You pay some middle eastern country per barrel
You pay to ship it to the US
You pay to refine in and add detergents (thats why california gas is more expensive, they require a certain addative to reduce polution)
You pay for shipping again
You pay the guy standing at the pump
You pay taxes on gas
Your paying for all the tankers, land and equipment used along the way, and your paying for everyone along the way to make a profit.
In other words it costs what about three times as much to get the oil from the barrel to your car as the oil itself actually does. I forget what the tax on gas is, but the tax our government charges for gas isn't cheap, the tax itself is probably close to what they are getting paid for the oil in the first place. So there is more than one place to whine too
As far as reserves go, we don't have 50 years of oil stored up, don't know where you heard that one. We need the reserves to be there. What happens if OPEC decides for some reason to outright stop selling us oil, people are going to freeze to death, we are going to be volnerable to attack, so that you could drive to work. Personally I would rather stop driving then have the Mexican army marching down the street. If we become in a large schale war and there is a shortage of oil we need the reserves, they are also a deterant to OPEC from doing some really not nice things with oil prices, even more than now.
If its that big of a deal to you, get a more fuel efficant car, deisel volkswagons get great milage and are nice cars. Deisel Mercedes get decent milage, and are also good cars, and they are completly differant from the Diesels of 10 years ago, they are much cleaner, and sound like a normal car. Then there are the hybrid cars which get comprable gas milage to the diesels. I drive a car that eats alot of gas, and have a driving style that uses alot of gas, ive got the money so I keep that can and keep driving like that, if I didn't I would be in one of those diesel volkswagons.
I remember about 2 years ago when prices went up to about $2.20 for regular, one guy pulls into the gas station I worked at, asks how much for regular. I tell him $2.20 a gallon. Guess what he says? "Wow thats cheap", he wasn't joking either he just came here from England, turns out they're paying a heck of alot more than us over there.
You pay to ship it to the US
You pay to refine in and add detergents (thats why california gas is more expensive, they require a certain addative to reduce polution)
You pay for shipping again
You pay the guy standing at the pump
You pay taxes on gas
Your paying for all the tankers, land and equipment used along the way, and your paying for everyone along the way to make a profit.
In other words it costs what about three times as much to get the oil from the barrel to your car as the oil itself actually does. I forget what the tax on gas is, but the tax our government charges for gas isn't cheap, the tax itself is probably close to what they are getting paid for the oil in the first place. So there is more than one place to whine too
As far as reserves go, we don't have 50 years of oil stored up, don't know where you heard that one. We need the reserves to be there. What happens if OPEC decides for some reason to outright stop selling us oil, people are going to freeze to death, we are going to be volnerable to attack, so that you could drive to work. Personally I would rather stop driving then have the Mexican army marching down the street. If we become in a large schale war and there is a shortage of oil we need the reserves, they are also a deterant to OPEC from doing some really not nice things with oil prices, even more than now.
If its that big of a deal to you, get a more fuel efficant car, deisel volkswagons get great milage and are nice cars. Deisel Mercedes get decent milage, and are also good cars, and they are completly differant from the Diesels of 10 years ago, they are much cleaner, and sound like a normal car. Then there are the hybrid cars which get comprable gas milage to the diesels. I drive a car that eats alot of gas, and have a driving style that uses alot of gas, ive got the money so I keep that can and keep driving like that, if I didn't I would be in one of those diesel volkswagons.
I remember about 2 years ago when prices went up to about $2.20 for regular, one guy pulls into the gas station I worked at, asks how much for regular. I tell him $2.20 a gallon. Guess what he says? "Wow thats cheap", he wasn't joking either he just came here from England, turns out they're paying a heck of alot more than us over there.
I read more then one side to news stories. Ya selfishness that's it. I'm selfish. How bout I get canned from my job and you can pay my wages. 
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