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Originally Posted by SmokeyTheBear
?? wtf ?
I dont have a president. We have a prime minister. And i'm not talking about apples, i think your confused. if you notice the thread was about gasoline prices. It doesnt matter who your talking about, nobody caused gas to "sky rocket" because it hasn't skyrocketed. The chart has nothing to do with bush or any president , its simply a gas prices chart showing prices haven't really changed much.
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Truth be told though, I used that exact same graphic in a conversation I had here last year.
www.chartoftheday.com generated it on August 27, 2003... so it's over a year old, and the chart itself may possibly be using 'predicted' numbers (not sure). Here's the latest official data, directly from the EIA:
According to the official numbers provided, gasoline prices are around 45% higher than last year, and diesel prices are a whopping 65% higher.
2 years ago, people had no reason to bitch and I said as much. Nowadays, with gas prices going back to OPEC 80s price levels there's a genuine cause for griping. Hopefully, unlike then, people will wake the fuck up and start putting pressure and cash towards developing alternative energy sources, and perhaps drive cars that get better milage. I won't hold my breath on that though.
I do find it somewhat amusing that they put the little 'tail down' in projected prices... waiting on that much-bemoaned 'lack of stability' whereever oil is, I suppose. It's coming Real Soon Now, Trust Us(tm).
