... Democrats controlling the House, energy prices through the roof, jobs going ...outcome in market economics. Energy prices go up, and when they...particularly pernicious effect on energy prices going up. It's that...a strategy for getting energy prices down and stable. They want...short-term potential gains on gas prices. It's going to...75 percent of our greenhouse gas emissions, there is no way...together, and bring the energy prices down, bring the jobs up...

...> While making and selling those vehicles in Europe: Have you compared U.S. gas prices to European gas prices? Have you considered what constitutes the largest component of the cost of a liter of gas pumped from a European fuel pump? Hint: it is...had lobbied and voted for politicians who promised to tax gas at the pump at 100 to 200%% of the wholesale price of the product, and they had been elected, and...

...EPA requirements without ultra low sulphur fuel. Once the new fuel was widely available, Ford could start selling diesel F-250's again. The new fuel was also probably a major contributor to the 'zero measureable emissions' printout I was given when I took my 1985 F-250HD to the emissions testing station, last fall. The new lower sulphur requirement was used as an excuse to bump the price of diesel by 50 cents or so at the pumps.

... Since those states account for a huge chunk of the nation's population, that really does put a crimp on their potential. So we have California to blame for the smog producing gas guzzlers from Detroit? Nice. Actually the blame can be divided, like Gaul, into 3 parts. Detroit for building what consumers wanted, the Federal government including Congress whose EPA set up bogus standards, and yes, California ...

...the dems (and a few honorable Republicans) over-rode the shitheaded governor's veto of a bill to raise the gas tax SIX CENTS to help build roads. SIX CENTS. Compared to the DOLLAR or so fluctuations going to Enron et al. Then the pieces of SHIT had the gall to run ads blaming the high gas prices on the democrats, when, IN FACT, only TWO CENTS of the new tax had been phased-in at the time of the ads! Right-wingers...

...in the US. The reason? According to Ford, US car buyers don't like diesel. The big issue with diesel is that no U.S. state that has adopted the California emissions standards allows the sale of diesel vehicles. Since those states account for a huge chunk of the nation's population, that really does put a crimp on their potential. So we have California to blame for the smog producing gas guzzlers from Detroit? Nice.

On 2008-09-17 20:13:38 -0500, "Paul Stevens" <pauls1@bellsouth.net> said: Yep, no reason anyone in the US should like economical diesel cars. and, likewise, we don't like manual transmissions... -- "There will be some gangsta types who will take to the streets if Obama wins and will try to intimidate any and all of the white folks they meet. " - [Beloved] Master Kent, Fear Monger for the Extreme Right "If Obama/Biden ...

...&GID=8O8o91/hS5iFtT6a+UhwAcRTb26RmKwCi2oW6QSR88A%%3D Tenn. gas prices exceed national average <snip> ... down West End yesterday--*searching* for gas--from 440 to Centennial Park, the only station *with* gas (out of three) was $4.69/gallon! ...a 1/3 full. I remember the gas lines in '73...sort of like ... haven't heard anything about diesel prices going up (seems like diesel is cheaper than gas, again), and I doubt I'll ...

...apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080917/BUSINESS01/809170393&GID=8O8o91/hS5iFtT6a+UhwAcRTb26RmKwCi2oW6QSR88A%%3D Tenn. gas prices exceed national average <snip> Was driving down West End yesterday--*searching* for gas--from 440 to Centennial Park, the only station *with* gas (out of three) was $4.69/gallon! My tank ... than a 1/3 full. I remember the gas lines in '73...sort of like that. jak

...GID=8O8o91/hS5iFtT6a+UhwAcRTb26RmKwCi2oW6QSR88A%%3D Tenn. gas prices exceed national average By RANDY...Business Editor September 17, 2008 Oil prices extended their steep losses Tuesday,... pump in Middle Tennessee, where prices rose to a record high ... cents in the past month. Prices at the pump in East ... Knoxville area reported an average price of $4.495 a gallon ... consumption will fall dramatically." The price of crude has fallen 38 ...