Gasoline Per Gallon Where You Live
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- ifeltdave0
joeth is right. Look at the 04 presidential elections. Energy prices dropped dramatically in the weeks before. Even the mid-term congressional elections of 06 saw this trend. We are seeing it now.
Theres a little concept known to a few people, called "learning from history". Numbers don't lie, my friends.
- TheBlueOne0
OPEC is meeting because they think oil is too cheap.
http://english.aljazeera.net/new…
Great friends you got their Mr. Bush. I remember a fewmonthsback you asked your arab pals to help lower the prices and they told the US to fuck off.
- johndiggity0
why would opec want mccain to win? they led the embargo in '73 against the nations that supported israel in the yom kippur war. mccain is staunchly pro-israel, hence opec would not want him in the white house.
- dijitaq0
roughly about $1/liter
- Arvizu0
$0.12 per gallon in Venezuela
http://money.cnn.com/pf/features…
- joeth0
johndiggity,
I'm not going to act like an expert on OPEC/Isreal, but I know that the Republican "drill, baby, drill" chant is the sound of Americans being addicted to oil. The whole offshore thing is such a scam. We don't have nearly enough for it to make a significant dent. Prioritizing more oil over renewable energy only helps out the foreign oil we're trying to free ourselves from.
- dMullins0
I saw gas for $6 at a seedy spot in S.F the other day. Thank god my car was stolen in March – what a blessing.
- johndiggity0
i don't think i ever said anything about alternate energy strategies. just wanted to clear up your misconception about why opec did what they did in the 70's and how it relates to our situation today.
obviously oil supplies are finite but you cannot outright dismiss it. everyone really has to accept the immense economic and logistical infrastructure that oil supports in the near-term.
- joeth0
I was never talking about OPEC in the 70's. All I'm saying is that the oil industry today—which is making record profits while we go broke—gets even more rich under Republicans than they would under Democrats. Why wouldn't they prefer McCain over Obama?
- dog_opus0
I filled up today: $2.83 and the gratification that my hard-earned money supports religious/gender apartheid states in the Middle East and quasi-socialist states in Latin America. What a bargain.
- pencilpants0
i paid $2.99 today. felt good.
- johndiggity0
gas prices are cheaper now because the dollar is worth more than it was a month ago. that's how it works. there's no right wing conspiracy by the oil companies.
- No, no conspiracy. The oil companies are exceptionally avaricious, though.dog_opus
- johndiggity0
another problem is that if there is a windafall tax on oil companies, it would only affect us oil companies (exxonmobil, chevron, texaco) and not foriegn companies like bp, shell, citgo, lukoil, etc... which would serve to further increase the cost of domestic oil, as taxes are a line item expense on the balance sheet.
it would simply be business as usual for us oil companies, albeit with more expenses they would pass on to the consumer. this gives foriegn oil companies an unfair advantage in the us marketplace, and drives the dollar out of the country.
- Point50
$3.13 regular unleaded in Vegas.
- Point50
“Oil prices have fallen by more than 50 per cent from the record high of $147 per barrel, due mainly to fears of a global economic downturn.”
great, but prices haven't dropped more than 50%
- ismith0
Noticed it was $3.08 and nearly pissed myself, if it could keep up this would be great for me... as in, I could afford to travel 33% more miles.
- OBBTKN0
6,32 $ per Gallon in Basque Country, EU (unleaded 95 oct)
- hektor9110
.95 where i live
- Nightshade0
£4.85 here (Oxford UK) = $8.39