Drilling Alaska wildlife and high gas prices

Don't forget that the high prices for a barrel of oil affects more than the cost for gasoline for your car......it drives up ALL sources of home energy costs, whether it's propane, electricity, or natural gas. As transportation costs rise due to the higher cost of fuel, these costs get passed back to the consumer as price increases for just about all domestic goods.
A couple of acres of frozen tundra that is never seen by humans??????? Drill away, baby!

 

With everyone all worked up at Gas Prices/ANWR I thought I pass along a little humor to help ease the pain of your next trip to the pump...


Compared with Gasoline

Think a gallon of gas is expensive?

This makes one think, and also puts things in perspective.

Diet Snapple 16 oz $1.29 . $10.32 per gallon
Lipton Ice Tea 16 oz $1.19 ...........$9.52 per gallon
Gatorade 20 oz $1.59 . $10.17 per gallon
Ocean Spray 16 oz $1.25 . $10.00 per gallon
Brake Fluid 12 oz $3.15 . $33.60 per gallon
Vick's Nyquil 6 oz $8.35 . $178.13 per gallon
Pepto Bismol 4 oz $3.85 . $123.20 per gallon
Whiteout 7 oz $1.39 . .. $25.42 per gallon
Scope 1.5 oz $0.99 .......$84.48 per gallon
And this is the REAL KICKER...
Evian water 9 oz $1.49..........$21.19 per gallon?!
$21.19 for WATER - and the buyers don't even know the source.
(Evian spelled backwards is Naive.)

So, the next time you're at the pump, be glad your car doesn't run on water, Scope, or Whiteout, or God forbid Pepto Bismal or Nyquil.

 

You left out the 16oz Latte at Starbucks ...

Neil Z.
Resident since 1999

 

Here's an interesting editorial from today's Washington Post. It mirrors several of the arguments made earlier in this thread:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11311-2005Mar29.html

Here is the last paragraph (emphasis added):
The message for Americans is simple. We import nearly 60 percent of our oil. We can't eliminate imports any time soon, but we could limit them by producing more at home and conserving more (meaning higher fuel taxes, tougher gasoline standards, smaller vehicles and more hybrid engines). That would lessen our own vulnerability and ease pressures for the rest of the world. The debate that pits greater production against greater conservation is wrong. We need both.

 

Leave it to the Washington Post to suggest increased taxes to promote conservation. Maybe they should suggest allowing the oil companies to increase their profit margins to raise the prices to promote conservation.

 

I guess I should have made it clear that the article is not a Post editorial, but an opinion by one of the Post's columnists. Big difference.

And I don't think the point of the article was increasing taxes to promote conservation (this was only one suggestion out of several offered). I think the point of the article is that oil shortages and price increases are going to get worse, not better, and we need to improve both our conservation AND production efforts.

 

It is "tougher gasoline standards" that have caused part of the increase in prices to begin with. When you have federal, state, local regulations that require some 30 different mixes of product across the US - it naturally becomes harder to make enough of all of them to meet every markets demand.