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Originally Posted by imagine2frolic

Can someone explain to me a reasonable to answer to my question? Last year when oil was $60+ a barrel gas was the same price as it is now at $95 a barrel. I am wondering if we were getting the dirty end of the stick?

Heck, we are only paying $2.99 a gallon here as of last night, when I filled my recently inherited Impala. I might have to go back to the old '94 Escort since it got 31 mpg city vs the impala's 20. The Escort is literally in a pasture.

My wife's now getting about 43 mpg in the city, a far cry from the 60 mpg city that Toyota advertised for their Hybrid Prius. She's still complaining about gas having gone up though.

BP is the dominent supplier here. Maybe there is an advantage to buying British fuel?

Probably not according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP . The local stations were Amoco, now the same as BP. It's pretty much us consumers against a giant worldwide industry. It's no wonder that we hear skepticism of environmental concerns from international propoganda sources such as the
( http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/mai...climate104.xml ) that Roscoe posted the other day.
Can you imagine the profit carnage if proponents of climate change and early adoption of alternative fuels were allowed to have unchecked say?

Sounds like BP openly fought environmentalists and conservationists in the beginning:
"...BP/Amoco was a member of the Global Climate Coalition an industry organisation established to promote global warming skepticism but withdrew in 1997..." ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP#Environmental_record
)

Of course there is no proof that they still are helping foster the dis-information campaigns just to enhance their bottom line.


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