Gas $1.55 gallon in China, so why do we pay more?

The Chinese government has raised retail gas prices three times, by a

http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/04/21/bloomberg/s
xcar.php

If gas is so cheap in a Communist country where the government is supposed
to care less about its citizens, why is gas so high in the U.S. where the
government loves us?

I don't get it.

Would you consider a Chinese car when they are offered here? Do you think
my neighbors would laugh at me if I brought home a Long-Dong or a
Ying-Yang? A Cherry? Once you get used to the names, I think its okay.
Just laugh all the way to the bank. They're going to sell for about
$7,500.

 

And they'll have those redundant fuel pumps you were talking about?

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')

 

*Perhaps* (only a guess) the PRC government relies more on direct
taxation (taxes on income; i.e., the more money you get, the more tax
you pay) than on indirect taxes (taxes on goods; i.e., rich and poor pay
the same amount of tax -- except that the rich may buy more stuff and
therefore pay more tax).

But does that 3.40 Yuan /liter include taxes anyway? We are used to pump
prices where the taxes are included, but maybe not in PRC.

When we lived in Taiwan (OK, different country, but similar in many
ways), we had a car designed and built locally by the company that built
Nissans under license -- and using many Nissan parts. After 6 years it
was an almost-worthless rustbucket. And, speaking of names, this car's
Chinese name was "Fei-Ling 101" (="Gazelle 101"), but the English
nameplate called it a "Feeling 101," a name allegedly chosen from
competition entries. My Chinese teacher thought it was "such a nice
warm, friendly name," but one of our American friends said it sounded
like an introductory psychology course.

Perce

 

Did you expect that Nuclear-armed, 1 billion strong communist China to
just sit back and let the US beligerently invade a middle-eastern
country with potentially the largest untapped oil reserves in the
world?

China was given something to sit back and relax when the US invaded
Iraq. Continued raping (er, I mean access) to the US economy with
cheap goods and outsourcing is part of it (most-favored-nation-status
when it comes to trade). Access to cheap Saudi oil was maybe another
(wanna bet that the Saudi's are shipping China some cut-rate oil while
the rest of the world - US mostly - is covering the difference?)

Surely you didn't expect China to keep to the side-lines when the US
went on that romp in Iraq (all ready to turn on the oil taps and sent
oil to the markets and have all the petro dollars flowing back to the
US al-la Halliburton). Maybe Russia can be pushed around like a wimp
(Russia signed a $40 billion deal with Iraq just weeks before the
invasion, and now they're going to supply nuclear know-how to Iran.
Can't say I blame them when the US is always fucking up their foreign
trade opportunities). China can't be pushed around like that - they
own quite a bit of US debt and could drive the US into recession with
the push of a few buttons (on a keyboard - not a missle control
panel).

 

How about a 'who flung dung"?

A Cherry? Once you get used to the names, I think its okay.

 

You said it a Communist Country where the average yearly wage is $1000.00
and all the refineries are owned by the government, there is no free open
market, you have no rights, you disappear when they do not approve of your
views, they determine how many and what sex of children you can have, you
are always working for the man.

If it is so bad here move!! I will pay $10.00 gallon for gas as long as I
can do as I please, when I please and hoe I please. It is the green weenies
fault because of the environmental constraints on refineries in their
country and we have not built a refinery in 30 years while the demand has
tripled.

--
HarryS My 2¢
| Nomen Nescio wrote:
| >>The Chinese government has raised retail gas prices three times, by a
| >>total of 23 percent, since March 2004. Gas costs 3.40 yuan a liter, or
| >>$1.55 a gallon, at stations run by Beijing-based PetroChina, the largest
| >>oil company in Asia.
| >
| >
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/04/21/bloomberg/s
| > xcar.php
| >
| > If gas is so cheap in a Communist country where the government is
supposed
| > to care less about its citizens, why is gas so high in the U.S. where
the
| > government loves us?
| >
| > I don't get it.
| >
| > Would you consider a Chinese car when they are offered here? Do you
think
| > my neighbors would laugh at me if I brought home a Long-Dong or a
| > Ying-Yang?
| How about a 'who flung dung"?
|
| A Cherry? Once you get used to the names, I think its okay.
| > Just laugh all the way to the bank. They're going to sell for about
| > $7,500.
| >

 

raised retail gas prices three times, by a total of 23 percent, since March
2004. Gas costs 3.40 yuan a liter, or $1.55 a gallon, at stations run by
Beijing-based PetroChina, the largest oil company in Asia.
http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/04/21/bloomberg/sxcar.php
If gas is so cheap in a Communist country where the government is supposed
to care less about its citizens, why is gas so high in the U.S. where the
government loves us?
I don't get it.
Would you consider a Chinese car when they are offered here? Do you think
my neighbors would laugh at me if I brought home a Long-Dong or a Ying-Yang?
How about a 'who flung dung"?
A Cherry? Once you get used to the names, I think its okay. Just laugh all
the way to the bank. They're going to sell for about $7,500."

Try this link:
http://www.eia.doe.gov/neic/brochure/oil_gas/primer/primer.htm

Sarge

 

Yeah - Aren't we just awful for having messed up Russia and France's
"food for oil" deals that they tried so hard to protect with the UN
resolution non-enforcement.

Bill Putney
(To reply by e-mail, replace the last letter of the alphabet in my
adddress with the letter 'x')

 

Gas high in the US? Now I don`t get it. Come to Germany and enjoy prices
around $5.00 per gallon ...

 

You can do as you please, when you please, and how you please? That sounds like
ANARCHY to me, not like the USA that I have lived in, paid taxes in, and visit
often..

Yes, there is a price for everything. By the way, I guess any ciger-loving
smoker still cannot buy Cuban cigars in the "Land of the Free, and the Home of
the Brave". So much for wanting to buy items whenever a smoker would want to.
But then, smokers do have the freedom to come north to Canada, and purchase and
smoke them here - provided the smoker can find a public establishment that
allows smoking ;-) So much for the anarchy situation you purport to support (aka
the USA). See!! -- the USA does have constraints too. It is just too bad you are
not willing to recognize them, but the rest of this planet does certainly see
constraints on the citizenry of the USA.

Yes, freedom does have it's price. It just depends on what freedom, and what
price... We Canadians have our constraints as well - not better, nor worse -
just different.

Ken
Winnipeg, Canada

 

i can walk around with a gun strapped on my side can u in canada??

 

So which oil company wanted to build a refinery here, but couldn't?

Remember, oil was so cheap during the '80s that many producing wells
were shut down.

 

Yep, any criminal can but we can do it leaglly.

 

I think it's more important to realize that you -->don't need<--- to
do that in Canada.

Understand the difference?

I bet more people are killed accidentally by guns in the US than are
either killed or wounded by the intentional use of guns for personal
protection in legitimate situations.

And - maybe you can explain the fact that in the US you can't sue gun
companies for gun defects that cause injury or death. Where's your
precious freedom there?

 

Can't explain it, because it's not a fact; gun makers in the USA do get sued for
defects that cause injury or death, and often lose in court. Stop listening to
the CBC so much and try to get out a little more.

 

In the entire USA?? How can that be?? And legally you say - and in the
ENTIRE USA???

YOU are certainly mistaken!! YOU better check your CCW laws as applied to
ALL 50 states in your union - how come an alien (like myself) can detect
another Yankee lie while the Yankee continues to lie - and lies with
conviction I might add. Conviction,... convicts. Yes our convicts
certainly carry "guns" as you put. By the way, we can carry "guns" as you
put it - but for us carrying a shotgun and a rifle during hunting season
is sure a heck of a lot better than carrying a gun around "for show" I
assume. For show, we men don't expose our penis' either, but then I wonder
if you can - and if YOU do.It must be quite a site to see. An expression
of the freedoms enjoyed by US citizenry Some sorts of freedom is
counter productive here - especially when it is -20C and there is a strong
wind blowing.

I knew there were trolls in the USA. YOU have certainly confirmed that
notion.

Ken
Canada

 

but can a upstanding citizen ????

 

You certainly could sue a gun company for defects that cause injury or
death.

Are you stupid or something?


BTW, the gun would have to actually be defective for you to have a
chance at winning.

 

See my most receint reply to HarryS in this sub-thread. Snowing here.
Penis well hidden. Wind blowing from the NW strong and "freshening" ;-)