Be GRATEFUL for $4/gal. gasoline! - Today’s Headlines 7/14/08

[Caro]

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$10-a-gallon gasoline puts U.S. prices in perspective
Honked off by American pump prices? Cheer up. You could be commuting in Oslo, Norway, where gasoline costs $9.85 a gallon and filling up a Mini Cooper would set you back $130.
There’s always SOMETHING to be grateful for.—Caro

And be very glad you're not this poor kid.
The Freeway Blogger

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Carolyn Kay
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[4dsc]

1. Someday those prices will be here

Its only a matter of time before we see $10 gas here in the USA!! It may take a few years but its coming..

[marmar]

2. False dichotomy.....

Getting around Oslo without a car is probably quite easy.....and their high gas taxes pay for a wealth of services (health care among them) we don't get a whiff of.

[mdmc]

6. plus I could use my medical co-pays to fill my tank in Oslo

[GreenTea]

3. $4.00 I wish....18 cents more here and we'll be paying 5 fucking dollars a gallon!

Humboldt County....punishing our liberal county! The highest gas prices in the country!

[Blue_In_AK]

4. At this point, I WOULD be grateful for $4 gasoline

since it's $4.39 here.

[Initech]

5. Yeah, but I bet Oslo has a far better infrastructure than we do!

[gatorboy]

7. There's no comparison. Those prices fund their government.

This is up there with the schmuck in my office that thought the economy must be turning around because of all the new "houses for sale" ads.

YOU be grateful. I know we're getting screwed!

[jennyquatro]

9. Sacrifices? Yeah, right

People bitch about gas prices and rightly so. However, I have not heard any call for any sacrifices from the American public from either party.

I live in SoCal where public trans sucks and you are pretty much are forced to drive to get to just about anywhere. But the people (generalizing of course) overall still want their toys and are content to let others figure it out. Maybe it's time we weren't so into "stuff" (look up George Carlin's classic bit about it). It costs something like $4,000,000 to fuel an ocean tanker, so we can all get our goodies from China. How many have REALLY stopped buying useless crap? I would think not many. And that includes my family, but to a much lesser extent than some.

Any sacrifices for the public good disappeared long ago during WWII. So perhaps we should not only blame others, but look in the mirror.

[gatorboy]

11. They should call you JennyCinco de mayo

Lay off the sauce, dear.

[islandmkl]

8. check their 'services'...social, medical, infrastructure, etc...

and see what they get for the $6 a gallon...probably look worth it....

[Rex]

10. People with SUVs pay far more than $130 to fill the tank.

So it really doesn't equate.

[Cleita]

12. Delete

Dupe

[Cleita]

13. If I were driving in Oslo, I wouldn't be paying $300 a month

for my Medigap health insurance and $200 a month in prescription drugs.