Gas prices going up again.

Election is over and holiday travel is right around the corner. Anyone surprised?

 

typical.

 

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:toetap: Nope, not surprised the election's over like ya say and gas prices are going up! Hoooowww convientient. It's a shame how they control/gouge gas prices for political purposes.

There are some in the oil companies and in government who think we do not pay enough! They think we should be like Europe and pay $5.00 a gallon! And they say it's good for us and current prices aren't expensive! Why the fuck they think like that I'll never know. It's propaganda!

What we need are price controls. We have Ronald Regan to thank for lifting the price controls on gas. I remember his speech the day he did it he said " the free market is flexible and can sustain gas prices." What bullshit! I knew right there and then it was just an excuse to raise prices, and raise them they did! That's why we have had and will have $3.00 and plus a gallon of gas. Nice job Ron!


Bustramp

 

:toetap: The political establishment was only throwing it's voters a "bone" 2 months before the election, that's all it was.


Bustramp

 

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Whatever, if gas prices were lower, it'd get bought a bit faster and we'd start running out a little sooner. Take a bus or walk.

 

Actually, fuel has been pretty steady here.

 

DancerAnnie is right, the gasoline prices in Southeast Michigan have remained amazingly steady all summerlong, and into fall. At one period in the summer, the gasoloine prices dipped to just above $2.00/gallon! Now, they're hovering around the $2.15-$2.19/gallon mark. Sometimes they shoot up to $2.25/gallon.

With crazy Holiday shoppers and travellers, the gasoline prices may rise, as "gardener" has stated. That's "par for the course".

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Yes I know, 3.785 litres=1 US gallon, That's about 19 bucks a gallon if it were in the US. The reason gas is so expensive in Europe is the taxes on it. Yet there are those in government and the oil companies that think we should pay a price closer to Europe's. These high prices don't justify production costs, it's just profiteering.

Gas in the UK is about $7.00 a litre, do we here in the US have to pay $7.00 a gallon just to be like the UK? Some would think so.


Bustramp

 

Well the US is following Britian in dismantling unions, and manufacturing, perhaps soon our gas prices will be as high as yours.

 

1.99 at racetrack here. that is the cheapest in town.

Still cheaper than a gallon of milk.

EDIT: Getting rid of a union mob would lower prices if anything.

 

$19 US/US gallon has got to be a greatly exaggerated figure. While it's certainly true much of the world is gettin' gouged worse than the US consumer, it's nowhere nearly that bad.

 

In the UK they pay about $7.00 bucks a litre , 3.785 litres= 1 US gallon, it comes out to almost 23 bucks for a gallon. Do the math.

This is US currency, they pay in pounds.


Bustramp

 

Hey Britain was a world power at one time but they crushed their middle class, and decimated their manufacturing base. Is this what the US has to look forward to?

 

Where did you get $7 a litre?



From what I could find, Brits pay around £0.90/litre.

Present exchange rate (1 pound ~ 1.90 USD) means $1.71/litre.

3.785411784 litres to a US gallon means $6.47 US/US gallon.

 

Gas prices go up. It's what they do. They go down, they go up.

What did you expect them to do, stay the same? Hah!

p.s. the price of gas is a result of several complicated economic factors. Politicians & elections really have very little to do with any of it.

 

Excepting of course the very significant taxes on gasoline. Not to mention historical policies such as the National Energy Program.

 

Yes but they can't just drop the price on a whim in the weeks/months before an election, and then hike it back up immediately after as many people like to insinuate here and elsewhere. They do not have a secret switchboard for that.

 

*Cough* National Energy Program *Cough*

"Let those eastern bastards freeze in the dark"

Ring a bell?