I like to blame the people driving the monster SUVs with only one person in the
car that I see commuting every day. I also like to blame automakers that are so
slow to respond to changes in the market. General Motors responds to slumping
SUV sales by restyling. Apparently nobody at the general has noticed gas
prices...
I seem to remember something maybe a year ago where the automakers were saying
that it would take a year of gas prices above $2 a gallon to make SUV and truck
sales slump. I haven't heard anything about that in quite awhile. Anybody else
remember that?
-Curt
'83 240D "Hammie" 234kmi @~28mpg
Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 01:46:51 -0500
From: "Tom Hargrave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [MBZ] diesel prices
To: "'Mercedes mailing list'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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You give all of the presidents too much credit. It's not the current
presidents fault, it's not Clinton's fault. Matter of fact, it's not
any
president's fault!
To put things on perspective, if you were to factor inflation into 1981
gas
prices then 1981 gas would be the equivalent of $3.10 per gallon at
today's
dollars!
In other words, today's gas is still cheaper than it was in 81 when you
add
in inflation.
Our problem is that we are spoiled - we want cheap gas & diesel, and
we've
been getting cheap gas & diesel for quite a while.
If you want to blame someone for the higher prices of oil & fuel then
the
proper people to blame are China. They are the fastest growing
consumers of
oil in the world and their purchases are driving up the price of crude
oil.
What do they do with it? Many things, but much goes into plastics &
other
oil derivatives and those products go into products that they export to
us!
In other words, your $49.00 "made in China" DVD player is made partly
from
the oil they import.
Thanks,
Tom Hargrave
256-656-1924
www.kegkits.com
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