H2

8/14/2005 12:12:27 AM

aha look at this gem from 2000

8/14/2005 3:38:22 PM

yeah, its really keeping pace with inflation

i've noticed a 50% increase in everything else i buy

8/14/2005 3:45:36 PM

2.489 last night, if I'd filled up my tank it would have exceeded forty dollars.

8/14/2005 3:49:41 PM

I don't understand the issue with inflation adjusted dollars. Since the purchasing power of a dollar changes over time, it's not possible to compare costs over time in terms of absolute dollars. Yes, there has been a run up in gas prices recently, and no, it hasn't been due to inflation. In a historical context however, gas is not the most expensive than it's ever been.

Here's an interesting article:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2005-05-31-gas-prices-edit_x.htm?csp=N009

Here's an inflation calculator:
http://www1.jsc.nasa.gov/bu2/inflateCPI.html

If you want to complain about high gas prices, look at this:
http://www.gaspricewatch.com/usgastaxes.asp

In North Carolina, you pay $0.4525 per gallon. That means you were taxed at a rate of 18.2%, spookyjon.

8/14/2005 5:37:28 PM

ITS A COP-OUT BY ECONOMISTS WHO ARE GETTING FAT PORTFOLIOS OFF OIL STOCKS

and it is picked up and run with by conservatives who would never second guess their own kind

8/14/2005 6:47:34 PM

Do you second guess your people?

I assume that you do, because anyone that doesn't question anything is called a "conspiracy theorist"

8/14/2005 11:51:20 PM

do you defend everything your side says?

8/15/2005 12:22:21 AM

says or does? Honestly, I attack most everything my side "says" because, as you probably realize, politicians should never go out in public. Luckily, what one does (or in the case of myside, what one does not) do matters more than what one says.

[Edited on August 15, 2005 at 9:12 AM. Reason : .]

8/15/2005 9:11:43 AM

well in this case there is nothing to do besides launch a war for oil or start subsidizing with mpg credits or something

8/15/2005 9:14:51 AM

i bitch about not being able to afford gas.

but then i go and buy $50 of alcohol every week.

8/15/2005 9:16:43 AM

Launch a war, to be sure, but if we wanted a war for lower gas prices, we should have attacked China.

When Oil producers go to war it always results in lower production and higher prices, regardless of which side started it.

8/15/2005 10:10:48 AM