Here in Kuwait we have cheap gas. I buy super with the higher octane and I'm paying around $1 per gallon. (I can't get more specific than that because I'm figuring 4 liters (we buy by the liter) in a gallon (not exact I know but close enough) and the exchange rate is around $3.75 per Kuwaiti Dinar.
You know why we have such cheap gas? Is it because we live in an oil producing country? No. The USA is an oil producing country. The difference? We're not producing! We have plenty and we're just letting it sit there. The Democrats claim that it would take years to help oil prices and that even then it wouldn't be by much? Talk about a reason not to back education bills by Democrats! How do they do that math?
I'm not crazy about being dependent on a nonrenewable resource. I would certainly be eager for our government to work overtime trying to get us off of oil before we're desperate. However, in the meantime, so that hard-working people can feed their families and get to their jobs so they can feed them, we need cheaper gas available in the USA. Must Americans have to take jobs overseas in order to do that?
Don't get me wrong. Kuwait is feeling the pinch on food prices and the cost of other things that are rising. The cost of living here can be very high. However, gas is cheaper over here than water. I pay about .065 per liter of gas and a liter of bottled water costs me .100 at the nearest bakala. I doubt that more drills in the USA will bring gas prices THAT low, but isn't it worth it to lower it what we can?
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We live in oil country here. When we first moved here 6 months ago we were paying $35 to fill up. NOw we are paying $50. So over $350/month. It's ridiculous, but we have no choice because Lorne needs to get to work and we couldn't find a place close to his job. Luckily we bought a place that is only 10 minutes away from his work because we really don't want to pay this much everytime. Oh, and the price of gas is supposed to go up even more soon and it isn't supposed to go back down. I told Lorne that we need a horse!
Yep, and I wish that we would have started 10 years ago when they were talking about it then. We would have been able to reap some of those benes soon!
Augh, the price we pay for pristine forests and animal sanctuaries. Don't get me wrong, the US needs to have those pretty forests and all those sanctuaries for animals (don't want to upset the "balance"), but something's gotta give. Hey, maybe we all need to just quit driving. Maybe we could all sell our cars and just do everything over the internet, rather than going to work, going shopping *wonders who would deliver?*, play at the park (just LOOK at pictures online, LOL)....
Nahhhhhh....we'd better just figure a way out of this mess. ;-P
In Venezuela, also a member of opec, we paid 12 cents a gallon. In Paraguay and here we really feel it!
Canada is an oil-producing nation, actively producing, and our gas prices are considerably higher than the US--$1.40/litre which is roughly $5.60/gallon. Other oil-producing nations like Norway have even higher prices.
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