Comments about ‘Gas prices in Utah have plunged to among cheapest in the nation’

Finally! Gasoline prices are coming back down to a reasonable level. This period is a little gift of time and economic sanity where we should be working on a strategic energy policy that excludes foreign interests and foreign sources. I wonder if all the "brilliant" Reid/Pelosy politicians understand the golden opportunity placed before America. NOW is the time where we should be drilling here, drilling now, saving big dollars and securing our future energy independence. Now - not when the situation again reaches a crisis.

But why do I get the sinking feeling that our elected representatives are sitting on their collective butts and not doing anything? Gee - just like the last 30, 40 or 50 years!!

Stay vigilint Utah. Like Oklahoma, Utah is wanting to raise the gasoline tax. Remember the taxes were not lowered when the price was $4 agallon. Seems as though our government cannot live within it's means. Secession is going to be the only answer.

This is unbelieveable! Outrageous! Just a few months ago gas prices in Utah were the highest in the nation - and it was due to greed, foul play, price rigging, etc. We demanded action against these culprits. Nothing was done, and now gas prices are the lowest in the country! Gas stations must be price fixing now as well. We need investigations! Without price fixing, how else could prices have declined so much?
Wait, so you mean when oil futures prices are high, so are gas prices, and when oil futures prices are low, gas prices lower? Since it is too difficult for me to understand complex market dynamics, I'm just going to continue to blame BIG OIL for taking it to us.

I hope that people see how fortunate we are to have such cheap oil prices, and to realize that they won't last. As soon as demand ramps back up we will again be looking at $4.00/gal gas. We should use this time as an opportunity to reduce consumption, through more efficient vehicles, and develop clean, alternative sources of energy.

Does anyone else think we've been had? I think the price of gas was manipulated to such high levels by somebody trying to get Obama elected. Maybe not, but the coincidence is just too much to sniff at.

In some of the UT County areas you can gas up for at least $1.50 that is pretty good but the worst kind of gas i willnever use is Maverick gas, I think it is hard on your cars, I refuse to gas up their, Best place to fill up are Chevron, and the Junction

It's great for my pocketbook, to say the least, to have lower gas prices. I don't doubt that the prices can rise quickly again. What troubles me is the fact that because the cost of gas is low right now, certain gov't officials think this is a good time to add on taxes. What happens when the price of gas goes back up? I've never known a tax to go away once it's in place.

Yes, now's the time to drill for more oil in America, even if it only can sate 5 percent of our needs -- and keep us addicted! We can afford it now! .... PLEASE!!!! The Arabs dropped the price of oil in the mid-1980s, and it motivated the abolishment of virtually all of the federal programs on renewable energy. Reagan even tore the solar panels off the White House! So we continued our addiction even when Nixon, Ford, and Carter all promised to get us off of foreign oil dependency. Cheap prices keep us addicted. It is kind of like a drug dealer who gives 'free stuff' to hook potential clients and then raises the prices once they're hooked! We're seeing the mid-1980s all over again if Obama and Congress turn a blind eye to the situation. Obama hasn't named his energy and environmental czars -- rumor has it that he's working to get solar-advocate Schwarzenegger as his energy advisor -- that could really shake things up in the energy arena! And it could be a boon for sunny Utah and West! Jobs and clean air and more stable fossil fuel price would result from a booming solar industry!

Finally--You poor Utahns have been averaging 50/60 cents higher than us ever since the prices started to fall back to where they should be. Now you are only 10 cents higher.

Now, if only all prices would start approaching what they should be, the way gas is--and companies that have been COMPLETELY flagrant and over the top in profits (like the oil companies) would start to approach their correct levels.......

Ah, to dream.

True NIT. Also, the low price of oil makes it not economically feasable to drill for new oil, or any alternative fuels. Kind of a double wammy that will haunt us in the future.

I don't see how this is news. When Utah gas prices are ABOVE the national average, then that's news.

OPEC is determined to get prices back up, so I don't expect low prices to last past January.

To our legislators, NO GAS TAX INCREASE! Every time it comes down, they want to increase the tax as though it is not going to go way up again. They need to figure out how to make their dollars stretch just like the rest of us.

Well, it's about time Utah has lower gas prices!!! After being one of the highest in the nation for a few years, nice to be in the lower bracket for a change. My question is: For how long???

What happened to no more cheap available oil? Looks like we were being screwed like usual. The oil compainies caused the worlds mess with Bush and Cheney helping them along. I think the oil companies should bail out the Big 3.

NIT is right. Now, while prices are so "low," we need to be taking the steps to insure our future independence from foreign interests. OPEC nations will not allow this to last much longer. I read one report (can't remember where) that indicated gas prices will reach near $7.00 a gallon by next summer. We should be building storage tanks as fast as we can to stockpile while prices are reasonable. We must be developing domestic resources before the Middle East gets us back into the strangle hold they have enjoyed previously.

But standard operating procedure has been to bask in the sunshine while it lasts and only worry about what we should have done when the floodwaters reach our eyebrows - again. And it appears that current attitudes reflect past behaviors. It's just downright sad.

I'm so glad gas prices have come down now and we no longer need to drill for our own natural gas and oil.
Thank god Obama isn't a greedy oil man.

WHY were Utah gas prices among the highest in the nation and now are among the lowest in the nation?

'Prices swing like a pendulum' is NOT an explanation.

I totally agree that it was a scheme to get Obama elected. You will also see a HUGE turnaround in the stock market right after he takes office.

It is what politicians do best. Manipulate the masses to get what they want.

Gee it seems to me that our(Utahs) gass prices should be the cheapest in all the states SINCE we HAVE enough crude oil here in our OWN state to supply us, yes folks we have LOTS and LOTS of crude in Fruitland and Vernal, Utah to supply Utah for a long time to come, in fact i have been told there is not only oil wells CAPPED in Fruitland and Vernal but there is enough crude oil there for your kids kids kids kids, yes enough for many generations to come, so now if you want to be POed at someone lets start with the owner of those wells, Cowboy Oil AKA FlyingJ yea folks FlyingJ the most greedy oil company i know and maybe we ought to blame our governor for letting it happen!!!!!!