…and on the corner
“…and on the corner of grange and 76th… …we’ll make the price $4.19 a gallon…”
(Sons of Iraq)
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nice illustration of how some people think this works…
Second!
Don’t forget…we use slurpees and slushies to fuel our vehicles…only 3.00 a gallon.
Thank you! Come again!
Pssh…Bush sets the gas prices, so its all his fault of course! Duh…
He also removes your distributor caps personally, and occasionally pisses in your gas tank. Oh and he also makes the sun hotter, and leaves the dog turds on your lawn…
Don’t forget the cow tipping!
DAMNIT BUSH!!
I know that was him…..
I also suspect he´s the reason for my sons low self esteem, bastard.
And Dick Cheney is the guy in the back with the red towel on his head.
If only they were that generous in the NorthWest.
Support offshore drilling
Be thankful y’all arent British, its about $8/gallon there.
1 gallon = 3.78l
We pay £1.33 per litre for diesel/£1.18 for unleaded (diesel is more eco-friendly, hence you don’t use so much, hence it costs more because they need to scam you somehow.)
So that is the equivalent of $9.95 at current exchange rates for diesel or $8.84 for unleaded.
I would *love* to pay $4 per gallon. You have no idea how lucky you are!
You just pay more tax per gallon. The gas itself costs about the same. Your government is gouging you.
The gas prices are SIMPLY a result of supply & demand. Specifically the demand
side of the equation. Supply hasnt decreased nor has the price of producing it so the only thing left is the demand. The price WOULD come down if you all would simply NOT DRIVE!! Youve heard it all before, i know…get on a bike, ride the bus…blablabla..it wont happen. we are all doomed.
Problem is that your solution only works in a static environment.
Things that drive up the Demand aren’t just the same number of people the world over, and they just happen to be driving more. No, things like increased wealth, jobs, and productivity not just in your own country (presumably the US), but in the world Over.
Take just China and India…They are probably producing 2-3x the number of goods they used to. What gets the raw goods to the factories? What gets the people to their jobs? What gets the finished product to the shipping yards? To the country they’ll be sold in? To the retail stores? The people who’ll by it to the stores themselves? Each of these two countries have experienced nearly 3 fold increase in the size of their economy, and with that, HUGE increases in demand. In this light, it’s easy to understand why demand HAS gone up, and will likely continue to go up.
Now, given the above, it also stands to reason that these countries, as well as that of the US, also experience population growths as well…so while 12 years ago, the US was at 210 million, we now are at 300+ million…and our population growth is not very aggressive compared to the likes of, say…India.
Where else will demand for energy/gas grow? Of course, other Asian countries, Latin America as they move slowly to greater prosperity, and of course, at some point the next cheap labor place will be Africa, and with that increased fuel demands.
Now, it’d be nice to conserve…I do. Not only do I drive the most fuel efficient vehicle ever sold in the US (Honda Insight), but I bike as many days as my schedule allows, no small feat considering it’s 25 miles one way to the site I work most frequently. But conservation BY ITSELF cannot win because even if the US cuts back 50% of it’s demand tomorrow, normal growth ( est. a low 5% due to economic increases and population) and increases will bring us back to the same rate of consumption within 15 years. Then were will we be? With an even POORER infrastructure for delivering fuel, less known supplies, and still growing demand.
The fact is, while many whine that even if okayed to expand oil exploration tomorrow, we wouldn’t see a pay-off for 10 or more years (*although, imo, it’d strike a blow to the overinflated “futures” market that bets we’ll be worse off in the near future and is currently inflated by roughly 100% what the price SHOULD be)…we have to understand that IF we invest in alternative energies, the pay-off won’t be till MUCH longer (as much as 30+ years) AND it might not work out as we’d hope. The safe investment is STILL petrol.
Which is of course exactly what everyone said 30 years ago, which is how we came to our current situation.
You overlook alternative social modes of energy use – better public transport, better telecommunications/ICT and accessible car hire for occasions specifically demanding a car journey can drastically reduce energy consumption. Not that immediately ceasing all petroleum industry growth makes any sense, but emphasis needs to be placed on the balance of individual and collective responsibilities in fuel consumption, and it should not be assumed that people can expect to use cars on a daily basis – *especially* given the global population growth you yourself cite.
I agree with what you said but public transportation outside of large cities is vitually non-existant. I live in the midwest and have two jobs, both of which are at least a half an hour away by car. I can’t ride my bike to work, there is no public transportation, and with the economy and the fact that I’m a teacher and therefore have to go to where the schools are, I can’t simply “find” another job that’s closer to home. The United States needs to really look into providing alternatives to driving if they want to cut their fuel use.
Sorry, I should have said “…should not be assumed that people can expect OR BE EXPECTED to use cars on a daily basis…”
This is the same kind of mentality that gets us into so much trouble. The idea that it won’t help us for 30 years so why even bother. It just goes to show how selfish and self-centered Americans are. No one even thought about alternative fuel when gas wasn’t so expensive. Now that everyone is hurting we want a solution and we want it immediatly. If we had been thinking about this stuff in the 70’s and putting money into research and development of an alternative fuel source that was cheap and clean then maybe we wouldn’t be in this situation now. I don’t care if it takes 30 years or 50 years. For our children and our grandchildren we need to be thinking about this and coming up with real solutions now. The longer we wait the worse it’s going to be, China and India are only going to continue to grow, the world demand for oil is going to stretch all of our pockets even further. Don’t say that the payoff for alternative fuel is too far away and we don’t know if it’ll even work. We already know how well investing in oil is helping us in the current economic market. We can’t keep burying our heads in the sand and hope it’ll all get better because it won’t.
It’s human nature to freak out when we’re already royally screwed. We’re not perfect, and this definitely shows it. Now it’s ‘hip’ to be green, and we’re ‘working’ on it, but nothing’ll really happen until something incredibly terrible happens and we *have* to fix it right away. A shame, really, but that’s the reality.
Trust me, I completely agree with you, it should’ve been a wonderful trend in the 70’s and 80’s, but hey, shit happens.
I think you’re underestimating the progress that *has* been made in public understanding since the 70s. If you told most English speakers then that their lifestyle should be ’sustainable’, they’d just look at you blankly; now many will spit and curse and whine and argue, but at least the issue is firmly in the public domain – that’s a big victory for sustainable development culture, albeit that concrete changes in technological infrastructure will necessarily lag behind somewhat.
$4.19 a gallon where where!!!!
Fail. Oil producing arabs don’t set street prices. Make that a bunch of white guys in suits and it’d be funny.
“Oil producing arabs don’t set street prices”
Way to be too literal and miss the joke.
first?
So THAT is what they do all day!!
Man, I wish it was $4.19 a gallon by us… I’m right outside Chicago, so I’m lovin’ it up with $4.50 a gallon. Best part is, I’ve got a lovely gas guzzler. The only problem is, it’ll cost more to sell it and buy a smaller car than to keep filing my behemoth up. I kind of don’t mind, since I adore my car, but it’s a little (read: horribly) taxing on my wallet.
I’m excited for over $5 a gallon soon enough.
Here in Virginia my price is $3.92. The highest prices I have seen are in liberal meccas such as Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York.
huh… funny that….
3.92?! Man I hate you…
Approx. $4.08 here in NC. Considered buying a hybrid but as my car is nearly paid off, it’s more cost efficient to buy expensive gas than to have five more years of a car payments. Would love to bike to work but as it’s an 18-mile round trip on winding, hilly country roads (where I’ve seen at least one cyclist hit and many near misses) and I also have to cart my infant daughter to day care, that’s just not possible. Same for going to the grocery store, etc.
Something’s gotta give with the whole gas situation but I have yet to hear anyone come up with a viable solution.
* “anyone” = government, etc. I’m not taking a shot at anyone who’s commented here.
Will underestands the reason for price increase. The actual price of gas is because of speculation, and yes, by a bunch of white guys in London and New York, New York especially. If some of the people from the earlier comments would follow the news, Bush went to Saudi Arabia a couple of months ago to try and get the Saudies to lower prices. They essentially told Bush to shove off, telling him the same thing I’m telling you, that his country’s financial markets were causing the dramatic rise in fuel/oil cost. In FACT, the Saudies also told Bush about how they had even INCREASED the supply of oil they were pumping out of the ground. I could say more, but other comments have covered the rest.
Sadly, you have to go to a book or a place other then CNN to read this. To bad people don´t like to read more then one news source.
Heh… The caption is from Milwaukee…. 76th and Grange… lol… nice.
If you go to 76th and Howard, it’s 3.99 at Badger
Cash only, yo.