gas prices

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Originally Posted by ck27

what do you all think?

To make a better comparison, you'd have to say "push your car without the extra weight of the engine" and, at that point, you ought to reduce the weight even further if you really want to have a guy (and only one guy) pushing it rather than horses or oxen that can be coaxed to do it for a bit of hay or oats and what they need to live on. Look up the cost of keeping horses and oxen for the purpose, even in the days of slavery quadrupedes were more cost effective than bipedes as well as faster.

As for the cost of getting the stuff, how much more expensive is it to mine, refine and deliver gold or diamonds? Not so terribly much, once you own the mine. You might be surprised to know that, in some cases such as Saudi Arabia, the cost per barrel of gettin' the stuff out of the ground is quoted as about US$2 a barrel, what's the rest of the 70 or so (for crude) due to? You try persuading those sheiks they should charge less 'cause it ain't fair.

Waste not, want not. Buy a horse and cart.

[ck27]

i know some places in the middle east it is that cheap but alot of opecs fields have been in operation since the 1960's or 70's and are getting heavily depleted so they have to work to keep pressure in the field so they can keep pumping more out so alot of places it does cost them alot of money to get the oil out of the ground and the price of barrel is accurate for alot of fields.

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Certainly, but the point of what I said is market value not depending only on cost of production. That's what I meant about trying to tell the sheiks they're not being fair by charging about as much as those that have to shove and pull and suck the wells dry. Everybody use less fuel, or switch to other sources, and watch how the price of a barrel drops...

[Jay-qu]

so converting to your units, for one gallon I pay about $US3.50, so just a bit more than you orb