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Black Gold from the Middle East
A Franklin per tank
Yes, my dad’s car really does cost a hundred dollars to fill. He drives a 2004 Acura MDX. It is a rather large luxury SUV, requiring fill ups using 91 octane fuel. I haven’t filled up my own car yet, and I’m sure that it would cost about 80 dollars. While filling up my sister’s car, we charged 40 dollars and the tank was still a fifth empty. 40 bucks probably wouldn’t fill half of my mom’s car’s gas tank.
But what does this mean? Arab oil cartels price gouging us? Big oil making huge profits? The station I went to today charged 3.97/gallon for 87 unleaded. Oh well. At least gas prices here don’t match the price of "petrol" overseas.
Public transportation is nice. You don’t need to concentrate on the road, or even getting there. You can sleep! All for the low, low price of 2-10 dollars. But isn’t that the price of 1-2 gallons of gas? So I’m not really saving money am I?
No, not really. You think hybrids save money? Well, things may be different now, but in the past, hybrids end up costing owners about the same amount of cash as a regular car would. I should know, I wrote a speech about it. But, times have changed. People care about the environment. It’s not how much money you spend, it’s where it goes. At least when you buy a subway ticket, it’s not your money going directly into a gas tank. It’s more indirect, where the oil goes into the powerplant which goes to the powerlines and into the third rail where it charges your train.
Or something like that.
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Good words.
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