Why Are Gas Prices So High?

Do you think domestic drilling will have an effect on gas prices in the immediate future?

say, within the next year?

Public Comments

1. No. Gas prices are going to do nothing but go up and up and up. There is a handful of very powerful people who are getting richer by the minute. Drilling is NOT the answer. Weaning ourselves from oil is the answer.
2. No. My brother is an engineer who has consulted on that very topic, and he and his colleagues say it'll take from four to seven years for that oil to reach your gas guzzler's tank, and it will NOT drop the price of gas when it finally does get there. You'll be paying eight bucks or more a gallon by then, kiddo. Better get used to it!
3. I'm not sure but I do feel it would by us time until we get the technology to be independent of oil.
4. Yes, drilling on our land is a great answer for our dependency on foreign oil. But some people think saving a few bugs are more important than people being able to pay their rent/mortgages, buying enough food to eat and traveling to their jobs. I think that it SHOULD be up to the states to decide whether they want to drill or not. The people at the top making these decisions for everyone else are not hurting. They have PLENTY of money for all their purchases.
5. I have my doubts but we have to start being self sufficient sometime. So lets start drilling already!
6. No, it would take several years to have any effect. But don't get your hopes up, big oil co's. have entire departments whose responsibility it is to dream up new excuses for why they have to charge more and more and more and more. They'll have those ducks in a row long before the oil flows.
7. None at all- the only thing that will do it is rein in the greed of the oil companies but the rich and powerful are simply making too much money off this situation to give up now.