Reasons to be glad you're not buying gas by the liter (litre?)...
This is strictly anecdotal, but in my local environment, which includes Hollywood, Downtown and occasional ventures around greater Los Angeles (including South L.A., where I filled up for $4.45/gal. this weekend; I even got change back!) gas prices have dropped between five and 10 cents within the past week.
I ain't saying that means we've turned the corner, but take a look at how U.S. gas prices stack up against the rest of the world, with a handydandy map.
Some of it may make you feel better: In Australia outlaw bikers are laying siege to oil refineries in order to get at the precious $5.57/gal. juice. In Paris they're cruising the BoulMich at a whopping $9.43/gal.
Some of it may make you feel worse: Oh, for the fresh air of Mexico City ($2.62/gal.) or Cairo ($1.24/gal.).
And some of it may make you feel best of all: In Caracas you can fill up for only 12¢/gal., and you've only got to put up with a lifetime of poverty and oppression to do it.
Correction: In a strongly worded comment, Oz's own Kim Clarke points out that outlaw bikers are not in fact laying siege to oil refineries. I could have sworn I saw the footage.
anecdotal Definition an·ec·dotal (an′ik dōt′'l, -ek-)
adjective
of or like an anecdote
full of anecdotes
based on personal experience or reported observations unverified by controlled experiments anecdotal evidence
You need to look at the 'footage' again..... Don't know about where you live, but over here Bike Clubs get around on bikes, not 4 wheeled machines..... and relying upon a movie that was made many years ago as a form of entertainment is just plain stupid, so unless you have some other forms of evidence based upon personal experience or reported observations.
I believe that a formal apology to the Biker community in Australia would be suffice and might actually improve the oppinion that I, and maybe others, have of you for writting such crap.......
PS
I really don't see that using a Mad Max film as your evidence is any smarter then writing this load of crap in the first place.....
I look forward to reading your apology to the Australian Biker community ......
Posted by: Kim Clarke | July 10, 2008 at 11:54 PM
"In Australia outlaw bikers are laying siege to oil refineries in order to get at the precious $5.57/gal. juice"
What a load of crap, I am Australian, I live in Australia and I am part of the life style you mentioned as "laying siege to oil refineries"....
What you have said is nothing but a bunch of lies generated to sell more news.....
You should be ashamed to tell such lies to your readers.
I don't know where you got your information from but where-ever it was it wasn't the truth....
To start with we are paying anywhere between $1.50 per letre to 1.80/ LT and they are talking about it going up to the $2.00/LT or more..... now even at these prices, no oil refineries have had to deal with any siege problems, not by Bikers or the Australian people......
You ideots who make up these stupid lies should get your facts straight before you decide to tell BS lies about Bikers in another countries.......
My oppinion of America, it's media and it's ethics have just been lowered to an all time low because of this buch of lies that you have told......
Typical media, nothing but bottom feeding scum out to make a couple of extra dollars by telling lies at someone else exspence.... Grow up
Posted by: Kim Clarke | July 10, 2008 at 05:06 PM