Why Are Fuel Bills So High?
I'm just looking thru some brochures about wood-burning stoves and considering the big price rises in oil, gas and coal. All the necessities fundamentally of powering our autos and heating up our houses have as everybody knows went through the roof.
The oil barrens put up the price of oil when there's a business crisis. Then when there's a boom they put it up again as they say the demand is too high. What gives and who's really controlling this monopoly that eats away massive bits of the average household's bills.
Haven't we were given enough oil reserves here in the U.S. ? Why will we need to import so much black gold? Scientist's are the motor industry and swiftly pursuing new technologies to counter balance the supposed lack of fossil fuels. Hydrogen fuel cells are claimed to be the way forward. Well if so what's keeping it so long?
Will the oil industry try to discredit the technology or will they get in on the act and take the gas station monopoly and transfer it to a hydrogen station and electric charger point dynasty?
If so then the price we are paying now will be exactly the same as when the state-of-the-art technology comes in, apart from the incontrovertible fact there will often be an additional "green" charge put on top of that. Well if you suspect we are bad, folk in Britain are paying 3-4 times more than us for fuel. The tax levy of fuel in the UK is astronomical. Petrol as they call gasoline has about a 70% tax levy.
Pretty steep. The salary there are rather low in some bits of the country as well and food is almost double the cost of America's. As you can imagine it would be a pretty hard place to live in you were on a lower revenue wage. Not to mention the lack of sunlight!
Remind me not to emigrate any time soon, that would be like jumping out of the time-honoured over taxed frying pan into an even bigger taxed red hot fire.
The oil barrens put up the price of oil when there's a business crisis. Then when there's a boom they put it up again as they say the demand is too high. What gives and who's really controlling this monopoly that eats away massive bits of the average household's bills.
Haven't we were given enough oil reserves here in the U.S. ? Why will we need to import so much black gold? Scientist's are the motor industry and swiftly pursuing new technologies to counter balance the supposed lack of fossil fuels. Hydrogen fuel cells are claimed to be the way forward. Well if so what's keeping it so long?
Will the oil industry try to discredit the technology or will they get in on the act and take the gas station monopoly and transfer it to a hydrogen station and electric charger point dynasty?
If so then the price we are paying now will be exactly the same as when the state-of-the-art technology comes in, apart from the incontrovertible fact there will often be an additional "green" charge put on top of that. Well if you suspect we are bad, folk in Britain are paying 3-4 times more than us for fuel. The tax levy of fuel in the UK is astronomical. Petrol as they call gasoline has about a 70% tax levy.
Pretty steep. The salary there are rather low in some bits of the country as well and food is almost double the cost of America's. As you can imagine it would be a pretty hard place to live in you were on a lower revenue wage. Not to mention the lack of sunlight!
Remind me not to emigrate any time soon, that would be like jumping out of the time-honoured over taxed frying pan into an even bigger taxed red hot fire.
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