PHIL BOYER: 40% OF AOPA MEMBERS ARE SIGNIFICANTLY DECREASING THEIR FLYING DUE TO FUEL PRICES

Jim Logajan wrote:
kontiki wrote:
Dylan Smith wrote:

Not all crude is the same, and the United States is already drilling for
quite a lot of oil. The remaining large oil fields that aren't being
exploited currently are not *cheap* oil, but expensive oil.
And oil from other countries is cheap?

Can't speak for crude, but there are large differences in the price of one
of its refined products, gasoline/petrol, as demonstrated by this table
(compiled in March, 2005):

http://money.cnn.com/pf/features/lis...bal_gasprices/

What does that have to do with my challenge? Besides...If you had
actually read your link you would know why:

"The main factor in price disparities between countries is government
policy, according to AirInc, a company that tracks the cost of living in
various places around the world. Many European nations tax gasoline
heavily, with taxes making up as much as 75 percent of the cost of a
gallon of gasoline."