Cheap $3.45 in the U.S. most places higher.
"Mike" <notavailable@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>1 Litre of Diesel now costs £1.20 (about $2.5) here in the UK.
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> "K2NNJ" <k2nnj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Fight Back Against Big Oil
>> By Bill O'Reilly for BillOReilly.com
>> Thursday, Apr 24, 2008
>>
>> So now we have the presidential candidates running around telling
>> voters that they will help solve high gas prices. Well, if you believe
>> that, you'll believe that Hugo Chavez drives a Yugo. It's just bull.
>>
>> Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are calling for
>> "investigations" into "price gouging" by American oil companies. Good.
>> There's plenty of price manipulation going on and, under Presidents
Bush
>> and Clinton, little federal oversight. If a big oil company wants to
>> tighten supply, for example, it's a snap. Just slow down the refinery
>> process by ordering some extra "maintenance" or something.
>>
>> But who is going to investigate Senators Obama and Clinton over
>> their opposition to oil drilling? The Democratic Party has consistently
>> opposed new drilling, and nuclear energy as well. Even the dedicated
>> liberal governments in France and Sweden bought into nuclear. But not
the
>> American left, no way.
>>
>> On the Republican side, President Bush has done absolutely nothing
>> about rising gas prices, which is part of the reason is approval rating
>> is approaching 20%. He blames the Democrats. Fine. But the President
>> should be telling all Americans to cut back their gas consumption by
15%.
>> He should be urging us to use less gas. That would at least cut into
big
>> oil's record profit margins.
>>
>> Senator John McCain proposes a gas tax "holiday" this summer.
True,
>> that would save the folks a few bucks, but it would also add to the
>> massive spending deficit. The government better start balancing the
>> budget soon before Häagen-Dazs becomes more valuable than the U.S.
>> currency.
>>
>> The sad truth is that both political parties have sold out the
>> folks. For decades, economists knew China and India were
industrializing
>> and those countries would demand much greater amounts of oil. Everybody
>> knew that OPEC could slow down production and gouge the world if it
could
>> and, of course, now it can.
>>
>> But if Americans would get angry and begin punishing the oil
>> bandits, then prices would drop. However, we are often a selfish
people.
>> We want those gas-guzzling Hummers and SUVs, and we're paying a big
price
>> for that above and beyond the sticker.
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