Just saw something on the discovery channel about how brazil has converted to biofuels. If we are in such a crisis for gasoline and global warming, why don't we switch? I know the costs would be great but it's not like we can just buy another earth or make oil appear out of no where. Considering this, we must not be in that big of a crisis after all.
2007-11-16 07:58:32 · 10 answers · asked by DT 4 in News & Events ➔ Current Events
1. The U.S. has not built a new refinery in over 30 years while the demand for gasoline has increased dramatically.
2. In 1982, when I retired from the Navy, there were less than two thousand privately owned autos in Beijing, the capital of Communist China. There are over two million today. The same huge jump in auto ownership has happened in Shanghai and in major cities in India. So, we now have competition for oil resources.
3. The refineries which do exist in the U.S. have to produce over 50 different blends of gasoline to meet the environmental laws of various states and municipalities.
4. The taxes levied on a gallon of gasoline vary greatly from state to state.
5. There are sufficient oil supplies. It is the process of refining that supply and meeting the demand which affects the price.
6. The chief cause of global warming is the presence of a nuclear fusion engine some 93 million miles from this planet called the Sun. NASA has reported melting of polar ice caps. On Mars! A planet with no fossil fueled industrial plants.
2007-11-16 09:37:54 · answer #1 · answered by desertviking_00 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
UGH!! gasoline fees are approximately furnish and insist!! it is why "the value is going up each and every April, is going down each and every August, returned up somewhat at Thanksgiving and yule ..." because of the fact whilst people call for greater, and furnish is low (because of the fact the greenies have not enable us to drill our very own oil for some years!!), the value is going up! peoplepersistent so lots greater in summer time and around the holiday trips. AND the gasoline businesses are actually not gouging!! confident, they're making "checklist earnings," yet it is as a results of the fact they're merchandising checklist quantities OF gasoline!!!! they're making an identical quantity consistent with gallon as till now. in case you elect to comprehend who's gouging - seem on the government who's STEALING greater IN TAXES THAN THE OIL businesses MAKE, even with the actuality that the government DOES no longer something no longer something no longer something!! Why won't be ready to people get this by using their heads?!! Why oh why oh why??!!!!! good Lord! AND WHY are not YOU indignant on the subject of the actuality that each and every thing ELSE HAS long gone UP IN value, additionally?! Huh? WHY?!! i will permit you comprehend why -- that is because of the fact the media basically focuses on gasoline fees! in the event that they concentrated on the turning out to be value of bottled water (which, like gasoline, is likewise turning out to be), people would be barking approximately that! So why do no longer I hear all people say something good whilst the value comes down somewhat? Hmmm? God help me, i'm soooooo unwell of listening to people whine approximately gasoline fees!! yet then, you won't be ready to bypass by way of me, 'reason i'm unwell of listening to people bark and whine approximately each and every little component recently!! you have have been given it exceptionally G.D. good in this united states of america, dude!! exceptionally good! Freedom, probability out the @ss, even the unfavourable families in the U.S. are greater smart off than the unfavourable in maximum different international places! How approximately you attempt to get exhilaration from what you have! help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!
2016-12-08 23:44:34 · answer #2 · answered by jandrey 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it's oil market speculators and the fact that China now consumes over twice what it used to . So it's a combination of market whores and supply/demand.
2007-11-16 08:17:02 · answer #3 · answered by Salsa Shark 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who really knows- but the govt is saying that in 5 years, it will be over $10 gallon so they are pushing people to really only buy hybrids!
2007-11-16 08:18:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our dollar is weak, which drives the price up, look at everything around you go up. It takes years of work to go bio. We do not have the rain fall Brazil does to replenish growth.
2007-11-16 08:07:53 · answer #5 · answered by cfb193 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm sure glad we got rid of all those Electric cable cars we had in California that went to every city in the state.Didn't the one day gas boycott by the millions of people in here do anything? lol
2007-11-16 09:14:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
well more people are giving up smoking so the government are trying to get tax off petrol insted
2007-11-16 08:33:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is b/c a lot of people are getting it for the holidays.
2007-11-16 08:06:28 · answer #8 · answered by Samantha Thompson 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Two words: OIL LOBBYISTS.
2007-11-16 08:05:36 · answer #9 · answered by Resident Heretic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
well my cooker is still working so Im okay
2007-11-16 08:09:09 · answer #10 · answered by Mossy Jan 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋