Re: gas prices

[Robert Hoffmann <escape@alt-escape.com>]

At 06:43 PM 12/31/98 -0800, you wrote:
>Somebody check my math, but if I get 20 mpg and drive 30,000 miles/year, I
>buy 1500 gallons of gas/year. If gas prices are $0.10/gallon higher in
>Moscow, it costs me an extra $150/year to drive a car here. That isn't
>chicken feed, but it pales in comparison to other differences. 

And I hate to put a more global spin on this ;-)
but our gas prices, even in Moscow, are ridiculously inexpensive compared
to the price paid in other parts of the world.  You would expect to pay 2-4
times as much in Europe (where they actually tax gasoline).  I remember
reading that if you factored in the cost of using the U.S. military to
"protect" our sources of oil in the Middle East, the cost of oil is around
$200.00/barrel, vs the current $10-15/barrel.  If a barrel is 55 gallons
(my presumption), this means that you are paying around $3.50/gallon
through your tax dollars for that gasoline, before you even start pumping.

Get tanked,

Robert Hoffmann                      817 S. Adams
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