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September 2, 2005 at 2:24 am #589981AnonymousInactive
What is the price of gas where you are?
I heard it’ll be $5.00 by next Friday…
What the hell do we do then? :eh:September 2, 2005 at 2:38 am #672172AnonymousInactiveAround $3…I don’t think it will reach $5…but $4 is probably a short run equilibrium point. :nervous: Still, we are in need of a long term solution and the answer isn’t drilling for more oil.
September 2, 2005 at 2:41 am #672173AnonymousInactiveI assume that’s a price per gallon ?
US petrol prices are the lowest in the Western world …The main reason for this is the low tax structure on petrol, as the American consumer considers driving a car their “right”, and a government administration would not survive fi they introduced higher taxes on it.
:colgate:Here in New Zealand we pay $1.60 per litre (just over 1/4 of a gallon) .. which actually equates to NZ$6.40 or about USD$4.80.
But over 60% of our pump prices are local taxes and levies .. which are supposed to go into roading maintenance (but that’s another story).
In mainstream Europe I believe prices are twice that.
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What will we do? We’ll pay the price. No choice.
I suspect that in 5 years from now petrol will be 4-5 times higher.Smaller cars will sell better, public transport will seem affordable.
We’re running out of oil. Private cars are a luxury.
We’d ALL better get used to it ..
:eh:September 2, 2005 at 2:42 am #672174AnonymousInactiveAt least you can buy some.
September 2, 2005 at 3:06 am #672177AnonymousInactiveYes, the price of gas and cigarettes have increased by over 300% in the past 2 years, yet wages have remained the same
gas went from around $0.40 a litre to $1.30 a litre, and cigarettes went from around $2 a pack to over $7
in the past 2 months, gas went from under $0.70 a litre to around $1, and now $1.30
It’s ridiculous
What can people do to reverse this, i guarantee the government won’t do anything, any ideas
September 2, 2005 at 4:38 am #672184AnonymousInactive$3.69 a gallon today!!!!!! Where the heck is the cap? This is crazy…
September 2, 2005 at 6:58 am #672186AnonymousInactiveIn Germany it is €1.40 per litre – which is about $1.75 per litre which then equates to around $7 per Gallon. :wow:
September 2, 2005 at 7:46 am #672189AnonymousInactiveAround AUD1.30 a litre here in Melbourne which is about USD1.00. The thing I find annoying is the extra ten cents a litre for premium (higher octane) fuel as one of my cars takes that. But then that car is way more fun to drive than the other.
Ditto TheGooners’ comments about the high taxes and add profiteering by the oil companies as well. When the USD goes up the fuel companies say that is the reason for the fuel increase but when it goes down the fuel doesn’t seem to go down.
Plus all the airlines are very quick to add fuel levies/surcharges/other BS names to their fares and they never seem to come off either.
September 2, 2005 at 9:27 am #672190AnonymousInactiveperalis wrote:In Germany it is €1.40 per litre – which is about $1.75 per litre which then equates to around $7 per Gallon. :wow:About the same here. Maybe a little higher. :p
September 2, 2005 at 12:24 pm #672196AnonymousInactiveI live in the states also, but know that we have VERY inexpensive gas compared to prices around the world.. So we shouldn’t complain too much.
I also know that there is a much larger issue. That being thousands or hundreds of thousands of people without homes right now.. So we shouldn’t complain too much.
kw
September 2, 2005 at 1:47 pm #672202AnonymousInactiveThere are no gas deliveries and stations are closed….
And still, there is no comparison to what those poor people are going through.
It is embarassing to our government to say the least!
How can thousands of people be standing on their roofs in full view of helicopters and starving and suffering from thirst and exposure and no one drops food and weather and blankets to them?
For the past two decades our military installations have been closed in order to cut the budget and facilitate increased spending and irrational tax refunds to large companies. Now we have no military support for our own people – all the equipment and manpower and rations are in Afghanistan and Iraq.
It’s come back to bite us, and those thousands of people are suffering for it.
No food, no water, no shelter, no digitalis for people with heart problems, no insulin for diabetics – you get the idea.
There are dead people floating in the water, everything is contaminated, and people are still dying for the above reasons.
You have the very ill on top of a hospital for days!
It is a natural disaster, yes, and it is also a crying shame. And I mean shame!
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September 2, 2005 at 2:32 pm #672207AnonymousInactiveIt is around $3.80 a gallon here but who cares we live on an island, where are we going to drive to!
Brian
September 3, 2005 at 1:24 am #672235AnonymousInactiveislandmaan wrote:It is around $3.80 a gallon here but who cares we live on an island, where are we going to drive to!Brian
Australia is an island and there’s plenty of places to drive… Guess you could go around in circles but if you are like me, you spend enough time doing that whilst working on your sitesSeptember 3, 2005 at 11:32 pm #672265AnonymousInactiveDominique wrote:Now we have no military support for our own people – all the equipment and manpower and rations are in Afghanistan and Iraq.
I really don’t think that has as much to do with it as the fact that the state of LA has been a financial drain on the US for years! The people in that state get more Govt. assistance than any other state .. or even a combination of several other states put together.If it were another state in that situation .. i.e. NY, FL, CA .. I am sure assistance would have been forthcoming sooner.
That certainly does not justify what’s going on down there .. but let’s face it .. the Govt. does not favor the people who put a drain on their resources.
September 4, 2005 at 6:12 pm #672297AnonymousInactiveCaliGirl wrote:What is the price of gas where you are?I heard it’ll be $5.00 by next Friday…
What the hell do we do then? :eh:Guess I’ll have to figure out a way to make money at home.
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