[Seattle-editorial] Proposal: The Real Price of Gasoline

[Jason Reep]

with suggested changes, i give thumbs up too.
-jason

Gentry Lange wrote:

>Very good. I throw stories together so quickly, I hadn't realized the API
>stuff and the "real numbers" is crappy wording. Will rewrite, maybe adding a
>line about API. Must think on it.
>
>Gentry
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jeremy G Kahn [mailto:jgk at fifthhorseman.net]
>Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2003 8:10 PM
>To: g at art13.com
>Cc: Editorial
>Subject: Re: [Seattle-editorial] Proposal: The Real Price of Gasoline
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>
>Looks good.
>
>I'm a little reluctant to promote API, since they're basically
>stinkers.  Here's a quote from their "environment" page:
>
>  "The oil and natural gas industry is recognized for delivering
>products that enhance our quality of life, energy that heats our homes,
>and fuels that allow us to live and work where we choose and bring our
>goods to market. What is less widely known is all we have done to
>improve our environmental record."
>
>bleck.  But I think the general story is good and important.  Approve,
>but I would also approve a wording change:
>
>instead of: "For the real numbers visit the API..."
>
>read instead "For the real numbers visit the petroleum-promoting API.."
>
>just so people are prepared and don't think we're promoting API, just
>acknowledging sources.
>
>--jeremy
>
>
>
>Gentry Lange wrote:
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>
>>Hi All,
>>
>>I'd love to have this go up today, or at least before the end of the
>>weekend, as it relates to Labor Day... How do we propose a Global Feature.
>>I'd love to see this hit global (and not just for my own ego).
>>
>>Here's the link to a clean version...
>>http://seattle.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=32213&group=webcast
>>
>>Gentry
>>______________________________________________________________________
>>
>>Title: The Real Price of Gasoline
>>Subtitle: Record Labor Day Gas Prices Not Really Record Prices
>>
>><p>Gasoline prices have recently hit almost $2.00 per gallon accross the
>>United
>> States. For a consumer culture that drives SUVs, that $2.00 price tag
>>makes
>> many people believe that prices are at an all-time high? And recent price
>>spikes
>> have led to renewed <a
>>href="http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/recall/story/7322481p-8266769c
>>    
>>
>.
>  
>
>>html">calls
>> for government regulation</a>. </p>
>><p>While the <a
>>href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/137351_gasprices30.html">mass
>> media</a> is out to tell us <a
>>href="http://www.news-leader.com/today/0826-Gasprices,-145522.html">the
>> same story</a> over and over, that <a
>>href="http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/6626793.htm">gas
>> prices are too high</a>... especially for labor day, when Americans
>>traditionally
>> set the yearly record for travel by car. The reality is that gas prices
>>are
>> nowhere near record levels. </p>
>><p>When adjusted for inflation, 1981 set the most recent record at $1.35
>>which
>> is $2.69 adjusted to year 2000 prices (the most recent year for which
>>numbers
>> are easily available). In fact, the all-time high was set in 1918, which
>>would
>> be $3.00 per gallon in 2000 prices, and <a
>>href="http://www.narprail.org/gas.htm">prices
>> have been falling ever-since</a>. For the real numbers visit the <a
>>href="http://api-ec.api.org/industry/index.cfm?bitmask=001004001000000000#"
>>
>>American
>> Petroleum Institute</a>, and download <a
>>href="http://api-ec.api.org/filelibrary/Historical%20Trends%20in%20Gasoline
>>    
>>
>%
>  
>
>>20Pump%20Prices%201918-2002.pdf">this
>> PDF</a>.</p>
>><p>Of course, these prices don't even begin to address the <a
>>href="http://www.icta.org/projects/trans/rlprexsm.htm">real
>> price of gasoline</a>. Which according to a report by the <a
>>href="http://www.icta.org/index.htm">International
>> Center for Technology Assessment</a>, could be as high as $15 per gallon.
>>In
>> addition to crude prices and taxes, the environmental costs of burning
>>gasoline,
>> and waging wars to procure the oil to make it, burning gasoline has an
>>almost
>> incalcuable cost on society at large... though many have tried to put a
>>number
>> on it. The <a href="http://www.iags.org/home.htm">Institute for the
>>Analysis
>> of Global Security</a> provides a good overview of what this number might
>>be,
>> read <a href="http://www.iags.org/costofoil.html">How Much are We Paying
>>for
>> a Gallon of Gas?</a> </p>
>>
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