gas prices

[KeilanS]

The only problem is that the average America travels a further distance daily than the average person from Europe and possibly Canada. Thus, we end up paying more.

Think of it this way....if you only hav eto fill up twice a month because of how little you travel, $4, while bad, isn't terrible. If you have to fill up once a week, then $3 is horid.

On the first you end up spending about $96 a month. On the second you end up spending $144. Makes quite a bit of difference, which is why we're complaining.

Well I'm not sure about averages, but I know my parent fill up once a week. My dad saves a lot because he rides his motorbike, but my mom easily pays $180-$200 US a month.

Now that's just not right.

I agree, it's disgusting, but between driving me to work 3-4 times a week and her errands downtown, thats how much it costs...

Although it doesn't help that we live about 5 minutes out of town, it's not much but it does add up.

[followerofjesus]

I have a cousin in the midwest who has been using the used cooking oil from restaraunts in a Bronco for over 2 years .Price ZERO. Why is this quiet?

I think there is a conspiracy behind the fuel shortage.

[Marnie]

I think it's around $3.50 in the high desert. I just shove the card in. fill 'er up...and punch the buttons and try to avoid looking at the total.

[Marnie]

I have a cousin in the midwest who has been using the used cooking oil from restaraunts in a Bronco for over 2 years .Price ZERO. Why is this quiet?

I think there is a conspiracy behind the fuel shortage.

There is plenty of gas. High prices are the result of corporate greed, government greed and the greed of futures traders. A growing economy in China doesn't help either. Nor does the war in Iraq, the war in Lebanon, the war against environmentalists who think saving acres and acres of snow is more important than drilling for oil and the war against common sense that says it is high time to a viable alternative to gas powered engines.

Just look at what happened in the 50's with the inventor of the Tucker Torpedo and you'll know why we are in the state we are in.

[Guest geelee]

In South Africa we pay about R7.00 a litre. I use a 1/4 of my pay just on gas. Then it is just church, work and school.

I think the exchange rate is about $7.50 to R1.00.

You guys have the good end of the stick, from where I am standing.

[ladypeartree]

follower just tell your cousin that it can ruin her/his engine...some people here also try using the petrol that is for farm vehicles and if you go to Ireland you can get it very cheaply ( so I have been told ) but as it is very flammable it is actually illegal to use it here ....

[apothanein kerdos]

I have a cousin in the midwest who has been using the used cooking oil from restaraunts in a Bronco for over 2 years .Price ZERO. Why is this quiet?

I think there is a conspiracy behind the fuel shortage.

There is plenty of gas. High prices are the result of corporate greed, government greed and the greed of futures traders. A growing economy in China doesn't help either. Nor does the war in Iraq, the war in Lebanon, the war against environmentalists who think saving acres and acres of snow is more important than drilling for oil and the war against common sense that says it is high time to a viable alternative to gas powered engines.

Just look at what happened in the 50's with the inventor of the Tucker Torpedo and you'll know why we are in the state we are in.

This is why extreme enviromentalists are dumb.

Let us drill now and build a few more processing plants so that the cost of gas lowers....while looking extremely hard for an alternative form of energy. My guess is in the next 20-50 years we'd find one that could adequately replace oil......and we phase oil out while phasing the new one in, shut down drilling opperations, close processing plants.......and the enviroment returns to its normal state where we were drilling.

Too many temporal thinkers.

[KeilanS]

In South Africa we pay about R7.00 a litre. I use a 1/4 of my pay just on gas. Then it is just church, work and school.

I think the exchange rate is about $7.50 to R1.00.

You guys have the good end of the stick, from where I am standing.

Thats like $50 a liter..... wow. Are you sure it's that much???? I would spend well over $300 to go the 10km to work and back... and I don't make $300 in a day....

[David Giesen]

Most of the recent rise in value of a gallon of gasoline is owing not to increased costs of production but owing to scarcity of the natural resource relative to demand. That natural resource, petroleum, is a gift of nature/a gift of the Creator. The rising value of petrol, then, is a social-generated value and it ought to be fully retrieved by community rather than largely pocketed by the mere owner of the petrol in the ground. Here is a brilliant example of how distinguishing gifts of the Creator from human-made things can lead to:

1) proper and increased funding for community programs;

2) kill the incentive for private interests to exploit God's Creation for personal gain.

[apothanein kerdos]

Most of the recent rise in value of a gallon of gasoline is owing not to increased costs of production but owing to scarcity of the natural resource relative to demand. That natural resource, petroleum, is a gift of nature/a gift of the Creator. The rising value of petrol, then, is a social-generated value and it ought to be fully retrieved by community rather than largely pocketed by the mere owner of the petrol in the ground. Here is a brilliant example of how distinguishing gifts of the Creator from human-made things can lead to:

1) proper and increased funding for community programs;

2) kill the incentive for private interests to exploit God's Creation for personal gain.

Nevermind that scripture that says we were given domain over the earth. Guess God took that little ditty back and forgot to tell us. I HATE it when He does that!