according to inclination, is an attribute of personal Liberty, and the Right, ordinarily, of free transit from or through the territory of any State is a Right secured by the l4th Amendment and by other provisions of the Constitution."

 

[Caroljo]

What about the price of gas in 2008? $1.89

 

[Mr. H.]

What about the price of gas in 2008? $1.89

Or in 1999... $1/gallon.

 

[martybegan]

It isn't like driving is a right protected by the Constitution....good enough for Abe Lincoln, good enough for America!!

Actually, it is and the Supreme Court has ruled so:

Schactman v Dulles, 96 App D.C. 287, 293.

"Undoubtedly the Right of locomotion, the Right to remove from one place to another according to inclination, is an attribute of personal Liberty, and the Right, ordinarily, of free transit from or through the territory of any State is a Right secured by the l4th Amendment and by other provisions of the Constitution."

The right to travel is protected, as a government entitiy cannot prevent you from traversing thier jurestiction. However the METHOD of travel is never really clarified.

Thus you have no right to own a car, but once you have one, local governments cannot prevent you from getting from point A to point B.

 

[Missourian]

Oil and gas companies have good reason to worry about costly punitive EPA practices under the Obama administration. Their Dallas Regional Administrator, Al Armendariz, expressed this take-no-prisoners philosophy at a taped city council meeting two years ago. The strategy described was to single out an oil company accused of a rule infraction and “punish it as hard as you can” as an example to scare others into submission. He explained: “The Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean.” Armendariz continued, “They’d go into a little Turkish town somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they saw, and they would crucify them. And then you know that the town was really easy to manage for the next few years.”

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Over the past 60 years, the U.S. has seen the number of refineries cut almost in half, down from 324 to 149. The last facility to be constructed, the Ashland refinery near Garyville, Louisiana, was completed in 1976. As a result, disruptions of production due to maintenance, accidents and natural disasters at one or more plants can create shortfalls and price hikes with regional and national impacts.

The EPA Has Petroleum Processors Over A Barrel: Costly Regulations Produce Crude, Unrefined Results - Forbes
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[Caroljo]

What about the price of gas in 2008? $1.89

Or in 1999... $1/gallon.

Only 89 cents in 9 years. In 5 years it's gone up over $3.00! Something's wrong with this!

 

[Dont Taz Me Bro]

Michigan is a shit hole, that's why

 

[Mr. H.]

What about the price of gas in 2008? $1.89

Or in 1999... $1/gallon.

Only 89 cents in 9 years. In 5 years it's gone up over $3.00! Something's wrong with this!

That's a net change of 89 cents.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

What about the price of gas in 2008? $1.89

Yeah, and nothing else has gone up since then, right?

 

[RGR]

It isn't like driving is a right protected by the Constitution....good enough for Abe Lincoln, good enough for America!!

Actually, it is and the Supreme Court has ruled so:

Schactman v Dulles, 96 App D.C. 287, 293.

"Undoubtedly the Right of locomotion, the Right to remove from one place to another according to inclination, is an attribute of personal Liberty, and the Right, ordinarily, of free transit from or through the territory of any State is a Right secured by the l4th Amendment and by other provisions of the Constitution."

Excellent! But I didn't see any mention of a car in there? Or cheap fuel to power it? Locomotion just as easily covers walking and bicycling, which is my recommendation for those irritated at high gas prices.

To bad they didn't throw in a comment about a Model T, or maybe "liquid hydrocarbons at a price benchmarked off of $0.02/gal in 1903" or something. The good news is, people can locomote any way they wish! So feel free to locomote with a bicycle if you don't like how much the car costs!

 

[Wry Catcher]

Michigan's gas prices are skyrocketing...and I haven't heard a good reason why yet! We're higher than Alaska and Hawaii...or any other state! I heard it's because we're at the end of the pipeline from the gulf....bullshit! Maine is further and they were still under $4 the last I checked. Has anyone here heard the truth of what's going on?

Simple, 'cause the economy is on a rebound and the cartel thought by raising prices they might garner some support for a failing Republican Party.

 

[bodecea]

a passive protest

is to place sticky notes on the pump by the price

simply saying

Thanks Obama

--LOL

Yes Obama is sitting in the white house setting gas prices

u

the

Thanks Obama sticky notes

also work well at the grocery store

The Wavy Lays are OUTRAGEOUS!

 

[RGR]

What about the price of gas in 2008? $1.89

Or in 1999... $1/gallon.

Only 89 cents in 9 years. In 5 years it's gone up over $3.00! Something's wrong with this!

There is! Michigan went for Obama 16% in 2008, 9.5% in 2012.

You have the change you all voted for, stop whining and enjoy!!

 

[Polk]

Nobody complains about the price of anything... except gasoline.

Look at your grocery bill and ask why the agriculture industry is exporting hundreds of millions of tons or our food each year.

Because they're a business? Almighty profit, right?

 

[Polk]

What about the price of gas in 2008? $1.89

Or in 1999... $1/gallon.

Only 89 cents in 9 years. In 5 years it's gone up over $3.00! Something's wrong with this!

Those numbers are misleading. Gas was well over $3 a gallon during the summer of 2008. They were in the $2 range late in 2008 because of the bottom falling out of the economy.

 

[Mr. H.]

Nobody complains about the price of anything... except gasoline.

Look at your grocery bill and ask why the agriculture industry is exporting hundreds of millions of tons or our food each year.

Because they're a business? Almighty profit, right?

And why no national outrage directed toward the ag industry? Windfall profits, rampant pollution, real "subsidies".

 

[Polk]

Nobody complains about the price of anything... except gasoline.

Look at your grocery bill and ask why the agriculture industry is exporting hundreds of millions of tons or our food each year.

Because they're a business? Almighty profit, right?

And why no national outrage directed toward the ag industry? Windfall profits, rampant pollution, real "subsidies".

Because most people still have this image of family farms stuck in their heads.

 

[Caroljo]

I didn't vote for the communist!

 

[Caroljo]

Or in 1999... $1/gallon.

Only 89 cents in 9 years. In 5 years it's gone up over $3.00! Something's wrong with this!

Those numbers are misleading. Gas was well over $3 a gallon during the summer of 2008. They were in the $2 range late in 2008 because of the bottom falling out of the economy.

You have a link?

I do....here's mine: (which was from 2012)

The average price for one gallon of unleaded gasoline has increased nearly every month since Barack Obama was inaugurated in January 2009. At that time, when George W. Bush was leaving office, the price was $1.78 per gallon. Today, three years and one month later, the average price is $3.64.
Gas When Bush Left Office, $1.78 -- Gas Today, $3.64 -- Highest Average Price in Calif., $4.20 | CNS News

 

[Caroljo]

What about the price of gas in 2008? $1.89

Yeah, and nothing else has gone up since then, right?

Did I say that? Of course everything else has gone up in price!! If gas goes up so does the price of everything else!