Price of diesel fuel

Its called "follow the money trail".  They (Pols) are all getting paid off to look the other way.  Why do you think they are all millionaires?  Why would you spend millions to get a job that only pays a few hundred thou?  They DON'T care about the common man.  We need a revolution real quick.

I recently took a trip to Englad to visit family (wife's side) neat place to see anyways we paid $7.5 american for gas there has been high there for years.  Anyways what I was gettin at is I was noticing there cars don't have emission junk on them.  The fuel efficey of one car for example 05 model got 36 mpg town driving and it wasn't that small of a car and rode in a Skoda diesel model bigger car yet getting fuel milage down the highway in the 50's.  Any ways got home and research the emissions and shipping vehicles to the US price not as bad as I thought 1500 for open shipment and found out to register here have to pay some taxes and it has to meet emissions.  So our government wants to put junk on cars to get cleaner exhaust but burn more fuel.  And was reading in the farm show about why the vehicles in other countries are availble there but not here.  Ford has a ford Focus there that gets 67 mpg, speculation is that there is enough money exchange by the gov. and oil people that keeps these out our country.  And will not be available until demanded by the public.  Just think if all the farmers or trucking companys said we are parking our equipment this spring or fall due to high oil prices how that would affect our country and not just the oil companys.  My dad tells me stories when they were young, would dump milk to get better prices.  In another foreign country a few years ago farmers blocked roads with farm equipment to protest better prices.  I think the people still can have some controll if they would stick together.  Anyways don't get me started.

Not to get into a protracted non-tractor forum discussion here, but having 32 years in the oil and gas business worldwide, the little guy will always pay for these commodity price driven fuels, including the by-products (of which there are many).

While this post should be in the Politics section I'll put in my 2 cents worth. Crude oil prices don't really justify gas and deisel prices this high. China and Asia in general are using more oil while we're actually using less. I have a brother that lives  in Holland that pays about $8 a gallon but they haven't seen the increase we have, they've paid that for years. What's going on here is an artificial shortage of gas and diesel due to a lack of refining capacity. The oil companies have not added to refining capacity in years. and have closed some refineries without replacements. Why do we need a pipeline down to to Texas for Canadas oil sand? Why not build a refinery in Canada and make fuel there? We're actually pumping more American oil now than we were during the Bush administration and using less gasoline and the price keeps going up, I don't think politics has much to do with it.

Politicians, big oil companies and Wall Street speculators in charge.  What do you think is going to happen?

I spent 13 years in the oil industry, got out because I didnot want my name to be recognized as the one raping the US public.  Gasoline and Diesel fuel should be selling in the 2.00 per gallon range in the whole US today.  Anyont that tells you different or trys to convince you different is LYING to you or simply does not  know what they are talking about.

I think the only president that will help with the fuel prices is Ben Franklin.

I worked in the oil and gas industry in the 80's, what we thought should last our lifetime and our children's is gonna run out and sooner than expected.  The truth is you can drill everywhere but you won't always get anything but a "dry hole"; the easy to recover oil is all but gone in the US and if you want the remainder it is a drop in the proverbial bucket in comparison to which you can only recover around 50% of what is left in the ground.  What little oil is left is low grade where the refiners have to chemically alter the makeup of the oil to get fuels from it, this is a expensive and considerably time consuming process.

$4, $5, $6 a gallon diesel is coming, and not for very long to come, this for the low to no tax farm fuel, at the same time road fuel will be over $7, this is not a scare but a notice as the fuel is running out worldwide and is mostly gone here.  We need to get long range trucks off the road, put the bulk stuff on rail car loads then distribute locally off the trains or we will run out ever faster.