Here we are - $3.00/gallon Diesel!

Tell me about it!!!! In Fresno, Calif I saw $3.09 a gallon at one place. Cheapest I saw today was

Though unhappy with paying $2.70 per gallon for super unleaded,I'm thankful that I don't live in Norway and pay $7.00 per gallon.

Here in Alaska,we have a permanent fund dividend paid yearly to residents from the oil companies.The highest it ever reached was $1975 back in 2000.That year,the state government sent us a check for $7900,but now the dividend has plummeted down to $900.Now at the prices of gas,seems that we just barely break even figuring the total spent a year.Only a $3600 check this year,SIGH!!!!

It's not only Bush's policy what is behind this.

You americans buy growing amounts of goods from China and other countries and that's why chinese can afford buying your oil paying more than before.

So, you can thank yourselves for this.

Reg: Harri

You're moaning about a rise in the low North American prices.

So long as you are nowhere near most of the rest of the developed world you will gain little sympathy except from fellow NAs who make up, of course, the majority of the participants of this newsgroup.. :-)

In the last two weeks I was driving around Italy in a rented diesel vehicle and paid EUR 1.12 to 1.15 per litre. About the same as in the UK.

BTW it was, as last year, an Alfa Romeo 147 with a 1.9 l turbodiesel. Maaan, what pulling power in third... Still the prettiest car in its class, I think.

DAS

It's not the energy policy it's the war in Iraq. Your paying for it twice, once in taxes and second in high energy cost. We need to gety him and his lackeys out of office.

You Americans,you Americans!!! Remember this,our economy fails,your economy fails,point blank period!!!!Enough already,sheesh!

To be quite honest,it will just be another Republican't elected in 2008 if they play the bible thumper card again!

????????OUR OIL????????Clarify,do you mean what we produce or them buying Saudi oil with our money?

Before our Great Depression,what was the European governments greatest fear?Answer;our economy failing,nothing has changed!

Uh,huh!And the more we have to pay per gallon and on home heating cost,the less we have to spend on imports.Hmmmmmmmmm?Got it?

When chinese want more and more oil they buy it out of the market and price rices.

That's very simple.

Reg: Harri

Jess.

God Bless USD. Right ;-)

Reg: Harri

And when we have less money to spend on "their" imports,the less "they" have to buy oil!

Not quite.

When you have less money you can't afford to valuable US made goods any more and you have to buy more cheap chinese crap.

You see ;-)))

Reg: Harri

Obviously you have never been shopping in the US.Import goods far out number domestic goods(Shoes,clothes,electronics etc,etc.)

Not only has the cost of oil skyrocketed,the prices of food,rent, non essential services(cell phones,entertainment,etc...)has greatly increased,but the income of the average American has not.

You are familiar with supply and demand right?Well,if Chinese goods are in demand,the prices increase,thus.................See?

If the shoes are good they are italian or maybe even norwegian.

Clothes are chinese and electronics japanese, korean, taiwanese, chinese ...

So?

Of course everything goes up. If one goes the ohters will do it too.

Just like oil price ;-)

Reg: Harri

This is a good thing. At this price biodiesel is competitive.

1. Only a small portion of our fuel comes from Saudi, etc. Venezuela & other S.A. nations, iirc, are our source for a much higher quantity. We can't really blame the sheiks. And W is no more to blame than HW or the HillBillies.

1. It's our economy, not the government's. It is what we make it by how we spend our money. If we don't buy Chinese goods, China hurts, oil falls, and US business succeed. Government meddling, by both political philosophies, is damaging to the economy.

Adam Smith was always right.

Collin KC8TKA

The semi-free US economy keeps the rest of the Euro/CA socialists afloat. No doubt. Weaken the US significantly and the socialist economies don't survive. All they'll do is grab more control. Because, by definition, that's what socialists do.

Collin KC8TKA