Another bitch about gas prices

[Bengal]

I think people will start hijacking gas tanker trucks, as well as shooting oil execs and politicians who won't get with the program on doing something tangible about these problems.

Citizens might not be confronted by the military en masse, but shoot a few dozen fat cats and politicians and the rest of them will get the idea and start doing something. Can't ride the gravy train if you're dead...

Yeah, there's a revolution of some sort coming!

You have mentioned this theory about shooting oil execs quite a few times. It's an interseting idea. You really think people will do that? Really? Do they know who these oil execs are?

No, people don't want to act, they want to be told what to do. The average person has their head burried in the sand and are hoping all this just goes away sometime soon. It went away in the late 70's, it can go away again.

For some kind of movement like lynching, you need someone to rally around. A figurehead. Who would that be? Who in this country can justify murder? Can you? I know I can't.

I think most people blame the government for the high gas prices. So I could see someone talking a shot at a high profile person in retalliation for the gas prices. But they lynching of oil execs is a bit far fetched, to me anyway.

After all, most Americans want to be like the oil execs. American Dream, right?

Now I could see hijacking tanker trucks. I could see people doing that very easy.

But I agree with you that something needs to be done. It's getting out of hand.

[ABSOLUT CHARVEL]

Tip of the day: if you dont have a locking gas cap, get one.

[Bengal]

Tip of the day: if you dont have a locking gas cap, get one.

That's another great point that I was thinking of over the weekend. I bet you there will be a rash of gas siphoning going on all over the country.

[lerxstcat]

You have mentioned this theory about shooting oil execs quite a few times. It's an interseting idea. You really think people will do that? Really? Do they know who these oil execs are?

No, people don't want to act, they want to be told what to do. The average person has their head burried in the sand and are hoping all this just goes away sometime soon. It went away in the late 70's, it can go away again.

For some kind of movement like lynching, you need someone to rally around. A figurehead. Who would that be? Who in this country can justify murder? Can you? I know I can't.

I think most people blame the government for the high gas prices. So I could see someone talking a shot at a high profile person in retalliation for the gas prices. But they lynching of oil execs is a bit far fetched, to me anyway.

After all, most Americans want to be like the oil execs. American Dream, right?

Now I could see hijacking tanker trucks. I could see people doing that very easy.

But I agree with you that something needs to be done. It's getting out of hand.

I don't know if shooting oil execs would actually happen, but I can see it as an expression of anger, and if large numbers of people start losing the lives they've built because rising fuel costs meant they could no longer hang on, then I see it as a possibility. It's not hard to find out who the president of Shell Oil is (I keep using him as an example because I thought he was rather smug in the interview I saw), where he lives and works, and his agenda.

People like him would not be hard to stake out, at least not at first. I'm sure they'd have to harden their defenses after a few got shot. How many, and how long, would it take for Big Oil and the government to get the message? Again, I don't know, but I could see such violence happening as the US goes into another Great Depression over this.

[Bengal]

Interesting idea. I don't know if society would turn to violence like that. I hope not but I guess you never know. I guess we'll see what high gas prices will to do people.

[StukaJU87]

That's another great point that I was thinking of over the weekend. I bet you there will be a rash of gas siphoning going on all over the country.

Not only siphoning. Some reports are coming in of SUV and pickup truck fuel tanks being drilled out and drained into containers. I guess these vehicles are targeted because of their ground clearance,

[thetroy]

If I had the money of an oil exec, I would have my own private army.

[lerxstcat]

If I had the money of an oil exec, I would have my own private army.

And we have lots of bitter wounded and cast-off veterans to make up an insurgency right here that could get through those private armies.

Is America going to go the way of Iraq? IEDs being set off to get to oil barons in their hardened limos? Might sound far-fetched but if our economy collapses there are going to be many millions of pissed-off people who know how to do something about it.

[thetroy]

Fortunately the wounded ones will be easy to take out!

What I've learned, in the last 8 years especially, is that terrorism works. So yes I could see that happening.

[CharvelRocker]

That's another great point that I was thinking of over the weekend. I bet you there will be a rash of gas siphoning going on all over the country.

Actually, I would not worry about this. Reason being most tanks on cars made from at least 1990 onward have a filter and screen in the line to prevent siphons. Even if you over filled it slightly, they would not make off with much at all.

Not only siphoning. Some reports are coming in of SUV and pickup truck fuel tanks being drilled out and drained into containers. I guess these vehicles are targeted because of their ground clearance,

And they have huge tanks, often well over 20 gallons.

Now could America turn to violence? I've been saying they in my head it could happen, but it's not something you want to think about. As it is, the oil companies have a big hand in running the US anymore the way they line the pockets of senators. Naturally, when people get violent, they will hire out armies to protect themselves. It's only a matter of time before it happens, which is another reason why our government needs to do something fast. There is more potential for another American Civil War than there has been in almost 200 years

[Spivonious]

Actually, I would not worry about this. Reason being most tanks on cars made from at least 1990 onward have a filter and screen in the line to prevent siphons. Even if you over filled it slightly, they would not make off with much at all.

Oh? My wife is whining about wanting to get a locking gas cap for her 2000 Neon. If you have a link, please post it so I can save us $30.

[lerxstcat]

You can easily pry off a locking gas cap with a screwdriver anyway, so the lock is a joke for protection.

[yard dawg]

Did yall see maxine Waters threaten the oil guys with socialising their industry if she had her way?? Scary stuff isnt it.

[Thrust]

Did yall see maxine Waters threaten the oil guys with socialising their industry if she had her way?? Scary stuff isnt it.

Well, apparently the neo-liberal model based on laissez-faire capitalism isn't working.

[Newc]

they attempt to justify it by claiming they are investing in new technologies...

The other issue that is a load of BS is that they keep claiming they are at max capacity on the refineries. Isn't it funny that every time we come into a busy cycle a refinery in mysteriously being taken down for maintenance? How about investing that tech money in more refineries?

For the same reason that California has regular water shortages yet has the most coastline AND most money: they won't built desalinazation plants to keep them swimming in water, even though they have the money.


As for siphoning gas - there was a news story about a guy who heard someone outside his rural Georgia home and saw a shadowy figure siphoning his gas. He shot and killed the guy. Turned out to be his own cousin.

No charges were filed by the State.

So hopefully it will be perfectly legal to shoot and kill gas thieves.