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| Thread ID: 71514 | 2006-08-08 03:18:00 | Economics Question | allblack (6574) | PC World Chat |
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| 477021 | 2006-08-10 18:38:00 | Interesting Joe . Had the impression that petrol in the USA was still much cheaper than here . Is the $4 mark high end or is it close to what you'd consider a normal price? What do you pay in California? First . . . let's define normal: I take it to mean that it is something to be expected, derived from consistancy and a bankable slow variation in escalation . We EXPECT to get hosed/reamed/raped/robbed/insulted Part 1: HOSED A US Term to indicate the insertion of any fluid-carrying tube into any body orifice with the intention of injection of the fluid so-carried in the aforementioned tube into the body cavity of the victim . May also indicate flagellation by a "rubber hose" upon the body and thereabouts of the intended victim without the benefit of leaving visible marks from the blows . Part 2: REAMED Again, something along the lines of new portals thru which to bleed . . . . monetarily Part 3: RAPED Something that feels good (ask the oil shareholders/stock purveyors) whilst it's being done to someone else . Part 4: ROBBED An activity that wrests the holding of something of value (money/gold/first-born male child) from one's own personal control and having that money or product of intercourse, re-sequestered . Part 5: INSULTED The act of bullying and denial of physical succor, mental security and fiscal amicability to/of/for the insulted via the insultor . Example: Notifications of "natural phenomena" and "acts of god" and "enemy activity" in lands of oil production, transportation and futures market shares that are out of bounds of the aforementioned categories . Blaming hurricanes and tornadoes and rust to the Alaska pipeline are also suspect . Fuel prices are becoming harder to evaluate . . . it's a paradox of the US taxes . Federal use taxes, DOT transportation fees and state and local taxes are all figured on the dollar amount of the product, not the gallonage . If the dollar prices rise, then so do the taxes; the cost per dollar of the fuel, not the actual cost per gallon, (but it actually feels that way) . Since the US is bankrupt (money-wise, not to mention morally), the raising of monies to operate the government is vital . . . ergo, the higher return rate brought about on the back of the consumers, and the positive cash flow to the federal/state coffers . Living here, I can say that in truth . The unmitigated bleeding of the constituents (citizens), will soon hit a dry well, so to speak . $4 . 00/galon is twice what we expect to pay . . . any more is lying to the public . They tell us that this is based on 2006 dollars, and that if we correct for inflation, we are paying only $0 . 85/gallon . They also cite this is figured on the 1965 dollar . Back then, gas really cost 24 . 9 cents/gallon, not counting "gas wars" when the price got below 11 . 9 cents/gallon! Diesel costs about 15% higher than gasoline . . . and that's just WRONG!!!! |
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