eh, at least our goverment is doing something about it and as i said Aus isn't a oil pool like america or the middle east

An "oil pool"? What's it even mean, mate? What IS your government doing about it if you're paying $5.50 per gallon???
If prices hit that high in the US people would revolt...well at least they would whine a lot.

We are paying half what you chaps are paying and have higher per-capita income.
Oh and the US Gov give big tax breaks for hybrid/econo cars. Where you getting your info dude?

oil pool=oil in the ground and he is right the usa is an oil pool

oil pool=oil in the ground and he is right the usa is an oil pool

There IS oil in Alaska but the Tree-Huggers won't let us drill there. Something about a silly moose. I say Not only drill in Alaska but drill straight through the Mooses' backs....ya know, to show 'em who's boss.

Hey were doing pretty well with a pop of 22 million, you got what, 440 million. Dah do the maths, of course your going to have more money.

Hey were doing pretty well with a pop of 22 million, you got what, 440 million. Dah do the maths, of course your going to have more money.

UM, it's about 300 million. Also, I guess you don't know hwat PER CAPITA means. It doesn't mean "more money" overall, it means "more money PER PERSON".

Says a lot about the school systems, Tee Hee.

sorry but you guys have to pay for that social medician somehow

Which countries do you think spend more on government supplied medical products and services than the US does?

There IS oil in Alaska but the Tree-Huggers won't let us drill there. Something about a silly moose. I say Not only drill in Alaska but drill straight through the Mooses' backs....ya know, to show 'em who's boss.

lol- Dang those tree huggers! Sad thing is there isn't a tree in ANWR a shrub yes- but no trees(I'm an Alaskan- born and raised) The Prudue Bay oil field is really only allowed to be worked in the winter, and they can't disturb the ground (Muskeg - a fancy word for "SWAMP") so they use water and make huge ice roads. Dang treehuggers complain about that too, because they can tell where it was come summer (Its the only part of the ground thats GREEN) Thou Shadowmaster King is right when he says we are an oil pool. America has what some claim is the greatest Amount of untapped reserves in the world. But we is America, and we is smart. We are going to use everybodys oil first!!!

sorry but you guys have to pay for that social medician somehow

The heck we do! All supporting poverty gets you is more poverty! Just check out "LBJ's war on Poverty" lol- good intentions pave the path to... Wait- can't say it- Somebody well get upset... Want to help the social Medician? Lower taxes and stimulate the job market so we can all have jobs! (Correct me if I'm wrong but right now America has the lowest unemployment rate in the world - go George!)

so we can all have jobs! (Correct me if I'm wrong but right now America has the lowest unemployment rate in the world - go George!)

I agree with most of your sentiment but GWB has little to do with the LOW LOW unemployment numbers. He will, though, take credit for it!

Well- Skyjack without getting to political, American history shows, that any time you cut taxes you stimulate the economy. Any time you let people keep there money they are going to spend it. This is one of the only areas a President can really affect the job market.
When ol'G2 came to office and cut taxes, the company I worked for at the time(Guy owned about 50 hotels) recieved 1 heck of a tax cut. What did he do? He finished closing down all his hotels in California- Started to buy up hotels, dump money into rebuilding and refurbishing all the properties- We also started to hire workers thru the roof (Service job payroll increased about 70%)- housekeepers/Maint/front desk/laundry etc... (the raised fuel costs didn't really slow down his buisness much) I worked for this same fella during the Clinton tax hikes, and he did alot of cutting back. Had Clinton not raised taxes like he did, the American unemployment rate would have been lower. Still baffles me that even with our immigration problems, we still are sporting a vary sexy 4.7(August) unempoyment rate.

Get used to it. Rising gas prices are here to stay, in I would bet the US has some of the cheapest gas prises in the world. You've had it good so for so long and now its time to catch up to the rest of the world.

Maybe the gas prices will encourage your car companies/ consumers to seriously start looking at more economical cars instead of the hugely un-economical and bad for the enviroment SUV's and other types of cars that fit the above criteria.

Long gone are the days of V8's and big blocks for every car.

Like I said above its time to catch up to the real world.

Gas prices are the least of our worries if you ask me!

Well, to get back to the topic, I just paid $1.959/gal. Of course I also heard on the radio that OPEC met yesterday and decided to cut oil production by 1,000,000 barrels/day in order to bring the price back up, and will be meeting again next week to maybe do it again.

do you people in those countries really want to know who is paying for your medical expenses

it is the american citizens not the government

your governments have all put caps on how much the medical industries can make ie the pill makers

our government doesn't have a cap so the pill makers are charging usa enough to make a profit which means that our meds are so much higher than yours

someone has to pay for your meds and your not doing it

your social medician is failing becouse there isn't enough money to pay for it

as for the oil pool in america remember that at least 5 out 10 oil wells in the 48 states are capped ie we are not pumping oil out of them

the north shore oil fields was supposed to be out of oil 10 years after they started pumping it out it is now about 25 years later and we are still getting oil

please don't take anything i said as negitive it is from my point of view on the medical situation and the oil is true

Like I said above its time to catch up to the real world.

UM, 'catch up"? to the real world...what's that even mean.

over here in canada it is around .81 cents a litre. You know what is funny, we pay
1$ for a bottle of water, and if you fill that bottle with gas, it will be around .25 cents. It costs a heck more to get oil, refine it to gasoline than it is for water.

Where are our prioities? We cry and complain for gas, but it's so much cheaper than bottled water. So what are we complaining about again?

Where are our prioities? We cry and complain for gas, but it's so much cheaper than bottled water. So what are we complaining about again?

It just means that brand-name bottled water is ridiculously overpriced. If you buy store-brand purified water you can get it for less than $1/gallon.

I can get 24 bottles of water from 3$-5$ depending on the store. Even 3$ for 24 bottles of water, filling that up with gasoline will still be cheaper.

I costs more to dig for oil, transport the oil, and refine and deliver the gas to the gas stations. It shure dosn't cost that much for bottling water like petroleum is, but we pay way more for water, but we are crying about gas prices.

That is what I ment where are our priorities. Even at 5$ a litre it would still be cheaper than water. Why are we upset with high gas prices but not high water prices? We talk about greed about gas companies, but what about Coke a cola, pepsi, etc, who sells us water, they are even greedier than the gas companies.

So who is the greedier people? Why do we just pick gas companies and not other worse compines?

remember those companies have to pay the oil companies too

International Gasoline Prices

The prices shown are expressed in US dollars and US gallons. These quarterly figures represent averages for the least expensive gasoline available at name-brand retail service stations.

US - $1.43
Hong Kong - $5.24
London, England - $4.83
Oslo, Norway - $4.38
Tokyo, Japan - $4.34
Quito, Ecuador - $.50
Jakarta, Indonesia - $.52
Kuwait City, Kuwait - $.76
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - $.93
Source: Runzheimer International, Rochester, Wisconsin.

I got this from http://www.galtglobalreview.com/world/world_gasoline.html

I'm not entirely sure how accurate it is though, since the figure quoted for the US seems to be much lower than the amounts posted by other posters living in the US. I'm also not sure at what time the data was collected. However it appears to be a good enough guide on comparing costs between the selected nations.

For the record the cheapest petrol available in Brisbane today is AUD$1.02 a litre, which would be USD$2.86 per gallon on this table using today's exchange rate.

The footnote on that page dates it to 2001. Sounds about right--the last time I remember gas being that cheap was September 11, when I filled up at 11:30am for $1.35/gal (prices spiked later that day).

-the last time I remember gas being that cheap was September 11, when I filled up at 11:30am for $1.35/gal (prices spiked later that day).

Dang- seems like a life time ago- Gas is 2.05 here in Arkansas at the moment

I can get 2 gallons of sam's choice cola for that- Almost enough for 1 game of Galciv2... (which IMHO is much better then water)

what gets me is the demos were complaining that prices were to low when prices were at that rate above and now their complaining becouse prices are to high

i guess they wanted to raise taxes on it so that they could spend more money on their friends and we(not me) want to elect them instead of the republicans who are trying to get it back down without interfering with free trade

The footnote on that page dates it to 2001.

oops. try this link for more up to date info (March 2006), though still before the recent decline in price.

http://www.aip.com.au/pricing/oecd.htm

Although prices are in AUD per litre, you'll get the gist. Wouldn't want to live in Turkey by the looks of the graph.

Hey that was a cool graph Darth Silliness! I found it intresting how every country on that list pays the same amount for fuel, its the taxation on it that makes the difference. (Man those Ausie's sure where sharp showing production/taxation cost)
Thank God America has one of the lowest tax rates on fuel- Can't belive Mexico is sells gas cheaper thou - Once again. Cool stuff Darth. Thank you
Well, 1.99 here- just fueled up- Wonder when the OPEC production cuts are going to start showing up on the $$ at the pump

Hey I just made my post to 100 replies!