1. I work for a company that manages and tracks gift cards, and I’ve been blogging about ways to save money on gas on savvywallet.com. One way to save money on gas is to buy discounted gas cards online. How do I save money on gas? I don’t buy gas. I run my car off waste vegetable oil. I haven’t paid for fuel since January. I love it. You can check it out on austinchu.wordpress.com

   Comment by Austin Chu — June 19, 2008 @ 10:10 am

2. Letting market forces determine cost will work, as long as the market is not being strangled by the irrational Church of Global Warming. Recognize the EPA for the fraud and anti-capitalist, anti-American and destructive movement that it has become. Access our local resources, in ANWAR and off shore. Put people first, polar bears, prairie dogs other rodents and bugs last. Build refineries and build nuclear power plants– hey, that is going to help with unemployment too. a

   Comment by ChrisC — June 19, 2008 @ 10:31 am

3. It is no secret that electric cars were a total success.So much so that the auto manufactures saw there was virtually no profit in their service departments because they need little service compared to internal combustion engines.I think that pressure from the oil companies also killed the electric car. This car would solve the gas crisis and reduce emissions that would benefit the enviroment. Two birds with one stone. If al gore is so great,why is he not first in line with the electric car.

   Comment by Ron Ruiz — June 19, 2008 @ 11:04 am

4. Built a better public transportation, like trains, subway, or even bus that has 0 emmissions (like the one I saw in downtown denver. RTC here sucks! Ways to expensive and too much connection to get from point A to B. Not to mention, it takes too long to get there. Vegas is like a bowl, where it’s perfect for such a project.

   Comment by Tristan — June 19, 2008 @ 11:44 am

5. Find out which oil company is making the most profits and boycot those gas stations. We don’t have to stick to one. It can change month to month. But it will force them to lower prices or go out of business.

   Comment by Casey — June 19, 2008 @ 11:56 am

6. I think people should move closer to work, carpool, get smaller vehicles (most of us can’t affort hybrid or electric cars), and stay home more. We should all regularily rotate their tires and keep good air pressure in them. Plus, not driving aggressive and stomping on the gas pedal would probably help out too.

   Comment by AMBER — June 19, 2008 @ 12:08 pm

7. There is one thing that will affect oil prices immediatley, and that is if the President announces that we are going to start drilling on our own soil for oil. That will create a nightmare for the big oil companies and watch how fast the prices go down. The only thing stopping the President from making this announcement of course are the tree huggers, well lets see you drive that tree to work, time to think about what will help the country now not a million years from now.

   Comment by Ken Marrama — June 19, 2008 @ 12:33 pm

8. I’d like to see the Fed Gov’t put a cash rebate program in effect for buyers who purchase hybrid or alternative fuels automobiles. One that can’t be touched by the dealers - mailed to your home in a nice green check. A BIG rebate. Same for purchasing solar panels and such … the Feds are quick to grab as much money as they dare from your paycheck. But very little actually goes to your welfare (unless you count attacking and destroying a few Countries here and there to the tune of Billions of dollars… dollars that are sorely needed here at home.

   Comment by Tabasco Jax — June 19, 2008 @ 12:40 pm

9. OPEC sells oil for $136.00 a barrel.
   OPEC nations buy U.S. grain at $7.00 a bushel.
   Solution: Sell grain for $136.00 a bushel.
   Can’t buy it? Tough! Eat your oil!

   Comment by Walter — June 19, 2008 @ 12:46 pm

10. Like someone said, we need to boycott the gas stations. We need to go to a local station in town, Huey’s on Decatur and Vegas Dr. The owner is selling gas for $3.99 a gallon! He researches gas prices across the country, buys it for the cheapest price, and trucks it into Vegas! The line is about 10 car lengths, but if we keep going to Huey’s, and avoid the local ARCO, Chevron, 76, or Exxon dealer, we will force them to either lower things, or go out of business! We need to FORCE the gas prices down! FORCE involves simply turning things around! They are holding us hostage, so we avoid the big oil company stations, we keep going to Huey’s, and they start shaking in their boots, wondering what to do!

    I don’t drive. I ride the cat bus. It’s safer, and cheaper. That is, until they raise the bus fare prices, which probably will happen. Until then, it’s another great way to get around without paying the $4.00 (soon to be $5.00, no doubt) a gallon gas prices.

    Those CEOs of the oil companies are sticking the proverbial knife in us and twisting it! We need to FIGHT BACK, or they will continue to twist that knife.

    Comment by Ricky — June 19, 2008 @ 12:56 pm

11. Casey Hendrickson on AM 840 KXNT has been talking about HHO for several weeks now. I think I heard him say he was putting one on his car. I hope he does, because I’d like to know how well it works.

    Comment by John — June 19, 2008 @ 3:36 pm

12. Stop whining, and buy some smaller cars! if you can’t afford to drive a Hummer or a big SUV then do like they do in Europe… 99% of all people do NOT need a V8 6.0 liter engine! in Europe they drive 4 cylinder 1.6 liter engines. for most people that will get them to work and back just fine, and before you start whining about safety - they are JUST as safe!!

    Comment by Jan Pedersen — June 19, 2008 @ 3:51 pm

13. When I moved here 12 years ago – you could buy a three bedroom, two bath - home for $85K to 110K.

    I watch about 5 to 6 year ago - as the Californian moving here, and who sold their home in California - for double and triple the price of ours homes, started out bidding each other to buy our homes. We were a bargain. This started to drive the homes prices out of the reach of the people who lived here and out of the range of wages offered here.

    Then they were offered interest only loans for the first 5 years, to get people to continue to pay the inflated home prices. This would only work if the price of the home did not go down, but they did and now there’s a mess. It was all greed. They tried turning buying a house - in a business, instead a home and place to live.

    I remember a time when homes and products were made to be affordable, that’s all gone.

    The poor are getting poorer, no one can afford gas and the state is out of money.

    What’s next.

    Comment by Vicki s. — June 19, 2008 @ 4:12 pm

14. The real issue is the profiteers in the oil commodities market, buying and selling oil w/o adding any value.

    Simple solution: Enact a law requiring anyone purchasing oil commodities on the exchange to take delivery (even if it’s only “owned” by them for a tenth of a second) as a matter of national security.

    This would eliminate driving up the price of oil, except for the oil producer and purchaser. The producer wants to sell it at as high a price as they can, while the purchaser wants to buy it as cheaply as they can. Buy low/sell high is eliminated from the equasion and consumers benefit.

    Comment by Robbie — June 19, 2008 @ 4:19 pm

15. Maybe increasing fuel costs is a good thing.. It seems like the United States needs something to spring it into action to seriously considering alternative fuel sources.

    Comment by Matt — June 19, 2008 @ 6:09 pm

16. Look first for the facts of ‘why’ prices are high on the Nader website - facts - oil $50 a barrel in January 2007, August 2007 $75 a barrel - $130 plus now…there is no shortage or problem in the industry, learn the reasons ‘why’.

    Comment by Alex — June 20, 2008 @ 12:12 pm

17. The remedy would be to boycott gas coming from Saudi Arabia.
    Here are some companies that DO NOT IMPORT Middle Eastern oil. SUNOCO, CONOCO, SINCLAIR, BP/PHILLIPS, HESS, ARCO, MAVERICK, FLYING J, VALERO. All this information is available from the U.S. Department of Energy. Check it out

    Comment by Katie Roberts — June 20, 2008 @ 6:06 pm

18. Wow, all this and everyone laughing at what everyone else has written. Or just calling everyone else stupid, sad. Everyone will probably laugh at this too, But. Back in the 50’s and 60’s some pretty bright engineers came up with some simple ways to merge strong engines (300-400)Hp with 30-40mpg economy. The oil companies and auto manufactures bought the patents and destroyed or simply locked the information away. Or simply forced the few people willing to challenge their Magnificent stature, out of business or had them killed. Nothing personal, Just Business. Now When the oil company’s are making Billions of dollars in profits, They expect the Feds, You know, President Bush, to give them Hundreds of Millions in tax breaks that the rest of us will have to pay, so as not to cut into their comfort zone. Or their Profits. Well it’s easy to talk but divine to act, if Everyone, Rich and poor, High and low would simply not buy gas one day a week say Tuesdays. That way it would be visible on the market. And charge the mid-east $137.00 a bushel for grain, then pretty quick there would be a surplus of fuel in the tanks and hungry people wanting to trade oil for grain, and the price will come down! Oh yeh, The Pres. and friends own lots and lots of interest in oil companies what better way to make them squirm, I mean that’s what they’ve been doing to the rest of us with the prices that are so out of line.

    Comment by David — June 20, 2008 @ 6:51 pm

19. Complaining about the oil and gas prices will not change anything. Try driving less and slower and only if absolutely necessary. Combine your driving outings to do multiple things instead of making separate individual trips to do errands. If gas consumption by the general public is drastically reduced, you can bet the price of gas will go down as less oil will be needed. The problem is that many of us will not give up our frivolous and wasteful driving habits and choose to criticize and blame others for this problem. When gas reaches $10 a gallon some will not be driving at all.

    Comment by Tad — June 21, 2008 @ 3:17 am

20. just a little thought about the gas issue… i don’t think this will wake anyone here up to go out and stop our Government from allowing us to be raped financially… there are too many special interests rolling around the White House, and I also feel that WE, as Americans, are really still just to lazy to do anything about it… I mean come on!, We still have our Troops in Iraq, and do you see anyone out there protesting anymore?? How about illegal immigration, they get out in millions to protest (their “wanted rights”), but not to protest the war… so gas really is small in comparison to what people really will fight and stand up over.

    but hey!… THIS HIGH GAS WILL HOPEFULLY GET THAT DARN OBESEITY PROBLEM HANDLED/// MAYBE!

    but i really feel that Americans are just to stuck in their ways to care about anything other than THEIR inconvience to the situation,,, not any other reason.

    I don’t own a car, haven’t in 5 years, I use public transportation(which really is bad here in Vegas) and ride my bike… I don’t have thousands in debt from credit cards, house payments, car payment, etc… because I know that they are not nessesary to live with.
    I am in perfect shape, because I am active, and do not stress on the credit and gas issues.

    So people, I am coming from a place that does exist outside of your “credit/gas NEEDS” and YES!! you can survive w/o either…. you just have to get off your lazy, credit relliant butts and think about alternatives to the situation… and guess what!!
    all these prices will go down… cause the demand has been lowered, and you have lost all that added weight you don’t need!( credit card, car payment, gas costs and body fat weight)

    thanks, and hopefully i will be seeing more bikes and people getting out of their cars doing fine!!

    Comment by liz — June 21, 2008 @ 2:00 pm

21. Noone has mentioned simply establishing a price ceiling on gas. There are many instances of precedent already in place. Price ceilings exist today for many goods. Of course, this is not a long term solution, but it may alleviate some of the economic stress until we can establish viable energy alternatives that are practical and accepted by the American public.

    Most of the problem with using alternative energy is not harnessing these “fuels,” but establishing a system of distribution infrastructure that is as easily accessable and widely accepted as gas stations.

    Building this infrastructure, in addition to the industrial growth required to produce alternative energy will create millions of jobs for people of all races, creeds, socio-economic classes, etc.

    As a side note and because there has been mention here of the housing crisis, a price floor on real estate sales could protect those of us who have purchased a home at inflated prices and did not choose an ARM or interest only loan, do not miss morgtage payments and will not forclose. Our dropping home values should be of greatest concern.

    Comment by JPG — June 22, 2008 @ 6:25 pm

22. First and foremost, as Tristan said, we need viable public transportation here in the Valley, including access to Boulder City/Lake Mead and a BULLET TRAIN to Los Angeles. Those of us from NJ-NY know the value of efficient public transporation. The casino moguls ought to help fund light rail and trolley systems.

    On a related note, Mark Zoller, a student at Georgia Tech, made a $500 adjustment to his diesel-powered VW that enables him to drive 1,900 miles before needing to refill his tank with VEGETABLE OIL! Trucking companies should pay this young man to help them refit their trucks. Doesn’t that make sense? Why couldn’t public transport vehicles be fueled in the same way?

    Furthermore, there’s a company (the name escapes me now) that’s developed oil from bugs. The spokesman said that by 2010, the company will be producing milliions of barrels of this viable oil. Congress should invest OUR money in this company, in Mark Zoller and his solution, and other such intrepid Americans and U.S. companies.

    We should think in a more progressive, creative way and embrace and applaud American ingenuity!

    I’m sick of government’s “No can do” attitude. It’s un-American, and we should vote the lot of them out of office. There ARE solutions, and we should force govt. officials to pounce on them immediately. Someone’s making too much money, and it’s not the people. And the dumbest thing citizens–not me–have ever done was to vote in an oilman as president, and twice in a row. Too bad we vote in secret, as everyone who voted Bush in should pay a fine that goes toward funding the people who’re coming up with solutions.

    Tell your state and federal representatives to ACT NOW and to change their attitude into a “Can do” one, or we’ll band together to vote them out of office.

    Comment by Julianne Barbato — June 23, 2008 @ 6:23 am

23. STAY HOME. Its time to use the gasoline for necessity purposes only.

    Comment by Vicki — June 23, 2008 @ 10:44 am

24. You guys are idiots. Gas prices will only continue to get higher and higher. Its called: rising demand plus depleting resources.

    Boycotting a gas station is not the problem. Get used to it. Its time to start making sacrifices. Stay home and go out only when necessary. Just until we have more economical non-gasoline traveling resources available.

    Comment by Todd — June 23, 2008 @ 10:49 am

25. I like Walters comment: Oil costs us $136. a brl……sell wheat for $136.00 a bshl or let them eat their oil……

    Comment by Don Woods — June 24, 2008 @ 6:13 pm

26. What really needs to happen is to get the EPA to quit dictating what kinds of blended gas is needed make 1 kind of unleaded and diesel and leave it alone,also quit tying crude oil as a comodity like corn set a reasonable price and leave it alone

    Comment by JOE B. — June 25, 2008 @ 1:08 pm

27. No offense to Chris C..but as far as i can tell the certain decisions made so far by our countries representatives lean towards thinking that it’s not a good idea to use natural resources yet because why don’t we use up everyone elses resources first so we can be the top nation(though we pretty much already are) and other countries will have to go through us to get their oil..i mean it only seems logical.but i totally agree with you Chris for the sake of our economy lets just use the resources we have here..since probably later in the future we will have almost no use for oil.That’s all I have to say.

    Comment by Britt D. — June 25, 2008 @ 11:59 pm

28. They get oil from other countries and they bid it,get the money,and want MORE money.Thats why the oil prices are sky high!And because they want more money,thy raise the electric water light,etc;
    People are going to Motorcycles,risking thier lives just so they wont have to pay unfair prices so they can get to where they need to go.If you dont agree with me well you go ahead and spend up all your money.When you want to go to the grocery store you probaly wont have enough to buy a candy bar or get your kid a toy.Go AHEAD!

    Comment by Duayla Marsh — July 17, 2008 @ 4:00 pm

29. If you’re like me, your tired of watching the price of gas rise as the oil corporations
    make billions of dollars each and every month. It’s pretty sad when we get excited to
    see the gas prices go down to a $1.25 per litre. I remember when I was a kid and gas was
    49 cents per litre. That would be unheard of nowadays. I realize that you have to take
    into account for inflation, taxes, and what not. But it’s crazy that gas prices have
    gotten so out of hand. The government promises tax cuts on gas prices one week and
    the next announce they’re adding tax on top of the taxes that already make the prices
    balloon out of control. I have had enough and is why I decided to research
    alternative fuel sources for the future. I spent hours on the net only to come up
    with nothing but outlandish and unobtainable ideas. That is until I came across one
    website that had an idea so simple and affordable that I thought it was too good to
    be true. But after some extensive research and inquiries about it I realized this
    could be the answer for the future.
    I learned about a man named Ozzie Freedom who claimed he could drive around using
    only water as fuel, while at the same time reduce emissions and help out the environment.
    I know what your thinking. This all sounds too good to be true. Trust me I felt the
    same way. I was very skeptical about the whole idea. Water as fuel? Not in this century. But as I looked at the simplicity in his ideas over and over I realized that this could be the real thing. So I decided to give it a try. I installed this gizmo in my 1997 Dodge Caravan. It’s a typical V6 engine that guzzles gas like there’s no tommorow, so I didn’t expect it to get much better milage than it already did. The only reason we had the van was so my wife could use it for her job as a nanny to lug around the two kids she cared for. My wife usually put about $80-$90 in the van and it would last for a few days since she does a lot of driving for her job. After about a week on this new system we noticed a drastic change in the noise of the engine and how much more smooth of a ride it was. Then we compared the milage and cost of gas it used to take. We were pleastantly surprised when we discovered that she didn’t have to fill up as often and when she did it was almost half the cost. Even the smell of an old engine has decreased since we upgraded it. Overall we were blown away that this
    system had made such a difference and we feel lucky to have found such a great alternative
    fuel system. The best part was that it was easy to install even for someone like me who
    has no experience with engine service. It was affordable and simple to install. We feel
    like we’ve jumped into the next century of fuel alternative technology. And if we decide
    it’s no longer something we want(which would never happen) it would only take about 10
    minutes to take it off the engine.

    So if your like me and you’ve been looking for an alternative for the high prices of gasoline you can find more information on this website: http://tinyurl.com/58vsu4

    You’ll be glad you did.

    Comment by Mike — July 28, 2008 @ 3:39 pm

30. Mark my words, someones going to try to use this in court for some criminal activity they are being charged with. The gas companies have been robbing the public for years now, and the only thing they say is “We have a right to make a profit as a Company and to its share holders”

    So some crook is going to form a company called robbersRus, and tell the Judge that he has a right to make a profit, no matter how many people it hurts, and to his share holders as well, just like Exxon and Mobile ($11,000,000,000 Profit last quarter) They could easily have left the gas prices at $2.00 and still made a hefty profit, but since this is Bush’s last year in office before some change might happen, they stuck a gun shaped object (gas nozzle) at the public and have stolen as much as they possibly can before Bush leaves office (and yes Bush is getting his share as well)

    We need to open up the patent office and start using those patents that would allow us to tell foreign oil that they can keep their oil! The Car companies need to get off of those Electric Car patents and start producing efficient cars, We have had 30MPG cars since the 70’s, we should be Double the current ratings by now!

    Comment by Douglas — August 4, 2008 @ 4:19 pm

31. If you really want to put pressure on “gas stations” only buy your gas there and nothing else. They make most of their money on everything else they sell not the gasoline.

    I buy nothing else at them and have not had a problem finding the items I need.

    Comment by Steven — August 5, 2008 @ 12:44 pm

32. Interesting at how the price of fuel has gone down so much since all the “rollercoaster” activity on Wall Street,…I believe its Haliburton and Exxon, etc. making their “profit preserving” adjustments to the down-turn of economic spending that is occurring across the nation as Americans tighten their belts for some possible hard times,…The big Corporations get some of the backlash as a result including Big oil,…..No price manipulation,..and gouging at the pump goin’ on? Come on……..

    Comment by David — October 27, 2008 @ 12:02 pm

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