Gas station owner sues OPEC

Post #124,228 by lincoln 11/5/03 7:39:50 AM Reply	Gas station owner sues OPEC BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Carl Prewitt's Texaco station, down the street from the Sun Source Tanning Salon and kitty-corner to Brett's Pawn Shop, seems an unlikely spot for an international legal imbroglio. But for the past three years, Prewitt has been waging war against the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, seeking to have the cartel declared an illegal price-fixing venture. Because Prewitt's lawsuit is a class action filed on behalf of everyone in the United States who has purchased petroleum products in the past five years, it offers the prospect of revenge for something that annoys nearly every motorist: high fuel prices. [link\|http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0311050293nov05,1,6246578.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed\|source] login = iwethey/iwethey lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/resume.htm\|VB/SQL resume] [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/tandem_resume.htm\|Tandem resume] [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #124,235 by Yendor 11/5/03 9:25:29 AM Reply	OK, so I was in Germany at this time last year... ...And I saw fuel prices there listed at €1.03. I said to myself, "Self, that's not a bad price for fuel! These lucky Germans over here!" Then I realized that their unit of fuel measure is the lit[er/re]. And that there are approximately 3.76 liters of fuel in one US gallon of fuel. Yes, compared to what fuel prices were like 5, 10, or 15 years ago, our gas prices bite the big one. Compared to the rest of the world, our gas prices rule. So while OPEC might actually BE a monopoly/cartel/whathaveyou...So is DeBeers for diamonds, and they're still around. -YendorMike [link\|http://www.hope-ride.org/\|http://www.hope-ride.org/]
Post #124,241 by SpiceWare 11/5/03 9:58:36 AM Reply	high taxes [link\|http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/911867.stm\|Europe's fuel dilemma] Taxes are a major source of revenue for spending on health and education. It is also a way of trying to reduce pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging people to switch to public transport. In France, taxes account for almost 80% of the price of diesel fuel, and its price has risen by almost 30% in the last year - to the second highest level in western Europe, after Britain. Darrell Spice, Jr. [link\|http://www.spiceware.org/cgi-bin/spa.pl?album=./Artistic%20Overpass\|Artistic Overpass]\n[link\|http://www.spiceware.org/\|SpiceWare] - We don't do Windows, it's too much of a chore
Post #124,250 by lincoln 11/5/03 10:27:20 AM Reply	You can live your whole life and never NEED to buy a diamond, but it's pretty hard to live today without NEEDING oil for gasoline, plastics, chemicals, etc. lincoln "Windows XP has so many holes in its security that any reasonable user will conclude it was designed by the same German officer who created the prison compound in "Hogan's Heroes." - Andy Ihnatko, Chicago Sun-Times [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/resume.htm\|VB/SQL resume] [link\|http://users3.ev1.net/~bconnors/tandem_resume.htm\|Tandem resume] [link\|mailto:bconnors@ev1.net\|contact me]
Post #124,257 by tuberculosis 11/5/03 10:43:40 AM 8/21/07 6:13:32 AM Reply	Yabut we still have the lowest prices Well, almost. I hear throught the cruising net that diesel is amazingly cheap in Venzuela. Still, our prices are obviously too low. How else to explain the madness that is the gas gulping SUV. When prices are high enough to change vehicle buying and driving habits, then they're about right. "I believe that many of the systems we build today in Java would be better built in Smalltalk and Gemstone." -- Martin Fowler, JAOO 2003 Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 06:13:32 AM EDT Expand All History
Post #124,275 by Simon_Jester 11/5/03 11:56:21 AM Reply	Not even close Iraq is selling gas at less than 50 cents a gallon.
Post #124,309 by JayMehaffey 11/5/03 2:23:45 PM Reply	That is at a loss though The gas Haliburton is selling in Iraq for 50 cents a gallon was bought for something like $2.00 a gallon. Saddam used to charge as little as 10 cents a gallon, but from what I have heard that too was at a loss. I'm have no idea what it actually costs to produce gas in the middle east. Jay

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