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Come to the UK, our petrol prices are $10 a gallon. You have nothing to complain about. |
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No. They need to be higher so people will switch to alternative fuels. I think we should stop
giving oil companies corporate tax breaks that other companies don't get. This should cause them to
raise their prices and help people realize that other forms of energy are in fact cheaper. |
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They are high but for a reason WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF GAS |
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No matter how much I hate paying a lot for gas, they probably aren't too high. I think you would be
correct to say that it is too high if everything else was at a normal price, like food and clothes.
But since everything else is really expensive, the gas has to be too.
Especially since our economy is in inflation.....
That sucks, but it is true. |
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There are alternatives to petrol (I'm English), which overall are more beneficial. If the high
prices are going to encourage people to use such alternatives then the prices are definitely not too
high. |
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You should either check out gas prices in Europe or consider gas USE in America (ie 2 ton hunk of
metal plastic and glass to go to the corner store; not to mention the sheer size of car engines in
the us vs. Same model in other places), the economy still rolls at these prices amidst such a
housing crisis so; no, gas prices aren't "too high" |
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Gas is wahts destroying the atmosphere of our planet through Co2 and the prices should be very high
to help put money into cleaning up the worlds ozone.... |
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You bring out the economist in me. Actually, gas prices were too low. Back in 1999, the price of a
gallon of gasoline was 65 cents per gallon. Not only was that cheaper than what gasoline was in the
1970s and 1980s, but it was also nearly half the price of a gallon of spring water! Given the
resources it takes to refine crude oil into gasoline, there is no way anyone should have thought
that this price anomaly would last. The party is over and inflation is now here.
In addition, 10 years ago there were 200,000 million Chinese who lived in huts and caves and who
traveled only by bicycle. Today, however, they are driving cars (in India as well) and China is now
the second largest car market in the world. We now have to compete with them for this precious
fuel. While it is unfortunate that many will experience high and painful prices in the short term,
the high price of gas is now encouraging alternative technologies so that in the long term, we will
have cleaner and cheaper alternatives. |
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10 May 2008 03:48
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