Thread: IF DEMAND CAUSE RISE IN GAS PRICES?

Illegals rises gas prices by demands. If they were deported, our demand would go down and prices would go down. They are costing the American citizens in more ways than we can imagine. 12-20 million people using gasoline has to affect demand. Next door is 4 cars and across the street is 5.

IWF expert says low supply, high demand driving gas prices
Jim Brown
OneNewsNow.com
May 22, 2007


An economics expert says attempts by Democrats in Congress to resurrect the era of gas price controls will harm consumers in the long run. She contends that competition -- not Congress -- is the only effective way to keep gasoline prices down.

Gas prices in the U.S. have soared to a record high. The average price of self-serve regular unleaded gasoline has risen to $3.18 a gallon, topping the previous inflation-adjusted record of $3.15 a gallon in March 1981. The average prices for a gallon of mid-grade and premium have also risen to $3.29 and $3.40 respectively. The American Automobile Association (AAA) is predicting that within the next 60 days, the average price of a gallon of regular unleaded is likely to reach $3.25.

Carrie Lukas, vice president for policy and economics at the Independent Women's Forum, says it may be tough to do so, but Americans have to sit tight and "let the market work and take its course." She believes that in the short term, there is really nothing the government can do, short of reducing taxes on gasoline. "But unfortunately I don't hear that being discussed too frequently," Lukas offers.

She says the policies that Washington lawmakers have suggested as solutions for rising prices will actually create more problems. "Really, what they have to do is think about long-term solutions that are going to be increasing our ability to produce gasoline," she says, "not just trying to have a quick fix to curing prices today." According to Lukas, price controls can lead to gas shortages, something the U.S. experienced in the 1970s.

Lukas says competition, not Congress, is the only effective way to keep prices down. And consumers, she adds, have to understand that when prices go up, there is a reason. "It's no coincidence that it's right around Memorial Day, as we're heading into the summer driving season," says the economics expert. "The prices are going up because there's a greater demand for gasoline [in the summer months]."

And prices, she continues, send signals. "They send signals to suppliers that we need more of something -- [and] signals [to] consumers that there's less of it to go around. It becomes more valuable."
Skyrocketing gas prices, says Lukas, also send signals to consumers that they may want to reconsider taking a long summer road trip, or forego their gas-guzzling SUV for a more fuel-efficient vehicle.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/05/iwf_e ... ly_hig.php

Oh I know, the big oil co's use the excuse of supply and demand for the cost of our fuel...well, let's deport 32 million of the demand and we'll have a huge supply = lower gas prices!!

I don't see the connection here.

Originally Posted by taurusborn

I don't see the connection here.

This is the connection. . "The prices are going up because there's a greater demand for gasoline

12-20 million illegal aliens do drive cars that do use massive amounts of gasoline.
Just something to think about. How illegals affect every aspect of our lives.
Google the "cost of illegal immigrants"

Not to mention water consumption. As dry as it's been in some areas, I heard yesterday that folks in LA are being asked to cut their showers. If the illegals in LA left you think they would still need to do this?

Even though there are 10 of them in a car, they still use gas!!

Originally Posted by alisab

Even though there are 10 of them in a car, they still use gas!!

don't forget all the mowing

And the consumption of electricity to power their big screen tvs so they can get their orders of what to do next from Univision.

Originally Posted by alisab

Even though there are 10 of them in a car, they still use gas!!

ROFL

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Gas prices are going to keep going up. And gas prices aren't the only thing headed up. The energy crisis has started and the United States of America is about to go through a profound and wrenching change. As is the rest of the world. We face an energy crisis never before confronted in human history. Energy for transportation, manufacturing and everyday living will have to come from other sources than the one we use now, most likely less efficient sources. Gas prices will just be a small part if it. That beautiful black liquid with the fantastic Power/Mass ratio that was the base building block of our civilization is going to hit its mid-point, Global Peak Oil, and then slide into permanent decline and we will be forced to make major changes in our way of living. Population will keep going up, the oil supply will keep going down. Gas prices will skyrocket!! Year after year, decade after decade, as demand and population increase, the supply of oil will continue to dwindle