oh yea, this is a great idea

give us some $ to shut up for a week or so...then after a tank and a half, we are right back to feeling the hurt

fuckin idiots

4/27/2006 8:11:04 AM

i wouldn't complain though

beer money

4/27/2006 8:42:38 AM

Throwing money at the problem isn't going to fix it either. OPEC, Exxon, and all the others will just raise the prices because there is more money to go after.

And yeah, $100 for gas. Ha, that wouldn't last most families 2 weeks.


FYI:
Senators to push for $100 gas rebate checks
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/04/27/gas.rebate/index.html

and semi-unrelated

Exxon Mobil 1Q Profit Rises 7 Percent
http://www.wral.com/news/9038547/detail.html



[Edited on April 27, 2006 at 8:49 AM. Reason : links to the actual news story]

4/27/2006 8:46:12 AM

this sounds like a bribe to get their other measures passes.

4/27/2006 8:47:01 AM

oh damn yo. I can fill up my tank about 1 1/2 times with that money.

4/27/2006 9:53:31 AM

spent 70 today filling up my truck

but i knew it was a gas hog when i bought it

so i dont fucking cry

4/27/2006 9:56:56 AM

wait wait wait.

remeber last time we got checks for no reason.

i think it was a 'govt surplus' or something.

then we had to deduct them from taxes the following year, they became a "tax refund advance" or something?

this reeks of that.

4/27/2006 10:00:33 AM

well this is just going to put the budget in a bigger sink hole. but while the politicians are doing it, i really could use a gas rebate check to not fill up my non-existant car and be spent on beer instead.

how they going to know i don't have a car anyway? i have a license and insurance.

4/27/2006 10:02:32 AM

agreed, but my point is that with the last checks we got, we ended up paying it back.

im fine if we get some $$ at the cost of the budget.

but ima be pissed if theres a line on the 2006 1040 asking for number of gas checks received.

4/27/2006 10:05:55 AM

Total Cost $751.24
Avg Gas Price 2.472
Total Gallons 305.668

hah. That's my gas total since beginning of the fall semester.

4/27/2006 10:05:56 AM

I wouldn't gripe about 100 bucks to help with gas, that's 3+ tanks for me, but it would be pretty shitty to have to pay taxes on it later...and that sounds exactly like the hidden plan. Nothing from the government is free--not even the cheese, someone somewhere is paying for it for you.

4/27/2006 10:18:36 AM

take that $100 per person rebate and put it into renewable energy infrastructure

4/27/2006 12:40:00 PM

^DING DING DING WE HAVE A WINNER

4/27/2006 12:50:44 PM

the $100 rebate should go to people who have gas-conserving cars. not SUV drivers who bought their SUV then bitched and whined when the gas prices went up.

4/27/2006 1:40:27 PM

Even if they do send out these checks, we still won't see them for like a year.

4/27/2006 2:09:53 PM

voting ourselves money from the treasury are we?

we're so fucked

4/27/2006 2:37:47 PM

watch bush spin it to make the rich people with the big gas guzzling suvs, luxury cars, and sports cars get the most rebate.

"they pay the most in gas money, why shouldn't they get the most back?" [/bush logic]


What they need to do is take this $100 out of the taxes the gas companies pay.

4/27/2006 3:45:01 PM

i agree with the idea of using the money TO GET US OUT OF DEPENDENCY

4/27/2006 3:55:44 PM

it's our money anyhow. might as well give it back to us.

4/27/2006 4:23:55 PM

Probably the worst thing about congress is that it is made up of regular people, and not people who are educated enough to look at things wholistically. Imagine if we had established leaders in economics, the environment, engineering and social sciences as the ones who sat on committes that created and enacted policy?

Federal government is just like city,county and state politics: largely blissfully ignorant people with little foresight and objectivity to the issues. Some genuinely try to help, but in the end its just a thinly veiled guise to give people the appearance that they have a say in how this country is run.

This stupid rebate idea is an example of the above statement. It is nothing but a bribe to try to get voters to forget about the previous years of ruinous fiscal policy and warmongering. Whoever proposed this idea should be kicked out of congress. Sustainable energy is not going to come about by smoke and mirrors.

4/27/2006 4:25:17 PM

Quote :

"Whoever proposed this idea should be kicked out of congress."

4/27/2006 4:32:55 PM

Quote :

"the $100 rebate should go to people who have gas-conserving cars. not SUV drivers who bought their SUV then bitched and whined when the gas prices went up."

my car gets nearly 40mpg, so i think i qualify...sucks to be y'all who like to waste gas for no reason other than you have a penis inferiority complex and must make up for by driving gas hogs simply because they're big (i am NOT, of course, referring to those who use their trucks for an actual purpose...and towing your boat doesn't count, you rich cockbite)

Quote :

"take that $100 per person rebate and put it into renewable energy infrastructure"

Scuba Steve, are you high? why the HELL would a country run by oil tycoons want to put money into something that makes sense in the long run? they'll be dead by the time it matters, so why should they care?

4/27/2006 4:38:30 PM

I drive a gas hog suv, but it is only because it was given to me and I can't afford to buy a car. Gets 16mpg, and it sucks driving home to western NC (costs like $55 round trip).

I still like having it for the once every few months I go offroading, but no way in hell would I drive it around if I had another alternative.

4/27/2006 4:44:47 PM

then here's an idea... why don't you sell your gas-guzzler and buy something more economical with the money you get from selling it?

i must have had a real flash of inspiration to come up with that one.

4/27/2006 7:19:11 PM

I drive a gas guzzler

4/27/2006 7:22:38 PM

Quote :

"then here's an idea... why don't you sell your gas-guzzler and buy something more economical with the money you get from selling it? i must have had a real flash of inspiration to come up with that one."

it's not mine.

4/27/2006 7:31:13 PM

The government makes more per gallon of gas than Exxon (or any other oil company) does. Until that changes, I really don't care what the oil companies make.

4/27/2006 7:45:30 PM

awwwww

were you touched by the plight of the oil industry

its heart breaking isn't it

with their 400 million dollar retirement packages

and their 8 billion dollar profits in a quarter

you're right
its awfully hard being a fuel company

4/27/2006 8:04:06 PM

awwwww

were you touched by the plight of the government

its heart breaking isn't it

what with their taking such a large cut, and then complaining about the cut taken by companies which buys the barrels of oil, transports it, refines it, ships it, sells it, and collects the taxes for the government,

you're right
its awfully hard being a government. Got bridges to build and welfare abusers to support, I suppose.

[Edited on April 27, 2006 at 8:55 PM. Reason : maybe if the roads weren't an infinite series of potholes, i wouldn't mind the gas taxes]

4/27/2006 8:54:12 PM

$48 to fill up my BMW with premium in RTP on Sunday...and I drive manual and average about 24.5/mpg, which I'd say is average. I commute 25 miles each way to school everyday (M-F) and its about 250 miles a week, more including going to work, running errands and such. We tried to write my gas off as an education expense, but we're in the highest tax bracket (28%)

...maybe you could get more gas at Sam's Club/Costco?

4/28/2006 12:02:17 AM

^ you really only save like maybe a dollar or two each fill up, max

4/28/2006 12:08:00 AM

Gas in Durham = usually around 15 cents more expensive than Raleigh for some reason. It usually saves me around $5-8 to fill up at Sams or Costco

4/28/2006 12:13:34 AM

I don't have exact numbers ... but using some bad/rough estimate:

-300 million American, let's assume 100 million of them are taxpayers.
-100 * 100 = $10 billion dollars

I'll reiterate a previous point:

Quote :

"take that $100 per person rebate and put it into renewable energy infrastructure"

4/28/2006 6:45:20 AM

Take the $100 per person and put it into developing new nuclear which could then support the new hydrogen economy.

4/28/2006 7:31:54 AM

i wonder how many illegal immigrants are going to get these checks

4/28/2006 7:35:47 AM

^The ones who pay taxes, so meh.

4/28/2006 7:43:35 AM

Quote :

"$48 to fill up my BMW with premium in RTP on Sunday...and I drive manual and average about 24.5/mpg, which I'd say is average."

oh boo hoo. you poor bmw driver you. sell it and buy something that gets decent mileage and takes regular if you want to whine and complain, otherwise you get no sympathy. you are about up there with the whiny SUV drivers.

my auto civic avgs 31.6 mpg, takes regular, i drive about 300 miles a week, and i spent just under $1000 in gas last year. im not crying about anything

4/28/2006 8:17:47 AM

Quote :

""oh boo hoo. you poor bmw driver you. sell it and buy something that gets decent mileage and takes regular if you want to whine and complain, otherwise you get no sympathy. you are about up there with the whiny SUV drivers.""

Yeah, but I wasn't complaining. I'll compensate luxury for lower gas mileage, and I don't pay for gas anyways.

[Edited on April 28, 2006 at 8:41 AM. Reason : ]

4/28/2006 8:40:17 AM

FUCK THE ROVER

AND 63.00 TANKS OF GAS

4/28/2006 8:43:39 AM

Quote :

"then here's an idea... why don't you sell your gas-guzzler and buy something more economical with the money you get from selling it? i must have had a real flash of inspiration to come up with that one"

How and where do you expect him to sell it at?? Noone is going to buy them right now, especially if this shit lasts another month. (Unless it's some rich dumbass that doesn't have to pay for their own gas. )

4/28/2006 11:01:09 AM

^^ you have a Rover, b?

4/28/2006 11:11:23 PM

Quote :

"Unless it's some rich dumbass that doesn't have to pay for their own gas"

Some of us commute to school and gas is paid for by their parents (as a school expense), and they have a job and pay for their car themselves, among many other things. No need to be bitter.

4/29/2006 1:33:25 AM