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Gasoline prices are high but:
"... prices remain below their all-time highs when inflation is taken into account. According to the Lundberg Survey, a national survey released over the weekend, gas prices were the equivalent of $3 a gallon during the Iranian revolution in the early 1980's."
It's kind of funny that we see this same statistic (or rather, I have) over and over and over and over and over again in any reportage of how expensive gasoline is. This is sort of like going, "People in Iraq are dying, yeah, but it's no Vietnam."
It's kind of funny that it's all blamed on the rising price of oil. It's not like OPEC, or stockbrokers, or whatever are sitting there going: I want gas to cost $2.41 in Wyoming and $2.71 in California. ExonnMobilBP and other corporations set prices. Has the actual cost per gallon gone up that much, compared to their sources? I would like to see a breakdown of how gasoline is priced. My friend, who's worked at a station for 10 years or so, still doesn't know how much, exactly, of the gas cost is state taxes.
As for that $2.41 to $2.71 spread, that's interesting, isn't it? It's not like there are ports in Wyoming or even oil wells, so it's not like the gasoline is cheaper to transport there. California on the other hand? My wife worked in a refinery, so they've got refineries, and port capacity to bring oil in to refineries...yet gas is .30 cents more expensive there. Wonder why that is?
Wean yourselves off of an oil-dependant lifestyle as much as you can before it's too late.
August 18 2005, 14:07:15 UTC 6 years ago
The Oil companies are reporting RECORD BREAKING profits, currently.
If the price of crude is rising.. and the price they're charging for oil and gas is rising to meet that price per barrel..
How the FUCK are they making record profits??
Oh right. Stupid me. Everything works out well when you cheat.
August 18 2005, 14:36:38 UTC 6 years ago
August 19 2005, 03:36:49 UTC 6 years ago
See, we've got this silly environmental act here which requires us to have a different formulation of fuel than virtually anywhere else in the US. And admittedly, it does burn cleaner, which means we're having less aerial pollution -- for instance, Los Angeles's pollution has gone down almost 45% over the last 20 years.
But what they didn't take into account is that the additive that they're using soaks into the soil beneath the gas stations and pollutes our water tables... which means that while we may be able to breathe, we won't be able to drink what little water we're not importing from Colorado already. Oh, and we have to pay more for the gas because it's "environmentally friendly".
Ain't environmentalism the best? :)