California petrol prices... Something going on??

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  1. thatguy

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    thatguy, Oct 9, 2012
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    I believe it has something to do with the 'special' fuel used in california that is only produced in state.. and that some of their local refineries that produce this fuel are offline due to fires etc & cant import the fuels from neighbour states because they arent compatible with Cali eco regs..

    or soemthing like that..
     
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    I'm already paying AUD$1.50+ a liter since last year! :mad:
     
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    I don't know what they're complaining about :/

    Taken today.

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    I think people are confusing high petrol prices with affordability, California is an economy on the brink... can they afford $1.32AUD/l, we're going to see. A good test case for America devoid of the petrodollar
     
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    When I lived in the middle-east fuel was cheaper than drinking water. I was in europe a little while ago and it was over 1.80 euro/L.

    Speaking of drinking water, what do you pay these days for those 600ml plastic bottles of fluoridated water solution, with a dose of leached BPA? They're about $2+ aren't they?

    Aaarrrrggghhhhh!!! Holy medicated water, Batman!! Its a water crisis!!

    Or it seems petrol is cheaper than (what passes for) drinking water here now. Maybe we've all just gone back to the future.
     
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    When I was in Italy a few years ago bottled wine was cheaper than drinking water :p
     
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    Those poor Iranians are gunna cop it now! :(
     
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    They fluoridate the bottled water too? Bastards!
     
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    Having the dollar the world wants and trades oil with has no doubt been great for America. They remain lucky still with their internal oil supply and cheap oil prices. Look at their massive vehicles and percentage of hydrocarbon used per population count.
     
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  12. Guest

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    Apparently America has massive oil reserves in Alaska. Also they apparently they are sitting on a lot of untouched gold.

    It kind of makes sense. Use the worlds resources before tapping you own.
     
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    I had a great theory on this, a visiting Texan filled me in on all sorts of stuff going on wrt to 5 Southern US states having an alliance (should it all go to sh*t), massive underground caverns in Texas being hollowed out with seawater and filled in with oil and gas, and massive dollar printing to buy up everyone else's stuff.

    But this theory was in the old GD forum. And it got deleted.
     
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    Most important Q is what is the EROI on this stuff? NZ has heaps of oil too... but the EROI is $hit
     
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    Ive heard the same story from a guy from Arizona.
     
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  17. Guest

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    Good question.. Don't know.

    It will be interesting to see what transpires over the coming years
     
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    Known as the strategic reserve - see this link for a basic treatment.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(United_States)
     
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    the Liquid lobotomy...my fav is giving kids infant baby formula instead of breast milk with lots of Sydney tap water... Ensures they never get to pesky with the questions and stay nice and controllable...

    Yummy sydney zombie water...

    Experiment... Try leaving a glass of tap water out and try to drink it the next day...

    Lol.. It's a industrial waste product like fluoride but much more thick and muddy.. It is NOT calcium flouride, rather fluorosilic acid h2sif6

    Also bio accumulation of toxic metals etc

    I just got a water filter and my health has gone though the roof... Not being able to drink water when I wanted was a horror story... And as mentioned even the bottled water has the nasty estrogen mimicking bsp as well as the floride compound
     
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  20. goanna

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    19.5 million barrels per day
     
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