# Stupid question on gas prices **URL:** \ **Category:** PittSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [May 14, 2008, 9:20pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stupid-question-on-gas-prices/197454 "2008-05-14T21:20:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 51
**Author:** ![xlogic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/59ef9b/32.png) [@xlogic](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/xlogic)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stupid-question-on-gas-prices/197454/51 "2008-05-21T21:49:16Z")
> [@Co-worker says to me, "You gotta see what's parked next to your car" \*More Pics\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/co-worker-says-to-me-you-gotta-see-whats-parked-next-to-your-car-more-pics/36486/16): > > basically we’re fucked. the dollars value goes down and that translates to a perceivable increase in oil cost. meanwhile we can’t do anything with opec without causing another world war, it’s not just the middle east, we get a lot of our oil from venezeula. something will happen soon, can’t say what but it will. no question about it we’re _in_ (not heading into a) recession I think the US really should have cut off a lot of outside shit a long time ago. Our dollar is worth so little now and the country is suffering from it…why? because we like to have all the other countries do the work and we just import shit. It all came from being cheap asses and basing everything outside of the US to reduce labor payout. If America as a whole…or even as a majority…wanted change…shit wouldn’t be as it is now. > [@Co-worker says to me, "You gotta see what's parked next to your car" \*More Pics\*](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/co-worker-says-to-me-you-gotta-see-whats-parked-next-to-your-car-more-pics/36486/18): > > I was saying that limiting profits is absurd. Do you guys think we should be limiting how much Americans can profit from their business transactions? Doing that is straight Marxist. No, isn’t it the American dream to get filthy rich and die happy? --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/stupid-question-on-gas-prices/197454)._