Comparing recent retail gas prices in cities around the world.
Average price per gallon nationally: $4.10
Average price per gallon in Eastern Massachusetts: $4.08
Increases in retail food prices in the United States, May 2007 v. May 2008
While our gas prices remain about half of the average price per gallon in Europe, we’re nearly caught up with other industrial countries. Meanwhile, take a look at the huge price increases in grains.
Sorry, Phil Gramm, it AIN’T just whining.
Gov. George W. Bush of Texas said today that if he was president, he would bring down gasoline prices through sheer force of personality, by creating enough political good will with oil-producing nations that they would increase their supply of crude.
”I would work with our friends in OPEC to convince them to open up the spigot, to increase the supply,” Mr. Bush, the presumptive Republican candidate for president, told reporters here today. ”Use the capital that my administration will earn, with the Kuwaitis or the Saudis, and convince them to open up the spigot.” — New York Times, June 28, 2000 (via)
Average price per gallon of gasoline in July, 2000 = $1.59
Average price per gallon of gasoline in May, 2008 = $3.80
Saudi Arabia’s leaders made clear Friday they see no reason to increase oil production until customers demand it, apparently rebuffing President Bush amid soaring U.S. gasoline prices.
It was Bush’s second personal appeal this year to King Abdullah, head of the monarchy that rules this desert kingdom that is a longtime prime U.S. ally and home to the world’s largest oil reserves. But Saudi officials stuck to their position that they will only pump more oil into the system when asked to by buyers, something they say is not happening now, the president’s national security adviser told reporters. — Associated Press, May 16, 2008
Well, on the positive side, there’s finally a list where it’s just as well that the U.S. isn’t Number One: we are #108 on the list of highest retail price per gallon for gasoline
Mission accomplished, eh George?
Last weekend, The Presumptive Nominee made more than a few waves by saying that there was a link between childhood vaccines and autism, even though research has shown that there is no link. In fact, recent research suggests genetic causes and heightened awareness resulting in better diagnoses. But, then, Republicans seem to have a very different idea about scientific research in the first place.
Emboldened by their battle-scarred Champion, right-wingers everywhere have decided to go public with their bizarro world scenarios. The Wall Street Journal told us yesterday not to worry about “Peak Oil” and climbing petroleum prices, there’s plenty of oil to go around.
The Drudge Report wants you to know that global warming is just a myth — he links this article which claims that the colder-than-usual January temperatures “wipe out most of the warming recorded over the past 100 years” (though I will note that the author of this article says DailyTech.com has erroneously interpreted the data).
And Discover Magazine doesn’t want you to think you should be one iota less terrified of the H5N1 virus just because hardly anybody has died of it after three years of dire warnings.
In related news, Paris Hilton just won the Nobel Peace Prize, and green monkeys are flying out of my butt!
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