How and why gas is priced like it is.

[Vinny]

Originally Posted by KJ3

"Mayra Perez said she works two fast-food jobs to help support her family, and gasoline is becoming harder to afford."

why work 2 fast food jobs when you could just go get 1 good job? why work 1 fast food job when you are older than 18? maybe it's just me but i have NO interest in working fast food jobs. magnify that statement if i had kids to take care of. you need more money so the answer is grab onto that 2nd burger flipper? nope. what is ignorant is that she actually had a fix for the government haha...to "limit the price of gasoline" hahaha....silly. she's got the world's problems down though her own are spotlighted. silly silly silly.

it's scary to think that oil has even the slightest possibility of renaming our country "new rome". but i suppose if i'm worried about economic collapse, or collapse of any sort that there have always been much more prevalent entities to cling to...

Hey it's honest work...perhaps there is nothing in her town except the service sector. The ghost of past factory jobs in the NE used to be a staple of the economy...but thousands of jobs have been outsourced since the investor class found out that if you hire pauper wages in other countries you can have fatter returns on your investments.

[KJ3]

Originally Posted by Vinny

Hey it's honest work...perhaps there is nothing in her town except the service sector. The ghost of past factory jobs in the NE used to be a staple of the economy...but thousands of jobs have been outsourced since the investor class found out that if you hire pauper wages in other countries you can have fatter returns on your investments.

there are many things i have to say in response of that but none of them are pleasant so i'll pass and keep my heart rate down hahaha.... i assume you don't really appreciate the jobs being passed over the people that need it here either? (like ms. 2 fastfood jobs)

how 'bout that economy huh?

[edo783]

Seeing as some keep seeing conspricies by our government and such, here is a link to another artical written by the AP (hardly a friend of the gov & oil) from Paris (we know how much they love us). Take a look at what they are paying per gallon in France.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080531/..._at_the_pump_4

[KJ3]

f that. i would strike too that is stupid!! those fishing boats require a lot more gas than a car does too, at 9 bucks a gallon that adds up pretty quick.

even more shocking though was that venezuelan's pay 12 cents for a gallon. 12 CENTS.

[papabear]

Originally Posted by KJ3

even more shocking though was that venezuelan's pay 12 cents for a gallon. 12 CENTS.

Only because it is subsidized by the government thanks to relatively high taxes, but mainly it is paid for with profits from their national oil company.

But Venezuela is paying a price for cheap gasoline. State oil company Petróleos de Venezuela is footing an $11 billion a year bill for underwriting and subsidizing the fuel. That's nearly double its 2007 net income of $6.27 billion. The cost of that subsidy, along with money it pays to underwrite government social programs, has forced Petróleos de Venezuela to borrow billions on international markets to cover investments.

It is a major problem for them not only becuase of the strain it puts on their oil company, but any time they try to raise the prices it causes major riots. Chavez actually got famous during one of the gas increase riots.....and now he's desperately trying to raise gas prices. They also have major inflation problems.

Nothing is free.

[KJ3]

oh....

well....

nothing is free....but why does it have to be so hard?!?!?!

seriously, if anyone found a way to make solar panels cost efficient that person is going to be rich out the wazoo. rich enough to rename a part of the body a wazoo, and then have all of their money fall out of it.

[edo783]

Originally Posted by KJ3

oh....

well....

nothing is free....but why does it have to be so hard?!?!?!

seriously, if anyone found a way to make solar panels cost efficient that person is going to be rich out the wazoo. rich enough to rename a part of the body a wazoo, and then have all of their money fall out of it.

They have figured it out. Checkout a company called Nano Solar I think is the name. Very cheap and very efficient panels. So much so that they are sold out for the next three years and power companies are converting to them. I would be splapping them on my house if I could get a hold of them.