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We make our own biodiesel out of waste veggi oil from local bars restaurant's, 50cents to $1 depending on the price of the chemicals. 2 VW diesels F350 powerstroke and a diesel Yanmar lawn mower. Had to do something...

Vinny, I agree. Drill here now! To think gas made from cornflakes or electric cars are the answer is very naive. Speculators and OPEC have to be brought to their knees.We have to get out of this "sheep" mentality. Flood the Mideast with oil instead of soldiers.

Some of these answers really get to me, raise gas prices to 10 bucks? Force people do do what you want? More control of the people but not the situation? How can you dare say that gas prices must go up to force people to buy less, there are so many people that can barely afford 2 bucks per gallon let alone 10. What about them? They make minimum wage, have families, they can't aford a new prius so they drive what they can afford, a 600 buck beater that gets 15 mpg.. that's all they can afford! You can say walk or take a bus, what if you can't walk a distance, what if you're a senior? what if you're handicapped? What if you're broke?, looking for a job and paying 10 bucks a gallon is a little unfair dontcha think? You making 6 figures? You go buy a prius, all of you drive a prius, maybe when the supply gets so high as it will eventually be, fuel prics will come down for the poor and they too can get around.

If we would begin drilling, the speculators will go into a sell-sell frenzy, prices will drop, even though the newly acquired oil hasn't even made it to the refinery. It's not the oil companies raising prices, its the investors/speculators. We must keep moving, 10 bucks will bring us to our knees, we need to continue research on alternate fuels but in the meantime, we can not make people suffer, stop the speculating, drill, and research. we can pull out of this slowly but doing the shock treatment of 10 buck+ will create a chaos here of which we haven't ever seen. Let's be patient, Lets get the prices back down before everything goes up as a result of it. You don't think 10 bucks per gallon will not have an affect on what you buy at the grocery store? how about paying 10 bucks for a gallon of milk? 15 bucks for a dozen eggs?? This is what your 10 bucks+ will create..

i agree,gas prices go high and because we depend too much on it they know nomater the price we gonna pay for it like it or not.i think people need to start walking,riding a bike,or public transit to lower gas consuption and i think that ill be a good way to make oil companies lower prices.

SOMEBODY needs to invent a motor that will provide energy to power a household. Once that is done the muslims will be swimming in their oil. Their economy will come to a hault. They are nothing without their oil or too much of it.

Just lower the gas consumption (drive less, but an economy car etc.), that's what we all must do at the end.
In my opinion, the government should raise gas taxes NOW and force us to change our gas consumption habbits.
We're financing our enemies, and this has to stop now, before it's too late and they acquire nuclear weapons!

That is sooo true we don't have very many choices out there Where can I go to buy an electric car or hybrid? Is it affordable? There are so few alternatives, who is holding them back?

O.k. I don't think we should do nothing, maybe when the prices get higher people will start organizing protests? It would be helpful to carpool with people from work. Maybe write or e-mail your congressman, but seriously is there a website out there that could help us to boycott gas buying on specific dates or times?

Our community resently shut down a bio fuel plant... it was only up for 3 years.. there was no demand for it.

I had an eMail that makes sense. In Australia we have two major outlets, Shell & Caltex, the suggestion was boycott the petrol stations owned and operated by these two giants and buy your petrol from the smaller independant outlets. Sure the "Giants" supply the small outlets BUT, they still have to maintain their own stations so if the sales from these company owned servos dried up they would have to reduce the price or be stuck with money guzzling no money providing outlets. They could not stop supplying the independants as that would be their cash flow. Thoughts?

I have seen many comments about how Big OIL is gouging the public and its true they are and no one seems to have a idea as to how theres anything that can be done about it. Well maybe we can't control the price surges or can we ! It seems to me that IF THE OIL INDUSTRY WAS TREATED LIKE A PUBLIC UTILITY THAT WOULD HELP OUT AS FAR AS PRICE SURGES GO. MEANING THAT GIG OIL COULD NOT RAISE PRICES UNTIL IT WAS APPROVED BY A PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISION SORT OF LIKE GAS ,WATER, ELECTRIC COMPANIES HAVE TO DO NOW BEFORE THEY CAN RAISE THEIR RATES It's a thought to think about.

Gasification is a process that converts carbonaceous materials, such as coal, petroleum, biofuel, or biomass, into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by reacting the raw material at high temperatures with a controlled amount of oxygen and/or steam. The resulting gas mixture is called synthesis gas or syngas and is itself a fuel. Gasification is a method for extracting energy from many different types of organic materials.

The advantage of gasification is that using the syngas is potentially more efficient than direct combustion of the original fuel because it can be combusted at higher temperatures or even in fuel cells, so that the thermodynamic upper limit to the efficiency defined by Carnot's rule is higher or not applicable. Syngas may be burned directly in internal combustion engines, used to produce methanol and hydrogen, or converted via the Fischer-Tropsch process into synthetic fuel. Gasification can also begin with materials that are not otherwise useful fuels, such as biomass or organic waste. In addition, the high-temperature combustion refines out corrosive ash elements such as chloride and potassium, allowing clean gas production from otherwise problematic fuels.

Gasification of fossil fuels is currently widely used on industrial scales to generate electricity. However, almost any type of organic material can be used as the raw material for gasification, such as wood, biomass, or even plastic waste.

Gasification relies on chemical processes at elevated temperatures >700°C, which distinguishes it from biological processes such as anaerobic digestion that produce biogas.

Nothing! Control is in the hands of governments; certainly not the people. Consider purchasing a motorcycle or scooter. We can learn from the Europeans and Asians.

That said, little question that gas prices could be dramatically reduced if Obamavich and congress would circumvent the environmentalists and permit a massive move for independence. However, that will not happen. Control of our economy has been transferred away from the people to the beginning of a world order. You can be sure Obamavich is party to that agenda.

use another mode of transportation or carpool. in fact, i hope gas goes to ten dollars a gallon , which will finally force us to go alternative forms of energy.

Quit using so much!!!!

Ever since Katrina, the big Oil corporations keep coming up with excuses to gouge the consumer. While the consumer is suffering, because we have no choice, we have to go to work, the Big Oil Companies continue to enjoy record profits. The average Joe can do nothing. Our hands are tied. We are at the mercy of greedy executives and businessmen. If we had decent representation in Washington, (from Obama down), this would not be allowed to happen.

first we need to find out who owens or runs the oil companies.you drive to any gas station and who is bihind the counter? a jew or an arab.they control the oil industry.banking real state.and this all over the world.the Amirican people does not owen any thing any more. motels. mini markets.taxis. they owen movie industry.televition networks. you name it they owen it. the bad thing about it. they do not hire any out side help.they take their money back to their country.to finance the war against us. we need to boycot. we need to wake up before it is to late.

you probably get 6 to 8 hrs out of electric cars,a lot of cities are installing outlets to plug into while your at work or visiting etc

buy electric

Stop driving. Lower demand = lower prices.