Comments on: Gas Prices in the US

By: US ‘Gas’ Prices « Murky Blog

US ‘Gas’ Prices « Murky Blog — Fri, 30 May 2008 08:41:01 +0000

[...] how expensive ‘Gas’ is. Just over 3.50USD per US gallon is cheap by the standards of basically everyone else in the non-OPEC world. Crikey, even their pumps are wearing out! I wonder what will happen when the [...]

By: Fred Rozell

Fred Rozell — Sun, 11 May 2008 14:42:13 +0000

Check out this new feed from MotorTrend you can subscribe to your local gas prices by your zip code. This is being offered as a free service to help reduce the cost on the American people.

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By: Scavenger

Scavenger — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:50:27 +0000

Thanks for the mindblowing amount that “poor” nations pay for gas.
This rest of the post is total bullshit. Really pathetic.
Nations crying “poverty”, are paying less than half a buck a gallon, while the “rich” West is being screwed by thier respective governments and indoctrinated by the idiots screaming thier silly global warming myths to cut back on energy use??
This is a sick twisted world we live in. My gosh, when is the west going to wake up and demand an end to this complete insanity?

By: jaredude

jaredude — Thu, 08 May 2008 23:29:10 +0000

A friend of mine just posted an article about some price gouging taking place near the University California Santa Barbara.

$4.43 for regular! That’s insane for Southern CA, where most prices are below $4 for regular. Tie this in with the recent record profits from major oil companies… We’re being taken for a ride! In a big, gas guzzling SUV

By: jerrychicken

jerrychicken — Thu, 08 May 2008 05:36:00 +0000

As always there are statistics and damn lies, all I can say is that here in the UK we are currently paying around £1.10 per litre for deisel at the supermarkets, considerably more in remote areas, that converts to £5.05 per Imp Gallon (slightly more for a US Gallon), I’ll let you check the currency conversion rate but its nearly 2:1 taking us close to $10 a gallon.

What is also true is that we too refine our own oil (oil taken from our own territorial waters) and that because this is a situation that we have had for many years we are very focused on how many mpg our cars will do when we buy them, hence the huge uptake in deisel vehicles – my Ford Mondeo has returns of around 50 mpg on a good day.

What is not true is that the UK invests heavily in public transport, we invest barely nothing in new public transit systems, my city has recently had a planning application turned down for a new city wide tram system as HM Government will not hand over the cash that they promised would be available when the planning process started, ourtrain service is hugely over-priced and deliberately over-crowded to discourage use and yet we motorists contribute billions to the economy as more than 80% of the cost of our fuel is taxation, and very cynically the Government use “green” issues to keep putting up the taxation level – “this tax is good for the environment” they tell us.

By: pomonapost

pomonapost — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:50:41 +0000

When will people quit comparing the price of gas to items such as soda? It’s rediculous and no longer (if ever it was) insightful.

I don’t buy 16 gallons of Coke.

Public transportation? It’s a metro argument that overlooks the largest part of the country which has no choice but to commute and there wouldn’t be enough passengers in rural areas to support such a thing traveling to every small town. It works in Europe b/c it’s practical to their situation. It works in cities here for the same reason, but not ALL of America is urban as most who propose solutions think it is.

Try living in a rural area before making a one size fits all solution!