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Looking At The Numbers Doesn't Calm Me Down Much

08/02/08 · 9:10 pm :: posted by Monponsett     

Average gas prices, with the USA as the blue line and Canada as the red line.

Gas was about $1.019 a gallon before the 9/11 attacks.

 

 

 This one sort of speaks for itself, which is kind of the purpose with graphs.

 

 Some numbers to chew, from About.com:
1.059: The average US price for a gallon of gas, December 2001.
2.845: The average US price for a gallon of gas, August 2006.

4.099: The average US price for a gallon of gas, July 2008


18.68: The average world price for a barrel of oil, January 2002.
66.45: The average world price for a barrel of oil, August 2006

125.10: The average world price for a barrel of oil, August 2008


1.1m : The number of barrels of oil per day in Iraq, August 2006.
3.5m : The number of barrels of oil per day in Iraq, before the March 2003 invasion.

670,000: The number of barrels of oil per day in Iraq, August 2008 

 

I can't play the volume for this on the laptop I'm using, but the premise looks to be How Cheap Would Oil Be If India And China Were Suddenly Bombed Into Having A Pastoral Economy? "Pastoralization," or something spelled kinda like that, was one of the options on the table for post-WWII Germany in the Marshall Plan-preceding Morgenthau Plan, which was decidedly less popular with the Krauts.

 

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08/04/08 @ 2:47 pm
Solon [Member] writes:
Monpo, my darling. Love those sexy charts and figures. Now you are appealing to the engineer in me!

Was up at Lake Winnepesaukee this weekend. Gas was about $3.87 a gallon. Must be that secret pipeline to NH that we don't know about that makes gas cheaper there than on the Cape.

Or is it our Massachusetts tax on gasoline? Or the predisposition of everyone who sells to Cape Cod to screw Cape Cod?
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08/04/08 @ 7:42 pm
Gadfly [Member] writes:
I was in Amherst this past weekend and gas way out there was 3.82 per gallon at Cumbys. Came back to the Cape and gas was 4.17 at our local Hess.
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08/04/08 @ 8:28 pm
Buzz [Member] writes:
I hope Cristy is paying attention here. He offers the .20 cent off coupon form Stop and Shop. Great...right? His price is .20 cents higher than the Hess station less than 1/2 mile away. He must be recouping the money he lost running for governor.
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08/04/08 @ 8:48 pm
Monponsett [Member] writes:
It's 25 cents more on on side of the bridges than on the other side... maybe 100 yards as the crow flies.
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08/04/08 @ 10:31 pm
CC Rockhopper [Member] writes:
Now to really make you all sick, Today gas just dropped again here in central Ohio to 3.61 a gallon and we have the State Fair going on, so a wonderful time to Screw the local travel, all must come all must pay,,, Oh well, and to think I am still planing to vacation before long on the Cape.. Oh well
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08/05/08 @ 9:00 am
possee [Member] writes:
Let's see..
Milk is 3.99 /Gallon
Cost of extraction/refining/state/local/federal taxes/distribution/packaging/ delivery?

Where's the outrage?

12 0z of cereal/average cost@$4.00..
Where's the outrage?
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08/05/08 @ 11:31 am
Gadfly [Member] writes:
Possee, If it took 10 gallons of milk or 10 boxes of cereal just to get to and from work every week maybe then you'd see the outrage.
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