So with all the riff raff about high fuel prices, I have a question...

[Luke The Drifter]

And that question is: what does the average joe in Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait etc pay for a liter of unleaded gas and diesel? I know theres lots of variables, taxes, currencies, demand etc but I've heard about those boys paying pennies for fuel. Heck I live in a province with the worlds 2nd largest oil reserve, even if it is oilsands and its pretty dang spendy for fuel here.

Man I wish we had the days of 40 cent/L fuel back...

 

[GODEEP]

5 Cents a gal. in 2003

http://www.rense.com/general53/tedx.htm


40 cents - 93 cents per gallon as of 2005

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/27/AR2005122700929.html

 

[hilinerider]

last fall diesel in saudi was 35 cents

 

[MARV1]

We all subsidize their effort in the "war" and they pay less for the same fuel. If the US would get out of the Middle East then price of fuel would then drop.

 

[RMK7SledHead]

how many refineries do they have? how many do we have?

just cause it's under our feet over here, doesn't mean we have the ability to turn it into something useable.

 

[Dogmeat]

We all subsidize their effort in the "war" and they pay less for the same fuel. If the US would get out of the Middle East then price of fuel would then drop.

Won't ever happen ...

Apparently the greenies don't seem to care if oil production screws up the "environment" in Russia or the middle east ...

 

[Ollie]

Actually the gas prices in the middle east are HEAVILY subsidized by the governments over there. In Iran they had riots when the government decided it needed to save money and started to ration how much gas people could get.

The average joe over in Iran used gas the way we would use fire wood over here.

You want the price of oil to drop in the US, drop kick the greenies out of the country. We need to build refineries in THIS country to refine the oil we have. We actually have enough oil, we just either can't get to it, or can't refine it.

Getting out of the middle east isn't going to do squatt for oil prices since the major oil exporters arn't affected by the war. Iraq is actually putting out more oil now than pre-invasion.

 

[sledhead_2002]

^^^^^^^^^^^^ Agree