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Yeah, right. So we have a little bit of greed but not a lot of it. We have 50 cents of greed but not $1.50 or $2.00 of greed. Can anyone say "paranoid?"
Yeah, right. So we have a little bit of greed but not a lot of it. We have 50 cents of greed but not $1.50 or $2.00 of greed. Can anyone say "paranoid?"
Or, would that be realistic? Why do people continue to bury their head in the sand........
At $2.50 per gallon in 2018, the equivalent, inflation-adjusted price in 1975 would be 54 cents, which is pretty much what gasoline cost in 1975. Which means that the price of gasoline has not increased at all in the last 43 years. If this is the result of an oil company price conspiracy, they're not very good conspirators.
At $2.50 per gallon in 2018, the equivalent, inflation-adjusted price in 1975 would be 54 cents, which is pretty much what gasoline cost in 1975. Which means that the price of gasoline has not increased at all in the last 43 years. If this is the result of an oil company price conspiracy, they're not very good conspirators.
I don't care what gas cost in 1975, I care what it costs today. If you don't think Big Oil is good at conspiracy, you probably don't believe Big Tobacco is either.........
I don't care what gas cost in 1975, I care what it costs today.
In other words, why let a few facts get in the way of a good rant.
Originally Posted by RandyS
If you don't think Big Oil is good at conspiracy, you probably don't believe Big Tobacco is either.........
No, I don't think Big Tobacco is, either. Maybe decades ago, but tobacco has suffered legal setback after legal setback over the last several decades. The tobacco settlement of the late '90s has the tobacco companies paying the states billions of dollars in penalties. If what tobacco has experienced in recent decades is a result of a conspiracy on their part, they're just as bad at is as Big Oil is.
California is always off the map when it comes to gas prices (or home prices or anything else!) because of taxes and the special blends of gasoline the state requires. Prices there are not a good representation of what they are nationwide.
No, I don't think Big Tobacco is, either. Maybe decades ago, but tobacco has suffered legal setback after legal setback over the last several decades. The tobacco settlement of the late '90s has the tobacco companies paying the states billions of dollars in penalties. If what tobacco has experienced in recent decades is a result of a conspiracy on their part, they're just as bad at is as Big Oil is.
Big Tobacco is the worst EVER. They knowingly sold Cancer causing Nicotine delivery systems (cigarettes) to the world and are still doing so. They have known for decades that Nicotine causes cancer but continued to deny it. If that isn't a conspiracy, I don't know what is.
Big Tobacco is the worst EVER. They knowingly sold Cancer causing Nicotine delivery systems (cigarettes) to the world and are still doing so. They have known for decades that Nicotine causes cancer but continued to deny it. If that isn't a conspiracy, I don't know what is.
I don't disagree that big tobacco was in cahoots for many years. They did everything they could to suppress any information that showed that smoking was bad for your health. But the emphasis is on WAS. This was 50 years ago. Once the Surgeon General's report came out in 1964 and they started having to put those warnings on cigarette packs in the early '70s, the writing was on the wall, and it was only a matter of time before the tobacco companies would face a reckoning. They're now shells of their former selves when it comes to market or societal influence. Cigarettes are expensive today because of the huge taxes imposed on them to pay for the tobacco settlement. I looked it up. In 1998, the tobacco companies agreed to pay the states (46 of them who were involved in the lawsuit) $206 billion over 25 years, so they'll be paying until 2023.
Seattle's best price is 3.09 US
Boarder price 3.25 US
So that is about 4.14 Can boarder gas to 5.67 Can Local gas
And in a few weeks when AB turns off the tap you will be paying $1.99 per liter. Be sure to thank your NDP-Green party coalition government for holding up the pipeline. Once YVR runs out of aviation fuel and the ports run out of diesel you will be in fine shape there in Vancouver. Enjoy!
Does anyone else see a price cycle where they live?
Here in South Oz the price of fuel varies up to AU$0.40c/liter for regular over a three to four week cycle.
That's US$1.14/Gallon up and down over 3 -4 weeks.
Do you think the industry is gouging us? Geez that pisses me off.
Gas prices follow the market. Oil prices are higher now than they have been for some time. Demand is up world-wide, and Russia and OPEC decided a few months ago to hold down production to prop up prices. U.S.-produced crude is stepping in to alleviate that somewhat, but supplies are tighter than they have been recently. Gasoline here, which has been hovering in the low $2 range for some time, is now up to the $2.70 to $2.80 range.
I don't think the oil companies are "gouging" anyone. If they were, our price would be $5.00 per gallon, and yours would be $10. If anyone is gouging you, it's your government imposing so many taxes on a gallon of fuel. This is particularly true in Canada, a huge oil-producing country yet has very high fuel prices relative to the U.S.
Price in Victoria BC today is $1.54 a litre. I get it a little cheaper near home about 50 km out of Victoria, $1.47.
Some of the increase is local gas tax, some is federal carbon tax and a fair bit of it I'm sure is government and corporate greed. Hard to say yet how much is due to the pipeline fiasco.
Just remember, Alberta...the NDPs and Greens running the province don't speak for the majority. Build the damned pipeline already.
here in new Hampshire this morning one station was $ 3.59 another 12 mi. away was $3. 45 ? bend over hear it comes for the summer!! non e last I checked was $8.49
From 1970 to 1973 gas averaged 36 cents per gallon. After the oil embargo gas averaged $.57 a gallon in 1975. The U.S. has a surplus of oil but we lack refinery capacity so whenever they "change" over from winter to summer blend or a holiday weekend, prices rise. Everyone fights the building of new refineries in "their" backyard. I bought Exxon stock in 1975.
