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Gasoline prices ready to hit new high in S.F.
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Re: Gasoline prices ready to hit new high in S.F. -
03-31-2007
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Mate, you really do need to come on holiday to the UK. You'll understand why you're well off at home once you've filled your UK hire car with petrol - currently around $7.00 per UK gallon. You can stop complaining now. Aren't you forgetting _why_ UK prices are so much higher? Like subsidizing government-sponsored health care for one... OK, I'm currently contracting for a major US company. Because I enjoy working for them I won't disclose their identity, but they're great to work for. (And you'll have heard of them) All the guys over from the US on this particular job have expressed their surprise on how much we don't earn, how much our taxes cost and how expensive everything is. (And that we drive so fast on the wrong side of the road) They are surprised how we pay for our small, overpriced homes. They are oblivious to the fact that some have to wait 6 months to a year for an surgical operation. You'd be shocked if you had to wait 4 hours to see a doctor in accident & emergency (The ER) like my wife did, 3 months ago. We pay National Insurance (The tax that is additional to normal earnings tax) as a percentage of our earnngs. It more than covers the money spent on health treatment. Oh, the 'road fund licence' we pay here (In addition to all the taxes on our petrol) is supposed to cover the development/upkeep of our roads. It does that, by over 300%. Funnily enough, we don't see what the rest does. Over 70% of our petrol price is tax. No, I can't emigrate to the US as my missus wont go! (Or I would have done so 5 years ago) A |
life (and money) it sucks out of its people, until they just can't take
it any more and there is a revolt. The USA isn't inherently better or
worse than any other place, nor is our government. Our government is
going bad just like every other government, it just hasn't had as much
time to do it.
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"Adam H" <adam.t.harvey (AT) REMOVEntlworld (DOT) com> wrote in news:IJwPh.19461$2F5.15967 (AT) newsfe5-win (DOT) ntli.net: So much for Detroit and the Little Three chances for this year if this keeps up through the Summer Gasoline prices ready to hit new high in S.F. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? file=/c/a/2007/03/30/MNG50OUPG71 .DTL San Francisco's surging gasoline prices stand poised to smash their old record of $3.36 for a gallon of regular, perhaps as early as today. Mate, you really do need to come on holiday to the UK. You'll understand why you're well off at home once you've filled your UK hire car with petrol - currently around $7.00 per UK gallon. You can stop complaining now. A Aren't you forgetting _why_ UK prices are so much higher? Like subsidizing government-sponsored health care for one... |
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2. It improves the sales of large luxury cars and profit laden SUVs at the expense of low margin econo cars. This has numerous benefits. The State loves the extra sales taxes, license fees, from expensive vehicles. You might wonder about the logic: higher per gallon fuel equates with higher gas guzzler sales. It makes sense when you think deeply. At a certain point, people throw in the towel. They realize even econo cars will cost a fortune to fuel so why not enjoy luxo and piss on this society that wants us to be born poor and die rich, leaving the heirs to pay inheritance tax. Just blow it all now, high gas be damned. Finally, the State wants you to buy expensive, high powered cars because they are ticket getters: all that power, overly sensitive gas pedals, and cops don't give warnings to rich folks' cars who speed. |
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I have a theory. The longer any particular government exists, the more life (and money) it sucks out of its people, until they just can't take it any more and there is a revolt. The USA isn't inherently better or worse than any other place, nor is our government. Our government is going bad just like every other government, it just hasn't had as much time to do it. |
give their citizens good health.
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So much for Detroit and the Little Three chances for this year if this keeps up through the Summer Gasoline prices ready to hit new high in S.F. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cg...NG50OUPG71.DTL San Francisco's surging gasoline prices stand poised to smash their old record of $3.36 for a gallon of regular, perhaps as early as today. Mate, you really do need to come on holiday to the UK. You'll understand why you're well off at home once you've filled your UK hire car with petrol - currently around $7.00 per UK gallon. You can stop complaining now. A They want to continue driving their huge excessively large vehicles. |
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In article <130tjgnmo3o4f19 (AT) corp (DOT) supernews.com>, Robert Reynolds <robbie (AT) kcnet (DOT) com> wrote: I have a theory. The longer any particular government exists, the more life (and money) it sucks out of its people, until they just can't take it any more and there is a revolt. The USA isn't inherently better or worse than any other place, nor is our government. Our government is going bad just like every other government, it just hasn't had as much time to do it. The USA would rather spend money they don't have to kill people, not to give their citizens good health. |
about if the government gets out of both of those areas? No government
ever gave any person good health, and more people have been killed by
their own government than by any other organization.
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In article <Xns99049444644EEnospamforme (AT) 216 (DOT) 77.188.18>, Joe <drinks (AT) five (DOT) org> wrote: "Adam H" <adam.t.harvey (AT) REMOVEntlworld (DOT) com> wrote in news:IJwPh.19461$2F5.15967 (AT) newsfe5-win (DOT) ntli.net: So much for Detroit and the Little Three chances for this year if this keeps up through the Summer Gasoline prices ready to hit new high in S.F. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi? file=/c/a/2007/03/30/MNG50OUPG71 .DTL San Francisco's surging gasoline prices stand poised to smash their old record of $3.36 for a gallon of regular, perhaps as early as today. Mate, you really do need to come on holiday to the UK. You'll understand why you're well off at home once you've filled your UK hire car with petrol - currently around $7.00 per UK gallon. You can stop complaining now. A Aren't you forgetting _why_ UK prices are so much higher? Like subsidizing government-sponsored health care for one... You're just jealous that they have a good health care system. |
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Who cares what gas costs in whackyland? |
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Who cares what gas costs in whackyland? |
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