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Gasoline is a necessary demand product. There is always a demand for gas and those that have it can charge what they want because people will pay. There is nothing anyone can do to influence price hikes. Even if someone decides to cut their use of gas by half, by simple population growth, the total amount of gas needed will rise negating any impact a single person’s reduction would have. Even if we decided to implement all our fuel saving measures, more gas is needed tomorrow then was needed today. Prices will always follow demand, and so long as there’s a demand, why shouldn’t those who have it charge whatever they can charge for it?
Also consider that our usage is based on the price. If gas is $6 a gallon, we may cut our driving in half. If gas goes down to $3 a gallon, most likely we’ll increase out driving and negate any savings. So we’re still keeping the demand up. Even boycotts don’t work because it’s not sustainable as a whole. Sure many may join in a boycott, but how long will they keep it up? We need our vehicles, we must have our vehicles, drive we must.
There is nothing that we can do to lower fuel cost. Unless those that have it want the price to come down it won’t. And, there’s no reason they should lower prices just because someone can’t afford it. We have past the point of no return.
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Interesting corrillary, when you look at the NOAA Mauna Loa data, there are 2 times that CO2 had mini dips, during the oil embargo in the 70's & market downturn in 80's...
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/gmd/ccgg/trends...a_mlo.html
We, in the U.S. can reduce our oil consumption to the point where it is globally visible...
We, in the U.S. just do not yet see a need to....yet.
I may be the only one out there old enough to remember, but during the oil embargo gas was higher, in adjusted price, than it is today... It was actually more per gallon than the minimum wage.... & before the embargo it was just a little over 1/2 minimum wage...so we have a ways to go before we are paying extreme amounts for gasoline... Most of the rest of the world pays more than their minimum wage for a gallon of gas. Sorry, just had to give a little reality check for everyone complaining... (I remember this because I was in college, an intern earning close to minimum & the gas prices soared.... conservation was learned by almost everyone overnight...)
We all have a choice, conserve now & have oil for a while longer, or keep buying it up & forcing the depletion of the resource that much quicker... Your choice on where and how you leave is your choice....include your impact on the environment... transportation is one of our greatest impacts... we are burning thousands of years of carbon sequestoring a year in transportation. The farther away you live, the more you travel in your own vehicle, the bigger your footprint. A busload of people gets over 15 times more fuel mileage than a Prius... every mile you don't drive your car counts.
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I assure you I spent plenty hours in line at the Pukalani gas station on my designated days waiting to fill my bug.
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United and Continental drastically raised airfares yesterday because of the price of fuel.
http://money.aol.com/news/articles/_a/un...0000000001
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Why is there such differences in gas prices throughout the state? Just on this island alone, I see a big difference in price in Hilo and Kona. Who decides what the price will be for a certain location?
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two issues on diverse gas prices: Supply and demand plus cost of transport.
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quote:
Originally posted by pslamont
two issues on diverse gas prices: Supply and demand plus cost of transport.
Just another day in P A R A D I S E !!
The differing gas prices on the island can't be due to the cost of transport. Gas in Keaau is often cheaper than in Hilo. It can't cost that much more to transport it to Kona where it always costs more. Somewhere along the line someone is determining what price the market in a particular area can bear.
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Add to the supply price & transport is volume price & franchise price. Ad it does cost a lot more to get fuel to the Kona side, where as Keaau is only 7 miles from port, with no real elevation change, almost all highway driving, and a fairly high volume station, same with Pahoa.... only a might bit farther....
The price difference between Waimea & Honakaa is more likely the franchise prices...
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With airline tickets on the rise, do you think people who are thinking about moving to Hawaii will think twice, due to the extra cost of visiting their relatives on the mainland, or even being able to leave the rock for a vacation.
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In Puna, HPP is the most expensive acre at 50000$. In Kona it's 250000$ Same with rents, Puna 5$ Kona 25$.
The only thing equal is electric, because it's already the highest in the country and a state Monopoly!
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