Posted on 04/25/2006 2:40:18 PM PDT by keithtoo
Exactly. Time to get people going back to totally wasting fuel because they think it's cheap!!
Seriously though, even at $3.00 plus a gallon there are parents driving their kids in SUV's five hundred yards to a bus stop, running the engine for twenty minutes, and then driving home.
People waste so much fuel it's laughable. How many do you know that will drive around town to different grocery stores to save 10 cents on a can of peas?
I'll bet good money they whine about gas prices.
Actually, no, I drive an Audi A4.
Regards, Ivan
"The cost of raw crude might be relatively low, but there's a very important point to note here. The cost of refining is a major component of the price, and refining costs have increased dramatically in recent years as the U.S. has imported more and more oil from places like Canada and Mexico. This oil is not the light crude that is ideal for refining into gasoline, so it takes a lot more effort to make gasoline out of the heavier crude."
Except teh cost of raw crude isn't relatively low. Its at the highest its EVER been. (Well in the 1970s it was cheaper but a dollar was worth more then) Over half the cost of gas comes from just buying crude oil.
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