Re: Diesel 9,5$/gl in Norway

On May 14, 8:05=A0am, jdoe <j...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:43:09 -0700, JD <jdblackwe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >jdoe wrote:
> >> On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:28:46 -0700, JD <jdblackwe...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >>>> Yep, great idea. =A0 Trust government to be able to make the right
> >>>> decisions and produce fuels economically instead of private
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> >>> I guess that's why gasoline is so much cheaper in Mexico.
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> >>> and market manipulation couldn't possibly be happening here in the
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> >>> JD
> >> gas is cheaper in mexico because the government diverts their
> >> production from the world market and then sells it at a loss, but
> >> guess what, in order to sell oil at a loss they tax the daylights out
> >> of their economy, they practically had food riots when the price of
> >> tortillas was raised, in the end it's all about what pocket the money
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> >Pemex does not sell domestically at a loss unless by "loss" you mean
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> >difference between what they might get on the world market and what
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> >net on their domestic sales. I'm fairly certain that they are not only
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> >Your statement might have some credibility if you were talking about
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> >prices in Venezuela ($0.12/gal), Nigeria ($0.35/gal), Egypt ($0.65/gal)
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> >Kuwait ($0.78/gal)but at $2.45/gal Mexico is hardly subsidizing fuel
> >prices. Another interesting question might be why gas prices in Puerto
> >Rico, an American Protectorate over which we have control of trade, are
> >only $1.74/gal.
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> those countries you listed are all producers and they "give away" the
> product domestically, the CNN chart you saw is misleading in PR gas is
> sold by the liter not gallon, that 1.74 is probably the per liter
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I saw the same thing happen with comparing gasoline prices in
Canada.   A caller to a talk show claimed gas was a lot cheaper in
Canada and the talk show host immediately attributed it to the fact
that Canada produces oil from shale.   Two things obviously wrong with
that.  First, gas is NOT cheaper in Canada.  I took a snowboarding
trip up there in January and distinctly remember that it was higher,
so we only put in enough to get us back to the US, where we could fill
up cheaper.   Second, extracting oil from shale is far more expensive
than pumping oil out of the ground.

As for Puerto Rico gasoline being cheaper this should smash that myth:

"By MA Miranda Sierra
Caribbean Net News Puerto Rico Correspondent
Email: miranda@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 JUAN, Puerto Rico: As gasoline prices have increased in the US,
gas prices in Puerto Rico have also dramatically escalated in the past
year.

In Puerto Rico gasoline is sold by the liter rather than by the gallon
as it=92s sold in the mainland and, within the next few weeks, consumers
will find themselves paying a dollar per liter each time they need to
pump gas into their car tanks, Puerto Rico Gasoline Retailers
Association's Carlos Crespo announced Thursday.





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