Rich_Murphy's Blog

I just posted a blog this morning about the news on Fox at 6:30 a.m. (April 28th) where gas in Maryland is $3.54. For information purposes, I paid $3.819 for 93 on Thursday, April 25, 2008 at the Exxon on Brown Station Road in Upper Marlboro!!!!!!!!!!

Y3Y3: You are absolutely correct, I wouldn't be singing the same song. If I were an executive of an oil company, I wouldn't have responded at all.

Have you heard the latest and greatest big gas company commercial. telling us that we have a piece of the pie when we have mutual funds, and 401k. Something is very wrong here folks when the gas company really need to drill deep to find an excuse for there 9billion$ profits in first quarter alone. Well I am not buying it especially when I lost money in my 401k in the first quater. Somebody is gettin very rich over this price gouging this really needs to stop. There even going as far as to what others are paying for gas in other countries. I donot live in other countries I live here. Please somebody help us I cannot feed my kids, pay my mortgage

I STILL say the American public should park their vehicles 1 day per week and NO ONE DRIVE under any circumstances on that day...and do it once a week for at LEAST a month. LOL At least the unsold gasoline on that date will be accumulating in the tanks at the stations and storage facilities for a while and we would experience more availability. Back in the late 70s when the "gasoline crisis" hit and we all had to stand in lines, the bustards had tankers offshore who were in a holding pattern and not coming into port just to make us think there was a shortage...AND THERE WAS NO SHORTAGE ...they just wanted the prices UP UP and AWAY! I would suggest the same is true right now...we should tell shrub to "peez off" about the drilling and park our cars one day a week for at least a month. Before you know it, the tankers will be jamming up the lanes outside storage facilities.

Uh oh...error on fourth line.."...not have seen THROUGH THIS charade????"

Remember long ago that no stores were open on Sunday's maybe we should go back to that. I know I do nothing on Sundays. I stay home Paint, clean the yard, are just watch a good movie and barbeque. We can boycott Sundays, for everything and blame it on gas prices. Everything just shuts down. No stores, No movies, no grocery shopping NOTHING.

We brought together the heads of big oil. See that big head over there? Yeah, he runs Shell. That one? That runs ExxonMobil. Mr. Big oil, we're here to talk about the high price of gasoline. How could it have possibly gotten this high?

Let me tell you what we've done here in congress. We told you that drilling in ANWR is off limits. We told you that drilling off the coast of Florida and California is off limits. We told you, Mr. Big oil, that there wouldn't be any new leases for drilling in the Gulf while China and Venezuela and even Cuba pursued these leases and have just signed 100-year leases on the oil in the Gulf of Mexico. We here in congress have promised, as all three presidential candidates have also promised, to introduce and pass in the next term a cap and trade legislation bill that will increase the price of gasoline according to the EPA by an additional $1.50. Some people say it could be as high as $5 additional per gallon. Order, order. We have said that we're shutting down oil fields in Colorado. We won't let you develop shale oil fields in several Western states. And yesterday we passed legislation that would let us sue OPEC with the full understanding that they'll never retaliate. Yes. We have allowed environmental attorneys to sue you big oil fiends for future possible destruction of Alaskan Eskimo village which legal experts believe is the same strategy used to bring down big tobacco. We're especially proud of our recent action to protect the polar bear and their habitat which just happens to be where the future oil deposits happen t