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In Ireland it's about €1.10 a litre, a gallon is 3.785411784 litres, which translates to about $5.20 for a gallon of Irish petrol.
How do ye decipher between petrol and diesel? Are they both called gas?
How do ye decipher between petrol and diesel? Are they both called gas?
No, they're not. Ironically, gasoline and diesel are both made from petroleum, so they both should be called petrol.
Gas prices haven't gone down here. I believe it's because the government subsidizes the cost heavily.
Gas prices haven't gone down here. I believe it's because the government subsidizes the cost heavily.
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Originally Posted by vmanes 
Production can be increased and decreased - sometimes it's a matter of how much effort companies want to put into it (that is, cost of extraction.) I think "oil reserves" is a figure that's more important. That's a measure of what's believed to be in the oil fields that are being exploited. There's always more out there waiting to be found - under the ocean, deeper down, in places that haven't been investigated. Seems we keep having 50-150 years of oil still in the ground, year after year.
Is the amount of oil underground/undersea a finite quantity? Most likely. Are we likely to exhaust the economically recoverable portion of that in our/our kids/our grandkids/our greatgrandkids' lifetimes? Probably not. Should we be looking for means to reduce oil use, or at least slow the growth of its use? Certainly.
But not for Al Bore's reasons.
Taking cheap shots at Vice President Gore is not the sign of a strong argument.
Imagine a world without hypotheticals....
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Taking cheap shots at Vice President Gore is not the sign of a strong argument.
"We Americans got so tired of being thought of as dumb by the rest of the world that we went to the polls last November and removed all doubt."
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Originally Posted by vmanes
No, but it's still fun. And he's not vice president any more.
Imagine a world without hypotheticals....
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I sent Cheney a nasty email with a link to your DW page. Keep an eye out for tax audits!
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"One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary." --Ayn Rand
Ouch! How are they going to read "cheap shots"? <listens for a faint wuffle of impellers> - my attack kitty is waiting
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Originally Posted by GrimJack
Ouch! How are they going to read "cheap shots"? <listens for a faint wuffle of impellers> - my attack kitty is waiting
"We Americans got so tired of being thought of as dumb by the rest of the world that we went to the polls last November and removed all doubt."
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To get back on topic, US gas price is now at about the level it was in early 2004. In the last six months prices of many goods rose along with gas, due to production and transportation increases. Anyone notice price drops of thing that went up?
Really, what's the cause of this steep decline of oil price? I've not seen any good explanations yet.
Really, what's the cause of this steep decline of oil price? I've not seen any good explanations yet.
"We Americans got so tired of being thought of as dumb by the rest of the world that we went to the polls last November and removed all doubt."
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