Math Time!, page 1

OK, the government wants to give all us Americans $100 each in the form of a rebate check to help us offset the cost of gas. Yes, that’s right. Sound good to you? Not to me.

$100 From Uncle Sam

Here is why this isn’t good:

Assumptions:
-We are paying ROUGHLY $.80 per gallon too much for gas I estimate. Give or take $.15 per gallon

The math:
$100 / $.80 = 125 Gallons of “rebated” gas
125 / 13 (my tank size) = 9.62 Tanks of “rebated” gas
9.62 x 2 (I use about a tank every 2 weeks) = 19.24 Weeks of “rebated’ gas or 4.5 months

Well that’s great; Uncle Sam wants to give me 4.5 months of gas at the prices I feel I should be paying, not free gas mind you. OK….WHAT ABOUT THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF? Does this also mean that in 4.5 months the prices will have dropped to where they should be?

Don’t get me wrong, ill happily take that $100. But where is the other $400 for the last 18 months, and will I be getting a new check every 4.5 months from now on?

Oh yes, and money.cnn.com..." target="_blank" class="postlink" rel="nofollow">Exxon is reporting EVEN HIGHER profits already than last year. And of course you all remember that last year they reported over 80% profit gain. And they are already beating that after just the first quarter this year.


Everybody bend over and give Sam a nice place to shove that check.

Guys, we have been royally chooched, and they have the nerve to pay us for it.






[edit on 27-4-2006 by skippytjc]

You can complain all you want, your still paying less than a high % of the world.

So lets do some math for Canada.

I just spent $1.20/Litre this morning for gas.

1 Gallon = 4.55 Litres

$1.20x4.55 Litres = $5.46 That I am paying for a Gallon.

It would cost me over $50 to fill my tank up, and it would probably last me 2 weeks. So that $100 is going to last me 1 month.

If the government called me today and said were going to give you 4.5 Months of gas for free I would probably drop the phone and jump for joy.

How can you complain about these ridiculous prices your paying, when your prices are still so much cheaper?

The Netherlands and Norway are both paying over $6 for the Gallon. While Italy, Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Portugal & Sweden are all paying over $5 as well.

But yet, You guys flip your lid over $3 and then complain when your offered 4.5 Free Months of gas.


Those prices can be found at:

money.cnn.com...

Originally posted by chissler
You can complain all you want, your still paying less than a high % of the world.

[snip]

How can you complain about these ridiculous prices your paying, when your prices are still so much cheaper?

Firstly, because most Americans don't seem to like change.

Secondly, because of how quickly the price has jumped for us.

www.indystar.com.../20060427/BUSINESS/604270426

Gas prices nationally have climbed to $2.96 a gallon on average recently from $1.47 in April 2000, a 100 percent gain, shifting more than $100 billion out of the pockets of American consumers over those years.

JDub

Edited to add: I am not in favor of the $100 check. I think it is being proposed for the wrong reasons. I am disabled, so money is a big deal for me. I don't want to look a gift horse in the mouth, but we have to do this stuff the correct way.

JDub

[edit on 4/27/2006 by BlueTileSpook]

I'll make it simple for everyone, in the united states we have costco and sams club, both deplorable places but it serves my example.
At costco for example you can get 36 pepsi's for the price of 24 or so at the normal grocer. So you are passed the savings because you bought more and gave them more money.

Now with this realized let's look at world oil consumption.
www.scaruffi.com...
The united states sucks takes in roughly 26-27% of the oil consumed a day according to this report.
In fact according to those numbers, it takes the next 6 countries to equal our demand.
Why we use so much oil you should really look into the super highway projects and the modernization of america between the 1930's and 60's-70's to fully understand why we require so much oil.
But a major reason why we do require so much oil.
Consumer Use
Miliatary
And what I like to call the real war, which falls goes to construction firms of our country, which odviously need oil to build.
The biggest company, or one to be the biggest highlight is halliburton. Who likes to work hand in hand with the WTO and World Bank.
Isn't it convenient how the world bank and wto, has loaned out such vast sums to third world countries with resources the united states needs.

These loans, which never left our country(money is flowed from washington to new york, texas etc... whatever UNITED STATES constructions firm is doing) under these loans there are usually stipulations and practices, which use the macroeconomic practices along with privatization so that our corporations gain control of the country. The rich families are fed and and poor are made poorer.

The most interesting news related to the world bank is venezuela's is buying off tons of bonds so they can pay back the debt they owe sometime this year and not fall under these stipilations of privatization, chavez wants to nationalize the oil supply. If eveyone is looking for the next wars I believe it to be venezuela, for the previous resason and Iran because they want to switch over to EU money like Saddam.

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