Posted on 04/21/2006 10:46:54 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
it's the fault of the RAT pols who vote against any attempt to drill for oil anywhere or increase the number of refineries or to build new nuke generators. They also oppose wind farms, especially in their neighborhood (Kennedy and Kerry, for example).
Here in Central New York, we're paying $3.11! That's higher than the national average. Cheez.
Yup. My daughter and everyone else in England is paying well over $5 per US gallon now. The price per gallon all over Europe is at that general level.
And what do you expect them to do? The WH has no control over oil prices---OPEC does and the speculators add to the problem.
Fuel Type / Period Q1 2005.. March 25, 2006 .. Today
Gasoline #93 ......... $1.79 .........$2.01 ...............$2.19
Diesel ... .................$1.74 .........$1.90 ...............$2.05
Chinese car buyers meet higher gas prices and new taxes - 04/02/06 ...
Gasoline is 2.20 by the trainload New York, which includes some taxes, then add taxes. If China is 1.48 that would be their tax structure doing that. Iran is 0.08, which is what it would be here if there were no taxes but state price support every step of the way.
Major changes coming, IMHO. And, you won't like them. And ALL the Dems care about is blaming Bush. And Bush seems paralyzed , or worse-controlled. I see social upheavel.
I'm usually optimistic.
| Feb 2006 | Mar 2006 | |
|---|---|---|
| Taxes | 0.46 | 0.46 |
| Distribution & Marketing | 0.25 | 0.10 |
| Refining | 0.23 | 0.53 |
| Crude Oil | 1.35 | 1.33 |
So, in February, the cost of refining a single gallon of gas was $0.23. One month later, the cost of refining a gallon of gas had more than doubled. Meanwhile the cost of distributing and marketing that gallon of gasoline more than halved.
I have read that George Soros invented the crude oil futures trading game. Does anyone have any information to share about that? Additionally, how were things done before the current system was adopted?
There are many technologies which would be financed if energy prices were guaranteed to stay above a certain level. The problem is that financiers get burned in boom/bust cycles.
If their input prices rise, won't they just raise prices? I've forgotten who China exports to, but it sounds to me as though they are the folks who will end up paying the bill for China's higher petroleum prices.
Too bad more people here don't understand that logic.
You should be our secretary of energy.
I'm referring to the mid-east terrorists who are funded and empowered by our dependence on mid-east oil.
That comes out to be about a dollar per liter...
Or roughly $4/gallon.
ExxonMobil, however, DOES control the company's oil refining capacity.
And it could build coal-to-oil refineries... totally eliminating all payouts to hostile, oil-rich nations.
But it doesn't.
Hmmm.
thanks for the laugh. It's needed during these times. It seems the Reps are doing everything needed to lose the House and Senate. The Reps in Congress are idiots
well stated. Washington is the cause of most major problems. Maybe a true recession is needed to "reset" the idiots in DC. The ruling elite would be happy to screw us as long as they have theirs.
You do realize, don't you, that the major oil companies are owned and run by many "American people"?
And P.S. - Halliburton is not an oil company.
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