What a shame....Why can't you guys and gals understand that exxon-mobile needs to make record profits.something is very wrong with this picture....or mabe its just me ,i always have had a hard time understanding things like this.

 

The reason diesal is higher know is due to the war in Iraq. Hints supply and demand. Their is a large demand for Jet fuels and diesal fuel.

Food for thought. If you ran out of fuel on the side of the road and a man came up and said. Hey I will push/pull you and your 8,000 pound truck for 18 miles at 70 mph for $2.30. Would you pay him? I think so.If you look at it that way fuel is cheap. Try going overseas. And if it is still to much for you walk, ride a bike or get a yugo. We do not have to drive trucks that get 18 mph. We choose to.

 

Our as you said leave the good ole USA and live overseas (I hear in some desert middle east countries diesel is still under a dollar) who wants that? or we can compare a gallon of fuel or a gallon of milk last time i checked it takes a glass of milk for me tomake it thru the day and 5 gallons of fuel to get to work

 

I agree with everyone that the prices are nuts. But no one individual is to blame, well unless you live in California...just joking. Basically we are getting screwed by a whole slew of people. First of all state governments can be blamed for 10-15 cents depending on where you live. Granted oil companies are not hurting, but at least they are creating the product. What has your local state or federal government ever created for you besides a headache. The other group of people is the local fuel market. I have seen that the prices in a town is set because you drive 10 miles and have a completely different price according to their market. But probably the group that is hitting us the hardest is the people that buy the futures contracts. Everything now is so speculative that if anyone threatens to impact the worlds oil supply we are seeing major bounces in prices upwards. Funny that OPEC has lost a ton of its control over the market because of the none OPEC countries. A perfect example of this kind of speculation is that the former Chief of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan popped off about a recession during one of his speaking events last week andthe market fell over 500pts during intraday trading.This would be equivelant to your ex boss coming into yourcurrent place of employment and telling youthat you are fired. We would turn around and give him the finger, but these idots think it is gospel. Just a personal observation of what is really hurting our pockets!

 

Zigzagman,good thing we don't use coke products in our CTD.Last year coca-cola had a 66.1 % gross profit margin,compared to Exxon's 42.4% and what we don't want is to get microsoft involved in fuel,just a mear 82.7% gross profit margin.

Time to feed the beast again @ 2.43 agallon.

later tater

 

My how people still love to blame the fuel prices on the war in Iraq. I suppose the war let off for a couple months and thats why fuel prices went down over $.30 cents in under a week in most states? No, I don't buy that excuse, it just doesn't make sense. The war didn't just suddenly pick up again last week. The militaries requirement for fuel has not suddenly surged. More money for jet and diesel fuel has been spent on non wartime training then what is generally spent during a war. Katrina, if anything, is more to blame for the pasts highest fuel prices..which by the way is no longer an issue.

People are lining thier pockets with a fist full of green. You know, with all the biodiesel thats been produced over the years, and some of the larger companies that are also producing it, that should be relieveing some of our dependance on oils that are used to make diesel. Biodiesel is damn near as much if not more then normal diesel.

Thats a cop out...lets just go back to the stoneage while we are at it and totally eliminate pollution. Get rid of all technology since thats what created viruses, hackers, nuclear bombs and everything else in the world thats messed up.

 

Very well said......it's all about greed

 

Nation
City
Price in USD Regular/Gallon

Netherlands
Amsterdam
$6.48

Norway
Oslo
$6.27

Italy
Milan
$5.96

Denmark
Copenhagen
$5.93

Belgium
Brussels
$5.91

Sweden
Stockholm
$5.80

United Kingdom
London
$5.79

Germany
Frankfurt
$5.57

France
Paris
$5.54

Portugal
Lisbon
$5.35

Hungary
Budapest
$4.94

Luxembourg

$4.82

Croatia
Zagreb
$4.81

Ireland
Dublin
$4.78

Switzerland
Geneva
$4.74

Spain
Madrid
$4.55

Japan
Tokyo
$4.24

Czech Republic
Prague
$4.19

Romania
Bucharest
$4.09

Andorra

$4.08

Estonia
Tallinn
$3.62

Bulgaria
Sofia
$3.52

Brazil
Brasilia
$3.12

Cuba
Havana
$3.03

Taiwan
Taipei
$2.84

Lebanon
Beirut
$2.63

South Africa
Johannesburg
$2.62

Nicaragua
Managua
$2.61

Panama
Panama City
$2.19

 

Just posting prices of other countries isn't exactly a good comparison. I can't say for certain so this is just my opinion, but a lot of them contries, Japan being one of them, get paid a hell of a lot more then can be said for an equal American. You go to a poor country, you tend to pay lower prices, rich country higher prices. Economics...not my best field but hey I tried. The US is obviously considered a rich country but we do a lot of our own refining for fuels which generally lowers the cost. On average, Utah is usually lower then many other staes because Utah refines it's own fuel. Now don't ask me why when the rest of the countries prices went down Utah stayed so high...that was under serious investigation for some time and no clue the outcome.

 

yea, the outcome was keep the pice high.there are stations less than 1mile away from the refineries and it is the same price as the station across town. s.l.c. ut.